Big brands want a ticket to get on the gravy trainLeading global and Indian food chains are seeking details on opening premium outlets at railway stations, anticipating higher sales potenti...
25 Dec, 2025, 12.12 AM IST
Suits & Sayings: Infinite LoopET’s roundup of the wackiest whispers and murmurs in corporate corridors & policy parlours.
08 Sep, 2025, 11.06 PM IST
How UK’s Indian restaurants got on the gravy trainIndian restaurants even reinvented the British gravy. Pat Chapman’s Modern Indian Restaurant Cookbook gives the recipe for the ‘curry masal...
02 Dec, 2024, 04.15 PM IST
Everyone wants to board India's growing ESG compliance gravy trainSince FY20, the top 1,000 companies had to disclose their ESG performance under the business responsibility report. From FY23, this report ...
18 Apr, 2024, 06.19 AM IST
Market Movers: Has the DMart gravy train finally come to a halt?The company’s strong earnings performance became an excuse for investors to book profits after a stellar run for the stock since July. The ...
18 Oct, 2021, 08.54 PM IST
Sony gets on the gravy train; Tata's online warchestSony, which launched its Innovation Fund five years ago to invest in seed to early-stage startups worldwide, is now setting up a venture ca...
20 Sep, 2021, 08.50 AM IST
Market Movers: Bharti Airtel charts its own course; CLSA makes HAL soarThe hike in the post-paid segment, which contributed upwards of 25 per cent to sales, will help improve the Arpu for Airtel even if it come...
22 Jul, 2021, 05.53 PM IST
View: Star Trek shows fund managers how to 'Live Long and Prosper'Charting a new, narrower course probably makes sense for at least some asset managers.
06 Feb, 2019, 08.34 PM IST
Online startups on a gravy train after the clampdown on UP's illegal slaughterhouses“This (ban in UP) is a big positive for online players who work only with licensed automated plants,” says Deepanshu Manchanda, cofounder o...
02 Apr, 2017, 10.43 AM IST
Modi govt's plan to allow 100% FDI in rail infra picks up pace; but investors in wait-and-watch modeIndian Railways must focus on wooing foreign investors first to the low hanging fruit before getting more ambitious with bullet train proje...
11 Jan, 2015, 10.18 AM IST
Air India links pilots' emoluments to flying hoursSurviving on taxpayers' money, Air India has decided it can no longer remain a gravy train at least for its employees.
09 Apr, 2014, 11.07 AM IST
There is a shade of difference between being tipsy and being a nuisanceDrinking is not regarded as an offence unlike the vague act of “causing nuisance”, nor is there a law stipulating that commuters have to be...
09 May, 2013, 04.00 AM IST
- Railway Budget 2009-10: Gravy train to Writers' Buildings
Mamata Banerjee has used the railway budget very deftly as a powerful tool to woo the tribal and minority population in West Bengal in the ...
04 Jul, 2009, 01.09 AM IST
- Gravy train to poll station
With the ruling side concluding that the only thing standing in the way of the UPA coming back to power is a growing disquiet of the common...
27 Feb, 2008, 02.36 AM IST
- Lalu's gravy train eyes the vote bank
Rail Budget 2008-09 could turn out to be the UPA government’s first set of goodies for its vote bank.
25 Dec, 2007, 04.20 AM IST
- LCCs board gravy train for patrons
Low-cost airlines are stepping up efforts to woo rail passengers by taking the battle to the trains.
17 Jan, 2007, 01.54 AM IST
- BPL passengers get on gravy train, at last
What was a headache till last year has suddenly become a sign of the effective use of food subsidy and pro-public distribution.
10 Jul, 2004, 01.41 AM IST