BT BUZZ

Updated : Mar 6, 2023

Golf Is The Best Sport Among All, Says Dr Vijay Anand Reddy, Director, Apollo Hyderabad

Over the years, Business Today Golf has witnessed the cream of corporate India grace some of the country’s best courses. India’s longest-running such event in fact returns in a bigger and better avatar. While it involves some of India’s best-known corporate figures and captains of industry, we have added a special category for lady golfers, who have been growing in numbers year after year. Watch here for more details-

iD Fresh Foods raises fresh capital of Rs 507 crores in a Series D round

Updated : Jan 4, 2022

iD Fresh Food raises Rs 507 cr in funding round led by NewQuest, Premji Invest

As part of its global expansion plans, the company plans to extend its presence to Singapore, Malaysia and other markets in the near future.

Bizongo co-founders(L to R), Sachin Agrwal, Ankit Deb and Ankit Tomar

Updated : Dec 20, 2021

B2B e-commerce startup, Bizongo, raises $110 mn; now valued at $600 mn

Founded by three IIT graduates Aniket Deb, Ankit Tomar and Sachin Agrawal, Bizongo is digitizing the massively fragmented B2B segment of made-to-order goods.

WhatsApp received the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) nod for using the country’s Unified Payments Platform (UPI) payments system in November 2020 to 20 million users only

Updated : Jun 28, 2021

WhatsApp appoints ex-Amazon executive Manesh Mahatme as payments business head in India

Mahatme said payments on WhatsApp are uniquely placed to be a significant partner in the country's growth agenda by making digital payments accessible to users across the length and breadth of India

To be sure, a large proportion (42 per cent) ordered online through delivery apps

Updated : Jun 28, 2021

Urban Indians still prefer grocery stores over delivery apps: YouGov survey

Health and wellness products such as medicines, sanitisers were top category across both offline and online purchase channels (62 per cent and 54 per cent, respectively)

The atlas also shares interesting facts, anecdotes, and legal provisions related to the Indian elections, an official statement said

Updated : Jun 18, 2021

Election Commission releases atlas on 2019 Lok Saba polls

The atlas, which has 42 thematic maps and 90 tables depicting various facets of the election, was released on June 15 by Chief Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra and Election Commissioners Rajiv Kumar and Anup Chandra Pandey

Updated : May 31, 2021

This stock hit all-time high today; here's why

The company reported a 24.4 per cent rise in its standalone net profit to Rs 487.93 crore for the quarter ended March 31, 2021, on account of robust sales. Profit in the year-ago period stood at Rs 391.80 crore

Updated : May 31, 2021

This stock rose 46% in a week, hit 52-week high today

The share stood at Rs 93.95 on June 1, 2020 on BSE. It has zoomed to Rs 262.85 today, translating into gains of 180 per cent during the period

Updated : Mar 18, 2021

How Haryana's 75% reservation rule hurts jobs

Haryana State Employment of Local Candidates Act, 2020 will hit jobs hard

Updated : Jan 22, 2021

COVID-19 not last pandemic, resilient health system needed: WHO Chief Scientist

She emphasised on the importance of global collaboration and understanding in dealing with a pandemic

Updated : Jan 12, 2021

BT Buzz: How to vaccinate against Bitcoin fever

The Bitcoin prices may have corrected about 25 per cent in last three days. It had shot through the roof over the last few months - from $6000-odd in April to $41,946.74 as on January 8, its all-time high. It hit a day's low of $30,549.60 on Monday

Updated : Jan 5, 2021

BT Buzz: How COVID vaccine development was shrunk from 10 years to just 1

There was immense pressure on governments to develop a vaccine at the earliest due to the destruction COVID-19 pandemic was unleashing. This led to a race among pharma companies to be the first to develop a vaccine

Updated : Jan 5, 2021

BT Buzz: Who will fund India's mega COVID-19 vaccination?

Suffering poor financial health, Central government has not given a concrete answer on who will bear the cost of vaccinating Indians - Centre, states, or the people themselves

Updated : Dec 23, 2020

BT Buzz: Why Honda shelved Civic, CR-V, shuttered oldest factory in India

While the going has generally been tough in India's domestic passenger vehicle industry, even before the pandemic hit the economy, Honda's struggle for growth has predated that

The two new variants have affected Kent and South East England the most

Updated : Dec 22, 2020

Inside the COVID-19 mutant: The 'drift' of a virus

The UK has identified a fast-spreading new variant of coronavirus that is 70% more transmissible than existing strains. A similar mutation was also reported from South Africa and countries like Netherlands and Denmark

Shortage of semiconductors is set to impact India's automobile industry in Q4

Updated : Dec 14, 2020

BT Buzz: A $12 billion puzzle -- why auto industry cannot be Atmanirbhar

India's largest automotive component manufacturer Bosch said a surge in demand for semiconductors from the consumer electronics industry partly due to the rise in 5G connectivity has led to a demand supply gap in the global market

The limit for entire mutual fund industry has been kept at $7 billion by the regulator

Updated : Nov 23, 2020

BT Buzz: SEBI enhances limit for international funds - Should you invest?

After 9 months from the beginning of equity market meltdown, international mutual funds have outperformed most of the domestic diversified funds by a big margin

The government's key argument behind the brobdingnagian task of simplifying the age-old labour laws in the country is to move towards formalisation of the huge informal sector that exists in the country today

Updated : Nov 23, 2020

BT Buzz: Less paper work, 12 working hours a day -- Decoding draft labour rules

As firms in India are expanding their footprint globally, they not only need to be competitive but also win the trust of both local and global customer and this will not be possible without following the best practices

Agarwal's Vedanta currently has a market capitalisation of Rs 42,400 crore

Updated : Nov 19, 2020

BT Buzz: Can BPCL acquisition slingshot Anil Agarwal to Mukesh Ambani's league?

If Agarwal's Vedanta buys BPCL, it will pit him directly against Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani in the oil sector

As per Sebi's 2017 asset allocation norms, the multicap schemes had to invest 65 per cent of its total assets in equity and equity-related instruments

Updated : Nov 12, 2020

BT Buzz: Multicap funds turning into flexi-caps; what does it mean for you?

To give true meaning to the multicap category, the Sebi has now regulated the stock allocation across large, mid and smallcap stocks

Updated : Nov 5, 2020

BT Buzz: ILIPs in spotlight again; know what's on the anvil

ILIPs were quite popular among customers as it promised guaranteed benefit (which lacked in ULIPs) and opportunity to earn market-linked returns (which lacked in traditional participating and non-participating plans)