Private sector willing to support govt in coronavirus vaccine roll-out, says FICCI The private sector is willing to support and augment government's capacity across the value chain of COVID-19 vaccine distribution and administration, industry body FICCI on Thursday said. The FICCI-EY paper, that was developed in consultation with various stakeholders states that India would need 1.3-1.4 lakh vaccination centres, 1 lakh healthcare professionals and 2.0 lakh support staff/ volunteers to suppo...

With lockdowns heavily restricting physical store sales and consumers flocking to online mode of shopping, 2020 saw a dramatic shift in consumption behaviour and adoption of the digital medium

ISRO Chairman K Sivan said, \"Even in the rocket propulsion, ISRO is developing green propulsion for its human space flight mission. In future, all the propulsion stages may adopt green propulsion\"

Netflix Indian movies: The most popular thriller film in India was Nawazuddin Siddiqui-starrer Raat Akeli Hai while movies like Chris Hemsworth's Extraction and The Old Guard remained the most popular action movies

Roshni Nadar Malhotra, who succeeds her father Shiv Nadar, was named India's richest woman with a fortune of Rs 54,850 crore

The cumulative wealth among the top 20 richest families in Asia amounts to $463 billion, with the Ambanis holding about 16% of that amount

Netflix had, earlier in October (2020), announced that its two-day event 'Streamfest' will allow users to watch its entire catalogue, series, shows, films, reality shows, documentaries, and more, for 48 hours at no cost

This is a nebulous idea designed to mean anything and everything under the sun without the burden of economic logic, facts and evidence

Multiple factors are responsible for this; some are well-known, like data fudging and man-made disasters of demonetisation, GST, and stringent lockdown; others are lost sight of, like lack of institutional support and intellectual rigour and frivolous approach to serious crisis

Unprecedented demand for work under the rural job guarantee scheme sees 90 million individuals finding support and 19 million more waiting their turn, but if the fund crunch continues there may not be much to look forward to

Mukesh Ambani's net worth falls $6.8 billion after Reliance Industries investors spooked by Q2 earningsReliance Industries chairman and managing director Mukesh Ambani slipped to the ninth spot on Forbes Billionaires list, after shares of his conglomerate fell over 9% post Q2 earnings. On Friday, Ambani was at sixth spot on the list. As per Forbes' real-time net worth data, Ambani's fortune fell by $6.8 billion to $71.5 billion after RIL stock ended 8.62% or Rs 177 lower at Rs 1877 on BSE.H...

The argument that the new laws are intended to spur investment and boost growth is spurious; more so after special rights and privileges were revoked, the state was downgraded to union territories and its people and political leaders were shut out of democratic space

According to the Netflix's filing with the Registrar of Companies (ROC), the company reported a revenue of Rs 923.7 crore and a net profit of Rs 8.9 crore

Multiple factors led to it: First they were asked to grow paddy to overcome food scarcity; mechanised harvesting left massive residue that takes longer to decompose and then paddy sowing was delayed to conserve water, overshooting residue burning into Delhi's bad winter air days

According to a Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)- CARE Ratings knowledge paper, the fresh investments required to take the Indian economy to this level would amount to Rs 498 lakh crore over a seven-year period, between 2021-2027

Many studies, including those by top government bodies, identify top polluters of Delhi air as industries, vehicles and dust; the annual, ritualistic bashing of Punjab farmers in winter months only helps in shifting the blame and allows government agencies to evade accountability

A study by two multinational giants UBS and PwC says \"huge fiscal and quantitative easing packages\" given by governments around the world drove a V-shaped recovery of stock markets and billionaires' wealth surged to $10.2 trillion by the end of July 2020

Kamaths are followed by Divyank Turakhia, 38, who registered a net worth of Rs 14,000 crore; at 26, OYO Rooms' Ritesh Agarwal is the youngest self-made entrepreneur in the list

\"Bad Boy Billionaires: India'', the controversial docuseries on Netflix, features an interesting episode which covers the rise and fall of Vijay Mallya's Kingfisher empire

The episode on Vijay Mallya titled \"The King of Good Times\" has caught the attention of the audience for the reason how former liquor baron once mocked the current US President Donald Trump over bankruptcy