Cow urine and dung are the bases for the soaps, face packs and incense sticks and no synthetic ingredients are used in their products.

Lessons from the failure of some of India's biggest business names.

The founder of the company, Baba Ramdev, is targeting sales to the tune of Rs 1,000 crore by 2020, and daily sales would be around 10 lakh litres.

Moving forward from cow urine to cow's milk may push Patanjali into a market largely untapped by national-level players.

Patanjali has tied up with around 56,000 retailers and vendors to supply milk across Delhi-NCR, Mumbai, Pune and Rajasthan in its first phase.

Shweta Jalan is expanding the footprint of a relatively new global private equity firm in India.

Ruchi Soya owes a total debt of about Rs 12,000 crore to a consortium of 16 lenders.

Shares of Ruchi Soya hit their five per upper circuit limit of 9.42 level on the BSE.  Similar movement was seen on NSE as well, where the stock opened at Rs 9.45 and hit its upper circuit limit, up 5 per cent over its last close.

The yoga guru Baba Ramdev's company, which had recorded over 100 per cent growth rate about a year ago, has since witnessed a considerable dip in demand.

Patanjali's messaging app Kimbho was taken down yet again, one day after it went live on Independence Day. The app was launched as a beta trial version with \"some shortcomings\".

Cosmos Bank ATM hack: NPCI says cyber fraud due to malware attack on bank's IT system; rupee hits fresh record low of 70.32 against US Dollar; NTPC to set up a subsidiary for coal mining soon; Patanjali to launch Kimbho chat app on August 27. Watch more in this episode of Business Wrap.

Cosmos Bank ATM hack: NPCI says cyber fraud due to malware attack on bank's IT systemA day after Pune-based Cosmos Bank said it was hit by a cyber attack in which miscreants allegedly hacked the server and transferred over Rs 94 crore to overseas accounts, the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) claimed that its systems are \"fully secure\" and the cyber fraud happened due to a malware-based attack on the lender's IT system. Hackers managed to siphon off over Rs 90 crore...

More than two months after it was taken down hastily, Baba Ramdev-led Patanjali Ayurved today said that its messaging app 'Kimbho' is ready with new features and plans to re-launch it this month.

Taking over businesses in challenging circumstances and turning them around is nothing new for Hindustan Unilever Chairman & MD Sanjiv Mehta. In a conversation with Prosenjit Datta and Ajita Shashidhar, Mehta talks about how he turned the slow-growing Indian operations into India's highest valued FMCG major. Edited excerpts:

Hindustan Unilever can trace its history in India back to the late 19th century.

Chairman and MD Sanjiv Mehta seeks to reinvent HUL as a future-ready corporation that can juggle heterogeneous markets successfully.

Pantene, Unilever, Colgate will not last long against Patanjali, says Baba RamdevAfter upstaging giants like Unilever, Colgate, Pantene and Nestle, Baba Ramdev is openly mocking these companies as competition goes fierce in India's FMCG segment. Baba Ramdev who founded Patanjali Ayurved said that all these companies would wither away and it is just a matter of time. \"People pass away in 100 years... so these companies will also pass away in a couple of days... we have just made t...

Baba Ramdev had also said then that Colgate would be below Patanjali by the end of the year and in three years time they will overtake Unilever as well.

First time the statue of a Yogi would be installed at Madame Tussauds museum in London. This will further add to the glory of the science of Yoga and will motivate people across the globe to adopt a Yogic lifestyle, says Ramdev.

Adani Wilmar has put in a Rs 6,000 crore bid for Ruchi Soya vs Patanjal's Rs 5,700 crore. Patanjali has not moved a counter bid under the Swiss system of auction as it claims that Adani Wilmar is not eligible to participate in the bidding for Ruchi Soya.