Business Correspondent

The ninth edition of ‘The Big Billion Days’ (TBBD), Flipkart’s annual flagship event, has scaled new heights of inclusivity, impact, and innovation this year, bringing festive cheer to millions of Indian consumers and lakhs of brands, small sellers, artisans, kirana owners, and jobseekers. Customers across cities got a delightful surprise, as many Flipkart leaders has also made a visit to deliver shipments to their doorstep, as they shopped for this festive season. TBBD 2022 witnessed an unprecedented number of concurrent users on the app - 1.6 million per second. The number of Flipkart Plus customers using Early Access during TBBD…

Bhanzu, a global math learning platform founded in 2020 by the World’s Fastest Human Calculator – Neelakantha Bhanu, has announced that it has raised $ 15 million in Series A funding led by global investment firm, Eight Roads Ventures. Another global investor, B Capital, also invested in the round. Bhanzu will utilise the funding to enhance its tech infrastructure to create an extraordinary student learning experience and strengthen its math curriculum with more interesting and outcome-focused content. This comes as a boon for students in West Bengal since only a tiny fraction of the student population is proficient in Math.…

Dalmia Cement (Bharat) Limited (DCBL), a leading Indian cement major and a subsidiary of Dalmia Bharat Limited, has successfully concluded the 18th North East Grand Metalliferous Mines Safety Week in Guwahati recently, under the aegis of the Directorate General of Mines Safety (DGMS), Government of India. The event was graced by Chief Guest, Shri Ujjwal Tah, Deputy Director General of Mines Safety Eastern Zone. The 18th edition of the Grand Metalliferous Mines Safety Week sawa remarkable turnout from the region’s industry fraternity including over 250 delegates from 17 mining companies that participated in the function and were awarded in various…

World Chronic Myeloid Leukemia Day on 22nd September 2022, leading medical experts emphasize the need of creating awareness about the condition, a relatively uncommon type of bone marrow and blood cancer. Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML) occurs with an incidence rate of 0.4 to 3.9 per 100,000 patients, which increases with age and has a slight male preponderance. It is a chronic disease in which patients must take lifelong treatment and hence, experts stress its appropriate management and adherence to treatment. CML occurs due to spontaneous chromosome mutationwhich causes diseased white blood cells to build up in huge numbers, crowding out…

The Union Government should make Indian Pharmacopoeia (IP) certification mandatory for isopropyl alcohols (IPA) used in pharma applications as usage of imported IPA is fraught with risks. Indian IPA manufacturers allege that cheap imported IPA, fails to meet various critical parameters covered in Pharmacopeia Standards such as UV absorbance test, identification of unsaturated hydrocarbons and rapidly carbonizable material. They further added use of such sub-standard non-pharma grade IPA adversely affects the quality of the drug exposing millions of Indian consumers to severe health hazards. It also jeopardises the reputation of the country’s pharma industry. IPA, commonly called isopropanol, is a…

Amazon.in has flagged off the biggest ever 36 hours of shopping with Prime Early Access and day 1 of the Great Indian Festival. Amazon.in saw single largest day of Prime sign ups; 1.9X higher than last year with 68% coming from Tier 2 & 3 cities. In the first 36 hours, small and medium businesses, startups, artisans, women entrepreneurs offered the largest selection of products and sold around 10 lakh unique products to customers across India. During the 24 hrs ‘Prime Early Access’, 1.75X growth of seller sign-ups during Prime Early Access versus an average business day. Amazon.in saw single…

Vi Business, the enterprise arm of leading telecom operator Vodafone Idea Limited (VIL), has announced its partnership with Trilliant®, a leading global provider of utility solutions for Advanced Metering and Smart Grid systems. The partnership will help Vi Business and Trilliant leverage joint domain expertise to create and implement integrated IoT solutions for Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) projects in India. Collaboration with Trilliant will allow Vi Business to leverage its global experience of Unity Suite Head End System (HES) that complies with IS 15959, enabling both daily meter reads and interval data. The partnership offers Discoms complete network visibility, transparency…

Tata Motors, India’s largest commercial vehicle manufacturer, has launched the Yodha 2.0, Intra V20 bi-fuel and Intra V50. These rugged and tough pickups come with bold new design and offer the highest load-carrying capacity, largest deck length, longest range and are equipped with several modern features essential for a safe and comfortable drive. The new Yodha 2.0, Intra V20 bi-fuel and Intra V50 are ideal to service the diverse mobility needs of the fast-growing agriculture, poultry and dairy sectors as well as the expanding delivery requirements of FMCG, e-commerce and logistics sectors. Each of these pickups offer the lowest total…

Britannia Industries has forayed into the Western Snacking space with the launch of the all new Treat Croissant. Staying true to its promise of delivering ‘Exciting Goodness’, the brand has made Croissant – a popular European snack accessible to the Indian consumer. The Britannia Treat Croissant is available in 3 flavours - cocoa, vanilla & mixed fruit starting at Rs 20. Britannia launched the new Treat Croissant with a TVC conceptualized by Lowe Lintas. The campaign titled ‘Don’t Dare Compare’ emphasizes on the elevated snacking experience that the product delivers. The campaign features celebrity choreographer, actor and director – PrabhuDeva,…

Lakhs of enthusiastic youth of India have formed teams to participate in the Indian Swachhata League that will launch a massive campaign to keep their cities garbage free.  Under the aegis of the Union Ministry of Union Minister Mr. Hardeep Singh Puri declared the Indian Swachhata League open on September 9. 1800 plus cities have registered for the Indian Swachhata League. 47 cities with Million plus citizens have registered for the league. The top three states with maximum participation based on percentage of Urban Local Bodies (ULBs) participating in the Indian Swachhata League are Odisha-100%, Assam-99% and Chhattisgarh-97%. The unique…