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Retail’s Battle Of Wallets & Wits

Business Today

SPREADING THE JOY OF PARENTHOOD • THE DATE IS 25 JULY 1978. LOUISE BROWN, THE WORLD'S FIRST TEST TUBE BABY HAS JUST ARRIVED INTO OUR LIVES. THIS HISTORIC EVENT WAS ALSO BEING RECORDED IN MEDICAL JOURNALS. THE LANCET GAVE IT A PRIME POSITION IN ITS AUGUST 1978 ISSUE. THE ISSUE ALSO PUBLISHED A NOTABLE STUDY FROM INDIA. DR. AJAY MURDIA, A FRESH MEDICAL GRADUATE FROM UDAIPUR HAD CO-PUBLISHED A PAPER ON MALE INFERTILITY. THIS WAS A BIG STEP FOR AN AGE WHEN MALE INFERTILITY WAS UNACKNOWLEDGED AND THE WOMEN WERE BLAMED.

IT’S DOWN, BUT STILL NOT OUT • GDP growth contracted for the second successive quarter in Q2 FY21, putting India into a technical recession — two consecutive quarters of negative growth. But the numbers were better than analyst expectations, signalling an economic revival after a major plunge in the wake of Covid-19

CENTRE, STATES KEEP UP FUND-RAISING MOMENTUM

ORIFLAME INDIA: Celebrating 25 Years of Beauty & Wellness

THE BATTLE FOR INDIAN RETAIL • How Mukesh Ambani, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Walmart’s Doug McMillon are fighting to get a bigger slice of India’s $850 billion retail market

The Big Fight

MAKING OF A WON DERFUL UP WITH YOGI ADITVAN ATH1S VISION

Products shine at the Common Facility Centre

ONE DISTRICT ONE PRODUCT

Yogi Government gives a new shape to the health services in UP

HEALTH SERVICES ARE BECOMING STRONGER

TIME FOR MODI-BIDEN TANGO • Having deliberately opted out of the world’s largest trade bloc, RCEP, India can now push for the limited trade deal with the US

SHIPMENT DETAILS • The US is India's second-biggest trade partner

JOE BIDEN ON KEY POLICIES

WHAT US BUSINESSES ARE SEEKING FROM INDIA

Making Medicines in India • CENTRE HAS ANNOUNCED TWO SCHEMES TO REDUCE IMPORT DEPENDENCE IN MEDICINE MANUFACTURING. WILL THEY WORK THIS TIME?

BULK DRUG IMPORT AND CHINA • Import of Bulk Drugs in ₹/Crore

HIGH IMPORT DEPENDENCE • ESSENTIAL MEDICINE PRODUCTION IS 100 PER CENT DEPENDENT ON IMPORTED RAW MATERIALS IN SOME CASES

HOW THE SCHEME WORKS

Fraught With Risks • Allowing big industrial houses in the banking sector has its own set of challenges

Data Centre BOOM • With the rise in Cloud adoption, data generation and emergence of data-as-a-service model, data centre business in India is not just growing big, but also emerging as the new real estate asset class

Hungry For Stressed Assets • Private equity and stressed asset funds continue to show interest in acquiring value assets undergoing insolvency proceedings despite delays and litigation

PhonePe: Life Beyond UPI • In less than four years, PhonePe has emerged as the leader in UPI transactions, neck-and-neck with Google Pay, leaving behind Paytm and others. But where is the revenue model?

PRESSING THE PEDAL • A SPATE OF ACQUISITIONS IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS HAS PUT MOTHERSON GROUP AMONG THE 50 BIGGEST AUTOMOTIVE COMPONENT FIRMS GLOBALLY. IT IS NOW EYEING A PLACE IN THE TOP 10 BY TREBLING REVENUES BY 2025

PUSH FOR A REBOUND • Companies garner record profits in July-September after four quarters of decline as cost reductions and revival in economic activity boost balance sheets; manufacturing firms steal the show

WE HAVE 120-130 DISRUPTIVE COMPANIES UNDER ONE ROOF” • With over $100 billion of assets under his watch, Rajeev Misra presides over undoubtedly the largest fund on the planet, managing what he calls the “biggest collection of disruptive companies under one roof” at Softbank Vision Funds I & II. Their collective...