Nearly a dozen global consumer-facing companies said their India business posted strong growth in the January to March quarter, surpassing even pre-Covid levels with a high double-digit pace for some, despite the Omicron wave.For several of these companies including Unilever, Visa, Whirlpool and Pernod, India is among the top-performing regions, ...
The Centre has stepped in to tackle the power crisis by invoking Section 11 of the Electricity Act mandating all imported coal-based projects to generate power at full capacity, sources said.Section 11 of the Electricity Act provides that the government, in extraordinary circumstances, may ask a generating company to operate ...
Social media company Meta Platforms, Inc — the parent company of popular platforms Instagram and Facebook — has claimed in the Delhi high court that the rights under Article 19 (free speech) of the Indian Constitution cannot be invoked against it by a user since it is a private entity ...
PM Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron discussed the “cascading effects” of the war in Ukraine, especially goods shortages in developing countries, in a meeting late Thursday and agreed to play a constructive role in addressing these challenges.
India and the World Health Organization are at loggerheads over the latter’s new estimates of 47 lakh excess deaths in the country due to the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021 — an assessment that has been strongly contested by the government which cited flawed methodology, inaccurate sourcing of data, ...