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The Indian soap market has been witnessing a fierce battle last few weeks with German brand Sebamed calling out the pH levels of leading Indian brands like Dove, Pears, Santoor. The Drum gets marketing experts to hold forth on the ongoing brand combat.

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No doubt work from home (WFH) provides flexibility to employees, saving their time and stress associated with office commutes.

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Associate Professor at S. P. Jain Institute of Management and Research, Ananth Narayan spoke on the bad loan situation in India and how it affects the upcoming union budget. Narayan said that “objective as far as we are concerned is not just the survival of financial services ecosystem. This ecosystem needs to be in the shape and form to finance our tremendous growth aspirations and potential. The discussion with journalist Mitali Mukherjee was part of Mint’s Road to Recovery series focused on the upcoming Budget.

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SPJIMR’s Ananth Narayan on government debt and deficits ahead of #Budget2022. #BQLive

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The pandemic has plunged the Indian economy into a contraction, and government revenues have taken a major hit. Supporting the country’s nascent economic recovery will require a massive spending package.

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Ashish Chauhan, MD and chief executive officer, BSE Ltd who thinks that the budget should not lean much on the banking system for economic ramifications

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Luv Rustagi is Senior Product Manager at Amazon. The electrical engineer from IIT Roorkee did his MBA from the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s SPJIMR, Mumbai. Here he talks about the impact of Covid-19 on his job, making a career shift, and learnings from his MBA.

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Declining vegetable prices brought down the retail inflation to a 15-month low of 4.59 percent in December and within the comfort zone of the Reserve Bank, government data showed on Tuesday. It is for the first time during the current fiscal that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) based inflation print is below 6 per cent or in the RBI’s target range of 2 to 6 percent.

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In a major breakthrough, HiGenoMB®, the Molecular Biology section of Mumbai based HiMedia Laboratories has launched the quickest and the easiest 11 minute automated RNA extraction protocol.

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When the spread of Covid-19 was on the verge of hurting the Indian economy in early 2020, the central bank quickly moved to protect the country’s banking system. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) provided relief to banks as well as borrowers by offering the option of halting loan repayments for six months (March-August).

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The finance minister has called for a one-in-a-100-year budget. So can it bring some revolutionary changes into the banking and financial sector? Now one of the cobwebs in the banking sector is the legacy of nationalised banks.

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Colleges and universities across the country are continuing to devise new methods to operate in the Covid-19 pandemic situation. The academic community is still grappling with subjects, which are still complicated to teach in an online environment. Efforts are also on to reskill the professors and lecturers themselves so that they enhance their teaching abilities.

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Last February—after eight long years—Nitin Saluja managed to put all the ingredients in place. The IIT-Bombay grad was finally ready to brew a perfect masala cuppa at his tea retail chain brand Chaayos, which he co-founded with fellow IITian from Delhi, Raghav Verma, in 2012. Saluja was understandably excited.

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The shortage of labour in the agriculture sector in the past few years in India has been a rising cause of worry. While the percentage of people working in the sector is declining, it remains the main sector of employment in the country.

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A team from Symbiosis Institute of Business Management (SIBM) Pune came out tops in the finals today, at the end of a gruelling three-stage BusinessLine on Campus (BloC) Boardroom Challenge 2020. SPJIMR, Mumbai, was the first runner up while IIM Bangalore finished third.

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India has emerged as the biggest smartphone market for Samsung, 25 years after it entered the country. It now needs to keep the Chinese rivals at bay.

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Our relationship with nature is delightfully summed up in this quote from the popular tele-serial ‘Boston Legal’. As the lawyer on an exotic holiday tells his friend talking about environmental laws: “Let me tell you something, I came out here to enjoy nature, don’t talk to me about the environment.”

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For Akash Choubey, a business management graduate from a reputed private institute (it usually figures in the top 50 ranking done by different agencies) located in Delhi/NCR, the post academic life began on a high note.

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NEW DELHI: XLRI Jamshedpur will close XAT 2021 registration on December 10, 2020. Candidates can apply online for XAT 2021 on the official website, that is, xatonline.in. XAT 2021 application form can be filled online by using login ID and password.

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On 22 March 2020, Prime Minister Modi imposed a nationwide lockdown amid the rise of coronavirus. The lockdown affected the nation in myriad ways including a sharp rise in unemployment, stress on the supply chain, the collapse of the tourism and hospitality industry and many more.

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