In keeping with the cultural norms in India, where sons and daughters are encouraged to support their parents, up to 82% of those aged between 22 and 29 continue to live with their parents. That’s according to a report by real-estate consultancy CBRE which surveyed urban millennials in the Asia-Pacific region.
India’s rich are getting richer.
Moitreyee Banerjee, a New Delhi-based lawyer, is one angry bride-to-be.
Yoga guru-turned-entrepreneur Ramdev has spoken again, this time praising the Narendra Modi government’s decision to demonetise high-value currency denominations. Lauding the move to clamp down the circulation of black money and fake currency, Ramdev has been making statements through the week.
The mood in Delhi’s biggest retail markets is sombre.
An average household in rural India spends more money on alcohol and tobacco than on accessing preventive healthcare.
It’s that time of the year in India.
India’s lofty ambitions to be seen as business-friendly just went kaput.
Four years ago, when Cyrus Mistry took control of the Tata Group, the $103-billion salt-to-steel conglomerate was in the throes of recasting its retail business.
Patanjali Ayurved is on a mission to take over your wardrobe, too.
Patanjali Ayurved is in a hurry.
For the past few weeks, jewellery stores and salons have been clocking up higher-than-usual sales in India in anticipation of Karva Chauth.
Hindustan Unilever (HUL), India’s largest consumer goods company, is staring at a slump.
Titan Company isn’t just India’s biggest watchmaker. It’s actually the world’s fifth largest maker of time-pieces (pdf). But apparently, that’s not enough anymore.
When Chetan Bhagat writes, India reads.
James Bond seems to have taken a bit of a career detour.
Harsh Mariwala has spent the better part of his life building Parachute into the world’s largest selling coconut oil, becoming a billionaire in the process.
India’s jobs could be under severe threat from automation.
Indians clearly do not like being stalked by online advertisers. And advertisers would be well-advised to avoid that path lest they lose credibility.
As India announced having carried out “surgical strikes” against Pakistan, escalating tensions between the two South Asian neighbours, marketing departments of some companies smelt an opportunity.
India’s hottest consumer goods company, Patanjali Ayurved, is facing a logistical problem.
The world’s largest retailer might make a big play for India’s $22-billion (pdf) e-commerce market.
Periods may still be a taboo topic in India but a team of researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad (IIT-H) is using nanotechnology to make you a better sanitary pad.
Acharya Balkrishna’s Twitter tips on how to use natural, homemade remedies to keep your gums from bleeding or joints from aching have earned him over 31,000 followers since 2011. But it’s not just his mastery over Ayurveda that has catapulted him into India’s billionaire club. The 44-year-old also has some serious business chops.
