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27 Jul

PEPSI® launched #SwagWaliPepsi campaign

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Beverage brand Pepsi® unveiled #SwagWaliPepsi campaign, kicked off by popular Bollywood music composer – Tanishk Bagchi. The #SwagWaliPepsi campaign builds on the refreshment quotient of Pepsi® and encourages consumers to show off their confidence and SWAG through anexciting hook step. Speaking about the campaign, Saumya Rathor, Category Lead, Cola, PepsiCo India said, “With the #SwagWaliPepsi campaign, brand Pepsi is pivoting in pop culture and giving consumers a chance to express themselves in their own unique and irreverent way. We are confident that this campaign will add funto the lives of the consumers in an inimitable Pepsi style” The hook step…

26 Jul

Amazon India announced fulfilment network in India

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Amazon India announced its plans to expand its fulfilment network in India, with close to 40% increase in its storage capacity over last year. With this expansion, Amazon.in will have more than 43 million cubic feet of storage capacity, across 15 States, supporting around 8.5 lakh sellers across India. Amazon India has more than 60 fulfilment centers and more than 25 specialized sites dedicated to Amazon Fresh selection for daily essentials and grocery, across India. The launch of 11 new fulfilment centres and expansion of 9 existing ones across States. Buildings across Amazon India’s fulfillment network are designed with state-of-the…

26 Jul

NEXSTGO Company Ltd Annouced Annual Partners Meet

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Nexstgo Company Limited announced annual partners meet in West Bengal. The annual meet was to strengthen the bond with partners, as this is specially organized to motivate and encourage them to carry forward the brand’s legacy. The meet commenced at Fortune Park Pushpanjali , Durgapur. The meet was been organized following all the covid protocols and main aim was to strategize for future opportunities for both VAIO and AVITA laptops in West Bengal as this will help the brand increase its popularity with the discerning audience. This meet will help build VAIO and AVITA one of the biggest brands in…

26 Jul

By 2025, Covid will have cost world between $16 tn and $35 tn

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By 2025, Covid-19 will have cost the world between $16 trillion and $35 trillion, as per McKinsey. The world is unlikely to ever reach global herd immunity, but it can contain the virus with a combination of vaccines, improved testing, and smarter quarantining, based on known outbreaks, rather than large, blunt lockdowns, McKinsey said in a report. Obstacles to worldwide vaccination remain huge: while 49.6 per cent of inhabitants of high-income countries had received at least one dose of the vaccine as of July 14, only 1 per cent of those in low-income countries had. In the next two decades,…

26 Jul

No plan to print currency notes to tide over crisis: FM

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The government has no plan to print currency notes to tide over the current economic crisis triggered by the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman informed Parliament on Monday. To a question on whether there is any plan to print currency to tide over the crisis, the Finance Minister said, “No Sir”. Many economists and experts have suggested the government to resort to printing more currency notes to support the economy ravaged by the spread of COVID-19, and protect jobs. India’s real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is estimated to have contracted by 7.3 per cent during 2020-21, Sitharaman…

26 Jul

Rs 1,060 cr spend on Chennai-Bengaluru Industrial Corridor project

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A total of Rs1,060.02 crore has been spent during the last three fiscal years for the Chennai-Bengaluru Industrial Corridor project, the government told the Rajya Sabha. Answering a question raised by MDMK General Secretary Vaiko, the Minister of State for Commerce and Industry Som Parkash said the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) on 30th December, 2020, approved the project cost of Krishnapatnam node (Andhra Pradesh) and Tumakuru node (Karnataka) as Rs 2,139.44 crore and Rs 1,701.81 crore respectively. The timelines for the construction of trunk infrastructure in these two nodes is 36-48 months, the government said.

26 Jul

No revision in petrol, diesel prices

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Oil marketing companies (OMC) continued to pause fuel price revision for the ninth consecutive day on Monday, the longest period in weeks, as global development on oil production and rising US inventories has softened crude and product prices. However, they stopped short of reducing the retail price of petrol and diesel as more time will be required to study oil price movement before any downward revision. Already, crude has firmed a bit for last few days and this could prevent price cut by OMCs. With no change in prices on Monday, petrol continues to be sold in the national capital…

23 Jul

Pegasus spies: Ambani and former CBI chief also under surveillance

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In the new list of suspected targets of Pegasus spyware, the names of industrialist Anil Ambani and another senior Reliance Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group (Reliance ADAG) official is included over suspicion of their phones having been hacked. A list of many more names was released on Thursday after it was reported that former Congress President Rahul Gandhi, poll strategist Prashant Kishor, TMC leader Abhishek Banerjee, and Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw were among the potential targets of Israeli spyware 'Pegasus'. As per the news website The Wire, the phone numbers used by Anil Ambani and another Reliance ADAG executive are included in the…

22 Jul

Fuel prices remain unchanged for 5th day

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Oil marketing companies (OMC) continued the pause on fuel price revision for the fifth consecutive day, the longest period in weeks, as global development on oil production and rising US inventories softened crude and product prices. Accordingly, in the national capital, petrol continued to be sold at Rs 101.84 per litre, while diesel remained unchanged at Rs 89.87 a litre on Thursday. The pump price of fuel has been static since Sunday. It rose on Saturday with petrol being revised upwards by 30 paisa per litre while diesel prices remained unchanged. One of the main reasons for pause in fuel…

21 Jul

Wipro investing 7,454 cr for business transformation

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Wipro on Tuesday said it would invest $1 billion (Rs 7,454 crore) over the next 3 years to expand cloud services for business transformation of its clients worldwide. “We will invest $1 billion over the next 3 years in cloud services, technologies, acquisitions and partnerships to simplify and accelerate business operations of our clients,” said the software major in a statement. The global giant also unveiled FullStride cloud services to enhances its offerings and talent to its clients. “As the cloud opportunity accelerates, FullStride services bring together our full portfolio of capabilities, offerings and talent to our clients across verticals,”…