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Repeated, unexpected strikes on Chinese economic interests in India since March may have caught the dragon by surprise, but retaliation is inevitable. In fact, the lack of any retaliatory move so far is building up more intense anticipation. While it

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Infrastructure spending as percentage of GDP has been falling after FY17 due to slowdown and limited spending capacity of the government The number is expected to fall steeply in FY21 as coronavirus brings economy to a standstill, says a CRISIL repor

Cement volumes fell 13 per cent in Q4 of FY20 Volumes in Q1 of FY21 are likely to decline 40 per cent, according to estimates by CARE Ratings April volumes fell 86 per cent (as per core industry data released by the Office of the Economic Advisor of

POLICY: Between 2014 and 2016, India reduced import duties on many electronic items and machinery EFFECT: Imports from China increased significantly between 2013 and 2018 for electronic goods, solar panels/modules and other machinery POLICY: To prote

25 per cent safeguard duty on steel imposed from July 30, 2018, to July 29, 2019. This was lowered to 20 per cent from July 30, 2019, to January 29, 2020, and 15 per cent from January 30, 2020, to July 29, 2020 From August, basic customs duty of 20-2

July 1, 2014: The brothers reportedly sign an agreement that assets held by one brother belong to all and appoint each other as their executors 2015: Srichand Hinduja sought to disavow the agreement signed with the other three brothers; the family di

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Shift towards localisation Digital push Move towards variable cost models Building sensing and control tower capabilities Supply chain resilience ■

Transactions processed by payment systems in India every day Payments processed in value terms every day Digital payments’ share in daily payments/transactions in terms of volume Volume growth of digital payments in the last five years ■

Deep-learning algorithms to monitor crop/soil health AI-based sensors for giving hyperlocal weather information, remote sensing and geo-mapping AI-based diagnosis of infections and solutions Solutions for precision irrigation/irrigation automation AI

Let’s just accept it. Telecom is no longer exciting, the way it used to be about 20 years ago, when mobile telephony was just picking up in India and call rates were so high that only high networth individuals and senior executives could afford them.

HUL, through its Suvidha app, has been encouraging kirana stores to order inventory online. Its Apna Store initiative helps kiranas create their own online store Reliance Retail enables kiranas to put inventory online through its PoS device. It also

15 MILLION No. Kirana Stores $795 BILLION Indian Retail Market 7-9 PER CENT Organised 80 PER CENT Unorganised 3 PER CENT Ecommerce ■

Cost pressures are pushing clients to renegotiate service contracts and focus on an agile opex model (money spent on a day-to-day basis for a business) of IT infrastructure for faster innovation Stress on user experience, cloud strategy, virtual netw

$191 BILLION Overall revenue of technology companies in FY20 BPM** $38 BILLION IT SERVICES $97 BILLION HARDWARE $16 BILLION ER&D*, PRODUCTS $40 BILLION *Engineering, R&D services ** Business Process Management ■

Three types of start-ups are coming up—those offering a freight e-market place and connecting shippers and carriers; those focussing on intra-city parcel delivery; and those offering SaaS-based platform for logistics services Warehouse space is being

The shift towards tech-based startups has raised service levels in terms of tracking of consignments The cost of logistics is expected to come down by 10 per cent, benefitting end-users There are expectations that a few large players would be offerin

While browsing through online tutoring platform Vedantu, 22-year-old Natasha came across a live class on ‘How to write Marvel-style comic books’. There were quizzes and interactive games, including some ‘fastest fingers first’ questions that would gi

BYJU’S added 15 million users in the last three months Till date, it has over 57 million registered students In June, it raised an undisclosed amount from Bond, an investment firm co-founded by Mary Meeker, at a valuation of $10.5 billion VEDANTU’S n

WHILE ED-TECH firms are seeing soaring demand from students and universities, the case is different for companies. Everytime there is a slowdown, it is not just marketing spends, but learning budgets get trimmed as well. Companies look to conduct tra

Offline retailers are building online stores to sell to nearby customers Social media promotions are being used for influencing purchases Technology is helping in garnering consumer insights for product designing Video-assisted demos and after-sales

Market size of the appliances and consumer electronics segment in FY19, according to IBEF Contribution from domestic manufacturers Of consumer durable sales are digitally influenced, according to a BCG-Google report Of sales are likely to be digitall

Token Development & Exchange Bitcoin Wallet Service Stablecoin as a Service Cryptocurrency/Bitcoin Trading & Exchange Model Blockchain Development Solutions and Services ■

Token Development & Exchange has brought in institutional validation to what used to be an entrepreneur-issued coin Bitcoin wallet service is gaining greater merchant acceptance as service providers enrol more and more merchants Stablecoin as a servi

These are centralised, with a single authority Transactions reversible Value linked to national currency Used as a monetary unit Do not transcend beyond a region easily Can be used for efficient cross-border settlements No central monitoring authorit