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Mumbai: Furniture retailer Pepperfry has begun to overhaul its business structure as it plans to debut on India’s stock exchanges. To start with, the founders Ambareesh Murty and Ashish Shah have redomiciled Pepperfry from Cayman Islands…

Mumbai: As the spectre of lockdowns disappears, the purchase frequency of brands in the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) segment has improved. This has triggered growth in overall ‘consumer reach points’ (CRPs), a measure of the number…

A key post-pandemic epiphany for organisations has been that the new leadership style is not ‘managing’ but ‘coaching’. The transformation of a manager into a coach — from a ‘command and control’ style to one of mentoring — is fast…

A fast track court in Kerala on Tuesday sentenced a 66-year old man to 81 years imprisonment for repeatedly raping and impregnating a minor girl in Idukki district of the state. Besides the imprisonment, Special Judge (POCSO) T G…

The US research body says PM2.5 pollution is reducing life expectancy in one of the world’s most polluted cities by nearly a decade.Microscopic air pollution caused mostly by burning fossil fuels is reducing life expectancy by nearly 10…