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We request you to accept our promotional emails.     Construction Govt must take bold steps to bring private participation into infrastructure building to spur demand One of the largest sources of demand for manufacturing products is the government's investment in infrastructure and building assets Construction A new start-up wants to use AI and algorithms to replace "expensive, architect-designed" homes Tech start-up Higharc aims to 15 More Construction Stories Advt: Work for the best employer - Yourself Advantages - Best B2B audience in India, no hard-selling or up-front costs involved, access to our content repository and air-tight agreements with instant gratification. Marketing India's only marketing festival is back with a bang India Business News: The inaugural edition of India's only marketing festival held in 2019 saw W Chan Kim speak about his Blue Ocean Strategy, while campaign manager for B Marketing 10 next-generation business tycoons: Meet the kids of India's richest people These future billionaires will be furthering their family legacies 9 More Marketing Stories Politics UN Confirms Many Servers Hacked, But Says No Sensitive Data Compromised The UN confirmed a report Wednesday that it had suffered a cyber attack last year, including at its rights agency, but insisted the hackers had not accessed any sensitive information. Politics "Can't Participate In Anti-National Activities": IIT-Bombay To Students Hostel residents at IIT-Bombay "shall not participate in any anti-national...or any other undesirable activities", the institute's Dean of Student Affairs said in a mail sent this morning 9 More Politics Stories Sports Mohammed Shami's final over got us the victory, not my two sixes: Rohit Sharma Rohit hit two sixes off the last two balls in the Super Over as India took an unassailable 3-0 lead in the five-match series. Both teams were tied on 179 runs each after fifties from Rohit and Williamson cancelled each other. Sports Petition to make Kobe Bryant the new NBA logo nears 2 million signatures Change.org said the petition, which has been signed by celebrities such as Snoop Dogg, Justin Bieber, and Usher, is the fastest-growing on its website and the first petition of 2020 to top 1 million signatures anywhere in the globe. 11 More Sports Stories Entertainment Priyanka Chopra to join the cast of Matrix 4 Matrix 4 stars Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Neil Patrick Harris. The Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow film will hit the screens on May 21, 2021. Entertainment Prince Harry Has "Suffered a Lot" and Is Trying to Protect Meghan Markle and Archie, Friend Says Nacho Figueras opens up in an ABC News special about Prince Harry's decision for him and Meghan Markle to pursue new careers outside the royal family and move abroad with their son, Archie. 9 More Entertainment Stories Work Internships have become 100 times more popular in India in the past six years Becoming mainstream. Work This Startup Aims To Be The PayPal Of Online ID Verification In The Oversharing Economy In this era of data breaches and ID theft, booking a trip online can feel like a leap of faith — especially in the sharing economy. 9 More Work Stories Life Club Factory's breakout growth in India has squeezed rival e-commerce players A 303% year-on-year growth. Life Global trade growth is on its longest losing streak in a decade The exports of nearly every major economy fell in 2019. 3 More Life Stories Retail DLF revamps shopping mall in Saket, Delhi with over Rs 100 cr investment There are total 105 brands of which 95 are new, she said adding that the retail complex would help generate direct and indirect employment opportuniti.. Retail Traders body CAIT will launch e-commerce stores to take on Amazon and Flipkart CAIT has, in the past, accused e-commerce firms like Amazon and Walmart-owned Flipkart of anti-competitive practices like preferential listing, exclusive tie-ups and private labels.Get latest Business online at cnbctv18.com 17 More Retail Stories Telecom Airtel says it can import, export goods despite Govt move "The Company is working towards an expeditious closure of this matter with the Office of the DGFT and for getting the Companys name removed from the DEL. It must also be noted that the said action does not limit the ability of the Company to undertake future imports or exports," Airtel said. Telecom In 2020, India smartphone market will see push from mid-price segment: Gartner Globally the smartphone market will bounce back in sales. In India, the market will be driven by higher demand in the mid-price smartphones, according to the research firm's predictions 9 More Telecom Stories Finance India has IPOs worth $5 billion lined up this year⁠— here's a look at the top candidates Indian markets regulator has approved 16 IPOs worth ₹16,000 crore to go public. In 2019, Indian companies raised ₹1.25 lakh crore from IPOs in 2019. Edelweiss Finance SEBI Could Allow NRIs To Invest In India As Foreign Portfolio Investors SEBI is now planning to introduce a new category of investors under foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) route for NRIs to invest in India. 13 More Finance Stories Food/FMCG Maggi, fridge, clothes, mobile data, booze — nothing is selling in slowdown-hit rural UP Kids are denied lunch and weddings are austere as rural consumption takes a beating due to economic slowdown. ThePrint travels through UP to meet people caught in the crisis. Food/FMCG This is why Modi govt is going slow on single-use plastic ban PM Modi promised to crack down on single-use plastic from October 2019 with a plan to completely ban it by 2022. 8 More Food/FMCG Stories Software Is lack of M&A strategy turning out to be the Achilles heel of Indian IT? What happens to the Indian index is a function of what happens to TCS and Infosys. Software How India's SaaS Pioneers Are Enabling The Next Wave Of Enterprise Tech Innovation Bullish about the burgeoning opportunity of the Indian SaaS sector, enterprise tech founders talked about why this sector matters for India. 12 More Software Stories Ecommerce How a Zippr Code Will Affect E-Commerce Business? By receiving their packages sooner and without a hassle, customers are more likely to leave a great review of your product or brand. Ecommerce Snapdeal 2.0: E-commerce company to shift focus on profitability once it gets this strategy right The Delhi-headquartered company was in close competition with south-based Flipkart at the peak of what was aggressive play by both companies for a larger wallet share of customers, where size is what mattered. It eventually ceded space to the deep pocketed American e-tailer Amazon. 7 More Ecommerce Stories Digital Social media firms may be asked to maintain database of active mobile number of users Social media companies with more than fifty lakh users in India will be categorised as significant social media intermediaries. These companies will also have to comply with stricter obligations, including traceability of users, under the revised rules Digital India Budget 2020: Tech Sector Expects Substantial Allocation For AI Projects India budget 2020 should include a key emphasis on the implementation of the National Centre of AI as it will prepare organisations for better human-machine partnership and analyse consumer patterns using big data, say tech experts. 12 More Digital Stories Franchise Burger King India gets Sebi approval for IPO The regulator's observations are necessary for any company to launch public issues such as initial public offer, follow-on public offer and rights issue. Franchise Little Caesars Pizza enters India with two outlets in Ahmedabad 3 More Franchise Stories HR 7 highest-paid CEOs in the world: This is why their net worth amounts in crores They head some of the world's most diverse organisations, including Alphabet and Microsoft HR 'India's IT workforce may become obsolete unless govt supports reskilling' The talent demand-supply gap in AI and Big Data Analytics is expected to grow from 62,000 to 140,000 over the next 3 years.India's IT industry has laid off thousands of people in the last 2-3 years as automation and digitisation disrupted jobs 12 More HR Stories Logistics Gadkari urges industry to cash in on new expressway projects Logistics Cargo traffic at non-major ports grew 4.8% to 447.21 MT in Apr-Dec During the April-December 2019-20, Directorate of Ports at Odisha recorded highest growth in traffic at 64.2% followed by Ports of Tamil Nadu Maritime Board (34.1%), Directorate of Ports, Puducherry, 27.7%) and Ports Management Board, Andaman & Nicobar Islands (25.4%) against the corresponding period of the previous fiscal, as per the report. 18 More Logistics Stories TradeBriefs Publications are read by over 10,00,000 Industry Executives About Us  |  Advertise Privacy Policy    Unsubscribe You are receiving this mail because of your subscription with TradeBriefs. 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