Nandini, a 28-year-old IT Professional, is combing the bathroom essentials aisle to replenish her toiletries. Instead of taking the soap that she usually does, this time Nandini chooses a different option- one that promises to ‘cleanse’ her skin pores through ‘natural’ ingredients. “I have had a lot of pimples on my skin,” “I don’t mind paying a little more to prevent it from happening again,” she adds. Millions of consumers like Nandini are increasingly opting to pay more for a product that offers the same solution but at a far higher price. They do it with the hope of getting…
Author: Abizar Attari
Abizar Attari
I’ve always had a fascination with storytelling. Analyzing diverse perspectives and helping people understanding them simply is my life’s motto. I live to create stories that you’d love to read. When I’m not writing, you'll find me having a leisurely stroll on the beach or in the park.
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Blinkit’s 10-minute delivery promise hinges on its network of neighbourhood warehouses, allowing its IT systems and drivers to reach you effortlessly. For scores of harried professionals who literally live to work, quick commerce has emerged as a godsend, saving them time and efforts that would’ve been lost to errands. As one of the biggest players in the quick commerce market, Blinkit has emerged as one of the most popular platforms for the quick delivery of daily essentials- food staples, toiletries, home improvement goods and so on. After its takeover by Zomato in 2022, Blinkit’s Gross Order Value (GOV) has surged…
Mumbai: Defying the rising preference for OTT, Aditya Dhar’s crime thriller Dhurandhar is on track to surpass Pushpa 2 as the highest-grossing Bollywood film, with ₹831.40 crores collected in 31 days since its release. #Dhurandhar 💥💥💥💥💥 pic.twitter.com/rI8zrUHGR7 — Rohit Jaiswal (@rohitjswl01) January 7, 2026 The Ranveer Singh- Akshaye Khanna starrer defied expectations, especially as the makers did not promote the film through trailers or other mediums. The film has achieved this despite not being released in the Middle East, one of the major overseas markets for Indian films. In fact, there are reports of Pakistani fans fascinated by the film,…
Mumbai: Sri Lotus Developers has announced a new luxury project in GIFT City, Gujarat in partnership with Bollywood celebrity Abhishek Bachchan. This marks the real estate developers’ first foray beyond Mumbai, and it is banking on Abhishek’s star power to publicise the luxury development. The company will be undertaken through a subsidiary Rise Root Projects Pvt. Ltd, with the company leveraging its core strengths in design, planning, development and execution while Mr Abhishek Bachchan has been onboarded with a profit-sharing arrangement through a development agreement. Spread over a built-up area of over 1 million sq ft, the project will contain…
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Lucknow: Precision materials and engineering firm PTC Industries has secured a prestigious order from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)’s Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSSC) to transform titanium sponge into aerospace-grade ingots, as per a press release to the bourses. As per the requirement, PTC Industries will convert 40 tonnes of Grade 1 Titanium sponge (the raw material) into Ti-6Al-4V Titanium alloy ingots, meeting highly advanced quality and purity requirements for space and aerospace applications. For this PTC’s team is using the Double Vacuum Arc Remelting (VAR) secondary melting process, using Titanium electrodes under a high vacuum electric arc. This…
Mumbai: Unimech Aerospaces’ subsidiary Innomech Aerospace Toolings Private Limited has secured a ₹72.20 crore order from Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) for the manufacture and supply of support equipment at the Tarapur Atomic Power Plant in Maharashtra. According to a regulatory filing, the company is expected to meet a delivery schedule up to December 2028, as Unitech Aerospaces strengthens its portfolio in high precision engineering components for the aerospace, defence and nuclear power sector. Unimech Aerospaces stock has underperformed since its blockbuster market debut on December 31, 2024. The stock was oversubscribed 174 times, with investors hoping for…
Mumbai: Pharmaceutical major Wockhardt is moving ahead to commercialise its breakthrough drug, Zaynich, offering a hope to millions of patients who require a stronger diagnosis for their ailments. The company has filed a Marketing Authorisation Application (MAA) with the European Medicines Agency (EMA), bringing the drug closer to launch in the Eurozone. Based on its proprietary antibiotic, WCK 5222, the US FDA has accepted Wockhardt’s New Drug Application (NDA) as of December 1, 2025. This development is the biggest achievement by an Indian pharmaceutical company, which has been developing low-cost, ‘copycat’ generic drugs for years, without much innovation. Wockhardt’s NDA…
New Delhi: Used car marketplace startup Cars24 has acquired vehicle information platform CarInfo, its second acquisition in two years, as the company strengthens its moat in the highly competitive second hand car market in India. In April 2025, the company acquired vehicle review platform TeamBHP. Cars24, a Gurugram-based startup, is looking to list publicly later on. Venture capital firms like Alpha Wave Global, DST Global and Peak XV have invested in the company, which counts CarDekho, Spinny and CarTrade as its main competitors, besides captive operations like Maruti Suzuki True Value, Mahindra First Choice Wheels and Honda Cars India. Most…
Mumbai: Reliance Industries shares have fallen almost 5% on Tuesday, January 6 after a Bloomberg report claimed that three oil tankers from Russia were on the way to its Jamnagar facility despite India committing to pause its oil imports from the country. This development came a day after Reliance’s shares climbed 1.18% a day earlier due to hopes of resumption of oil shipments from sanction-hit Venezuela. The company denied the report, which had also said that the company was to receive 2.2 million barrels of Russian Ural crude. “Reliance Industries’s Jamnagar refinery has not received any cargo of Russian oil at…
