UpFront
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Long lines, brawls, a cottage industry: Inside the mad scramble for video game consoles
Long lines outside retail stores devolving into brawls, desperate shoppers refreshing websites in a bid to outrace the bots and a cottage industry of people trading tips and making money in the process—is the state of the video game console market a year after a new generation of widely coveted devices was released during the height of the pandemic
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Meet the black women making waves in hair care
Black-owned hair care companies are growing, increasing their market share to $2.5 billion in 2021, spawning waves of Black female hair care enthusiasts with business acumen
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How to tame the elephant in the economy
The RBI expects inflation to peak by the quarter ending March, but that may depend on a clutch of imponderables
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MacKenzie Scott most powerful woman in 2021 on Forbes list; Nirmala Sitharaman on rank 37
Take a look at the top 5 most powerful women in the world on the Forbes World's 100 Most Powerful Women list. Five Indian women also made it to the list—find out who they are
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UAE changes to work week in a nod to global business
Moving the weekend from Friday and Saturday to Saturday and Sunday shows, experts say, just how ready the UAE is to forgo tradition in order to attract foreign investment and talent
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The diplomatic boycott shadowing 2022 Beijing Olympics
Joe Biden and US diplomats, New Zealand and Australian diplomats are all staying home while Vladimir Putin may attend the 24th Winter Olympics in Beijing which is due to open in less than two months—the diplomatic sit-out intends to protest China's repressive policies
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Delivery is on: Can Pizza Hut grab a bigger slice?
Twenty-five years in India and the world's biggest pizza player is still a distant No 2 to Domino's. Can Pizza Hut's latest brand positioning—Dil khol ke delivering—help it deliver a sucker punch?
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Omicron is fast moving, but perhaps less severe, early reports suggest
In the absence of more hard information, governments have reacted to omicron with sharp restrictions on international travel and new vaccination requirements
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Indian mutual funds' AUM jumps five-fold in 10 years to Rs 37.33 lakh crore in 2021
A look at the key numbers and milestones of the mutual fund industry in India, including assets under management, total folios, and more
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Inside Tesla as Elon Musk pushed an unflinching vision for self-driving cars
Unlike technologists at almost every other company working on self-driving vehicles, Musk insisted that autonomy could be achieved solely with cameras tracking their surroundings
