UpFront
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Sales surge on Flipkart, Amazon, despite slowdown
Banking on their annual Big Billion Days Sale and Great Indian Festival sale, the etailers claim record festive season numbers
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IRCTC IPO response: Govt could sell stake in other companies
The IRCTC issue was oversubscribed 111.78 times to raise Rs645 crore and analysts feel this will not just give traction to IPOs in the PSU sector but also to private sector companies planning their IPOs
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Ten interesting things we read this week
Some of the most fascinating topics covered this week are: Business (Lesson from 2002 Dravid option; Edison and Tesla's cutthroat 'Current War' ushered in the electric age), Environment (Oceans and ice are absorbing the brunt of climate change), Neuroscience (The consciousness illusion), and Technology (Robots are coming for India's shop floors)
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What it's really like to 'eat your way around the globe'
A food critic travelled the world to scour the 'best restaurants' for two magazines. The eating was constant, ridiculous and delightful, but also brutal—"It would be wrong to complain about what is obviously a dream job, but allow me one brief lapse to say: This was a very hard few months"
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The sound of silence: How to read music's negative spaces
As social beings, we are hard-wired to interpret breaks in the flow of human communication. We recognise the pregnant pause, the stunned silence, the expectant hush. A closer listen shows musical silence to be just as eloquent
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How Yes Bank can weather the storm
Yes Bank CEO Ravneet Gill will need to take investors into confidence and raise fresh capital to tide over the current crisis
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Can small cars make it big again?
While automakers such as Maruti Suzuki and Renault have lined up spruced up offerings in this segment, hoping for a festive season uptick, analysts are sceptical
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PMC Bank crisis: Where is the money?
HDIL's previous record suggests PMC Bank may struggle to recover its money
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RBI cuts rates again to spur growth; economists expect more cuts to come
No signs of economic revival yet as RBI lowers growth forecast
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Bombay HC dismisses pleas to save Aarey Forest, tells petitioners to approach SC
Thousands of citizens have been fighting to retain more than 2,600 trees in Mumbai's Aarey for months, opposing Metro car shed construction; the court decision leaves city disappointed
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'Joker' is a risk, but a calculated one, for Warner Bros
Amid high critical praise, Joker is also causing deep unease. Some people worry that the violent, hyperrealistic movie, rather than critiquing the societal failings that have led to the US' mass-shooter crisis, legitimises such atrocities