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Coldplay concerts scheduled for 2025, popular author Chetan Bhagat and former SharkTank judge Ashneer Grover engaged in debate on social media platform over pricey tickets sold. «On one hand we get figures of Indian salary percentiles and on the other there’s near mania for concert tickets. Who’s paying so much and buying all these tickets? What percentage of your monthly salary are people spending on these tickets?Some YOLO logic here? What?» said Bhagat in a post on X. Replying to the author, Ashneer said «It’s a large country — and lot is disparity on either end — why is filling of 80k stadium surprising anyone? 800k students go overseas every year — spending $50K on an average. Also now that most people who can afford have phones — things will fill up instantly as well.»

With hotel prices on the rise, consumers are looking at alternative payment methods to make their trip work within their budget, but some are finding roadblocks along the way.

Wearing the worst mistake in Toronto-Dominion Bank’s 169-year history is not how Bharat Masrani expected to end his 10-year tenure as CEO. U.S. allegations that TD facilitated money laundering by criminal drug gangs in three states to the tune of US$653 million are all that Bay and Wall Streets are talking about when his bank is mentioned these days.

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Amazon on Monday announced an increase in its standard commission income rates across 20 plus sub-categories for over 50,000 content creators engaged with it. The revised structure will offer content creators 1.5x-2x increased income across a wide range of product categories, including popular choices like fashion, beauty and personal care appliances, home, kitchen, toys, and books, Amazon said. «This empowers creators to earn more during the peak shopping season and capitalise on the increased consumer demand during the Amazon Great Indian Festival (AGIF),» a company statement said. The Amazon Great Indian Festival is set to start on September 27, with 24-hour early access for Prime members.

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The website of online ticketing platform BookMyShow crashed Sunday, seconds after the sale of tickets for the highly anticipated Coldplay concert went live, leaving fans stuck in digital queues and disappointed. The concert, scheduled for January 18 and 19 at the DY Patil Sports Stadium in Navi Mumbai, marks the British band's return to India after an eight-year break.

The Ministry of Labour and Employment is developing the Occupational Shortage Index (OSI) in consultation with the International Labour Organization (ILO), a government official said. This is aimed at long-term labour market planning and development of policies to facilitate employment generation, he said. «We are looking to create an index that can provide a picture of demand and supply of workers in a particular occupation in each state,» the official said.

Kamat Hotels (India), the Bombay High Court has directed a clutch of online travel portals including Makemytrip, Goibibo, Booking.com B.V. and Agoda to take down the listings of a company that allegedly infringed the trademark of its brand 'The Orchid'. The BSE-listed hotel chain Kamat Hotels had approached the court against city-based firm Orchid Service Apartment with the argument that the company was infringing its trademark by running a service apartment/hotel and rendering services under the trade mark 'The Orchid'. «The identity/close and deceptive similarity of the rival marks and the services cannot be a mere coincidence,» observed Justice RI Chagla in his order of September 18.

Fusion Finance, Warburg Pincus and Creation Investments are planning to recapitalise the country’s youngest microfinance company via a Rs 550-crore rights issue to strengthen its balance sheet as the firm’s provisions for the September quarter are expected to surpass earlier forecasts by up to 58%. Fusion Finance is also initiating a search for a new chief executive to strengthen its senior management bandwidth as part of a larger corporate initiative to improve the asset quality of the loan book, top officials said. “We want to be more proactive rather than be more organic in terms of handling this issue,” Fusion Finance founder Devesh Sachdev told ET.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Mumbai: Known as the ‘Dean of Valuation’, Aswath Damodaran, professor of finance at the Stern School of Business at New York University, is out with a new book, The Corporate Life Cycle. Companies have a life cycle very much like humans—they are born, witness growth spurts, mature and then inevitably decline.

Animal welfare activists are calling on the province of Ontario to rescue a young macaque monkey displaying “troubling” behaviour at a roadside zoo in the town of Kincardine.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Mixologists in India have been in a hyper-experimental mode for a while. If it was techniques and indigenous botanicals that they played with earlier, they are now choosing to experiment boldly with unusual, seemingly unpalatable, ingredients.

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Rings of Power Season 2 continues with Episode 7. It will be released on Thursday, September 26, 2024, at 12 a.m. PT/3 a.m. ET. Here are all the details.

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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Wall Street commentary around this week’s Fed rate cut could have filled a very long and boring book, but much of what you need to know about its effect on the stock market can be found in a movie rarely linked with monetary policy: “The Wizard of Oz." The great and powerful man behind the central bank curtain, Jerome Powell, really can’t do as much as people think to keep their portfolios from shriveling if the wheels are already starting to come off the economy. Stocks’ initial reaction to Wednesday’s cut was exuberant.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: Online marketplace Amazon India will invest more in "speed" amid shifting preferences where consumers want everything from their soaps to pizzas delivered within hours, instead of days. “We deliver an assortment of 1 million products on the same day to Prime members and 4 million products the next day.

Apple clocked up to 25% higher sales of the iPhone 16 models on launch day compared with that of the iPhone 15 last year, with quick commerce platforms also getting into the act. But demand for the pricier Pro series surpassed supply. Several retail chains said availability of the costlier devices was at 20-25% of pre-bookings. Market tracker Counterpoint Research said based on early estimates, Day 1 sales of the iPhone 16 and 16 Plus were 20% higher than last year, while they were about 25% higher for the Pro models.