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NEW DELHI : Ad industry veteran Bobby Pawar, chairman and chief creative officer of Havas India, will step down at the end of his five-year stint in September, the company said. Pawar, who has had a career over 30 years, will also leave the advertising industry. The company said that Anupama (Anu) Ramaswamy, who joined as chief creative officer last year, will head Havas Worldwide.

P Chidambaram on Friday hit out at Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman over her «UPA wasted a decade» remark, saying while the GDP growth rate during 2004-2014 was 7.5 per cent, it is just 5.7 per cent during the the first nine years of the NDA government. Intervening during the debate on the no-confidence motion in Lok Sabha on Thursday, Sitharaman had said the UPA «wasted a decade because of corruption and cronyism». «Today, every crisis has been changed into an opportunity.

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Electric vehicle sales in the country are expected to hit the 10 lakh annual sales mark by the end of the decade, Tata Motors, which anticipates green vehicles to account for 50 per cent of its total sales by that period, said on Friday. The Mumbai-based auto major, which crossed 1 lakh cumulative EV sales milestone, currently gets 14-15 per cent of its overall sales from electric models on a quarterly basis. «Five years back, electric vehicles used to sell just 90 units a month. Today these sell 8,500 to 9,500 units a month, which is like 100 times more...five years back the industry had sold about 2,000 cars and we are talking about already an annualised run rate this year of more than one lakh units so it's a 50 times growth,» Tata Motors Passenger Vehicles Managing Director Shailesh Chandra told reporters. Chandra, who also heads the company's passenger electric mobility vertical, noted that with enhanced charging infrastructure and with other automakers also entering the EV space, the vertical is set for sustained growth.

₹5,982.14 crore. The company had reported a profit of ₹4,579.53 crore in the year-ago period. Sequentially, net profit was down 2.4% from ₹6,128.63 crore in Q4FY23.

Times are relatively tough for Canadian financial institutions, but even in an inflationary period marked by sharp interest rate increases, there can be little argument that running a bank in Canada is pretty much a licence to print money. The country’s handful of large, dominant banks have weathered low oil prices, real estate dips, the Great Financial Crisis and even the pandemic, not only remaining profitable but also steadily expanding their reach.

Hyundai Motor has once again pushed the boundaries of innovation with the world premiere of its eagerly awaited fifth-generation Santa Fe. The grand unveiling took center stage on the company's YouTube channel, where viewers were treated to an immersive experience showcasing the SUV's core features. The premiere video, titled «Open for More,» not only accentuates the model's impressive attributes but also pays homage to its heritage, with filming taking place in SANTA FE, New Mexico, the birthplace of the iconic vehicle.

The index of industrial production (IIP) in India declined to 3.7 per cent in June 2023 from the three-month high level of 5.2 per cent measured in May 2023, according to data released by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation on August 11. In April, the IIP came in at 4.2 per cent, according to government data.

rape of minor may be given the maximum punishment of death sentence. These punishments are part of the three bills introduced by Union Home Minister Amit Shah in Lok Sabha on Friday. The crime of murder will invite death sentence or life imprisonment while those involved in rape shall be punished with minimum 10 years of jail or imprisonment for life and gang rape will invite at least 20 years of imprisonment or imprisonment for the remainder of that person's natural life. According to the bills, if a woman dies after the rape or it causes the woman to be in a persistent vegetative state, the convict shall be punished with rigorous imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than 20 years, but which may extend to imprisonment for life, which shall mean imprisonment for the remainder of that person's natural life, or with death. Whoever commits rape on a girl under 12 years of age shall be punished with rigorous imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than 20 years, but which may extend to imprisonment for life, which shall mean imprisonment for the remainder of that person's natural life, and with fine or with death. The bills introduced in Lok Sabha are Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) Bill, 2023; Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS) Bill, 2023; and Bharatiya Sakshya (BS) Bill, 2023 that will replace the Indian Penal Code, 1860, Criminal Procedure Act, 1898, and the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 respectively.

Retail investors are expected to join institutions in a growing investment market which provides funding for legal disputes.

Among the many things that have changed since the start of the pandemic, the way people view their workplace is one of the most radical.

ITC Limited on Friday said the FMCG business has immense potential for growth with its brands commanding an annual consumer spend of Rs 29,000 crore. Speaking at the 112th AGM of the company, ITC chairman Sanjiv Puri told shareholders in his address that the FMCG brands are being exported to several countries and the business vertical has immense growth potential due to the rising per capita income of the people. «The ITC Next strategy for the FMCG business is to build a future-ready portfolio.

Gati Shakti, that prime minster claimed would create lakhs of job, was announced. PM Modi also promised that his government will deliver 75 Vande Bharat trains that would connect every corner of the country. Apart from this, PM announced Fortified Rice plan, Sainik School for girls, National Hydrogen Mission.

As the world looks to EVs to reduce its reliance on fossil fuels – the metals and mining sector is expected to be the beating heart of the solution.

A biotechnology chief executive who earned more than $10 million from now collapsed life-science companies has declared himself bankrupt and left Australia.

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The family of Henrietta Lacks has filed another lawsuit accusing a second company of unjustly profiting off her cells for generations

One of the world’s biggest law firms says it is separating from the Chinese firm that was part of its global network for eight years, citing changes in cybersecurity and other rules that have rattled foreign companies

The number of Americans applying for jobless benefits jumped last week, but not enough to cause concern about a still-strong U.S. labor market

Miners and advocates are pleading with the Mine Safety and Health Administration to ensure a proposed rule to cut the current limit for silica dust exposure has strict enforcement mechanisms

One of the United States' biggest rail investments in more than a century could be an 88-mile line in Utah that would run through tribal lands and national forest to move oil and gas to the national rail network