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quick commerce platforms increasingly operating like horizontal online marketplaces, Blinkit and Zepto are seeing much higher sales and carrying a wider assortment at the onset of the festive season with Rakshabandhan, top executives, brands and sellers told ET. Flipkart, Amazon India and others are in the middle of preparing for the upcoming festive season and quick commerce firms are bulking up for an action-packed Diwali this year, aiming to corner a greater market share. These platforms are also doubling the number of stock keeping units (SKUs) to be able to deliver a wider set of goods to consumers during the festive season. Zepto is working to roughly double its SKUs from the 10,000 on offer currently, people in the know told ET. A spokesperson for Zepto confirmed the development. In its June quarter report, Blinkit said it was selling up to 25,000 different SKUs in some locations.

Legendary investor Warren Buffett famously said, “Never rely on a single source of income." Diversifying income streams can be crucial, especially when a sector goes through a downcycle, providing something to fall back on.

Aviral Bhatnagar, who earlier led enterprise software and artificial intelligence investments for Venture Highway (now merged with US-based General Catalyst), has launched a Rs 100 crore fund to back early-stage Indian startups. The fund, launched by the new venture capital (VC) firm AJVC, will focus purely on pre-seed stage investments while being sector agnostic, he told ET. The development comes at a time when several new domestic funds and micro venture capital (VC) firms have come up in India. These investors back startups at a very early stage and write smaller cheques than established VC firms. The emergence of the micro VC funds, which are usually smaller and are single partner focused, have added to the diversity of risk capital investing in Indian startups. Other established micro VC firms include Vaibhav Domkundwar's Better Capital, deeptech-focused firm Java Capital, Delhi-based Sauce VC, which makes consumer sector investments, and $25 million enterprise software-focused Neon Fund.

startups in the electric two-wheeler segment — Ola Electric, Ather Energy and Greaves Electric (Ampere) — declined to 48.8% in the first quarter, from 59% in the year-ago period, as legacy manufacturers such as Bajaj Auto, Hero MotoCorp and TVS Motor Company expanded their footprint in the fast-evolving market. After starting from behind, the older companies accounted for about one of every three units sold in the category in the first three months of the current financial year. Overall, electric two-wheeler sales inched up by 1.4% to 221,548 units, according to the Federation of Automobile Dealers Association (FADA).

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academic institutions, including the Indian Institute of Technology received notices from goods and services tax (GST) authorities for non-payment of tax. «The ministry of education has taken up the matter with the finance ministry. It is looking into it, » said a government official, privy to the development. A host of academic institutions countrywide including IIT-D have been served show cause notice seeking explanation on non-payment of tax on funding support for research by GST authorities. Notices have been sent by the Directorate General of GST Intelligence for the period between 2017-2022.

Inox Wind reported a profit in the April-June period, the first quarter it has done so since the three months to December 2018. «We are just at the cusp of a massive breakout,» Devansh Jain, executive director, InoxGFL Group, said in an interview. The company, a fully integrated wind energy player, has a record 2.9GW order book. The stock market has lapped up the turnaround story. The Noida-based company has seen its stock surge over 11 times from the low of ₹19 in December 2018 to ₹212 on August 16, 2024. In the past year, it has jumped 331% while the Sensex is up 22%, lifting its market capitalisation to nearly ₹28,000 crore.

Gita Gopinath said, while flagging concerns around the growing sentiment against de-globalisation and protectionism. She said countries are certainly becoming more selective about their trading partners. “In that sense, India is in a bit of a favoured position because for many countries, India is an attractive country to work with in terms of diversifying their trading partners… so that plays a beneficial role for India,” Gopinath told ET.

Pro Kabaddi League (PKL), which has completed 10 years and is gearing up for its 11th season, has helped create confidence among investors about the viability of non-cricket sporting leagues, said a senior executive. «When a league like PKL goes into its season 11, we are also helping to create some market confidence that non-cricket sports leagues and the business of sport can grow,» said Anupam Goswami, league commissioner, PKL. Many non-cricket sporting leagues were launched on the lines of the Indian Premier League (IPL), but many of them — such as the Indian Tennis Premier League, Premier Badminton League and Pro Wrestling League — are either dormant or have shut down.

economy, there are cheerleaders, there are doomsayers and there are those who hold up the mirror. Nouriel Roubini, the New York University professor, belongs to the last category as he passionately propagates his theories based on data. Roubini, the Turkish-born economist may have earned the moniker of Dr Doom for predicting the US subprime housing implosion that triggered the global financial crisis, but he's more often misunderstood by the markets whenever it is on steroids, as it is now. The economist, who will be wearing the hat of a fund manager with an exchange-traded fund soon, is set to reveal his view of the world at ET's World Leaders' Forum this month in New Delhi.

Skywatchers are in for a celestial treat on August 19 as a rare super blue moon graces the night sky. This extraordinary event, one of the brightest and largest moons of 2024, combines the phenomena of a supermoon and a blue moon, making it a unique sight. It's worth noting that sometimes the moon can appear larger due to an optical illusion known as the «moon illusion.» When the moon is near the horizon, it can seem larger because our brains compare it to nearby objects like buildings or trees. When the moon is high in the sky, there are no such reference points, making it appear smaller.

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With the new school year starting in a few weeks, Canadian parents are feeling “stressed out” about shopping for their kids and looking for ways to cut back their spending, recent surveys show.

minor accused of killing two persons after ramming his Porsche car in an inebriated state into a motorcycle in Pune on May 19 has undergone a 15-day safe driving programme as mandated by a court, a Regional Transport Office (RTO) official said on Sunday. Two IT professionals from Madhya Pradesh were killed in the incident, which took place in Pune's Kalyani Nagar and triggered massive outrage nationwide, partly because of the accused getting bail from the Juvenile Justice Board on lenient terms and due to a police probe finding attempts by his kin and some doctors to cover up the crime. While being released on bail by the JJB, among the conditions placed on him were writing a 300-word essay on road accidents as well as taking help of the RTO to study traffic rules and regulations. «The juvenile accused completed the safe driving programme with the RTO. With respect to the guidelines of the court, the operation was kept discreet as it could have led to issue of privacy of the juvenile,» a top RTO official said.

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Agnibaan. The company used an industrial 3D printer to make the semi-cryogenic rocket engine as “a single piece in less than a week—right from the place where the fuel enters the engine, till the exhaust and nozzle," Srinath Ravichandran, Agnikul’s co-founder and CEO, told Mint. 3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, fabricates complex objects by depositing materials layer by layer.

2029, the asteroid Apophis will make a close approach to Earth, coming within 20,000 miles of our planet. This encounter will be one of the closest ever recorded for an asteroid of this size, surpassing the distance of geostationary satellites. On April 13, 2029—a Friday the 13th—Apophis will be visible from the Eastern Hemisphere, including parts of Europe, Africa, and Western Asia. It will appear as a bright streak across the sky, resembling a fast-moving star.

Max, Peacock, and Hulu. We have a list of movies with their release dates on OTT streaming platforms. After a bumpy run in theaters, Kevin Costner's Western “Horizon: An American Saga” is landing Friday, August 23, on Max. Costner's three-hour epic, the first of what Costner had hoped would be a four-film series, didn't win over a lot of critics and didn't light up the box office ($29 million domestically) despite Costner's passionate belief in the project. (He put up millions of his own money for its $100 million-plus budget.) A release date for the already-completed part two was also postponed. An ensemble cast is led by Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington, Jena Malone and Costner. George Miller’s “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,” streaming now on Max, may have struggled to match the dizzying heights of 2015’s “Fury Road.” But the film, a prequel to “Fury Road,” features some extraordinary action sequences, a grand fleet of dystopian vehicles and one of the best performances of Chris Hemsworth’s career. Anya Taylor-Joy stars as young Furiosa, taking over the role played earlier by Charlize Theron.

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Nayab Singh Saini on Sunday alleged that corruption flourished under previous Congress governments and was that the party is «known to work for commissions». Hitting out at the Congress's 'Haryana Maange Hisab' campaign, Saini accused the party of land grab and said the Congress had no development work to speak of. «When the opposition has no issue to raise, they are taking out 'hisab yatra'. Hooda sahab, we give account to people regularly,» said Saini stepping up his attack on the Congress following the announcement of the assembly polls in Haryana. «I have asked Hooda ji many things, including questions pertaining to farmers, but he has not answered even one of them,» the chief minister said addressing a rally in Yamunanagar district.