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...Rivals B&M and Poundland have bought 122 stores between them....
...When it arrived in India, “Xiaomi came and took the market by storm”, said Prachir Singh, an analyst at Counterpoint Research....
...Series B start-ups were valued at about $84mn, 58 per cent higher than 2019....
...Rystad estimates Russia will be short of 60 to 70 tankers, and expects seaborne exports to fall about 200,000 b/d....
...“This year will continue to be a tough year globally,” said Kabir Narang, founding partner at B Capital....
...The opening show features work by, among others, Lubna Chowdhary, Rohini Devasher, Atul Dodiya, Shilpa Gupta, Bharti Kher, Annie Morris, Manu Parekh and Dayanita Singh, as well as Ai Weiwei and Andy Warhol...
...Indian fintech raise $60mn to expand loans-as-a-service Lentra, a Mumbai-based start-up, has completed a Series B led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Susquehanna International Group, writes Jagmeet Singh...
...The other new director registered on Wednesday at CB Enterprises was Sukhjeet Singh Sekhon....
...Russia’s deputy prime minister Alexander Novak and Singh Puri spoke by phone last week....
...But she is most excited about the acts whom many of the audience will be encountering for the first time: she singles out B....
...The Saudi decision followed a visit this week to the kingdom by a US delegation led by Daleep Singh, deputy national security adviser for international economics, Don Graves, deputy commerce secretary, and...
...In India, where there is less genomic sequencing capability, B.1.617.2 now accounts for roughly 64 per cent of cases, and B.1.617.1 accounts for 12 per cent....
...“If that fails, plan B is to fight for every inch of our land, and every city and every village,” he added....
...At one care home in Delhi, 33 staff members who had been fully vaccinated with the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab, tested positive for the B. 1.617.2 strain, he said, though none became seriously ill....
...“It’s about thinking where you look, how you play the different markets,” says Kabir Narang, a partner at B Capital Group, an investment firm active across Asia....
...Officials are alarmed about the suspected role of new variants in driving the latest wave, particularly the B.1.617 strain first detected in India last month....
...Other Indian drugmakers — such as Dilip Shanghvi’s Sun Pharma, the Murali Divi-owned Divi’s Laboratories, Manju Gupta’s Lupin and Basudeo Narain Singh’s Alkem, as well as Cipla again — began producing the...
...“It hasn’t really traded a lot,” said Jasdeep Singh Aneja, head of European macro trading at Goldman Sachs, citing about six trades in the first few weeks....
...B accommodation, a dinner at one of the RAAS hotels, five hours of spa treatments at the hotels, and a heritage walking tour of Old Delhi....
...It has since widened its offering beyond simply getting people “from A to B”, says Ming Maa, Grab president. It now offers loans, and grocery and laundry delivery....
...One possibility, Ms Singh said, was that “once you have a lot of user traffic you can think about becoming a super app”....
...With mentorship from musician Talvin Singh, EastEnders actress Tameka Empson, Kwame Kwei-Armah and ever patient musical director Delroy Murray, songs and narrative slowly come together....
...Since August, another home in Colombo has become available as a chic B&B....
...Saudi Arabia’s March production was 440,000 b/d below the cap agreed in December, according to S&P Global Platts....
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