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September 25, 2023

Xiaomi battles law enforcement and competition in India

...When it arrived in India, “Xiaomi came and took the market by storm”, said Prachir Singh, an analyst at Counterpoint Research....

May 27, 2022

FT Live

Finance Disrupted at TNW Conference

Shaking The Foundations Of Finance | Formerly Future of Finance

News in-depthNikkei Asia

Indian start-up valuations are slashed by global investors

...Series B start-ups were valued at about $84mn, 58 per cent higher than 2019....

May 31, 2023

Oil

Russia assembles ‘shadow fleet’ of tankers to help blunt oil sanctions

...Rystad estimates Russia will be short of 60 to 70 tankers, and expects seaborne exports to fall about 200,000 b/d....

December 2, 2022

Indian business & finance

India’s tech investors struggle to cash out as funding falls

...“This year will continue to be a tough year globally,” said Kabir Narang, founding partner at B Capital....

February 13, 2023

Travel

43 holidays to take in 2024

...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...

December 30, 2023

FT Live

TNW Conference 2024 - The Next Web

Europe’s leading tech event for corporates, startups, investors and governments

The Future of Money

Account-to-account payments pose fresh threat to credit card networks Premium

...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...

November 14, 2022

Trafigura

Trafigura sells stake in Putin-backed oil project to obscure HK trading outfit

...The other new director registered on Wednesday at CB Enterprises was Sukhjeet Singh Sekhon....

July 13, 2022

Oil

Russian oil exports to India surge as Europe shuns cargoes

...Russia’s deputy prime minister Alexander Novak and Singh Puri spoke by phone last week....

March 18, 2022

Music

Womad marks 40 years of its musical mission

...But she is most excited about the acts whom many of the audience will be encountering for the first time: she singles out B....

July 14, 2022

Opec

Opec+ sticks with oil supply increase after US overture to Saudis

...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...

December 2, 2021

Covid-19 vaccines

Scientists probe impact on vaccines of Covid variant found in India

...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....

May 12, 2021

War in Ukraine

Biden imposes sanctions on Russia over Ukraine invasion

...“If that fails, plan B is to fight for every inch of our land, and every city and every village,” he added....

February 23, 2022

Coronavirus: Subscriber growth disappointment at Disney Plus compounds streaming sector doubts - as it happened

Scientists probe impact of Indian Covid variant on vaccine efficacy

...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....

May 12, 2021

Coronavirus: CDC panel recommends use of Pfizer Covid vaccine in adolescents - as it happened

Scientists probe impact of Indian Covid variant on vaccine efficacy

...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....

May 12, 2021

FT Live

Commodities Asia Summit

Enabling decarbonisation in a time of disrupted trade flows

The Big Read

Investors pivot to India after China’s tech crackdown

...“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....

November 16, 2021

News in-depthCoronavirus

India’s devastating second wave: ‘It is much worse this time’

...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....

April 21, 2021

FT Wealth

How Covid has raised the profiles and fortunes of India’s pharma entrepreneurs

...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...

November 22, 2021

News in-depthESG investing

Slow start for CDS index reveals challenge for sustainable investment

...“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....

August 6, 2020

HTSI

An exclusive look at a reborn, rewilded Rajasthan retreat

...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....

January 31, 2020

News in-depthAsia-Pacific companies

Asia-Pacific start-ups brace for coronavirus bruising

...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....

April 21, 2020

The Future of Money

The Indian payments conundrum Premium

...One possibility, Ms Singh said, was that “once you have a lot of user traffic you can think about becoming a super app”....

November 18, 2019

ReviewTelevision

Imagine: EastSide Story — London youth feel the transformative power of theatre

...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....

September 27, 2019

Architecture

Inside architect Geoffrey Bawa’s Sri Lankan properties

...Since August, another home in Colombo has become available as a chic B&B....

November 22, 2019

Oil & Gas industry

US ends sanctions waivers on Iranian oil imports

...Saudi Arabia’s March production was 440,000 b/d below the cap agreed in December, according to S&P Global Platts....

April 22, 2019

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