Representative Image Mumbai: Novel Jewels, the jewellery business vertical of Aditya Birla Group, is planning to open 100 stores across India in the next 18 months with an investment of Rs 5,000 crore, its chief executive Sandeep Kohli said. Besides owned stores, the company also plans to look at franchisee models, Kohli told ET in…
Jewellery brands are on expansion mode in East India. Manik Chand Jewellers is coming up with two showrooms one in Upper Assam’s Jorhat and other in Kolkata. Krishan Kumar Soni, MD of Manik Chand Jewellers said, “We are coming up with two showrooms – one in Jorhat in around 4000 square feet area and one…
Kolkata: Surat’s diamond industry has declared a month-long closure till November 30 this year, instead of the usual 15 days around Diwali, amid tepid demand for natural diamonds from the US and China, its two biggest customers. The largest diamond hub of the country, Surat has about 5,000 diamond-cutting and polishing units, employing nearly 800,000…
New York City’s linguistic diversity encompasses over 200 languages, as confirmed by the Department of City Planning, establishing its status as America’s diverse cultural centre. For the US presidential elections, however, ballot papers will be available in only five languages, including English, with the inclusion of an Indian language. A key decision stemming from a…
New Delhi: Brandman Retail (BMR), has entered into an exclusive distribution agreement with Wolverine Worldwide to bring Saucony, a performance footwear brand, to the Indian market, the brand said in a media release on Monday. With this move, BMR will manage the brand Saucony alongside the brands like New Balance and On in India. Also,…
There’s no denying faults in technique have slowly crept into the game of the T20-oriented modern batsmanIf you’re an Indian cricket follower with a sense of history, the capitulation against Ajaz Patel at the Wankhede Stadium on Sunday might just hurt you a little more.Ask any Indian batter of the 1980s and they would say…
Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, successfully launched a Soyuz rocket from the Vostochny Cosmodrome, carrying a dual mission payload. The rocket lifted two primary Ionosfera-M satellites aimed at monitoring space weather around Earth, while also deploying 53 smaller satellites, including two from Iran.The Soyuz-2.1 spacecraft’s main payload, the Ionosfera-M satellites, each weighing 430 kg, will orbit…
Leading shoemaker Bata India Ltd on Monday reported 53 per cent rise in consolidated net profit at Rs 51.97 crore for the second quarter ended September 2024, helped by operational efficiencies and premiumisation. It had posted a net profit of Rs 33.99 crore for July-September FY24, according to a regulatory filing from Bata India. Revenue…
India captain Rohit Sharma (TOI Photo) The possibility of Rohit Shama’s unavailability for the opening Test of the Border Gavaskar Trophy (BGT) in Australia because of personal reasons is not the ideal situation for the Indian team whose hopes of qualifying for the World Test Championship (WTC) are in jeopardy after the whitewash at home…
HARIDWAR: An all-woman rafting team drawn from personnel of Border Security Force (BSF) set off to traverse the length of Ganga from Devprayag in Tehri Garhwal to Ganga Sagar in West Bengal, covering a distance of 2,500km in 53 days. This is the first time an all-woman team will raft the entire stretch of the…
