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Mother Dairy seeks to use e-grocers’ network
Mother Dairy, one of India’s leading dairy companies, has written to major food e-commerce players, including BigBasket, Milkbasket and Supr Daily, to operate as a team to maintain a smooth supply of milk. Senior executives at Mother Dairy said the dairy giant is ready to increase production and use the distribution network of the online […]
E-tail to take $1 billion hit in lockdown
The 21-day lockdown will lead to a loss of at least $1 billion in gross sales as India’s largest online retail platforms like Amazon and Flipkart stop selling non-essentials till at least the middle of next month, based on current government directives. What’s of further concern is that the online retail players are expected to […]
As Covid-19 cases rise in India, tech-based health surveillance intensifies
Illustration: Rahul Awasthi Owing to the rapid rise of COVID-19 cases across the country, state governments and large municipalities are coming up with strict surveillance mechanisms to ensure that those quarantined adhere to the norms, and stay at home. Health surveillance in this context seems to be taking multiple forms — a mixture of human […]
As India connects, data loses speed
Consumers of mobile and home broadband services, especially those in urban areas, have seen their network speeds slow down by around 20% because of a surge in consumption of up to 30% on an average, especially of videos. This is expected to get worse, with speeds likely to slow by another 25-30%, as internet usage […]
Retail Pooling: Online, offline firms share staff to deliver food, groceries
Food and grocery retailers and e-grocers have started to utilise available manpower resources of other e-commerce ventures to augment their last-mile delivery, to tide over an acute shortage of workers. Some e-grocers have also agreed to pick and deliver orders from local kiranas and supermarkets to customers, three industry executives said. Leading national and local […]
Colleges extend decision deadline due to coronavirus as new students reconsider
College acceptance letters are already in the mail. Now high school seniors must decide their fate for September. Up until now, National College Decision Day, the deadline for high school seniors to choose which college they will attend, has always been May 1. This year, however, the global coronavirus pandemic and extreme economic uncertainty have pushed many […]
NRAI asks landlords to waive rentals for restaurants till June
The National Restaurant Association of India ( NRAI) has written an open letter to landlords in the foods and beverages space requesting them to waive rents up to June or until the time the lockdown continues, whichever is later. “While this shutdown may continue for a month or two, we will take many more months […]
How tech firms are helping institutions smoothen their sudden transition to online teaching
Sanjana Hira, a graduate student at Ashoka University in Sonipat, has been attending online classes from her Gurgaon home ever since educational institutions across India closed down campuses to contain the spread of coronavirus. “While many of our lectures are being held online through video-conferencing apps like Zoom and Google Hangouts, some professors prefer uploading […]
World’s largest glove maker sees shortage as coronavirus fight spikes
KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) – Malaysia’s Top Glove Corporation Bhd, which makes one in every five gloves globally, expects a product shortage as demand from Europe and the United States spikes because of the widening coronavirus outbreak is exceeding its capacity. The company has extended shipping times to cope with the demand surge, Executive Chairman Lim […]