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Cartoon: What is Instagram in Martian?

Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new Kardashians, to boldly market...




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Finding the Audiences for Healthcare Marketing

DeepIntent applies AI to data to identify medical and patient audiences for healthcare marketing, track them across devices, and deliver impactful messages




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Cartoon: Sponsored Smart Replies

If this isn't real yet, surely it soon will be...




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FlowState Marketing: How A Retail Startup Built A Brand Agency

In 2013, three best friends followed their passion to build a clothing company. Their journey took them in a whole new direction




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Kerala Rents Chopper To Carry Heart Of Brain Dead Woman For 220 Km

Amid massive exercises to contain the COVID-19 pandemic in Kerala, the state police on Saturday operated its rented helicopter to transport the heart of a brain dead patient from Thiruvananthapuram to...




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Valuable Lessons From Mother Shaped My Political Life: Pinarayi Vijayan

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan remembered his mother on Mother's Day and said that the courage and determination with which his mother faced the life, taught him valuable lessons and laid the...




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Data Can Be a Marketer's Dream—or a Persistent Nightmare [Infographic]

Too many B2B marketers are sleeping on the job when it comes to maintaining the consistency and quality of their data.




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Companies' Investments in Email Marketers Vary Widely [Infographic]

The median salary for male email marketers is $15,000 more than that of females'.




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Marketing Is Aging Like a Fine Wine [Infographic]

The discipline is projected to mature into a rich blend of social media and mobile engagement.




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Which U.S. Cities Are Ignoring Your Ads?

A study by AdRoll and Priceonomics breaks down which cities and states are most and least likely to click.




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Infographic: Even Back-to-School Marketing is Increasingly Digital

Back-to-school serves as a reminder that digital channels not only drive digital purchases, but in-store purchases too




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Flight of foreign investors continues in April: FY21 starts on a bad note as FPIs pull out more

After a lifetime high FPI withdrawal in the month of March, the foreign portfolio investors have once again pulled out nearly Rs 15,000 crore from the country's capital market in April.




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Coronavirus: Month of May brings reopenings around the globe as grim economic toll from Covid-19 pandemic ticks higher

The number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits surpassed a staggering 30 million and the European economy shrank a record 3.8% in the first quarter as hotels, restaurants, construction sites and manufacturing were frozen by lockdowns.




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Tarun Bajaj takes over as Economic Affairs Secretary

Prior to taking over this post, he was the Additional Secretary in Prime Minister's Office. Bajaj, a 1988 batch IAS officer, replaces Atanu Chakraborty, who retired on Thursday.




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Lockdown led to subdued economic activity but saved India from lot of agony: SBI chairman Rajnish Kumar

Kumar said as long as the lockdown continues, economic activity will remain tepid, but "demand should be there in the economy" and the question of logistics can be taken care of. The SBI chairman also said complete easing of the curbs is still some time away.




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Privatisation enters agri market: For the first time, farmers will have option other than govt

MP CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan has announced that exporters, traders, food processors, etc, can open a private mandi and can buy the agriculture produce by visiting the farmer’s land or house.




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Manufacturing activity drops to all-time low on record; PMI shrinks for first time in nearly 3 years

Manufacturing PMI stood at a mere 27.4 in April, which was 51.8 in March.




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Record sales of fertilisers in lockdown period; govt ensures full availability before kharif sowing

The sale of fertilisers shot up by 45.1 per cent on-year in April 2020.




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Icra expects GDP to contract by 20 pc in June quarter; 2 pc fall in FY21

The agency's earlier economic forecast was a range, according to which the GDP may either expand by 1 per cent or contract by 1 per cent in 2020-21.




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Your salary hike might not be canceled, most firms across the globe plan to stick to increment budgets

In what could be seen as a silver lining for employees, as many as 50% of the organisations have reported no change in the planned salary hike budgets despite the headwinds that the novel-coronavirus pandemic has brought.




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Taming poverty in post-Covid-19 scenario

“With Covid-19 onslaught, the government has shown tremendous resolve to counter the fallout through socio-economic packages ranging from direct cash transfer to poor and farmers to free food to the needy.”




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More fiscal stimulus measures necessary in India to fight COVID-19: S&P

The agency said India's fiscal position has been weak for a long time now and is a major factor constraining sovereign credit rating along with the government debt.




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Service activities shrink to all-time low; PMI hits near zero

India's service sector recorded largest contraction in business activity and new orders in April.




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Jobs crisis: Unemployment soars; no work for migrant workers coming back to job market

The spike in the unemployment rate shows that a growing number of job seekers were left disappointed as they could not find jobs and their addition to the labour force merely raised the unemployment rate.




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Learn digital ways soon to make your life easy; social-distancing set to last long even after lockdown

The forced lockdown period is a good opportunity for everyone to learn basics such as making online fund transfers via the payment gateways, pay renewals, and check balances, etc from the comfort of home.




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PM Garib Kalyan Package report card: Crores of poor, farmers helped under Modi govt scheme

Amid the lockdown, around 39 crore poor people have received financial assistance of Rs 34,800 crore under the Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Package (PMGKP).




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Coronavirus impact: EU forecasts ‘recession of historic proportions’ this year

The 27-nation EU economy is predicted to contract by 7.5 per cent this year, before growing by about 6 per cent in 2021.




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Helping migrant workers: From clearing pending wages to providing food, govt must step up vigilance

The economic and social fallout of COVID 19 is huge on these migrant workers. The immediate wage loss and uncertainty painted by the gloomy economic prospects further worsens their situation.




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Yogi Adityanath’s gift to UP farmers: Freed from mandi regime, can now sell fruits, veggies from home

Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s UP government has announced to waive off mandi fee for 46 perishable fruits and vegetables.




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Haryana offers reward to move away from water guzzling crops, but is it good enough for farmers?

Haryana has started to take steps towards solving the age-old water problem with the state disincentivizing sowing of water-intensive paddy crops.




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In Modi’s quest to woo foreign companies into India from China, these products may be flag bearers

In consumer goods, the textile and clothing sector; food products; and crop and animal production have the highest comparative advantage in India.




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Record excise duty hike on petrol, diesel unlikely to boost economic growth, help bridge fiscal gap, warns report

The record excise duty hike on petrol and diesel will not help the government bridge the fiscal gap as planned, nor will it help boost economic growth as consumption demand will further be crippled, warns a report. Despite crude prices trading at a two decades low, the government had earlier this week hiked excise duty […]




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Gujarat joins UP, MP, other states in easing labour laws; new projects get major relief 

Gujarat has joined the league of states announcing labour reforms by exempting new projects from provisions of labour laws.




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Are India’s labour law reforms only a gift for factories, or will workers benefit too?

The new labour reforms will promote ease of doing business in the state. however, it is crucial that companies safeguard the interests and wellbeing of the labourers.




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Coronavirus pushes govt to increase borrowing by half; here’s how much centre will borrow this year

The government has decided to borrow Rs 12 lakh cr in the current fiscal, compared to Rs 7.8 lakh cr earlier. 




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Twenty states getting ready for launch of ration card portability from June 1: Ram Vilas Paswan

Food Secretary Sudhanshu Pandey said already intra-state ration card portability is being used, but the transactions are not significant.




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Mainland parents facing strain with Hong Kong citizenship

Mainland professionals and middle class residents have found that a decision that was intended to make their life easier may well have backfired on them. Historically, many mainland couples have taken a trip to Hong Kong to have their children, due to…




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Hong Kong man arrested for human trafficking

A recent incident where a Hong Kong citizen forced his maid to travel abroad with him has opened up a wide discussion on the issue of human trafficking. The outcome of the incident has seen a rather curious scenario develop, wherein Hong Kong holidaymakers…




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Hong Kong airport identifies 1,181 forged travel documents over past 3 years

On 09th, April 2014, Hong Kong's city government has said that around 1,181 travel documents have been identified as forged at the International Airport of Hong Kong over the previous 3 years.Lai Tung kwok, Hong Kong's Secretary for Security has said…




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Hong Kong"s immigration department announces the introduction of Voice-navigated e-Channels

Effective 16th April, 2014, the Immigration Department of Hong Kong has announced that e-channels provided with voice navigation function would be working at the Macau Ferry Terminal (MFT) point of control, intended to assist visually impaired persons…




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Hong Kong prepares itself for the anticipated heavy rush of passengers during the festive season

The Hong Kong Special Administrative Region ‘s (HKSASR’s) is estimating that about 4.89 million travelers will transit through its air,  sea and land control points during the coming Labour Day and Buddha's Birthday festival season (from May…




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Hong Kong, Germany sign MOU on usage of automated clearance service

Hong Kong and Federal Republic of Germany have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) concerned with the automated clearance service usage on a shared basis. The MOU is considered as a new milestone in the collaboration between the countries in immigration…




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Hong Kong executes automated clearance services mutually with Germany

Hong Kong and Germany will execute the service of automated clearance mutually.Effective 01 September 2014, people with HKSAR (Hong Kong Special Administrative Region) electronic passport will be authorized to get register for the automated service of…




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Govt to deploy central teams for 10 states that have witnessed or are witnessing high COVID-19 cases

The teams are being sent to Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.




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HSBC MF marks down exposure in DHFL to 100%

HSBC Global Asset Management has marked down its exposure from 75% to 100% in its two debt schemes holding the non-convertible debentures (NCDs) of Dewan Housing Finance Corporation (DHFL).




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Book Review: Al Arabian Novel Factory – A gripping tale which symbolises brutal societies and ruthless regimes

Al Arabian Novel Factory is the sequel to Jasmine Days, the story of young radio jockey Sameera Parvin, an immigrant in the city from Pakistan, and her guitar-playing colleague Ali Fardan.




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From Jethalal in Taarak Mehta Ka Ooltah Chashmah to Arthur in Joker, Flawed & fabulous characters connect with people

They may not be pretty, smart or successful, but they strike a note. Why is it that some of the most lovable characters in popular culture have been far from perfect, flawed even?




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‘Project restart’: Pros and cons

In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel has given the go-ahead to Bundesliga’s resumption, in the second half of this month, ending a two-month suspension caused by the coronavirus pandemic.




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Tamil Nadu forms panel under ex-RBI Guv Rangarajan to advise measures to bring economy back on track

The committee will include industry veterans like Venu Srinivasan, chairman, TVS motor company, N Srinivasan, vice-chairman & MD, India cements and A Vellayan, former chairman of Murugappa group.