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Amul to Dettol: Brands go viral with safety messages about coronavirus

From advisories and warnings to smart witticisms, brands across categories are reaching out to consumers over the shadow of Covid-19




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Coronavirus: Health scare forces work from home, but is India Inc ready?

India Inc has embraced remote working because of a health scare. But there are important lessons on enabling infrastructure, managing remote teams and ensuring productivity...




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Mercedes Benz redefines the luxury label to plot a millennial trail

Once a symbol of societal status, the auto brand is remaking itself in the mould of its new consumers as one that marks brash ambition and youth




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Soap success: Medimix reports business surge as coronavirus spreads

The medicinal soap brand is seeing a sharp spurt in demand across the country




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As coronavirus cases spike, social media battles the epidemic of fakes

Google, Twitter, TikTok, Facebook team up with global health agencies and governments to put up the guardrails on the fake trail




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Summer internship at top B-schools deferred or made virtual due to Covid-19

In some cases, existing internship offers have even been cancelled or squeezed to 5 weeks from the normal 7-8 weeks




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Stay home, stay safe: Brands try to convey message of optimism amid crisis

Advertisers ask consumers to stay calm and keep their distance, find ways to keep the engagement going under a lockdown




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Byju's, Toppr close social distance as demand for online education spikes

Edtech brands offer discounts, add fresh content and engage more frequently with users




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From BMW to M G Motor, auto brands shift gears on the virtual highway

Specific tailored marketing pitches using first party data, smoother payment and financing processes and digital launches are among the ways in which auto majors are keeping their brands in the game.




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With witticisms, warnings & videos on lockdown, cops turn stars on Twitter

From being quick to quell rumours and call out fake news to using popular movie dialogues to tell people to stay in, the Mumbai Police Twitter handle has been moving at dizzying speed.




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Competitors join hands to tide over supply-chain challenges amid lockdown

Towards the end of last week, at least three such tie-ups were announced




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Recovery for brands look difficult as anxious consumers maintain distance

India among the top 3 nervous nations in the world; consumers expect long-term spending to be hit, want brands to spread optimism and cheer: Kantar




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How retailers upped the ante to deal with supply chain constraints

The biggest lesson in the situation is redefining the hygiene of the shopping environment, which will now be an ongoing exercise, says Big Bazaar CEO Sadashiv Nayak




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What to prioritise? Challenges galore for business leaders post lockdown

What will be the priorities for business leaders as and when employees come back to work?




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Amul brings nostalgia back in ads to stay relevant amid Covid-19 lockdown

Leaning in on nostalgia and its long-standing relationship with customers, the legacy brand strives to be seen and heard amidst a lockdown




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Hurt by consumption slowdown earlier, small brands bounce back in lockdown

Over 150 new players seen in hygiene category alone; food business also sees similar rush




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How tech firms are helping build robust local supply chains amid Covid-19

Now that many areas are out of bounds for big retailers for various reasons, is there an opportunity for local kiranas?




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Mercedes-Benz launches upgraded SUV GLS 350d

German luxury carmaker Mercedes-Benz on Wednesday launched an upgraded version of its seven-seater sports utility vehicle GLS 350d in India, priced at Rs 80.4 lakh (ex-showroom Pune).




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10 Indian companies in 25 top workplaces list for Asia

India offices of MNCs like DHL, Google and Marriott ranked among the top workplaces in Asia. 10 Indian companies including Lupin, M&M and InterGlobe Enterprises also made it to the list under the '25 Best Large Places to Work' category.




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HUL splits foods and refreshments portfolio

Hindustan Unilever has re-organized its foods and refreshments business into two separate portfolios. This follows both foods (Knorr, Kissan and Annapurna) and refreshments (Bru, Lipton, Magnum, Cornetto and Kwality Walls) attaining scale following a growth momentum.




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FM Jaitley's 3G budget: Key takeaways




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Sensex tanks 133 pts in early trade on Asian cues

The benchmark BSE Sensex lost 133 points to 25,571.97 in early trade on Thursday on sustained fund outflows amid weak trend at other Asian markets.




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RBI cracks whip to stop ATM fraud

RBI on May 26 ordered all operators to ensure that their existing machines can process “EMV chip and PIN cards by September 30, 2017” while “all new ATMs shall necessarily be enabled for EMV chip and PIN processing from inception.”




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Corporates switching to eco-friendly PET bottles

With increasing research that bubble top containers, used to store drinking water, may contain bisphenol A (BPA), corporates are increasing looking at safer, more eco-friendly options and hence, the switch to PET.




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NetApp India launches programme for product-ready startups

The storage and data management company said the response to its startup accelerator programme in India has been so overwhelming and the rewards so good that it is launching a new programme to engage with startups on an ongoing basis




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Piramal books a ride on Siva’s Utoo

Billionaire investor Ajay Piramal has pumped in an undisclosed sum to pick up a minority stake in serial entrepreneur C Sivasankaran’s comeback business Utoo Cabs, a cab aggregator.




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Nirma, Lafarge cement Rs 9000 crore deal




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L&T chief Naik pledges 75% of income to philanthropy

He’s set up two charitable trusts — the Naik Charitable Trust for education and skill training and the Nirali Memorial Medical Trust, named after his grand daughter.




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Anil Ambani gets a seat on Atlantic Council advisory board

Reliance Group Chairman Anil Ambani has been inducted into the international advisory board of global think-tank The Atlantic Council.




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Cloud services are reducing the need to code: Amazon Web Services

AWS exec Olivier Klein says the company offers fully managed services in areas like machine learning/AI. He says users don’t need to understand how to build the machine learning model, or train it




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The myth today is H-1B visas are all taken by Indian companies: Nasscom

Indian IT cos take less than 12% of H-1B visas. The biggest takers of H-1B are the top US giants. And they are also the top-spenders on R&D. And that tells you why they are coming to India to take the people – because they need the talent, say Nasscom president Debjani Ghosh




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Muerte y la doncella. English

Dorfman, Ariel




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Copenhagen / Michael Frayn ; with commentary and notes by Robert Butler

Frayn, Michael, author




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Applied Ballardianism : memoir from a parallel universe / Simon Sellars

Sellars, Simon, author




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Writing fiction : a guide to narrative craft / Janet Burroway ; with Elizabeth Stuckey-French and Ned Stuckey-French

Burroway, Janet, author




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The Cambridge companion to David Foster Wallace / edited by Ralph Clare (Boise State University)




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Barracuda / Christos Tsiolkas

Tsiolkas, Christos, 1965- author




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Leaving Elvis : and other stories / Michelle Michau-Crawford

Michau-Crawford, Michelle, author




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The southern writer in the postmodern world / Fred Hobson

Hobson, Fred C, 1943-




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Isn't justice always unfair? : the detective in southern literature / J.K. Van Dover and John F. Jebb

Van Dover, J. Kenneth




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Everything under : a novel / Daisy Johnson

Johnson, Daisy, 1990- author




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Salman Rushdie and the genesis of secrecy / Vijay Mishra

Mishra, Vijay, author




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Postcolonial poetics : 21st-century critical readings / Elleke Boehmer

Boehmer, Elleke, 1961- author




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Ian Watt : the novel and the wartime critic / Marina MacKay

MacKay, Marina, 1975- author




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Beginning theory : an introduction to literary and cultural theory / Peter Barry

Barry, Peter, 1947- author




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Forget English! : Orientalisms and world literatures / Aamir R. Mufti

Mufti, Aamir, author




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Reading Shakespeare's mind / Steve Sohmer

Sohmer, Steve (Stephen T.), author




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Women poets of the English Civil War / edited by Sarah C.E. Ross and Elizabeth Scott-Baumann




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All the plagues of hell / Eric Flint, Dave Freer

Flint, Eric, author




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British literature : a historical overview / general editors, Joseph Black [and nine others] with Laura Cardiff [and three others]