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Amazon Accuses Future Retail’s Directors Of Foul Play

Opportunity India Desk May 23, 2022 - 3 min read

The E-commerce major Amazon has accused Future Retail’s independent directors of ‘facilitating’ alienation and transfer of the latter’s 835 retail stores in favour of Reliance Retail. These stores — both large-format such as Big Bazaar and small-format such as Easy Day and Heritage Fresh — were transferred in the teeth of binding injunctions and court ...

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Excellence Centres To Boost Horticulture And Food Processing In UP

Opportunity India Desk May 23, 2022 - 3 min read

In order to boost horticulture and food processing industry in Uttar Pradesh, the state government has decided to set up excellence centres and mini excellence centres or hi-tech nurseries in all the 75 districts in the next five years. According to the press release issued on May 22, the UP Government under leadership of Yogi ...

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Wingreens Farms Acquires Snack Brand Postcard

Opportunity India Desk May 20, 2022 - 3 min read

Leading packaged foods company Wingreens Farms has announced its acquisition of a 100 per cent stake in Bengaluru-based snack foods start-up, Postcard. Postcard was found in 2019 by Ashish Nichani and Sudarsan Metla. The brand brings speciality food from different parts of the country, retaining authentic local flavours, while empowering local artisans and the supply ...

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PBFIA To Organise Plant-Based Foods Summit

Opportunity India Desk May 20, 2022 - 3 min read

With an aim to offer strategic opportunities to the players in its category, the Plant-Based Foods Industry Association (PBFIA) will organise 1stPlant-Based Foods Summit in association with Good Food Institute India (GFI India) on May 26 in national capital. The summit will witness the presence of Prahlad Singh Patel, Minister of State for Food Processing Industries along ...

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Fashion Brand ‘W’ Launches Largest Experiential Store In Bengaluru

Opportunity India Desk May 20, 2022 - 3 min read

Leading women’s fashion brand ‘W’ has opened its largest experiential store in Indira Nagar, Bengaluru. Spread across two floors, the digitally enhanced store offers a bouquet of experiences and reaffirms the brand’s promise of offering complete Head-to-toe fashion solution to the contemporary Indian women. It houses the complete range of ‘W’ products across multiple categories ...

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Offer Card-less Cash Withdrawal Facility Across All ATMs: RBI To Banks

Opportunity India Desk May 20, 2022 - 2 min read

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has asked banks to provide their customers with interoperable card-less cash (ICCW) withdrawal at all banks and ATMs using the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) facility. “All banks, ATM networks and White Label ATM Operators (WLAOs) may provide the option of ICCW at their ATMs. NPCI has been advised to ...

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Lanka Crisis Opportunity For Indian Tea Industry

Opportunity India Desk May 20, 2022 - 4 min read

Severe economic crisis in Sri Lanka, a major player in the global tea market, has not been able to export tea from some time. This has created an opportunity for Indian tea industry to tap the untouched international market. The tea traders of North Bengal believe that the present condition in Sri Lanka can create ...

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National Emergency Life Support Courses Launched For Doctors

Opportunity India Desk May 19, 2022 - 3 min read

Union Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare, Bharati Pravin Pawar has launched National Emergency Life Support (NELS) courses for healthcare professionals, nurses and paramadics. The course has been introduced to mitigate the dependency of the doctors on the foreign modules which are expensive and limited in nature. This programme also includes developing training ...

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Mankind Pharma Launches OTT Platform For Healthcare Professionals

Opportunity India Desk May 19, 2022 - 4 min read

Mankind Pharma has entered into Over-The-Top (OTT) segment by announcing the launch of a streaming platform for healthcare professionals named Docflix. This platform will consist of 20 different shows on various subjects including Science simplified, Legend inside the white coat, Stitch in time, Cardio Unflip, Digital for doctors, Medico-legal Cases in India, and Vantage point. ...

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Deloitte, KPMG, PwC, EY On Hiring Spree In India

Opportunity India Desk May 19, 2022 - 3 min read

The digital technology has been going through reforms owing to the COVID-19 pandemic resulting in high demand for consulting services by tech companies. The big four professional services firms—Deloitte, KPMG International Coop (KPMG), PricewaterhouseCoopers International Ltd (PwC) and Ernst & Young Global Ltd (EY) seem to be focusing on India for recruitment since the start ...

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