Water has always been held sacred in India, home to one of the oldest riverside civilisations. In a sign of times, now even Wall Street is starting to recognise its importance and starting this week it will start trading in California water futures. Trading in the resource comes even as wildfires have razed swathes of […]
Sauces-dipping and cooking as a food segment is seeing a steady spike as people are getting swish with their culinary experiments to bring home the joys of dining out, as many restaurants, cafes, and pubs continue to remain shut to curb the spread of coronavirus. According to data from Kantar Worldpanel, which tracks purchases of […]
Tasting tea is an art embellished over a long period of time and the trade’s main gate to quality control. Tasters spend long hours swilling tea liquor in their mouth to determine the thickness, body and viscosity, judging character and aromas that eventually decide their future. Deepak Sarma, Head – Tea tasting, blending and buying, […]
A large chunk of public services and private business might be getting back to normal, but economic devastation caused by the Great India Lockdown triggered by fears over Covid-19 has created a huge crisis for the country’s restaurant business, the head of the apex industry body said. Anurag Katriar, President, National Restaurant Association of India […]
Sachin Babar, a farmer in western India’s Maharashtra, has rarely bothered about the world outside his tiny Wai village. However, these days he keeps a close tab at what’s happening beyond the immediate borders thanks to an upsurge in the global demand for turmeric — the golden spice – which seems to have become a […]
Colossal wastage of agri-products continues to be a challenge for India due to poor output management even though the country has emerged as a global agri powerhouse, said Ankur Bisen, Senior Vice President (Retail & Consumer Products), Technopak Advisors, and author of the much-acclaimed- book ‘Wasted’. Agri-wastage control would be difficult without creating near farm […]
It was only about a year ago that Nikhel Morris and his wife Somali Kothari quit their city jobs to plunge into a venture close to their hearts — recycling plastic and rubber wastes into fuel. It made perfect sense as India imports the majority of its fuel needs. At the same time the country struggles to recycle plastic and rubber […]
(The story appears here courtesy our content partner Mysteel Global) Steelmakers in Asia are displaying differing degrees of resilience against the negative impact of the COVID-19 on their businesses. It has been six months since China formally acknowledged its emergence in January, and the actual impact on the steel industry in China, Japan and Taiwan is […]
One significant consumer spending shift that has revealed itself as brick-and-mortar stores shuttered across the country to keep the coronavirus at bay is buying groceries online. The shift is global and likely to endure even after the pandemic. The Indian online grocery market is smiling widely too, as sales are pegged to exceed $3 billion […]
Herbs and plant-based traditional cures have found a new place in the sun since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, which has put public health globally at great risk. With no vaccine or probable cure for the virus in sight, traditional medical practices like Ayurveda, Unani, Homeopathy, etc. have been gaining traction in India and […]
