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MUMBAI: Small towns are fueling the growth of Flipkart’s quick commerce business Minutes. Cities such as Siliguri, Ambala, Barabanki, Bhagalpur and Durgapur are seeing huge consumer adoption with the overall customer base growing nearly 25 times year-on-year across such regions, the Walmart-owned company said.The broader Minutes business has expanded four times y-o-y since its launch … Read more
MUMBAI: Small towns are fueling the growth of Flipkart’s quick commerce business Minutes. Cities such as Siliguri, Ambala, Barabanki, Bhagalpur and Durgapur are seeing huge consumer adoption with the overall customer base growing nearly 25 times year-on-year across such regions, the Walmart-owned company said.The broader Minutes business has expanded four times y-o-y since its launch … Read more
Concrete has a major environmental cost, while human waste creates another difficult waste-management challenge. Researchers have now brought the two problems together in an unusual laboratory experiment. A team converted treated faecal sludge into biochar and used the resulting material to replace part of the cement in concrete. The researchers tested mixtures containing 5%, 10% … Read more
Concrete has a major environmental cost, while human waste creates another difficult waste-management challenge. Researchers have now brought the two problems together in an unusual laboratory experiment. A team converted treated faecal sludge into biochar and used the resulting material to replace part of the cement in concrete. The researchers tested mixtures containing 5%, 10% … Read more
The Income Tax Assessing Officer (AO) issuing a notice under Section 148 on March 29, 2017. This is the case of a senior citizen woman who fought for nine years and won a case against the Income Tax Department’s tax demand. She had been issued a tax notice after it was found that she had … Read more
The Income Tax Assessing Officer (AO) issuing a notice under Section 148 on March 29, 2017. This is the case of a senior citizen woman who fought for nine years and won a case against the Income Tax Department’s tax demand. She had been issued a tax notice after it was found that she had … Read more
They will now represent India in Puerto Rico, from December 8 to 10, 2026. (Photo credit: The Week) Two 14-year-old girls from Kerala have built a robotic system that cleans, preserves and digitises fragile palm-leaf manuscripts and their project has now taken them from a school robotics competition in Hyderabad to the international stage in … Read more
A two-month-old epaulette shark pup, born through apparent parthenogenesis, is now on display at Brookfield Zoo’s Living Coast exhibit.Jim Schulz/CZS-Brookfield Zoo A female epaulette shark at Brookfield Zoo in Illinois produced a pup in 2023 despite having no contact with a male for years, in a rare example of parthenogenesis among sharks. The female, which … Read more
He said the government would continue taking stringent action against contractors and officials responsible for delays and substandard execution of infrastructure projects. Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari has said that he wants to set a record blacklisting contractors who do poor quality work and also suspend officials.Gadkari said he had earlier expressed … Read more
Lead contamination in water is being studied through different approaches, including the use of waste materials that can help remove metal ions from water. Apple pomace, the residue left after juice production, was among the waste materials researchers examined for its ability to remove lead ions from water in laboratory experiments.Researchers compared untreated raw apple … Read more