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Melania Trump rings New York Stock Exchange opening bell to launch new women's initiative Imperia

Melania Trump rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday to promote her new initiative to help women become leaders and achieve economic power.It's called Imperia, and its members include CEOs, founders, innovators, entrepreneurs and others.A lot of the first lady's attention has been on children, but, with Imperia, she is leaning on her business skills to encourage women to harness their economic power and help others understand women's role in a global economy."For generations, women fought for a seat at the table," she told a meeting of the group. "The next chapter is about owning, growing and making space for the women who come next."She said that means owning businesses, equity, real estate, capital and investment assets, along with "our ideas, our intellectual property and our economic future.""People still do not fully understand the full scale of women's power in the global economy," she continued. ...

Mahindra Thar OG launched at Rs 10.32 lakh: What’s new in the 3-door SUV, features, pics, variants and delivery date

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Durga Puja travel alert for Kolkata flyers

Airfares to Kolkata are showing an unusual spike ahead of Durga Puja, with tickets for October 16 costing substantially more than fares for several other travel dates. An analysis of airfares captured on the morning of September 16 across 53 domestic routes connecting Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Chennai, Kolkata, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad and Pune found that flights into Kolkata on October 16 were significantly more expensive than flights on several other dates.The analysis compared fares for six departure dates on each route, the same day, one day ahead, seven days ahead, 30 days ahead, 60 days ahead and 90 days ahead.Read more - New Zealand route won’t help third-country goods claim India FTA benefits: Here’s what changesKolkata flight fares rise sharply ahead of Durga PujaAs per a TOI report, the median fare across the seven routes into Kolkata was Rs 8,712 for the next day and Rs 8,259 for the following week. The same-day fare stood at Rs 9,140.However, the median fare for October 16 was ...

Festive car sales face supply crunch

Mumbai | New Delhi: Low levels of stocks at dealerships could weigh on car sales this festive season, with the top five manufacturers that account for more than 85% of the market struggling to build inventory even as bookings remain strong.The second leg of the festive season, starting with Navratri on October 11 and through Diwali on November 10, is expected to be positive from a demand perspective, but companies may not be able to fully make use of that because of supply constraints, said industry executives. This one-month period is crucial for automakers, as it accounts for a third of their annual sales.Also Read: JLR begins talks with global banks for $1.3 billion five-year loanMarket leader Maruti Suzuki has pending bookings for more than 200,000 units, while its network inventory is currently enough to last only around 16 days of sales compared with the stock for roughly one month it typically carries during the festive period.134374804"At the beginning of this financial ye...

Bengal's industry push needs clear intent

Under BJP, West Bengal is once again debating how to put land together for industry. The debate has now acquired a distinctly technical vocabulary: acquisition, negotiated purchase and land pooling.The three mechanisms are not interchangeable. Acquisition involves compulsory purchase under a statutory framework. Negotiated purchase relies on agreement between landowner and purchaser. Land pooling allows owners to contribute land to a development scheme and receive a smaller, but serviced, and potentially more valuable plot in return. The choice, as recent policy discussions suggest, should depend on the nature of the project.Also Read: Picasso, Omega, Prithvi and Cats: A Mumbai journey through books, unexpected encounters and theatreFor Bengal, the question of land has always been inseparable from the question of industrialisation. So, the new discussion raises a more fundamental question: even if Bengal succeeds in solving the problem of industrial land, will it succeed in attracting ...

IIM-B jumps in Bloomberg MBA rankings

Stanford Graduate School of Business has retained the top position in Bloomberg Businessweek’s 2026–27 ranking of US business schools, while IIM Bangalore’s Executive Post Graduate Programme climbed to second place in the Asia-Pacific region.Stanford has now ranked No. 1 in the US for eight consecutive years. The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School came second, followed by Harvard Business School and Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.The University of Virginia’s Darden School recorded the biggest rise among the top US schools, moving from 10th place last year to fifth.Also Read| St Gallen tops FT Masters in Management ranking; IIM Ahmedabad leads Indian schoolsDartmouth’s Tuck School ranked sixth and the University of Chicago’s Booth School seventh. UC Berkeley’s Haas School dropped from third to eighth.Cornell’s Johnson School and MIT’s Sloan School tied at ninth. Columbia Business School fell two places to 11th.Top 10 US business schoolsRankBusiness schoo...