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Activewear Craze: How a Fitness Industry Turned Body Anxiety Into a Business Model

Activewear Craze: How a Fitness Industry Turned Body Anxiety Into a Business Model

Activewear has become one of the defining fashion shifts of the past decade, moving from gym bag to daily wardrobe with a speed that caught even its own industry off guard. The clothes now travel everywhere: errands, social occasions, the school run, the home office. What has not travelled with them, new research suggests, is the confidence the industry has spent years promising they would deliver.

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Competition Commission of India

Bargaining power imbalance and information asymmetry between marketplace platforms and their business users are holding back the e-commerce sector in India. The Competition Commission of India (CCI) came to this conclusion in its report Market Study on E-commerce in India: Key Findings and Observations that was released on January 8. But, even without a formal determination of violation of competition law, the CCI remarked, "improving transparency over certain areas of the platforms’ functioning...

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Review: The Kargil War

Review of The Kargil War

Few short-fought wars have evoked so much of heat, debate and self-criticism (read, justified criticism of the party/parties at the helm of affairs) as the Kargil War did this summer. That too in the very country that ostensibly won the war. The facts are there for all to acknowledge: Pakistan-backed fundamentalist-terrorists had indeed intruded into Indian territory; many of these intruders were Pakistan army regulars in the guise of plain-clothed militants; the Indian authorities had been...

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