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Future Lifestyle Fashions Ltd on Thursday reported a consolidated net loss of Rs 173.60 crore for the third quarter ended December 31, 2020. The company had posted a profit after tax of Rs 59.20 crore in the year-ago period, Future Lifestyle said in a BSE filing. Revenue from operations was down 45.5 per cent to Rs 950.09 crore during the quarter under review as against Rs 1,742.23 crore in the same period a year ago. Total expenses stood at Rs 1,135.24 crore as compared to Rs 1,664.40 crore. Shares of Future Lifestyle Fashions on Thursday settled at Rs 86.85 per unit on the BSE, down 0.57 per cent over the previous close. ... » Learn More about Future Lifestyle Fashions Q3 Result: Net loss at Rs 174 crore

(Stay up to date on new book releases, reviews, and more with The Hindu On Books newsletter. Subscribe here. ) SOCIAL CHEMISTRY: DECODING PATTERNS OF HUMAN CONNECTION By Marissa King , Hodder & Stoughton-Hachette UK While conventional wisdom tells us to mingle and connect to expand our social network as much as possible, the author argues otherwise in her book based on social science research. She says the quality and structure of our relationships have greater impact on our personal and professional lives. Our relationships with friends, family, co-workers, neighbours, and collaborators are our greatest asset and yet we leave them to chance. The professor of Organizational Behaviour at Yale says everyone needs a science-based strategy to alter or build meaningful and productive relationships for a happier and more fulfilling life. --------------------------------------- INDIAN SEX LIFE: Sexuality and the Colonial Origins of Modern Social Thought By ... » Learn More about Here is a list of books on health that will help you transform your lifestyle

(Subscribe to our Today's Cache newsletter for a quick snapshot of top 5 tech stories. Click here to subscribe for free.) India’s wearables market recorded its highest quarterly shipment in the September ending quarter, driven by products in the earwear and smartwatch categories. Lifestyle technology brand Noise led the smartwatch category in the quarter, according to research firm International Data Corporation (IDC). The wearable brand retained its top spot with a 28.5% share in the smartwatch category in the third quarter. In an emailed interview with The Hindu, Noise’s co-founder Gaurav Khatri shared his views on the brand, the pandemic, and the wearables market. Gaurav says, the pandemic has led to a lot of changes in the wearables market, “the most important of them is the shift in the customers’ psyche and how focused people have become about their health and lifestyle which has had a positive impact in the sales of the wearables.” There is a clear spike in the ... » Learn More about Noise co-founder says, health and lifestyle choices will drive wearables market up

Mumbai: Godrej L’Affaire, a curated experiential luxury lifestyle platform by the Godrej Group, is back with its fifth season. This is India’s coolest lifestyle affair to be held digitally from February 14th till February 28th. Celebrity live sessions, exclusive web-series launch, #LiveItUp sale with the biggest discounts on 40+ lifestyle brands along with flash contests, is lined-up for this power-packed 15-day lifestyle celebration by Godrej L’Affaire. Catch all the excitement of Godrej L’Affaire by clicking here. Arjun Bijlani, Hina Khan, Shivangi Joshi, Surbhi Chandana, Gurmeet Choudhary & Debina Bonnerjee, Amol Parashar, Smriti Khanna, Aashka Goradia Goble, and Kunal Vijayakar, are all suing the dreadful year 2020. Shocked? Don’t be as they are all coming together for #LiveItUp 2021, a nine-part web-series which will be released during Godrej L’Affaire. The mini-series is a quirky courtroom theatrical where the year 2020, played by actress-comedienne Jamie Lever, will be ... » Learn More about Get ready to #LiveItUp in 2021 as the year’s first coolest lifestyle affair – Season 5 of Godrej L’Affaire is here

This summer has seen two hit series-TV drama Nothing But Thirty and reality show Sisters Who Make Waves. Both focus on a similar group: women close to or just above 30, an age when, many in China believe, women enter a new stage of life. The two shows' popularity is understandable. Nothing But Thirty has contributed to about 150 hotly discussed topics on Weibo, a Tweeter-like social media platform in China. Enjoying similar high audience rating, Sisters Who Make Waves has played a key role in raising the share prices of its production company, Mango Excellent Media. This success can be attributed to the two shows deeply resonating with the anxiety of women who face multiple pressures in today's society. Many believe women's longing for a better life intensifies when they are in the 30s. And the alluring advertisements that keep hammering the importance of "high-quality lifestyle" which can be developed with the "help" of ornamental products tend to put more pressure on them. After ... » Learn More about Two TV shows highlight multiple roles of independent women

BENGALURU - Shares in Future Group companies jumped nearly 10% on Tuesday, a day after an Indian court overturned an order that had stalled Future Group's $3.4 billion deal to sell its retail assets to conglomerate Reliance Industries Ltd.The court's decision is the latest twist in the Future Group saga, coming after a New Delhi court last week sided with Future's partner Amazon.com Inc's challenge and put Future's asset sale to Reliance Industries on hold, which led to an appeal from the Indian retail group.A two-judge bench hearing Future's appeal on Monday put on hold the New Delhi court's previous ruling, two sources familiar with the proceedings said.E-commerce giant Amazon has argued that Future breached certain 2019 contracts by agreeing to the deal with Reliance. The bench agreed that Future Retail was not a part of the 2019 agreement, the company said in a filing https://bit.ly/3tFlVj7 to the stock exchanges late on Monday.Shares of Future Retail rose nearly 10% to 80.50 ... » Learn More about India’s Future Group shares soar after court lifts hold on Reliance deal

If you’ve been on a shopping fast the whole of last year, here’s a chance for you to indulge in some retail therapy. The 16th edition of the much-awaited Bengaluru Dastkar Bazaar 2021 is coming to town next week with products from 100 craft groups and craftpreneurs. The stalls will have lifestyle accessories, silver jewelry, metal crafts, carved furniture and decorative products, pottery and ceramics, basketry and fiber crafts, leather products, traditional paintings, a variety of hand-woven, embroidered, block printed textiles and much more from every corner of the country. Also, this year, you get to pick some products that were conceptualized by the clusters during the lockdown period. Date: February 19th – 28th, 2021 Venue: Jayamahal Palace Hotel, Behind Cantonment Railway Station, Bengaluru 46 Timings Daily: 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Entry Rs. 50/-, Parking Available. ... » Learn More about The Towns Mirror Special: Around Town: Shopping fiesta

I wept into my coffee cup upon reading the obituaries earlier this week to the “elegant master of devastating chic” as The Guardian so eloquently described Hubert de Givenchy. An aesthete, art and fabric expert, his timeless designs — immortalised in the movies and grace of muse Audrey Hepburn and on the narrow column dresses worn by Jackie Kennedy — continue to enrapt even five decades later. His designs hark back to an era when a minuscule number of one-percenters globe-trotted and dominated international society. Not so any longer, when the number of uber rich has exploded around the world, especially so in India, where we have over a hundred billionaires and many more millionaires. It’s likely this thought that propelled the founders of Luxury Lifestyle Weekend (LLW) to stage their inaugural event in Mumbai last weekend. Having just returned to the city, from an OTT wedding in Hyderabad, where I was bedazzled and blinded by the diamonds and gold adorning the women and men ... » Learn More about Of love, loss and luxury

GURUGRAM: Residents of sectors 83 and 84 met chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar in IMT Manesar on Saturday and sought his intervention for the inclusion of their sectors in the newly formed Municipal Corporation of Manesar (MCM). Residents and RWA representatives of eight societies in the two sectors — Emaar Palm Gardens , Vatika Lifestyle Homes , Vatika City Homes, Vatika G-21, Vatika K-block independent floors, Alpha Corp Gurgaon One, SS Coralwood and Mapsko Paradise — submitted a memorandum to Khattar on Saturday requesting him to include these sectors in MCM. In the memorandum, the residents pointed out that they have been part of the Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon for a decade according to records, but have not received any services till date. Residents added that a majority of new sectors from sectors 77 to 95 fall under MCM limits, and only these two sectors are not part of the new civic body. Amresh Mishra, a member of Lifestyle Homes RWA, said: “We have ... » Learn More about Include us in new Manesar corporation: Sectors 83 & 84 residents to Haryana CM

French luxury brand Hermès unveiled its Spring/Summer 2021 collection on the fourth floor of Hermès Maison in Shanghai on Jan 21. Reflecting the brand's chosen theme for 2021 – "A Human Odyssey" — the spring-summer collection is not only a look back at the house's heritage but also an exploration of life in the future. In keeping with its tradition of supporting young artists from around the world, Hermès teamed up with collage artist Fenna Fiction to create the exhibition space for this collection, masterfully embedding the house's interpretation of a new season of lifestyle aesthetics into the Dutch artist's colorful pieces. ... » Learn More about Hermes unveils new collection in Shanghai