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This Mother’s Day, Chennai’s gifting choices leaned strongly towards familiar, comfort ‑ driven treats and regional staples. Brownie cakes emerged as the city’s top gifting pick, alongside a steady preference for classic chocolates and local favourites. Together, these choices reflected Chennai’s inclination towards warm, dependable flavours, with the overall gifting mood centred on intimate, at home celebrations built around nostalgia and trusted, celebratory staples. Instamart’s Mother’s Day Gifting Trends 2026 shows gifting is moving from simple gifting to more thoughtful, care-first choices. And yet, some rituals remain unchanged: flowers peaked early in the morning, cakes in the evening, and the 8–9 PM window emerged as the busiest gifting hour. The sweet spot for big gifting was around ₹ 5,500, where most of the week's highest-value carts clustered. What India Gifted This Mother’s Day ●        Chocolates and flowers continued to be the universal...

  Adani Airport Holdings Limited (AAHL), India’s largest private airport operator, and IHG Hotels & Resorts, one of the world’s leading hospitality companies, have signed a landmark managed hotel portfolio agreement to develop five hotels across key airport-linked and high-growth urban destinations in India. The agreement will add close to1,500 keys across multiple brands and locations, in line with IHG’s growth plans for India. The development aligns with rising travel demand and the rapid expansion of India’s aviation, tourism and airport-led urban infrastructure sectors.   The portfolio includes a Kimpton hotel in Jaipur as well asHoliday Inn,and Holiday Inn Express hotels within upcoming hospitality -led mixed-use developments as part of the Adani Airport cities. These hotels are planned across Navi Mumbai, Mangaluru, and Thiruvananthapuram. AAHL is also in advanced discussions with IHG to further deepen and expand this partnership.   The partnership also mark...

A comprehensive public health study by Home Insect Control Association (HICA), a non-profit industry body that promotes the safe use of household insecticides in India released ahead of National Dengue Day (May 16), reveals that illegal mosquito repellent agarbattis have emerged as a bigger and immediate health threat than the mosquito-borne diseases like dengue, malaria they are meant to prevent. Commissioned by Home Insect Control Association (HICA), the research was conducted by Kantar, the market research company. While 95% of households surveyed did not report any mosquito-borne diseases like malaria or dengue in the past year, 70% of doctors classify illegal mosquito agarbattis containing unapproved chemicals as a "major respiratory hazard". comparable, according to 67% of doctors, to the health risks posed by cigarette smoke. The survey was recently conducted across 12 cities among 1,264 households and 405 doctors, including pulmonologists, paediatricians, general ...

Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan’s S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research (SPJIMR), Mumbai, held its Annual Convocation 2026 on May 9, 2026, across two landmark ceremonies — a morning ceremony for programmes for working professionals and an evening ceremony for full-time programmes. Founded in 1981, the institution today stands 45 years strong as one of India’s most societally impactful and internationally recognised management schools, holding the prestigious triple-crown of international accreditations — EQUIS, AACSB, and AMBA — and leading global rankings. Nearly 1,000 participants graduated across nine programmes, joining a global SPJIMR alumni network of more than 18,000 professionals. The ceremonies were presided over by Dean Dr. Varun Nagaraj, and attended by Chairman of the SPJIMR Governing Council, Mr Deepak Parekh, faculty, corporate partners, and the families of graduating participants. The morning ceremony was graced by Ms. Zarin Daruwala, Group CEO, PL Capital (Prabhudas...

The Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) released draft guidelines for the responsible labelling of synthetically generated content in advertising. The guidelines are aligned with the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Amendment Rules (2026), amended on February 10, to ensure transparency while avoiding consumer label fatigue around synthetically-generated information. As brands increasingly turn to Artificial Intelligence (AI) to power their campaigns, the draft guidelines advocate a risk-based approach, focusing on consumer outcomes rather than regulating the technology itself. AI use in advertising is considered misleading or harmful only when it creates unfulfillable expectations, exploits vulnerable populations, depicts unsafe situations, or replicates a real person's likeness without consent. The requirement to label AI-generated content is based on the risk it poses to consumers. The guidelines classify AI-generated ad...

The Aerospace business of Godrej Enterprises Group is strengthening India’s aero engine and high-value aerospace manufacturing capabilities through advanced precision engineering, world-class quality execution, and deep trust built with leading global players. As the only private company in India with demonstrated capability to manufacture all modules of an aero engine , Godrej is playing a significant role in advancing the nation’s Atmanirbhar Bharat vision. Established in the 1980s, the aerospace business of Godrej Enterprises Group has been a trusted partner in several nation-building missions and has steadily evolved into a key player within the global aerospace ecosystem. Today, it partners with leading aerospace OEMs including Boeing, Safran Aircraft Engines, GE Aerospace, Rolls Royce and RTX—relationships built on flawless execution, zero-defect quality, and consistent delivery of complex, safety-critical aerospace systems. The business has recorded nearly 25% year-on-year gr...