NEW DELHI: India is home to the fifth largest group of billionaires in the world and Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries, is the country’s richest man with a personal fortune of $18 billion, sa
New Delhi: India’s eastern neighbour China has emerged as its biggest trading partner in the current fiscal replacing the UAE and pushing it to the third spot, according to a study conducted by PHD Chambe
California: As Microsoft plans to wind up Windows 8.1 operating system next month, the firm plans to announce a free version of Windows in a bid to persuade customers to upgrade to latest versions. A new versio
CHENNAI: India, which has seen over Rs 59,000 crore in investments from Vodafone since 2007, has grown to become the third largest market for the company globally by revenue, said Suresh Kumar, operations direc
New Delhi: Smartphone sales in the country grew almost three-fold to over 44 million in 2013, buoyed by a strong uptake of affordable devices made by local firms such as Micromax and Karbonn, research firm IDC
Bajaj's four-wheeled RE60 is pictured in New Delhi in this January 3, 2012 photo. (REUTERS Photo/File) MUMBAI: It's got four wheels and seatbelts, but Bajaj Auto(BAJA.NS: Quote, Profile, Research), the cre
MUMBAI: In yet another bonanza to air travellers at the onset of the summer season, budget carrier SpiceJet on Monday reduced its fares by up to a whopping 75 percent under a special offer.This is the third tim
SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook is betting huge on mobile with an eye-popping cash-and-stock deal worth up to $19 billion for Internet Age smartphone messaging service WhatsApp.The surprise, mega-deal announced on Wedn
San Francisco, February 19: Google gave early adopters of its Internet-connected eyewear a bit of advice: don’t be “Glassholes.” It was the final suggestion in a recommended code of conduct po
Hyderabad, February 19: State Bank of India, the country’s largest lender, may go slow on recruitments during the next 2-3 years. According to Managing Director A Krishna Kumar, the PSU bank will try to m
New Delhi/ Bhubaneshwar, February 19: The coal ministry is taking back 31 coal blocks allocated to private firms including the Tata group and Jindal Steel and Power over delays in developing them, jeopardising
NEW DELHI: Mahindra Reva Electric Vehicles, a part of the Mahindra Group, today slashed the price of its electric car e2o by up to Rs 1.7 lakh by introducing a scheme under which a consumer pays a rental fee fo
Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) party president K. Chandrashekar Rao shows a thumbs up sign to supporters after the Indian parliament’s lower house passed the bill for the creation of new state called
New Delhi, February 18 (IANS): Live telecast of the Lok Sabha proceedings was Tuesday disrupted soon after the house started discussing the bill to create a separate Telangana state. An official said the disrup
NEW Delhi, February 18 (PTI): Seemandhra MP L Rajagopal, who had created a storm by splashing pepper spray in Lok Sabha, on Tuesday resigned from Parliament and announced quitting politics, saying he was “
NEW DELHI: There may be good news for those of you planning to buy airconditioners and refrigerators this summer as the finance minister proposed a 2% cut in excise duty for a range of consumer durable products
New Delhi, February 17 (IANS): Finance Minister P. Chidambaram Monday unveiled a 10-point agenda that would help make India the third largest economy by 2043 only behind the US and China.While presenting the in
The following are the consolidated highlights of the interim budget for 2014-15 presented in the Lok Sabha by Finance Minister P. Chiddambaram on Monday:* No change in income tax rates*
Panaji, February 17 (IANS): Capping a two-and-half-month-long investigation, the Goa crime branch Monday formally charged Tehelka editor-in-chief Tarun Tejpal with raping a junior colleague. Tejpal was also cha
NEW DELHI, February 17 (PTI): Amid its modernization drive, the defence ministry was on Monday allocated Rs 2,24,000 crore in the interim budget, marking a 10 per cent increase over the last budget.The allocati