India

  • Airtel to buy Loop Mobile for Rs 750 cr
    NEW DELHI, JANUARY 16: Bharti Airtel is in talks to buy out Mumbai-based Loop Mobile in a deal that will give the telecom major about 3 million customers. Loop Mobile, which owns a mobile telephony licence for
  • NE Consumer Awards unveils preferred brands
    Guwahati, January 15: A total of 55 consumer products, brands and services emerged winners in various categories at a red carpet award ceremony for the North-East Consumer Awards 2013, held in Guwahati last Sat
  • India, China ranked ‘unfree’ in Economic Freedom index
    Washington, January 14: Asia’s two economic giants, India and China, have been rated “unfree” and ranked 120th and 137th respectively, in the 2014 Index of Economic Freedom by US think tank He
  • Want to quit your job? New app does it for you via text message
    Toronto, January 13: Thinking about quitting your job? A humorous new app aims to relieve the stress and anxiety of confronting the boss with the news by sending a text message instead.Although the new iPhone a
  • SBI agrees to issue receipt of cheques
    GUWAHATI, JANUARY 13: The State Bank of India has directed all its branches to issue receipt of cheques at the counter in their bank branches, against the deposit of Employees Provident Fund dues. A press note
  • Indian firms biggest investors in Nepal
    Kathmandu, January 12: About 525 Indian companies engaged in a range of activities from manufacture to tourism have created 58,161 jobs in the Himalayan nation, and India is the biggest source of foreign invest
  • RBI to examine proposal for limiting free ATM transactions
    New Delhi, January 12: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will consider reducing the number of free ATM withdrawals, as recommended by Indian Banks’ Association, in an effort to cut down on cash transactions
  • Carmakers may be short of aluminium in future
    Detroit, January 11: With automakers’ demand for aluminum growing explosively as they seek to improve fuel efficiency, aluminum providers are selling out their automotive capacity almost as fast as they c
  • Soon, wireless power transfer on the go
    New York, January 11: Imagine charging your cell phone while on an evening walk without any wire or device near you.This ‘power in the air’ thought has received a big boost with Duke University rese
  • Spy cameras’ sales go up in Delhi, courtesy Kejriwal
    New Delhi, January 10: With Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal encouraging people to carry out sting operations to catch the corrupt red-handed, sellers of spy cameras in Delhi’s popular Palika Bazar ar
  • Government notifies new gas pricing guidelines
    New Delhi, January 10: The government Friday notified the domestic natural gas pricing formula for all natural gas produced in the country. The Domestic Natural Gas Pricing Guidelines, 2014 notified by the Mini
  • Mahindra’s engineering institution to start first academic session from July
    New Delhi, January 8:  Mahindra École Centrale, an engineering college set up by premier European institution École Centrale Paris (ECP) and Indian IT major Tech Mahindra, is set to kick-start it
  • Govt to seek foreign investment in railways
    New Delhi, January 9:  India will soon invite foreign businesses to help expand its once-mighty but now outdated railways, government sources said, in a move that would mark the opening up of one of the co
  • ‘New gas price notification before Sunday’
    New Delhi, January 9: The Government will notify the new gas pricing policy before Sunday, said Vivek Rae, Secretary Petroleum & Natural Gas. “It is ready, we are just looking at the fine print,”
  • Tata firm unveils solar power system for homes
    Bangalore, January 9: Leading energy solutions provider Tata Power Solar Thursday unveiled a new solar power system to generate one kilo volt-ampere (kva) for providing uninterrupted power supply for eight hour
  • 23 Indian-origin entrepreneurs in Forbes’ ‘brightest young stars’
    New York, January 8: Over 20 Indian-origin young entrepreneurs are among Forbes magazine’s annual list of the world’s “brightest young stars” under the age of 30 from diverse fields like
  • SpiceJet orders 40 Boeing jets worth $4 bn
    DUBAI/PARIS, JANUARY 8: Indian budget airline SpiceJet has agreed to buy about 40 Boeing 737 jets worth over $4 bn at list prices, industry sources said, a move that could help the loss-making carrier as it see
  • India considers easing gold import curbs
    New Delhi, January 6: Officials are in discussions to cut a record high import duty on gold and relax rules on exports, government sources said, after the measures helped narrow the country’s trade defici
  • Tough road ahead for new Lokpal Bill
    New Delhi, December 22 (IANS): The government Thursday finally tabled in parliament the much-debated Lokpal bill to combat corruption, with the prime minister and most of the bureaucracy under its fold. But the
  • India’s exposure ‘to stocks one of the lowest in the world’
    Kochi, November 28 (agencies):  Akshay Agrawal, Managing Director, Acumen Capital Market India Ltd, has stressed the need to create more awareness among the public to invest in capital markets, as India
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