Country's largest lender State Bank of India (SBI) has substantially reduced charges for non-maintenance of average monthly balance (AMB) in savings accounts, which would benefit 25 crore banks' customers, an official statement said here on Tuesday. The revised charges would be effective from April 1, 2018. This step is taken keeping in view the...
A day after the Directorate General of Civil Aviation's (DGCA) directed grounding of 11 A320neo aircraft, budget carrier Indigo cancelled 47 flights on various routes, according to the information available on the airline's website. While accepting that there were cancellation of flights, the company said that passengers were given t...
New Delhi, March 13 When it comes to fixed broadband speed in Indian cities, Chennai topped the chart with over 32.67 Mbps speed -- 57.7 per cent faster than the country's average speed (20.72 Mbps) -- broadband speed tester Ookla revealed on Tuesday. Overall, cities in the southern part of the country averaged better when it cam...
Taiwan-based electronics major Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) on Tuesday brought what is touted as the world's smallest Windows-based mini-PC called "LIVA Q" to India. Priced at Rs 15,500 (sans taxes), the pocket-sized device features the latest Intel Apollo Lake SOC processors along with 4GB RAM and 32GB eMMC storage and HDMI 2.0. It runs Windows 10 ...
San Francisco, March 13 (IANS) With Microsoft Teams completing one year this week, the company is set to unveil new features, including Cortana integration and inline message translation for Teams -- the company's answer to business communication service rival Slack. "This week marks the first anniversary of the worldwide launch of Micr...
Healthy macro-economic data, along with healthy buying in banking, consumer durables, oil and gas and healthcare stocks lifted the key Indian equity indices during the mid-afternoon trade session on Tuesday. The BSE Sensex reclaimed the 34,000-mark in the course. According to market observers, data released post market hours on Mond...
Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Monday alleged that Finance Minister Arun Jaitley was silent on the Rs 12,600 crore PNB fraud case to "protect his lawyer daughter" and asked why her firm was not "raided". "It's now revealed that our Finance Minister's silence on the PNB (Punjab National Bank) scam was to protect his lawyer daughter,...
The government on Monday introduced a Bill in the Lok Sabha to amend the Chit Funds Act, 1982, to facilitate orderly growth of the sector and provide more financial products to investors. The Chit Funds (Amendment) Bill, 2018, was introduced by Minister of State for Finance Shiv Pratap Shukla amid din. The Bill aims to remove bottlenecks being fac...
Secondary agriculture is an important and independent activity and a division needs to be created in all the three departments of the agriculture ministry to promote it, says the Doubling Farmers' Income (DFI) Committee. In the 9th of 14 reports uploaded on the ministry's website, the committee, headed by Ashok...
A month after starting its international operations in Perth in Australia, Indian online cab aggregator Ola on Monday said it has begun offering rides in Sydney through its local driver-partners. "People of Sydney can avail the introductory offer for free rides. Customers can download the Ola app, register for an account and book their rides," the city...
