Renewing the call for bringing natural gas under the GST regime, Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Tuesday said the country needs an overarching policy covering various energy verticals in order to achieve self sufficiency and security in this critical sector. Defending the government's target of doubling Indian oil refinery capa...
As India's consumer storage flash memory market recorded 33 per cent growth in the third quarter this year, SanDisk with 51 per cent market share held the top slot as the most favoured vendor followed by Strontium and Sony in terms of unit shipments. SanDisk shipments witnessed 67 per cent growth as compared to the last quarter and was the major...
Ace Indian designer Neeta Lulla has been commissioned to design an outfit for US President Donald Trump's daughter and adviser Ivanka Trump, who arrived in India amid tight security early on Tuesday to attend the Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) in Hyderabad. Describing the ensemble she has planned for Ivanka Trump, Lulla said in a statement: "As...
Telecom regulator TRAI on Tuesday came out with its much-awaited recommendations on Net Neutrality holding that Internet services should be non-discriminatory. "The service providers should be restricted from entering into any arrangement, agreement or contract, by whatever name called, with any person, natural or legal, that...
Global web-hosting and Cloud company GoDaddy and Singapore-based e-commerce firm Shopmatic on Tuesday announced a strategic partnership where GoDaddy customers will connect their domain names to Shopmatic's webstore to build a global online presence. Similarly, Shopmatic customers will be able to view and purchase .net and .org domain names from ...
Key Indian equity indices traded in the red during the mid-afternoon session on Tuesday as negative Asian indices as well as profit booking in oil and gas and consumer durables stocks kept investors' sentiments subdued. Index heavyweights like ONGC, Power Grid, NTPC, Reliance Industries and ICICI Bank traded lower on the BSE market breadth. At 12....
Bharti Airtel on Tuesday announced a partnership with US-based edutech company Coursera to equip its workforce with advanced skills. Under this partnership, the Airtel employees will get access to advanced digital courses from premier global institutions across domains, including emerging/network technology and Cloud computing. "The p...
China is expected to have over 60,000 cinema screens by 2020 which will make it the world's largest film market, a top official said. According to Zhang Hongsen, deputy director of the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (SAPPRFT), by 2020 China is expected to produce around 800 movies each year and the annual box ...
The key Indian equity indices on Monday was trading lower in the afternoon session on Monday. The 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex), was trading 131.97 points or 0.39 per cent lower, while the wider 50-scrip Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) was trading 43.10 points or 0.41 per cent lower at 10,346.60 points. The Sensex o...
Microsoft has extended its "AirSim" artificial intelligence(AI) research project to include car simulation which will help advance the research and development of self-driving vehicles. Earlier this year, Microsoft open-sourced "AirSim", a high-fidelity system, for testing the safety of artificial intelligence systems. AirSim provides rea...
