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...
Around 31 per cent of companies in India are considering a different organisational structure, a recent joint study by global advisory firm Willis Towers Watson and Confederation of Indian Industry showed. "The top five drivers for considering this change include creating a performance-driven culture (49 per cent), meeting changing c...
The Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council on Saturday finalised April 1, 2018 for the nationwide mandatory rollout of inter-state e-Way Bill, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said here. "Intra-state e-Way Bill will be rolled out in phased manner with four groups of states. Each group will come under it every week after April 1 and ef...
President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday appointed Suresh Prabhu as the new Civil Aviation Minister, a statement said. A communique from the Rashtrapati Bhawan said Commerce and Industry Minister Prabhu will take additional charge of the Ministry of Civil Aviation. The announcement came two days after P. Ashok Gajapathi Raju stepped down as the Aviation M...
