Nearly 50 per cent of citizens in large cities globally will benefit from smart city programmes by sharing personal data by 2019, market research firm Gartner said on Thursday. The volume and diversity of the data generated by citizens will continue to grow in line with the proliferation of consumer devices and the internet of...
In a bid to incentivise digital payments, the government on Thursday launched two schemes for consumers and merchants, Niti Ayog CEO Amitabh Kant said here. Lucky Grahak Yojna would reward consumers through a daily, as well as a weekly, draw on transactions worth Rs 50 to Rs 3,000 with maximum reward up to Rs 1 lakh. Digi Dhan Yojna, aime...
Income Tax officials on Thursday raided an Axis Bank branch here and seized 20 fake accounts with deposits amounting Rs 60 crore, police said. The raid was conducted around 10 a.m. at an Axis Bank branch situated at Sector-51. A police officer said the suspected accounts were opened on the name of several fake companies and a few low income indiv...
Domestic mobile wallet platform MobiKwik and the National Association of Street Vendors of India (NASVI) on Thursday teamed up to empower over 30 lakh street vendors from 25 states to use digital transactions. "We will train 10 lakh street vendors in three months to enable them to transact digitally. MobiKwik payments will soon be accepted by 30...
Nearly 50 per cent of citizens in large cities globally will benefit from smart city programmes by sharing personal data by 2019, market research firm Gartner said on Thursday. The volume and diversity of the data generated by citizens will continue to grow in line with the proliferation of consumer devices and the internet of...
There was no respite in sight for cash-strapped people on Thursday as queues outside banks and ATMs for money withdrawal continued across the city with rising anger and pain. An IANS correspondent who visited about 10 banks and ATMs in east Delhi found over 150 people outside Punjab National Bank and State Bank of India in Radheypuri area of east ...
Around 300 liquor outlets in Kerala will down shutters from the new fiscal in line with the Supreme Court's ruling banning the sale of liquor along highways. A bench, headed by Supreme Court Chief Justice T.S. Thakur, on Thursday said all vendors holding licences for selling liquor would continue to do so till their licences were valid or till March ...
The Supreme Court on Thursday banned the sale of liquor within 500 meters on either side of national and state highways across the country....
The Ecuadorian government has signed a contract with a Canadian firm to exploit a gold and silver deposit in its southeastern Amazon province, reports said....
South Korean exports of information and communications technology (ICT) products posted the first rebound in 14 months despite weak demand for smartphones, report showed on Thursday....
