India's demonetisation of high-value currency has hit hard the tens of thousands of Nepali migrant workers employed in India as security guards, daily wagers, domestic helps and others who receive salary in cash, as they are struggling to cope with the situation....
Battling an unprecedented cash crunch after the government spiked high-value currency notes, banks at various places have been receiving soiled Rs 100 notes for disbursal that were otherwise supposed to be dumped after being taken out of circulation years ago. ...
Seeking to ensure timely implementation of basic urban infrastructure projects, the Urban Development Ministry has started approving investments in water supply, sewerage networks etc for the next three financial years under Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation (AMRUT), an official statement said on Friday. ...
Nokia is planning to re-enter the smartphone business in 2017, a slide from Nokia's Capital Markets Day 2016 has revealed....
In a first since going public, Facebook is planning to buy back $6 billion in stock from shareholders beginning in the first quarter of of 2017, a document filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission revealed....
Bengal's sweet tooth is set to turn bitter as makers of the popular rosogolla (rasgulla) and sandesh have been left battered by the central government's decision to ban Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes in a bid to weed out black money. ...
There is an element of spasmodic jerkiness about some of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's policies....
China-based content-sharing platform SHAREit on Saturday announced that it will set up its India headquarters in Gurugram. ...
Lauding the government's surprise demonetisation move, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday said that it has attacked India's parallel economy that was running outside the banking system for the last 70 years and a "new normal" will become the way for the country....
There has been a decline in the percentage of women working at Microsoft, said the company's diversity report, adding that the technology giant saw "modest ...
