In your youth, you must have played platform games like "Street Fighter," "Pacman" and the quintessential "Mario" on huge coin-operated machines in dingy ice-cream parlors with joysticks and buttons. Nearly two decades later, video gaming consoles like Xbox and PlayStation have become a runaway hit among youth and the craze is only gro...
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday targeted Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the reported deaths of 100 people across the country following the government's November 8 move demonetising Rs 1,000 and Rs 500 notes. "How many more every day Modi babu," Banerjee tweeted. The Trinamool Congress supremo was alluding to a list of 100 pe...
The RBI on Thursday said it will be mandatory for banks to take the PAN of holders of small accounts, or those opened by submitting the holder's photograph and affixing signature or thumb impression in a bank official's presence, where deposits after demonetisation have exceeded Rs 2 lakh and the total balance is Rs 5 la...
Signalling a definitive reversal of the continuous decline in Indian exports earlier in the year, official data on Thursday showed these grew for the third month in a row at $20 billion in November, an uptick of 2.29 per cent over the $19.56 billion in November 2015. ...
In yet another clarification on the government's demonetisation drive aimed to curb black money, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said on Thursday that the move towards a cashless economy is actually a "less cash economy" as no economy can be fully cashless. Making his opening remarks at the fifth meeting of the Parliamentary ...
Negative global indices, coupled with depreciating rupee and profit booking, subdued the Indian equity markets on Thursday. The two benchmark indices could not sustain their gains and provisionally closed in the red, as heavy selling pressure was witnessed in healthcare, consumer durables and FMCG stocks. The wider 51-scrip Nifty of the National ...
To help accelerate the digital transformation of Gujarat, global networking giant Cisco on Thursday announced to explore setting up an Internet of Things (IoT) Innovation Hub and deliver a smart city in the state. Cisco signed two Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) with the state government which aim to establish an IoT Innovation ...
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...
