Christmas is a week or so away but the cash crunch in the wake of the November 8 demonetisation has cast a long shadow over the Yuletide spirit in Kerala. The winter chill has set in, cakes and other goodies begun to be displayed in shops while Christmas decorations like stars, garlands, baubles, tinsel and other knick-knacks have ...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday strongly defended demonetisation, a decision he said should have been taken in 1971 when Indira Gandhi was heading the government. "We needed to do it in 1971. We have caused huge losses by not doing this since 1971," Modi told BJP MPs, lashing out at the Congress for not taking effective measures to curb b...
Tata Sons on Friday said that its interim Chairman Ratan Tata has no plans to step down from the chairmanship of the Tata Trusts. "Further to news reports that have appeared in the media today, Ratan Tata, Interim Chairman, clarified that there are no plans for his stepping down from the chairmanship of the Tata Trusts at this point in ti...
The total number of e-governance transactions in the country has crossed Rs 1,000 crore this year, the government web portal eTaal said on Friday. The portal -- which disseminates e-transactions statistics of national and state level e-governance projects -- said the e-transactions increased by 33 per cent from last year's Rs 760 crore. ...
The central government's Finance and Appropriation Accounts for 2015-16 along with an audit report of the Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) were presented in parliament on Friday, the Finance Ministry said. The Appropriation Accounts present the actual expenditure incurred by ministries/departments in relation to the appropriations ...
To attract new users to the platform, micro-blogging website Twitter developed a standalone instant messaging app in India for emerging markets but killed the product without launching it as the company shut down its Bengaluru engineering centre that developed it, a media report claimed on Friday. According to Buzzfeed, the stand-alone a...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has expressed his unhappiness at slow implementation of projects in the northeast, a region he has been focusing on, according to Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju. "The other day I met the PM and he said 'Kirenji, kuch kijiye' (Kirenji, do something)," Rijiju said at the Northeastern Region (NER) D...
Canadian smartphone maker BlackBerry and TCL Communication Technology Holdings Limited on Friday entered into a long-term licensing agreement that will provide acceleration to BlackBerry's transition into a security software and services company. Under the terms, BlackBerry will license its security software and service suite, as wel...
General insurers have received claims worth around Rs 200 crore following cyclone Vardah that crossed the Chennai coast on December 12, officials said. The cyclone damaged factories, godowns, ships and vehicles, neon sign boards, mobile towers and power infrastructure. A public sector insurance official said the minimum hit for the company's bottomline would ...
The Internet of Things (IoT) will be a dominant factor to drive internet growth in the country with 75 per cent of respondents vouching for it, a new survey by Mahindra Comviva said on Friday. Mahindra Comviva -- a value-added services provider for mobile operators -- with online communication hub Mobile World Live said 35 per cent of respon...
