Hyderabad, Dec 28 (IANS) Posing as CBI officials, four unidentified persons looted 45 kg gold from Muthoot Finance in Hyderabad on Wednesday, the city police said. The con men escaped with gold ornaments valued at about Rs 12 crore after threatening the staff with weapons at the Ramachandrapuram office of the company on the outskirts here. A...
Amid the steady 4G adoption growth, 53 per cent of Indians bought their smartphones online while 39 per cent of smartphone owners still preferred retail stores to buy a new device in 2016, a Deloitte survey revealed on Wednesday. According to the 'Mobile Consumer Survey 2016', 4G adoption is expected to grow strongly over ...
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar on Wednesday advocated changes in laws and regulations pertaining to online transaction fee as he found it odd that a fee was levied on digital transactions but not on cash payments. "Suppose I withdraw cash (from ATM) and pay in cash, there is no transaction fee, but if I pay directly or by credit car...
In yet another attack on the BJP, ally Shiv Sena on Wednesday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi not to "yank off the undergarments (chaddi-banian) of the public" in the name of exposing "benami" properties in the country. "After demonetisation, now the Prime Minister has targeted 'benami' properties and this is an extremely ...
Domestic mobile wallet platform MobiKwik on Wednesday announced that its users will now be able to pay their utility and convenience bills using the wallet across India. The company has got an in-principle approval from the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to set up a Bharat Bill Payments Operating Unit (BBPOU). "We are determined to serve the ...
Trying to solve call drops, the telecom service providers have installed more than 130,000 additional base transceiver stations (BTS) across the country between June to October and plan to install more than 150,000 more BTSs till March 2017, an official statement said here on Wednesday. "In order to obtain direct feedback from subscribers...
Raking up the AgustaWestland scam, the BJP on Wednesday countered Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi's demands on note ban crisis and asked him to first answer who benefited in the 2012-13 VVIP chopper deal. Bharatiya Janata Party National Secretary Shrikant Sharma said that Gandhi's frustration was understood as he was helping those who earlier loo...
Taipei-based technology major BenQ on Wednesday launched CH100, a portable LED projector designed for web designers and graphic artists. Priced at Rs 1,50,000, CH100 delivers precisely accurate picture quality with sRGB colour fidelity and full-HD resolution. "We are passionate about design ourselves and we know that creative professionals will go to any ...
Twitter and ICICI Bank on Wednesday announced a partnership that integrates a slew of digital customer care support features for the bank, benefiting millions of its customers with direct online response to their queries and feedback in real-time. ICICI Bank is the first bank in India to implement the new features to its Twitter ac...
Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi again over demonetisation and sought to know how much black money was recovered since November 8. "Modiji has performed demonetisation 'yagna' for 50 families and one per cent super rich people of the country," Gandhi told reporters here at the party...