Facebook already knows a lot about your online activities and you are pretty much aware of it. But a new media investigation has revealed that the social ne...
Amid the rush among Indian expatriates scurrying home to exchange the demonetised Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 notes before the December 30 deadline, a Dubai-based numismatist who hails from India, has advised his compatriots to "hold onto their old currency notes". ...
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday said it has arrested Delhi-based lawyer, Rohit Tandon, for converting over Rs 60 crore demonetised currency in new notes. "Advocate Rohit Tandon has been arrested under PMLA in over Rs 60 crore note conversion case in connivance with Kotak Bank Manager Ashish Kumar and hawala trader Paras Mal Lodha," ...
Central bankers are often called Masters of the Universe. No period in financial history has proven this more than the aftermath of the global financial crisis (GFC). It was the unorthodox methods of the central bankers -- especially those of Western, developed economies -- that saved the financial system from falling off a cliff and, in turn, sa...
China will build more high-speed railways as part of its efforts to establish a comprehensive transport system during the 13th Five-Year Plan period (2016-2020), according to a white paper issued on Thursday. The white paper, titled Development of China's Transport, said China will increase the length of high-speed railways in service to 30,000...
In a surprise development, Ratan Tata, the Interim Chairman of Tata Sons on Wednesday arrived here to meet RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat. Details of the closed-door private Tata-Bhagwat meeting at the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh headquarters here, were not immediately available. Tata Sons is currently locked in a bitter corporate-cum-legal battle with its former...
Vehicle telematics technology company Trak N Tell on Wednesday rolled out a vehicle security feature that instantly transforms users' smartphone into an alarm clock, alerting them about potential threats to their cars in real time and take corrective action. Called 'Watchman," the feature will be available on all Android smartphones on Trak N Tell a...
Budget carrier SpiceJet on Wednesday dubbed as "completely false and incorrect" media reports that its aircraft had entered the wrong bay at the Indira Gandhi international airport here a day earlier. On Tuesday morning, two aircraft of IndiGo and SpiceJet came face to face on the taxiway, which could have led to an accident. "Secti...
The Union cabinet on Wednesday gave post facto approval to India's ratification of the framework agreement of the International Solar Alliance (ISA) launched last year jointly by India and France at Paris on the sidelines of the 21st Conference of Parties on climate change. The ISA, headquartered in India with an interim secretaria...
The Centre should withdraw the new Rs 2,000 and Rs 500 notes over a period of time to cut down on cash in the economy, according to former Union Revenue Secretary, M.R. Sivaraman. "The cash-to-GDP ratio of 13 per cent is certainly not right. All these years nobody said anything against the RBI on the cash economy in the ...
