British rail passengers are facing major disruption on Boxing Day with 200 sets of rail works planned over the festive period. London, Manchester and Cardiff are among the cities worst hit, with Heathrow Express also suspended for six days, the BBC reported on Monday. The Labour Party blamed ministers for "lack of action" - but the governmen...
Japanese automobile maker Nissan Motor Corporation is progressing steadily towards capturing five per cent market share in India by 2020 with new model launches, said a top official of its Indian operations. "Nissan India is progressing towards our aim of becoming a major force within India with a five per cent share by 2020. We currently have ...
Derivatives expiry, coupled with the direction of foreign funds' flow and government's efforts to build a consensus over the contours of Goods and Services Tax (GST) are expected to flare up volatility in the Indian equity markets during the upcoming week. ...
Faced with an acute manpower shortage, lack of logistical support and infrastructural bottlenecks in the Income Tax department, the objective of unearthing concealed income, or black money, through the demonetisation route could become a distant dream, taxmen say....
The Delhi government on Sunday started accepting online payment for driving licence so that applicants are not turned away due to cash crunch and also that digital transactions are encouraged....
The Union government will launch awards under the Lucky Grahak Yojana and Digi-Dhan Vyapar Yojana-- twin schemes incentivising digital payments-- in 100 cities over 100 days, the NITI Aayog said on Saturday. ...
Union Finance Minsiter Arun Jaitley on Saturday said that the Goods and Services Tax (GST) Council has made "significant progress" on the provisions relating to the indirect tax regime and resolution of the "one difficult issue" of dual control or cross empowerment that deals with assessee jurisdiction is not far off....
In keeping with the global trend, the Indian government requested social networking giant Facebook for data 6,324 times in the first half of 2016 -- up from 5,561 requests in the earlier July-December 2015 period, Facebook's latest Government Requests Report revealed on Saturday. Facebook restricted access to 2,034 piece...
Domestic social shopping platform LimeRoad on Saturday announced its partnership with the Madhya Pradesh government for an exclusive range of handicrafts and apparel to be made available on its platform. Towards this, LimeRoad has signed an MoU with the "Madhya Pradesh Laghu Udyog Nigam". "Platform provided by LimeRoad to our art...
Amid the escalating patents row with Finnish smartphone maker Nokia, Apple has reportedly pulled all products made by Withings -- a French company and now a Nokia subsidiary -- from Apple Stores, be it online or retail. Several Withings iOS-compatible products -- mostly health-related connected accessories -- have been available a...
