Expectations of a marginal hike in US interest rates, along with lower crude oil prices and healthy inflows of foreign funds, lifted the key equity indices for the seventh consecutive day on Wednesday. ...
It could take 202 years for women to earn as much as men because the global pay gap is so vast and the pace of change so slow, the World Economic Forum (WEF) has said in a report. The annual report from WEF found that women on average make 63 per cent of what men earn. There was not a single country out of 149 assessed where women on an ...
Global aerospace major Boeing expects a demand for 2,300 new aircraft in India, valued at $320 billion, over the next 20 years. According to the company's 2018 Commercial Market Outlook (CMO) for India, factors such as rise in GDP output along with increase in infrastructure spend ...
Amid mixed Asian cues and falling crude oil prices the benchmark Sensex extended its early gains to 150 points during the afternoon session of the trade on Wednesday. Apart from the export-oriented IT and pharma stocks all other sectors gained on both NSE and BSE....
Personal information of some of current and former employees at NASA may have been stolen in a data breach that hit the US space agency in October this year, a media report said. In an internal memo sent to employees on Tuesday and published by US-based ...
Betting big on Internet of Things (IoT)-based communications and video analytics/streaming, nearly two-third of organisations globally plan to deploy the 5G technology by 2020 but are wary of the lack of readiness of communications service providers (CSPs) in making 5G networks ready by then, a Gartner survey said on Wednesday....
A skills-based immigration system will be introduced in the UK to "get control over our borders" when free movement from the EU ends, Home Secretary Sajid Javid is set to announce. It was expected to focus on people's "talent and expertise... rather than where...
The Microsoft Surface family of devices has registered high double-digit growth in the Indian market this year and the game changer Surface Go is set to add heavily to that next year, a company executive said here on Tuesday. According to Priyadarshi Mohapatra, Country General Manager, Consumer & ...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said the government is aiming to bring 99 per cent of items below the 18 per cent GST slab and warned of stringent action against defaulters of bank loan and fugitives. "Before GST, registered enterprises numbered 65 lakh, which has now increased ...
In a bid to promote reuse of debris generated by the construction industry, the government will soon reduce the Goods and Services Tax (GST) on products made from recycled demolition waste to five per cent. Currently, the recycled products -- such as concrete blocks or bricks for ...