Archive Detail
| Title | Description | Posted Date |
|---|---|---|
| Trump urges Fed to cut rates for 'rocket | Washington, May 1 (IANS) US President Donald Trump called on the US Federal Reserve to lower interest rates and adopt quantitative easing, citing an economy he said is "doing well." | 30-Apr-2019 |
| Trump, Democrats agree to spend $2 trn o | Washington, May 1 (IANS) Democratic congressional leaders -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer -- said they have agreed to seek a deal with President Donald Trump on a 2-trillion-US-dollar infrastructure package. | 30-Apr-2019 |
| SC rules against 63 Moons-NSEL merger | New Delhi, April 30 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled against the government decision to merge crisis-ridden and loss-making subsidiary National Spot Exchange Ltd (NSEL) with 63 Moons Technologies Ltd. | 30-Apr-2019 |
| Netflix to stream Thailand cave rescue s | Bangkok, April 30 (IANS) The story of dramatic rescue of 12 boys and their coach, trapped for over two weeks in a cave in northern Thailand last year, will be told by Netflix following a deal between several producers, here on Tuesday. | 30-Apr-2019 |
| Fire in Delhi factory, no casualties | New Delhi, April 29 (IANS) A major fire engulfed a chemical factory in Naraina area here on Monday, forcing 30 fire tenders to battle the flames, an official said. No casualty has been reported. | 29-Apr-2019 |
| 137 Air India flights to be delayed on S | New Delhi, April 28 (IANS) The massive glitch in Air India's passenger services system on Saturday continued to have its impact, as around 137 flights of the national carrier were set to delayed by over three hours each on Sunday. | 28-Apr-2019 |
| RBI should disclose the list of defaulte | New Delhi, April 28 (IANS) Latching on to the recent Supreme Court judgement giving the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) a "last opportunity" to disclose the list of defaulters under the Right to Information Act (RTI), the Congress party on Sunday alleged that the government favours crony capitalists. | 28-Apr-2019 |
| Apple punishes screen-time limiting apps | San Francisco, April 28 (IANS) In a crackdown on third-party apps that help people fight iPhone addiction, Apple has removed or restricted at least 11 of the 17 most downloaded screen-time and parental-control apps, The New York Times reported. | 28-Apr-2019 |
| Equities to walk on tight rope as oil pr | Mumbai, April 28 (IANS) Global crude oil prices along with macro-economic data points, coupled with fourth quarter (Q4) earning results might induce volatility in the Indian equity markets during the coming week. | 28-Apr-2019 |
| Srinagar-Leh highway re-opens for traffi | Srinagar, April 28 (IANS) The 434 km-long Srinagar-Leh highway was on Sunday re-opened for traffic after remaining closed for over four months. | 28-Apr-2019 |
| Trump to OPEC: Boost output; Brent down | New Delhi, April 27 (IANS) Global oil benchmark Brent fell nearly 3 per cent to $71 a barrel on Saturday after US President Donald Trump asked oil cartel OPEC to boost production and cool off the surging oil prices. | 27-Apr-2019 |
| Swiggy delivers over 1.5 mn orders a mon | New Delhi, April 27 (IANS) Swiggy, domestic online food ordering and delivery platform, on Saturday said it delivers over 1.5 million orders every month on mechanical cycles. It has a fleet of over 1.7 lakh delivery partners in more than 120 cities. | 27-Apr-2019 |
| Chola Investment posts Rs 1,186 cr net p | Chennai, April 27 (IANS) The Cholamandalam Investment and Finance Company Ltd (Chola Investment) has claimed to have closed the last financial year (FY19) with a net profit of Rs 1,186 crore. | 27-Apr-2019 |
| Ailing Jet technician commits suicide | Palghar (Maharashtra), April 27 (IANS) An ailing senior technician working with the beleagured Jet Airways committed suicide by jumping off his building terrace, police said here on Saturday. | 27-Apr-2019 |
| Air India operations to normalise by Sat | New Delhi/Mumbai, April 27 (IANS) National carrier Air India expects operations to normalise by Saturday night after its flights were delayed due to a software glitch which hindered essential services like check-in, baggage handling and boarding. | 27-Apr-2019 |
| JioPhone leads feature phone market in I | New Delhi, April 26 (IANS) With a 30 per cent market share, Reliance JioPhone became the leading feature phone brand in India in the first quarter of 2019, Counterpoint Research said on Friday. | 26-Apr-2019 |
| London court again rejects Nirav Modi's | London, April 26 (IANS) A London court on Friday extended till May 24 the judicial custody of fugitive diamantaire Nirav Modi, rejecting his bail plea as it suspected that he could flee Britain and "interfere with witnesses". | 26-Apr-2019 |
| 9 out of top 10 apps to come from India | New Delhi, April 26 (IANS) The growing breed of Indian developers will ensure nine out of 10 apps on Google Play Store are from India within the next 5-10 years, GGVC Managing Partner Hans Tung has said. | 26-Apr-2019 |
| Chinese girl finds feathers in McDonald' | Beijing, April 26 (IANS) A woman in Beijing has claimed that her daughter took a bite of her McDonald's McWings and found feathers in her meal, a media report said on Friday. | 26-Apr-2019 |
| US dollar edges up amid economic data | New York, April 26 (IANS) The US dollar rose slightly against its major rivals in late trading on Thursday as market participants digested a slew of economic data. | 25-Apr-2019 |
| Samsung India to install 40 ONYX Cinema | New Delhi, April 25 (IANS) Samsung India, which installed its fourth 4K ONYX Cinema LED screen in Bengaluru on Thursday, aims to introduce 35-40 such Cinema LED displays at movie theatres across the country by the end of 2022. | 25-Apr-2019 |
| Sri Lanka keeps visa-on-arrival programm | Colombo, April 25 (IANS) Sri Lanka's Tourism Ministry said on Thursday that it has kept its new visa-on-arrival programme on hold until further notice due to the security situation in the island nation following the Easter Sunday bombings. | 25-Apr-2019 |
| Nirav Modi, Mehul Choksi's 13 luxury car | Mumbai, April 25 (IANS) Thirteen luxury cars owned by fugitive diamantaires Nirav Modi and his uncle Mehul Choksi went on online auction by the Metals & Scrap Trading Corporation, here on Thursday. | 25-Apr-2019 |
| Sensex ends above the 39k mark, up 490 p | Mumbai, April 24 (IANS) Sensex ended above the psychological mark of 39,000 after it gained sharply during the end of the trade session on Wednesday, closing with a 489 points gain. | 24-Apr-2019 |
| Jet employees approach Rajnath Singh to | Lucknow, April 24 (IANS) The employees of Jet Airways have sought Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh's intervention for revival the temporarily grounded airline. | 24-Apr-2019 |
| LS polls: Twitter makes it easier to rep | New Delhi, April 25 (IANS) In an attempt to bar people from using its services for the purpose of manipulating the Lok Sabha elections, Twitter on Wednesday announced a new feature to make it easier for users to report misleading information about voting. | 25-Apr-2019 |
| E-sports platform Mobile Premier League | New Delhi, April 24 (IANS) Mobile e-sports or gaming platform, Mobile Premier League (MPL), has raised $35.5 million (around Rs 244 crore)in a Series A funding round led by Sequia India, Times Internet and GoVentures, MPL said on Wednesday. | 24-Apr-2019 |
| Zacco acquires Lakhshya Cybersecurity La | Bengaluru, April 24 (IANS) Stockholm-based intellectual property consulting firm Zacco on Wednesday announced that it has acquired Coimbatore-based Lakhshya Cybersecurity Labs for an undisclosed sum. | 24-Apr-2019 |
| Petrol may not go beyond Rs 75/litre til | New Delhi, April 23 (IANS) Call it election time rationing or return of the administered price mechanism regime, but the retail price of petrol may not cross the Rs 75 a litre-mark in Delhi, at least till the end of polling on May 19. | 23-Apr-2019 |
| Political ad spend on Facebook picks up | New Delhi, April 22 (IANS) Political parties and their affiliates ramped up spending on social media ads ahead of the third phase of Lok Sabha elections, scheduled for Tuesday, show data released by Facebook Ad Library. | 22-Apr-2019 |
| Twitter hires Manish Maheshwari as India | New Delhi, April 22 (IANS) Twitter India on Monday appointed Manish Maheshwari, former CEO of Network18 Digital, as Managing Director for the country operations -- nearly eight months after its Country Director Taranjeet Singh quit. | 22-Apr-2019 |
| Flipkart's second data centre opens in H | Hyderabad, April 22 (IANS) Online marketplace Flipkart on Monday opened its data centre in Hyderabad to strengthen its technology infrastructure. | 22-Apr-2019 |
| Hackers may see what Netflix interactive | Chennai, April 22 (IANS) Despite Netflix's move to encrypt all its video streams in order to better protect user privacy, hackers may still get to know what interactive content you watch on the popular streaming service, new research from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras suggests. | 22-Apr-2019 |
| Jio tops 4G download, Vodafone upload sp | New Delhi, April 22 (IANS) With 22.2 Mbps (megabits per second) average download speed, Reliance Jio topped the 4G download speed chart of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) for March. For Jio, its an improvement over 20.9 Mbps achieved in February. | 22-Apr-2019 |
| Jet Airways employees considered taking | Chennai, April 21 (IANS) Internal differences of opinion on employees taking over the management of Jet Airways did not permit pursuing the idea, but employees are ready to fully cooperate with any new investor for turning around the the financially crippled company, a senior official of the National Aviators Guild (NAG) said on Sunday. | 21-Apr-2019 |
| Invigorate Foods set to invest Rs 60 cr | New Delhi, April 21 (IANS) Invigorate Foods on Sunday said it would invest Rs 60 crore in India in three years to manufacture soya milk products. | 21-Apr-2019 |
| 'DRT on cards if Jet's stake sale proces | New Delhi, April 21 (IANS) Even as Jet Airway's lenders are confident of selling their stake in the temporarily grounded airline, they have prepared a contingency plan which includes taking the company to Debt Recovery Tribunal (DRT), sources said. | 21-Apr-2019 |
| iPhones to sport 3-camera setup, 12MP se | San Francisco, April 21 (IANS) Apple is planning to upgrade camera resolution and setup in iPhones, to be unveiled this year. | 21-Apr-2019 |
| Private carriers in India have come cras | New Delhi, April 21 (IANS) Aviation in India has attracted entrepreneurs like moths to a flame but only a few have managed to survive and thrive in a sector which has become the graveyard of all kinds of airline business models -- budget, full service and hybrid. | 21-Apr-2019 |
| Consumer confidence recovers in April: S | New Delhi, April 20 (IANS) Consumer confidence has recovered in April owing to cooling inflation and easing tensions between India and Pakistan after a war-like situation had developed, said a recent report. | 20-Apr-2019 |
| Jet pilot shoots tough questions at mana | New Delhi, April 20 (IANS) An old-timer and veteran Jet Airways pilot Sudhir Gaur has blamed the management for keeping 22,000 employees in the dark over the turn of events that led to complete suspension of the airline's operations leaving the staff in lurch. | 20-Apr-2019 |
| US dollar falls amid rising British poun | New York, April 20 (IANS) The US dollar decreased in late trading on Friday, amid a stronger British pound, which was lifted by upbeat British retail sales data in the first quarter, signalling robust economic growth for the country. | 20-Apr-2019 |
| PM blames Congress for traders' negative | New Delhi, April 20 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the Congress had created a negative perception about traders by blaming them for the price rise. | 20-Apr-2019 |
| 286% surge in Russian Twitter bots on Mu | Washington, April 20 (IANS) There was a massive surge in Russian-linked Twitter bots and trolls on the micro-blogging platform after the release of US Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report on the Russia investigation. | 20-Apr-2019 |
| Mumbai commuters to candidates: Catch me | Mumbai, April 19 (IANS) The biggest nightmare for candidates in the Mumbai, Thane, Palghar and Raigad Lok Sabha constituencies is how to "catch" the slippery commuters who are their main electoral bank. | 19-Apr-2019 |
| US dollar rises amid strong retail sales | New York, April 19 (IANS) The US dollar increased in late trading on Thursday, as the US economy got a boost by estimated surging retail sales, while the euro dropped due to downbeat eurozone economic data. | 19-Apr-2019 |
| Lenders invoke IBC norms to keep stresse | New Delhi, April 19 (IANS) Lenders will cite one day default clause under Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) to defend their action against erring promoters taken to insolvency under the now defunct February 12, 2018 circular of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). | 19-Apr-2019 |
| 'Air India takeover of Jet will ensure l | Chennai, April 19 (IANS) Government-owned Air India can take over Jet Airways and get back the lucrative international/domestic routes if there are no white knight for the private airline, said a top All India Bank Employees' Association (AIBEA) leader. | 19-Apr-2019 |
| Samsung rapped for not passing GST benef | New Delhi, April 19 (IANS) The Directorate General of Anti-Profiteering (DGAP) has served a notice on technology major Samsung India for allegedly not passing on the benefits of GST reduction to its customers and in turn making undue profits, sources said. | 19-Apr-2019 |
| First 50 retweets can tell if tweet will | Beijing, April 18 (IANS) Estimating how infectious a tweet is from the first 50 retweets is the key to predict whether a tweet will go viral or not, say researchers. | 18-Apr-2019 |