Brigade Group, one of the leading developers of South India, saw 27 of their flats booked online as part of the Great Online Homes Festival (GOHF) organised by Magicbricks, GroupM and Google. GOHF, the ten daylong festival from 18-27th July 2015, is the largest property festival till date in India. With properties worth Rs. 3000 […]
Federal Bank has launched ‘Soft PIN’ facility for Debit cards, which lets customers use debit and ATM cards almost as soon as they’ve got their hands on it. Soft PIN, which replaces printed ‘PIN- Mailers’, can be generated by the customers themselves through any of the Bank’s 1500-plus ATMs across the country, thus avoiding the […]
The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) expressed “deep shock” at Delhi government’s decision to dismantle the bus corridor to take road space back from buses for the cars, calling it a capitulation in front of the ‘car lobby’. The decision by Aam Aadmi Arvind Kejriwal led government has been taken as a priority step […]
Uninor, the Indian brand of Telenor, has managed to break even at an operating level for the first time in India, thanks to the recent cut in termination charges by telecom regulator TRAI. TRAI had, about five months ago, cut termination charges (paid by one operator to another) by a massive 30% — helping low-cost […]
Idea has made a keenly awaited announcement with its quarterly results today – the launch of 4G LTE services. The services will be launched in Kerala, Maharashtra & Goa, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh & Chhattisgarh, Punjab, Haryana, North East, Tamil Nadu and Orissa, though not all together. The company, which has been famously saying that […]
If you make a lot of phone calls while on the road, then Vodafone is the best mobile operator for you in Delhi, according to the results of a two-day ‘drive test’ conducted by quality auditing firm TUV SUD on behalf of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India. The drive test, which involved making around 450 […]
Idea Cellular reported a decline in both per-minute voice rates as well as per-MB data rates for the first quarter. While the decline in per-minute voice income was because of lower roaming charges and a cut in termination charges, the decline in data prices was because of competition, Idea said. “Due to increased competition, the […]
Tata Motors will hold a nationwide Free Monsoon Check-Up camp for its passenger vehicle customers from 28th July to 2nd August, 2015, across 585 workshops in 293 cities. All TATA car and utility vehicle owners are eligible to participate. The monsoon camp will offer better benefits planned on tyres and batteries, apart from labour, lubes, […]
NSE has today filed a defamation suit against an organization for publishing what it called unsubstantiated and misleading reports against the exchange. The suit also names the officials of the organization that published such reports, the exchange said. “The exchange has sought withdrawal of those reports etc, as well as, has made a claim of […]
YES BANK, India’s 5th largest private sector Bank, has introduced a service using which any user owning any type of mobile phone with any operator can make mobile payments from anywhere, anytime without internet connectivity in a completely secure manner. For ‘YES PAYMENTS’, the bank has entered into a strategic partnership with TAISYS Technologies. Once […]
Pantene, one of India’s leading hair care brands, announced Bollywood actress and superstar Anushka Sharma as the face of the new and best ever Pantene. “I love experimenting with my hair! Whether it’s my current wob, or a fringe cut or colouring my hair, but with my busy schedule and hectic lifestyle, my hair is exposed […]
HCC Ltd, an infrastructure construction company, said it has been awarded a Rs 785 crore contract by Northeast Frontier Railway under a joint venture with Coastal Projects Ltd. The contract is for developing a 9.5 km tunnel between Tupul – Imphal for New Railway Line Project from Jiribam – Tupul, the company said. The Share […]
Reliance Communications has deployed new Cloud Xchange nodes in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore and Hyderabad. Cloud Xchange is the company’s cloud computing-cum-delivery solution. It helps in sophisticated delivery and implementation of cloud-computing based solutions, including content delivery. In some ways, it is like Amazon Web Services. At present, Akamai Technologies is a big player in network […]
If you make a lot of phone calls while on the road, then Bharti Airtel is the best mobile operator for you in Mumbai, according to the results of a two-day ‘drive test’ conducted by quality auditing firm TUV SUD on behalf of the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India. The drive test, which involved making around 500 […]
Infosys, the country’s third largest IT services exporter, announced that its first-quarter revenue has risen 4.5% to $2.26 bln vs expectations of $2.22 bln, beating the expected revenue. Against an expected sequential growth of 2.9% in constant currency, Infosys reported an actual growth of 4.4% in constant currency. Analysts expectations were for a 2.9 per […]
Even as concerns are raised that India’s joining of the Madrid Protocol of global intellectual property system is impacting small companies here, minister for trade and industry Nirmala Sitharaman said it would a good thing for small enterprises. Before India joined the system, India’s top Patent officer, the Controller General of Patents PH Kurian announced […]
India is projected to have 500 total million internet users by 2017, up from 350 mln at present, said the report IAMAI & KPMG Report “India On The Go – Mobile Internet Vision 2017”. Most of these will be mobile internet users, who will comprise 314 million by 2017. The number of mobile internet users […]
The Indian Real Estate sector is starting to unravel with prices having fallen 7-18% in India’s large cities over the past year, Ambit Capital said in a report. “In Delhi, our meetings with businessmen who live in south Delhi suggest that prices in this prime part of Delhi are down 20-25% over the past year […]
The demand for natural gas in India will increase to ~330 MMSCMD by FY 25, while the supply will increase by 60% to around 150 MMSCMD by FY 25, credit rating agency ICRA said. The increase in supply will be due to the likely commencement of GSPC’s Deen Dayal block and ONGC’s KG basin blocks […]
RattanIndia Apna Solar, a venture of Indiabulls-co-founder Rajiv Rattan, has won a contract to place solar panels on 75 public buildings in cities of Bhopal, Indore and Jabalpur in Madhya Pradesh as part of the Madhya Pradesh government’s efforts to increase renewable power generation. The contract was awarded by Madhya Pradesh Madhya Kshetra Vidyut Vitran […]
