In 50 days, 60% of the work force was let off in retail, agri, textile and other sectors.
The firm chooses UP for payments bank launch in February. Karan Choudhury reports.
Effects of the new schemes launched under the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana would be felt more in tier-II and tier-III cities, as not many budget or affordable housing projects are in the works in metropolitan cities.
Computer emergency response teams will be strengthened with ethical hackers who will respond to cyberattacks.
Accuses foreign-funded competition of 'capital dumping' to capture market, bats for stronger regulations for sector.
The telecom companies have also been asked to urgently improve their infrastructure, as the government aims to digitise a host of services.
Safety standards are thrown to the wind as government urges consumers to use mobile wallets at petrol pumps, Shine Jacob & Karan Choudhury/Business Standard report from New Delhi.
Paytm has, since November 8, been on an overdrive, rolling out a series of features on its app including multi-language options for a no-holds barred access across the country. The company is now planning to make Paytm available on all types of mobile phones, going much beyond smartphones.
Modi's demonetisation move has hit the real estate market in Delhi and Mumbai
As PM talks of lower lending rates, housing companies prepare to cash in.
Vijay Shekhar Sharma, head of Paytm, says they'd achieve their 500-million user target by 2018, two years before the earlier aim.
Work in mandis across UP and in northern India which till Tuesday, witnessed heavy arrivals of newly harvested paddy, saw a steep decline.
New law could pose challenges of cost escalation, increased paperwork, fear developers.
While the first half of the year saw India's e-commerce market shrinking, the success of Diwali sales will boost the sector beyond last year's benchmark
Flipkart and Myntra, together, post higher sales than Amazon
With Ola Corporate, aims to provide services to 10,000 firms by next year
Assocham estimates offices are facing staff crunches of 15 to 25 per cent with the various strains of fever.
The mobile wallet player plans to add more Chinese sellers to its e-commerce platform and boost technology for its soon-to-be-launched payments bank
Paytm, which recently hived off its e-commerce and payments bank businesses into separate companies, would use these fresh funds to bolster the two businesses
No longer an in-house task; hiring legal eagles is now becoming norm for M&As, fundraising
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