Defeats in sports dominated by China at previous Olympics have left the country in an unfamiliar third place on the medals table, with some predicting that Rio 2016 could witness the lowest haul in two decades.
The last few months have been hard on digital wallets which had a short-lived dream run post-demonetisation.
Aruna Tanwar enters Taekwondo quarters.
Rediff.com encapsulates all the sporting action from the past week in this eye-catching photo feature.
SBI chief Rajnish Kumar said the focus going forward will be on cost reduction, rationalisation and reskilling of workforce, improving staff productivity and redeployment of workforce from admin offices to sales roles.
A designer has come up with the world's most expensive mobile phone, which is priced at 1.92 million pounds.
'Every disease has traits and we have found out that actually 99 per cent of people who have got COVID-19, should recover.'
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Thursday.
Mobile payments alone gathered close to $1.51 billion in the year 2017 through 13 rounds of funding, according to data compiled by Tracxn
Police in southern Tamil Nadu are facing grave charges of falsely implicating members of a nomadic tribe and torturing them into admitting to crimes they did not commit. A Ganesh Nadar reports from Kanyakumari.
During the course of the hearing last month, it emerged that Modi had made death threats to witnesses and also attempted to destroy evidence such as mobile phones and a server holding "material critical to the fraud".
The company has been struggling in the highly competitive smartphone market globally.
The Delhi State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission's decision to fine mobile phone firm Vodafone Rs 50 lakh (Rs 5 million) for offering prizes of gold coins and a Maruti SX4 as part of a promotional scheme is something all marketers in the country would do well to pay attention to.
Along with the Xperia Z5 Premium, Sony also unveiled the Xperia Z5 Compact and Xperia Z5 on the sidelines of IFA 2015 in Berlin and it would be an under statement to say that the technology giant swept the viewers off their feet, says Himanshu Juneja
Bajrang Punia has established himself as the undisputed superstar of Indian wrestling but the road to glory was fraught with temptations
Ola said it has obtained licences to operate in South Wales and Greater Manchester, and will launch operations in South Wales by September.
The handset features a 5-inch IPS display with 2,540 mAh battery combined with 1.3 GHz quad core processor.
Jaitley increased the excise duty on most tobacco products by 10-15 per cent.
Dining and drinking out will be expensive.
The fresh batch of diplomats also includes EU representatives, and their participation assumes significance as the EU Parliament recently initiated to bring a joint draft resolution on the Citizenship Amendment Act and Kashmir, the vote on which was later deferred.
Summary of sports events and persons who made news on Tuesday
A summary of sports events and persons who made news on Monday.
On the other hand, mobile accessories, medical equipment energy efficient CFL lamps, set top boxes, compact disc, toys and books will be cheaper on account of some tax concessions offered on these items by Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in the Union Budget for 2010-11.
From smart cities to gold, the fallout of the Chinese meltdown will have far-reaching consequences
The current monetary 'non-system' is the only way to deal with the turmoil in the world economy.
Priyadarshini Maji evaluates the impact that payment banks are likely to have on your financial life.
Can Indian youth work on solutions for cyber security?
The recent sensational triple murder of a family in Bengaluru has been solved with the arrest of three persons and recovery of Rs 2.5 lakh worth gold ornaments, Rs 11,500 in cash and four mobiles from them.
A court directed the Delhi police to register an FIR against a woman on a man's complaint alleging that she had filed a false case of stalking against him last year to extort money.
Freebies galore and populist schemes under the popular 'Amma' brand became the hallmark of late Jayalalithaa's tenure as Chief Minister, helping her steamroll arch-rival M Karunanidhi's Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam in this year's assembly polls.
Kohei Uchimura's bid to become the first gymnast in more than 40-years to win back-to-back Olympic all-around gymnastics golds began with a costly error as his as addiction to Pokemon Go landed him with a near $5,000 phone bill.
'To be good at the heptathlon takes at least seven years; to compete internationally and win medals takes 10 years.' 'Swapna became Asia's best heptathlete in just five years!' 'Nobody would have believed it. but she did it.'
The old globalisation model is unsustainable. The world economy awaits its new Keynes.
The company has set target to sell 15-20 lakh units of Honor smartphones by the end of this year
The smartphones have 5.1-inch Quad HD Super AMOLED screen.
The sops sanctioned by J Jayalalithaa on her first day in office could cost the exchequer up to Rs 8,000 crore annually.
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Sofia Goggia carved up the Jeongseon slope 'like a Samurai' to win the women's downhill on Wednesday and leave American Lindsey Vonn with a bronze medal in her final run in the marquee event of Olympic Alpine skiing.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday hiked tax on petrol and diesel, raised import duty on gold, levied additional surcharge on super rich and brought a tax on high value cash withdrawals as she sought to spur growth with reduction in corporate tax and sops to housing sector, startups and electric vehicles.
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