Aayog feels expansion of the lowest base will enable more people to pay taxes.
Multi apps will be designed by taking core parts of the Hike product and remoulding them into creating new apps, each delivering one service -- Social and Messaging in one and Content in another, report Patanjali Pahwa and Karan Choudhury.
The number of new entrants is decreasing since 2015, as Indian market matures
The company currently controls over 30 per cent of the online smartphone market in the country, but says that isn't enough.
In India, many cities lack bicycle lanes and proper pavements. This, coupled with heavily congested roads, creates a danger to cyclists. Furthermore, the low costs of bicycles may make it more economical to buy than to rent.
Around 55 per cent of land in the 36 operational special economic zones (SEZs) in Tamil Nadu is lying vacant owing to various reasons, including the recent economic slowdown.
OnePlus became one of the top five in the high-end smartphone market, with 6.1 per cent market share in 2015
Overall mobile phone production was about 68 million in 2014, increased to 100 million in 2015 and 350-400 million in July 2016.
Foxconn, which is Apple's largest manufactures, has decided to set up a manufacturing base in India
Son's offer to supply free power after 25 years is based on the idea that the cost of running a solar plant would progressively decline while its efficiency would increase.
Getting an assurance from the Apple CEO on manufacturing in India will mean much to the NDA government.
Pending final approvals, Huawei would become the first big-name Chinese phone maker to manufacture hardware in India's growing market.
Nikesh Arora is one of the highest-paid business leaders globally.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his maiden Independence Day address, had made several promises to the nation.
The government has received flak for allegedly shielding the corrupt ministers and slow pace of investigation in irrigation scam.
Samsung makes the largest number of non-4G feature phones in India
These workers have been asked to undergo a 30-day performance improvement plan.
With 8.5 per cent market share in the quarter ended September 2017, Nokia makes it to the top four bestselling feature phones in India.
To promote localisation of manufacturing and reduce its import bill, the government increased basic customs duty on mobile handsets - from 10 per cent to 15 per cent.
Robust growth in indirect tax receipts points to a nascent revival in manufacturing sector.
Tax problems and unfavourable WTO agreements are making Tamil Nadu's electronics corridor less attractive to companies.
Flipkart's valuation of $15.2 bn arrived at during latest round of $700-mn fund raise.
The Chinese smartphone maker's focus on offline retail has helped it overtake Samsung in top 50 cities in India.
The once-popular brand plans to try its luck in the smartphone market with reliability as its key proposition.
India's $100 billion push into solar energy over the next decade will be driven by foreign players as uncompetitive local manufacturers fall by the wayside, no longer protected by government restrictions on the sector.
Nikesh Arora has an engineering degree in electronics and worked for a brief period at Wipro, selling computers.
The Kunal Bahl-led firm wants to add 1,000 sellers every three months in its loan scheme.
After raising $2.5 billion from SoftBank's Masayoshi Son and his Vision Fund, Sachin Bansal and Binny Bansal are back in the driving seat at Flipkart, the company they founded over a decade ago.
Snapdeal to spend $1 billion on 5-6 acquisitions this year.
Xiaomi has unveiled its flagship Mi5 handset, priced at Rs 24,999.
Chinese e-commerce giant planning to enter India this year, will take on global e-retailer
Alnoor Peermohamed reports on Apple's two-faced strategy to grow its base in India without compromising on premiumness.
Start-ups that did not have a business model and, hence, could not grow or attract new funding, are shutting shop.
Apple Inc may have the best to offer in the near term.
How will China deal with Taiwan's first woman president? Srikanth Kondapalli explains the significance of a historic election.
Some of the best photographs, clicked across the globe in January.
In the last financial year, GDP growth was 7.3 per cent.
For the four new players, the spike in wealth is 126 per cent.
It is betting on enterprise services and new launches to revive demand. But are the measures enough to steal a march on established players like Samsung and Micromax?
Andhra Pradesh now comes third in ease of doing business.
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