While some are relatively new in this business, Vodafone, which has 1.8 million touch points in the country, has been offering basic banking and payment services through its pre-paid mobile digital semi-closed wallet called M-Pesa since 2012.
Nasscom's current president Som Mittal's term expires in January. However, Chandrasekhar, expecting to get the necessary approvals from the government soon, will start work from next month to get familiar with the organisation.
In the first secretary-level appointments by the Narendra Modi government, Rakesh Garg was on Sunday named the new telecom secretary while Jugal Kishore Mohapatra is to be secretary in the fertilizers ministry.
During her tenure, Facebook's users in the country have grown from 8 million to 138 million, making India its second largest market after the US
"We will work out the parameters then we will see as to how mentioning will be done," he said.
If he doesn't, two things are guaranteed: Failure for him, and continued slide for his nation despite its talented people, strong nationalism, the gift of geography and a formidable army, points out Shekhar Gupta.
In the past two years, Sikka has brought in new measures by putting project managers to pitch how they cut time, saved costs and improved productivity
Bank stocks rose sharply by up to 12 per cent after the government's move to withdraw 500 and 1,000 rupee notes from circulation as part of black money crack down
Coal India fell the most by 2.58 per cent among Sensex scrips, dragging the index into the negative zone.
Long-term funding was a requirement for infrastructure projects, and asset-liability mismatch in the banking system, impacts the access to finance for infrastructure projects. One of the key challenges would, however, be to get private sector back into investing.
Their plan to build a product portfolio will discourage global software vendors such as Oracle, Microsoft and Fidelity, among others, from building a strategic relationship with these big Indian IT firms, reports Debasis Mohapatra.
What could be the reason for this swift change in less than four years of Mistry taking charge? People in the know said it was building up. The latest trigger was Tata Power's acquisition of Welspun Renewables' solar and power assets
Sustained FII inflows and fresh spell of buying by domestic institutional investors fuelled the rally
It may be the season for corporate matchmaking but India Inc's record of managing partnerships is far from impressive, says Shailesh Dobhal.
Profit-booking by participants in view of the domestic markets' recent record-setting run fuelled the downtrend
Oil and gas sectot may not put up good numbers in Q4.
The bench said it will take up the matter for hearing on Thursday.
Hardening its stand against the Central Bureau of Investigation chief Ranjit Sinha, the Aam Aadmi Party on Thursday demanded his immediate sacking from the post, saying he was "unfit" to head the country's premier investigative agency.
It is eyeing the transportation and infrastructure modernisation opportunity in the country, expected to attract $500 billion in investment over the next five years.
India's tax officials, long the scourge of foreign investors, are under government pressure to avoid aggressive claims against overseas funds.
Just before the 2008 financial crisis made headlines, Indian companies were on a global buying spree. In the fifth part of the series, Dev Chatterjee and Krishna Kant discuss how the crisis came as a black swan event for some, changing the mood from exuberance to despair.
Axis Bank, HCL Technologies, Maruti Suzuki, NBCC and Union Bank are their top five stock picks.
Hemant Kanoria tells Niraj Bhatt why understanding the dynamics of the borrower's business is critical for the lender.
Joining the bandwagon of companies slashing mobile Internet tariffs, telecom operator Tata Docomo on Tuesday announced a cut in its 2G and 3G mobile Internet rates by a whopping 90 per cent from 10 paise to 1 paisa per kilobytes from July 1.
The Sensex has now lost 878.32 points in six sessions -- its longest string of losses in six months.
With the world getting more and more instrumented with smart devices, global enterprises are increasingly looking at undertaking a 'digital transformation' journey to stay ahead in the race. Emerging technologies such as social, mobility, analytics and cloud have given birth to new business opportunities and forcing enterprises to finetune their IT buying decisions -- quite differently from what they used to do.
A bench headed by Justice H L Dattu turned down the plea of CBI which had approached the apex court for cancellation of bail after Chandra was allegedly caught on tape trying to influence A K Singh, the then public prosecutor in the case.
M Muneer recommends segmenting the population on the basis of their propensity to embrace new technologies is the key to driving digitisation.
E-commerce, Rs 1,000 crore (Rs 10 billion) as an advertising category, is expected to bring at least Rs 200 crore (Rs 2 billion) in ad spending next month, when there would be both Dussehra and Diwali.
Authorities clamped strict restrictions in Srinagar and north Kashmir's Sopore town to foil a separatist march on Friday.
The $12 billion plus rising Indian e-commerce business market is witnessing a rush of hiring and may need one lakh people over the next six months, industry experts have said.
In a development that may raise an alarm in the security establishment, flags of dreaded terror outfit ISIS along with those of Pakistan were today raised in Kashmir after which police promised a thorough probe and legal action against those involved.
Market breadth remained strong with 1,581 advances over 1,018 declines on the BSE
Vinod Kumar, Tata Communication CEO has amazing business strategies to enhance topline.
HUL, ITC, Nestle, Colgate, Dabur, Britannia, Asian Paints, P&G are trading at nearly 48 times. The previous record high was 53 times at the end of March 1994.
Top 5 losers include Infosys, TCS, ITC, M&M and HUL.
Nifty is likely to remain under selling pressure unless and until it breach the 7,700-7,720 levels on closing basis.
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said on Thursday that at least 72 people have died due to Cyclone Amphan and urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to visit the affected districts and provide help to 'rebuild those areas from scratch'
Amazon committed a fresh investment of $3 billion, in addition to the $2 billion it announced in 2014.
