According to the decision, such entities can now first operate through e-commerce and then open brick-and-mortar stores.
The Centre has ruled out door-to-door vaccination of people and said the inoculation will be done at identified COVID Vaccination Centres, both government and private, registered on COWIN for 'good, germane and rational reasons'.
Arora's appointment brings no real transfer of power, says Una Galani.
She said the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) adopted last year by India's Parliament was of 'great concern'.
China and India have approached trade negotiations very differently: the former with confidence, the latter in a defensive crouch, says T N Ninan.
A Mumbai lawyer and a Beed engineer joined arrested climate activist Disha Ravi in creating a protest toolkit backing the farmers' agitation with the aim of 'tarnishing the image of India' and collaborated with pro-Khalistani elements, Delhi Police officials said on Monday.
'Biometric Aadhaar-based surveillance is not only about violation of privacy, but also about the treasure hunt for unprecedented financial surveillance and economic intelligence in the economic history of mankind,' asks Gopal Krishna.
Annual premiums do not exceed what you readily shell out for an OTT subscription.
60-year-old Mehbooba Mufti had been under preventive detention since August 5 last year, when the Centre announced abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution granting a special status and bifurcation of the erstwhile state into two union territories -- Ladakh, and Jammu and Kashmir.
A minor fix in tax laws can make start-ups bloom, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
A minor fix in tax laws can make start-ups bloom, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
With scrutiny that comes with a public listing, Deepinder Goyal's leadership could face its sternest test yet.
For the traditionalists, wars on Twitter and Facebook smack of immaturity.
Farmers protesting the Centre's new agri laws will observe 'Sadbhavna Diwas' on Mahatma Gandhi's death anniversary on January 30 and hold a day-long fast, farm leaders said on Friday, and asserted that their agitation will gain strength as farmers in large numbers will join them in the days ahead.
Protesters at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi said the police can baton charge them as much as they want, but their message is "love in return for hatred".
Security researchers with Kaspersky Lab have recorded more than 45,000 attacks in 99 countries, including the UK, Russia, Ukraine, India, China, Italy, and Egypt.
'If a gaming regulator is able to save even a single player's life or is able to just enforce the existing laws of the land, it works,' says cyber policy expert Prashant Mali.
Rediff.com gives you a lowdown on the net neutrality issue that is today part of the national discourse.
'When a country's humanity and morality levels are this low, it has a disease so deadly that it could die,' says Mitali Saran.
Hundreds of Indian companies are expected to go big, issue public issues and even acquired by top global IT firms.
Niraj Bhatt discovers how a CFO 'without a finance background' made it to the corner office at TCS.
Aseem Chhabra lists his favourite Indian films of 2021.
Complicated social phenomena behind it, says Ajit Balakrishnan.
InMobi helps companies target the users of phones.
'No other language can now take its place. English is the language of professional education, which gives you a passport to a bright future,' says T N Ninan.
Not just from the likes of Alibaba and Didi Chuxing, Indian startups saw a surge in Chinese funding from financial investors in 2019. This is a seven-fold jump from $459 million in 2016.
It's also among the top five most valuable Internet companies in India, reports Yuvraj Malik.
The government on Thursday announced new rules to curb misuse of social media platforms, as it mandated firms to appoint grievance officer, disclose the first originator of the mischievous information and remove, within 24 hours, content depicting nudity or morphed pictures of women.
Pavan Duggal, an authority on cyber law who is also the president of Cyberlaws.Net in this interview with rediff.com speaks at length to Vicky Nanjappa about the options India has to deal with such a situation. He also gives an insight into why India took so long to react after the Mumbai attacks and also how a ban on VoIP would affect the common man.
Telecom operators stressed that differential pricing for data is necessary for growth.
"It would be my hope that people understand why this particular transaction is important for us," the EAM said in Washington, DC.
It has made everything public in the name of 10 lakh comments it got on draft net neutrality proposals.
Why are investors gung-ho about State Bank? asks Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
Undeterred by the pandemic, Deep Narayan Nayak, a school teacher in a village in Bengal, changes countless lives for the better. Payal Singh Mohanka reports on this Extraordinary Indian.
The government claims the existing safeguards under the law are adequate, lawful, towards a legitimate purpose and provide for a "proportionate interference" in citizens' right to privacy, reports Nitin Sethi.
Hackers have begun to emerge from the shadows of suspicion.
Article 370 'was not a special status. It was a special discrimination. With its abrogation we have brought Kashmiris on par with Indians', he said.
Fintech players are customising solutions for rural markets and helping SMEs learn how to use the services
Arora will resign less than two years since he joined the Japanese Internet conglomerate
SPG chief and quota agitation leader Lalji Patel has been arrested by Mehsana police in connection with the "jail bharo" agitation which had turned violent on April 17.
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