A 15 per cent corporate tax rate for services companies in SEZs, setting up a fund for deep-tech startups and establishing clusters to demonstrate design-to-manufacturing capabilities of tech firms were some of the key demands made by the IT sector at the pre-Budget consultation on Monday. The participants shared their views and suggestions regarding Big Data, incentives for encouraging setting up of data centres, fiscal incentives for data localisation, incentives for pushing digital penetration in rural areas, and corporate guarantee to startups for competing with other nations.
The delivery channel of India Post is being utilised primarily for small towns and cities.
Former PGA Championship winner Davis Love III will captain the United States in the 2016 Ryder Cup match against holders Europe at Hazeltine in Minnesota, the PGA of America said on Tuesday.
Indian Air Force and the army flew 2,223 sorties, shifted about 11,200 people to safer places and transported and dropped about 1,700 tonnes of relief material.
Aimed at enhancing the Navy's coastal surveillance, its largest offshore patrol vessel INS Sumitra was formally commissioned by Chief of Naval Staff Admiral R K Dhowan on Thursday.
E-commerce major Flipkart on Monday said it aims to help over 10,000 sellers generate business worth Rs 10 lakh through its platform this year.
No Kim? No sweat. These Hollywood stars would do just fine too.
Here's a list of the most famous royals families from around the world.
Are we adopting an idea whose time has come and gone? My feeling is, yes, says ex-banker C Joseph Chacko in the fourth article of the series on inflation targeting.
'The intentions are clear as day! Let India build the infrastructure, then they will claim the land and use the infrastructure to their benefit.' Air Commodore Nitin Sathe (retd) speaks to IAF veterans who have flown in the Galwan Valley long before it became today's headlines.
With the arrival of new players such as Amazon Pay, Google Tez and Flipkart's PhonePe, digital money companies are now changing their business pitch.
The vice chancellor praised the valour of the Indian soldiers in the Kargil War and expressed his profound gratitude to the Indian Army.
The annual Routes event attracts top representatives from a wide variety of organisations, including airlines and airports, who meet, plan and conduct business for new global routes.
India's first indigenously designed and developed high-thrust cryogenic rocket engine generating a nominal thrust of 19 tonnes was successfully endurance hot-tested for 800 seconds.
Rain and thundershower lashed many places in Ganjam, Khurda, Puri, Cuttack, Jagatsinghpur, and Balasore in Odisha, disrupting normal life, the weatherman said.
Mumbai-based BabyChakra is among the four start-ups Google has shortlisted from India for the fifth batch of its mentorship programme
Of the 23 million visas processed by VFS in 2017 calendar year, one fifth were in India, making it the company's biggest market.
The company had identified some emission-related issue with Tavera and some quality issue with Sail.
India has hit back at China over its assertion that deployment of the BrahMos cruise missile in the Northeast would have 'negative influence' on stability along the border, saying that assets deployed by it within its territory are of no concern to Beijing.
Chinese mobile brands are deeply entrenched in the Indian market. A move to bar them may send a bold diplomatic message. But its cost for the local industry is anybody's guess. In the event that Chinese brands face curbs, two handset makers - Samsung and Apple - squarely stand to gain.
While three operational mines in Chhattisgarh had a capacity of 12 million tonnes (mt), six were yet to start production.
'The greatest loss from replacing the 126 Rafale proposal with the 2016 contract for 36 Rafales might not be the extra money paid, but the opportunity that India's aerospace industry lost of obtaining access to critical aviation technologies and manufacturing skills.'
The cigarettes segment had a revenue of Rs 4,554.21 crore during the second quarter of the current fiscal, as against Rs 8,528.47 crore in the year-ago period, down 46.56 per cent.
India should do what we can to ensure that our two friends do not get into a confrontation that is meaningless and ultimately damaging to everyone including us.
hampion Rafael Nadal and top-ranked Novak Djokovic turned in impressive displays to reach the Monte Carlo Masters quarter-finals on Thursday. Nadal, chasing a record-extending 12th Monte Carlo title, broke Grigor Dimitrov's serve on four occasions to defeat the Bulgarian 6-4 6-1.
All you need to know about preparing for the Civil Services examination
'Politics has become a toilet because we delegate everything.' 'We have to catch a bus, watch a cricket match, live our life... we feel this (politics) is not part of our responsibility.'
'It is time we Indians learnt to believe in ourselves, and stopped questioning our own capabilities every time a space launch is not a glorious success,' says M D Riti.
Shrishti Mishra was 'presented' to London society at Queen Charlotte's Ball. And yes, it's still 2017.
Privatisation or consolidation into half a dozen large banks might not rescue public sector banks from the crisis they find themselves in.
Earlier, its attempts to monetise properties, including the 22-storeyed Air India building in Nariman Point, saw lukewarm response.
Archit Gupta on how can you maximise your savings and reduce your taxable income.
Report says stressed asset level to peak at 15% in 2014-15.
C K Ranganathan, CMD of the $12.50 billion CavinKare, in an interview with Shobha Warrier/Rediff.com, says though he sees signs of improvement everywhere, the Modi government has a long way to go to make the country business friendly
Historian Romila Thapar says you can't bring history into faith.
The court reserved its order for June 24 on a complaint filed against the HRD minister for allegedly giving false information about her educational qualifications.
Here are photos from his life and career as India's pre-eminent defence scientist and one of the country's most popular president
The number of management colleges has dropped from 3,609 in 2014-15 to 3,264 in 2017-18.
Only 11 antibiotics in clinical trials have received qualified infectious disease product status from the US FDA, of which five are Wockhardt's drugs.
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