All 'grameen dak sevaks' in rural post offices will be given handheld devices by March 2017.
Most see MS' purchase of rights to Asha as a reinforcement of its salience.
Pulse oximeters, hand sanitisers, temperature check equipment and ambulances too will attract lower 5 per cent tax.
The voice-assistant and intuitive text search are other features which Lalvani says would aid productivity.
Trai's move is seen as a relief for the debt ridden sector and the industry body COAI expects that continuing with six paise mobile call termination charge will not have any impact on consumers as operators have already absorbed this charge in their recently increased mobile call and data rates.
Over 1.3 million, or 49% of passengers flew to the US via airports in the Gulf in FY16
Sharad Sharma, co-founder and governing council member at iSPIRT, on Tuesday admitted using anonymous accounts to troll on social media those who raised questions on Aadhaar and its applications by the government.
IndiGo had last week offloaded 70 passengers from a Raipur -bound flight from Hyderabad alleging "unruly behaviour".
However, the company has claimed its vehicles are 'compliant' with the country's emission norms and that it will 'challenge' the tribunal's order.
Xiaomi has unveiled its flagship Mi5 handset, priced at Rs 24,999.
The multimedia device by the company would be available nationwide within two weeks. Targeted at users of converged devices, N97 would be the company's first phone to come preloaded with Nokia's Ovi store.
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Investigators are looking into a possible terror attack as well as keeping an open mind to the motive of the subway blast, a Kremlin leader said.
The acquisition, which comes hot on the heels of its $19 billion deal for messaging service WhatsApp, marks a big bet by Facebook.
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Top officials in key ministries, including finance and IT, are of the opinion that a sensitive payments system such as UPI should not be on a platform whose security is possibly compromised.
Experts said the rate hike would improve working capital position of the manufactures as it would correct the inverted duty structure but may lead to increase in price of the finished goods.
Desi providers of a bouquet of TV content on-the-go are most likely to succeed.
The new move is expected to help boost employee morale.
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Chinese handset maker OnePlus on Tuesday said it expects India to become its biggest market in the next few months.
Private hospitals can charge up to Rs 250 per dose of COVID-19 vaccine, official sources said on Saturday as India prepares to vaccinate people aged above 60 years and those over 45 with comorbidities from March 1.
Restrictions under Section 144 CrPc have been imposed in few areas of the valley to maintain law and order, the officials said.
Payments and banking transactions through mobile phones in India are expected to touch $350 billion (Rs 1,560 crore) by 2015, according to The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), a global management consulting firm.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday assured the industry that momentum of economic reforms will continue to make India a hotspot of global investment. India has turned the crisis created by COVID-19 pandemic into an opportunity to push the economic reforms, which remained pending for decades, she said while addressing the National MNC's Conference 2020 organised by industry chamber CII.
The weekly flea market opened in Srinagar on Sunday as several vendors put up their stalls on the TRC Chowk-Polo View axis, the officials said.
All eyes this year, however, are on Nokia's latest launches.
"The company plans to come up with internet-based services for the rural market soon," Nokia Corporation President and CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo told reporters in New Delhi. The company would also introduce these services in its mid-level mobile devices as well. The Finland-based company is looking at micro finance as a major initiative to increase mobile penetration in India from the current 26 per cent.
A bench of Justices Manmohan and Sanjeev Narula said private unaided schools 'shall be entitled to claim reimbursement of reasonable cost for procurement of the equipment and internet package from the State under the Right to Education (RTE) Act, 2009, even though the State is not providing the same to its students'.
Mobile TV -- basically an application that enables television services on handhelds such as mobiles, handheld TVs, car TV, GPS terminals, game devices, laptop PCs, and other portable devices -- is a step closer to seeing the light of day in India.
Report holds Hitachi responsible for debit card data theft. When the data theft came to light, Hitachi had denied that its systems were compromised.
Google Inc on Thursday unveiled the newest version of its Android smartphone software, aiming to allow more smartphone users access to its evolving menu of online services such as driving directions voice-activated search.
With Nokia starting to spin out mobile devices that come loaded with its music download service, the Finnish company is eager to see how consumers would use its 3.5-million music library, currently offered free.
Maps and navigation services have become a key asset for tech companies as consumers increasingly adopt mobile devices.
The move by the government to make local language support a must in mobile phones is aimed at making users communicate in local languages and access government services
Wipro said on Thursday that Azim Premji's son Rishad, chief strategy officer and member of the board, will take over as the executive chairman. Azim Premji, however, will continue to serve on the board as non-executive director and founder chairman.
The number of mobile Internet users in the developing world will overtake those in the developed world for the first time.
Fintech players are customising solutions for rural markets and helping SMEs learn how to use the services
It's time the government accepts that Digital India is too distant.
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