Paytm plans to launch mutual funds, insurance and banking services and s also providing the option to transact offline with a physical debit card
To young professionals I would say, work hard, play hard and not be constrained by fads like WLB, says Sudhir Bisht.
Pakistan's first satellite will be launched into space by April 2011, a top nuclear scientist of the country said on Tuesday. Leading nuclear scientist Samar Mobarakmand who is also a member of the Planning Commission, made the announcement.
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is in India this week and is expected to meet top government functionaries, business leaders and SMBs.
'In India, China's capacities to conduct new types of warfare is critically underestimated,' says Claude Arpi.
Huawei came under a cloud after allegations that the firm's electronic and telecom devices helped China spy on US corporations and agencies.
Lt Gen Naravane is currently serving as Vice Chief of the Army. In his 37 years of service, Lt Gen Naravane has served in numerous command and staff appointments in peace, field and highly active counter-insurgency environments in Jammu and Kashmir and the Northeast.
'Political parties and leaders understand the impact the new media can have on outcomes.' 'From treating them as broadcast tools five years ago, now they look at them as arsenal that can potentially change electoral outcomes.'
Essar Energy CEO Naresh Nayyar tells Business Standard that in 2013, the company would focus on optimising the operations of the commissioned units and generating cash flows.
For Prime Minister Narendra Modi to dig up the perceived past of the DMK rival, now under a new leader in M K Stalin, may not gel with the voters, both old and new. If they are still going to vote for the AIADMK-BJP combine, it will be for entirely different reasons, and despite Modi's poll speeches, says N Sathiya Moorthy.
The Lokpal chairperson, all of its eight members and support staff are being allocated space in the hotel premises.
Every political party loves to use the bait of loan waiver to woo the electorate. If their hearts bleed for the poor, they can always use the party funds to pay off the lenders, suggests Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
The unfortunate thing is that the film will leave a poor impression of the IAF's and indeed of the armed forces's ability to handle sensitive social matters within their professional space, observes Lieutenant General Syed Ata Hasnain (retd).
The Election Commission on Friday recommended President Ram Nath Kovind that the 20 MLAs be disqualified.
The number of cases being admitted and investigated by the Competition Commission of India has fallen drastically in recent years.
China plans to send as many as eight satellites into space before 2020 to provide ocean and land data and supervise the marine environment, a senior official has said. The new satellites will greatly improve China's ability to observe and supervise the marine environment.
'You cannot achieve peace if your objective is not to make political accommodations,' notes Dr Nyla Ali Khan, Sheikh Abdullah's grand-daughter, Dr Farooq Abdullah's niece and Omar Abdullah's cousin.
On Saturday, Ghosh took to Twitter and wrote that the Gangs of Wasseypur director was sexually inappropriate towards her. The 30-year-old actor tagged Prime Minister Narendra Modi in her tweet, requesting him to take action against Kashyap.
Several candidates have a low level of literacy, but know just enough about social media to know it is important to have a presence there.
CCI to examine competition part of deals, RBI prudential aspects.
'Let us hope that this Budget delivers.' 'It needs 10 per cent plus real GDP growth in 2021-22, the rebound year,' notes Omkar Goswami.
"Registering police cases against me is an infringement on my fundamental right to freedom of expression mandated by Constitution," he wrote in a series of tweets.
Inarguably the biggest gainer in the Grand Alliance, the CPI-ML, often working in the margins of mainstream politics, had 19 candidates in the fray, most of them students and youth leaders.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the nation from the ramparts of Red Fort in New Delhi as India celebrates the 72nd Independence Day. This is Modi's fifth and final address as PM in the current tenure. During his speech, Modi reflected on the achievements of the National Democratic Alliance government and presented a report card of his four-year tenure. Here are the main takeaways from his address:
The airlines were penalised for 'concerted action in fixing and revising Fuel Surcharge (FSC) for transporting cargo.'
Anish Kapoor's Descension, first envisioned for the 2014-2015 Kochi-Muziris Biennale, has now been installed as a large-scale outdoor piece in Brooklyn.
The national carrier has started approaching Indian banks and public sector undertakings for disposal of these properties including floorspace in prime locations.
The new pay scale will come into effect from January 1.
In total, the Centre plans to purchase around 40.7 million tonnes of wheat from farmers this year, which is almost 19 per cent more than last year.
A panel of the Indian Space Research Organisation on Sunday indicted former ISRO chairman Madhavan Nair and three other scientists for acts of commission in the $ 300 million spectrum deal between commercial arm of the ISRO, Antrix and Devas Multimedia Ltd. In an interview with Rediff.com's Vicky Nanjappa, Nair slammed the panel report and claimed that his name will soon be cleared.
'Experience of administration may make a member of civil service a good administrator but not necessarily an able and impartial adjudicator,' observes the Supreme Court.
The Monetary policy committe comprising 6 members voted 6-0 in the favour of the rate cut.
Developers say an increase in the FSI was long due, given the scarcity of land, but stress the need for stronger infrastructure to support such high-rise buildings.
Swiggy is following a path that seems similar to what Meituan, one of China's largest O2O (online-to-offline) platforms that delivers food, sells movie tickets and offers hotel reservation, has done so far, reports Patanjali Pahwa.
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on Thursday rejected alleged bookie Sanjeev Chawla's application for an interim measure on human rights grounds to block his extradition from the UK to face match-fixing charges in India. The legal paperwork process for his extradition will now go ahead through the UK Central Authority, for Scotland Yard officers to hand Chawla over to their counterparts from Delhi Police to be flown back to Indian within days.
Finance Minister P Chidambaram on Monday slammed "unregulated" players in the financial market saying their activities have adversely impacted large number of consumers.
The issue combined with its alliance with anti-Congress parties in 1989 won the BJP 85 seats in Lok Sabha elections against mere two in 1984.
The chief minister, speaking at her first major political rally after the Lok Sabha polls, also said the party will launch a statewide protest on July 26, demanding return of black money "siphoned off" by the BJP.
With Uber & Ola fighting it out, the taxi aggregator space is set for massive growth.
Mahinda Rajapaksa completed 50 years of parliamentary politics in July this year. He was elected as a Member of Parliament at the young age of 24 in 1970. He has since been elected president twice and has been appointed prime minister thrice.
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