In a major sign of transformation of manufacturing-dominated Chinese economy, annual output of its service sector may exceed that of the manufacturing sector for the first time ever in 2013, an expert said.
Nimit Agarwal, 26 tells us how he went from 84 kg to 65 kg within a year.
The market players are expected to react to the better than expected factory output data for the month of August, which revealed that the industrial production grew by 6.4%.
IBM has chosen Surat, Allahabad and Vizag among 16 global locations for its smart cities programme.
TCS is tapping an emerging opportunity called IT modernisation, which potentially could be a growth driver for the entire IT services industry for the next two to three years, says Raghu Krishnan.
Right now the challenge before the government is to double the speed of construction in order to complete the remaining 6.6 million houses before March 2019.
The telecom sector is in the midst of another major shift as voice gives way to data.
Cisco employs over 10,000 people in India.
The government has changed arbitration laws, amended some 'provisions' of the Companies Act.
Office space on mill land in central Mumbai expected to reach 16 mn sq ft by 2021.
'As far as Kashmir is concerned, a 'solution' was very much in play, and had brought endemic violence across the Jammu and Kashmir regions very much under control before the disruptive adventurism of the present regime resulted in a limited and localised escalation.'
This is ISRO's new record of launching 20 satellites, including those from the US, Germany, Canada and Indonesia.
The reddish polar region on Pluto's largest moon, Charon, is an effect of methane gas escaping from the icy dwarf planet's atmosphere, say scientists who solved the mystery behind the coloured region first spotted by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft last year.
The expectation that Mr Modi would be a major reformer, capable of reinvigorating the Indian economy, were based on a complete misreading of both his actions and his performance as Gujarat chief minister, says Mihir S Sharma.
WikiLeaks has released what it termed as the biggest-ever leak of confidential documents from the Central Intelligence Agency, claiming the America's premier spy agency partnered with foreign intelligence agencies to turn TVs and smartphones into weapons for surveillance.
United States technology companies have become the command and control networks of choice for terrorists and criminals, one of Britain's senior-most intelligence chiefs has warned and sought their cooperation in intelligence matters to tackle the menace.
Bhanumurthy B M, president and chief operating officer, Wipro, tells Ayan Pramanik and Raghu Krishnan that service delivery through digital technology-enabled platforms will change the business dynamics for the company.
'The Indian economy has been subsidised by the poor.'
Private lenders were among the top losers along with RIL.
Ever since India became a force to reckon with in software services, doing for clients what they want done, the big void that has been constantly talked about is its absence from the space of software products - those over which you own intellectual property rights.
'Even if we expect that the economy will be hit and GDP is lowered for a few quarters by the reckless demonetisation, this will itself not be sufficient to dislodge Modi's popularity,' says Aakar Patel.
The government has set seven per cent as the GDP target for this year.
Dr Kanchan Joshi says it can transform the way you think and help you solve problems.
The very design of the GST will bring in revenue buoyancy.
Despite lower growth scenario; companies say reworking strategy
Ranju Sarkar finds out more about Nowfloats, the start-up that is used by 240,000 businesses that reach 13 million consumers.
E-proceeding of tax scrutiny has certain technical and practical issues which need to be addressed before making the system fully electronically driven.
Exports dropped 3.1 per cent in June from a year earlier, the first decline since January last year while imports went down 0.7 per cent, General Administration of Customs said on Wednesday.
People who are inactive are more likely to develop colon cancer, says Roy De Souza.
This piece is a tribute to that corner of film criticism that they call subtextual film criticism.
IBM employed a total of 434,246 persons globally at the end of 2012.
Niti Aayog has come out with an initiative to improve governance in states.
UDAN demonstrates that good policy-making can fulfill important public requirements without requiring budgetary support, says MoS for civil aviation Jayant Sinha.
Have companies overlooked the impact of GST on employee benefits such as health check-up facilities, mediclaim, mobile handsets, house lease, long service awards, employee welfare schemes, and so on, asks Anita Rastogi, partner-GST and indirect tax, PwC
'As they come in contact with more people in their professional life, they will need to uncover even more opportunities for growth.'
'Going from 5% to 8%, 10, 15% of the votes is not going to translate into seats -- so what's the point of going it alone in UP?'
According to the EY Global Information Security survey, companies are lacking agility, budget and skills to mitigate known vulnerabilities
Liberty Media, the US firm that completed a takeover of the sport in January, immediately identified digital as an area ripe for development as it seeks to tap lucrative new revenue streams and give fans more of an experience.
While Indian IT has known what is coming and has a strategy ready to combat it, the same can't be said about the country and the government.
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