United Nations has launched an internet campaign aimed at tourists to encourage them to be eco-conscious even while holidaying. Named Green Passport, it guides tourists to do things that are environment-friendly when they are on a vacation. It advises tourists to choose eco-friendly destinations, reduce energy consumption, pay fair wages to hotel workers and buy locally made, environmentally-friendly souvenirs. The site has been opened by United Nations Environment Programme.
Two types of deductibles are associated with auto insurance -- compulsory and voluntary.
What will it take to get India's poor broadband penetration to be seen as a problem and not as a condition, thus enabling real, serious e-commerce to take off in India?
Ashish Sharma remembers a time when he set up the Web Monkeys to save the still new internet from doom.
With an epic battle of billionaires for supremacy in one of the world's most prolific markets and a pandemic-propelled surge in online shopping in the background, India's nearly trillion-dollar retail market is hoping to touch 85 per cent of the pre-COVID business in the first half of the New Year. In a year when the COVID-19 carnage ripped apart the retail business, circa 2020 will best go down for the unravelling of the war between Jeff Bezos, the world's wealthiest man, and richest Indian Mukesh Ambani for pre-eminence in the booming market that is estimated to reach $1.3 trillion by 2025. It all started with Ambani's Reliance Industries agreeing in August to buy assets of the nation's second-largest retailer for Rs 24,713 crore, just a year after Bezos' Amazon purchased an indirect stake in the indebted Future Retail.
Will Covid-19 permanently change higher education, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
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'When a woman gets married, she leaves her village, her friends and family.' 'In her new home, she will make friends, but they can never replace those she left behind.'
You can soon send e-mails without GPRS or Internet through SMS. The consumer applications were launched by Bangalore-based MyDuniya Networks Private Limited, a player in 'beyond voice' applications for the mobile consumers.
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Changing with the times and in compliance with social distancing norms, customers are now picking up their parcels, speed posts and registered letters within the city themselves after they are informed on phone.
The PM said looking at what the world is going through, this (lockdown) was the "only way left."
Reliance, Lifecell and Cryobank have emerged leaders in the stem cell banking sector.
The Hussain family from Sopore and Iqbal household in Kashmir's Anantnag are eagerly waiting for their cell phones to buzz. It's been 11 days since 20-year-old Amir Hussain Rather and 25-year-old Wasim Iqbal last spoke with their folks back home.
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A time has thus come when state encouragement for rural students led to empowerment of the socio-economically marginalised sections of the population. It included women. Today, with greater exposure and consequent enlightenment, it has gone beyond 'empowerment' to become 'entitlement', says N Sathiya Moorthy.
For an entrepreneur, managing his personal finances well is half the battle won.
Whether it's an accident or a calamity, an ambulance always rushes to your help.
The consumer confidence in urban India has increased by 9 points.
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Thanks to the Internet, booking a hotel room is so much more trouble-free.
SBI offers reward points for various types of banking transactions.
Myntra, Flipkart are doing more than 60% of their transactions on phones.
From PhonePe to Jio, everyone wants to be a Super App but it is still unclear if they will actually work in India.
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Not only young companies, even some established players are opting to function out of co-working spaces with an aim to quickly scale up their services. Sangeeta Tanwar reports.
To promote localisation of manufacturing and reduce its import bill, the government increased basic customs duty on mobile handsets - from 10 per cent to 15 per cent.
Adapting to an inevitable digital intervention is India's only hope at beating a long-standing job crisis. To do so, focus on quality education and better skill development is fundamental, says Dr Yogesh Kumar Bhatt.
Of the 600 young change makers who made the cut this year '1:6 are immigrants from 44 countries' -- an important ratio in the age of growing protectionism.
Online marketplace majors, e-grocers, Internet of Things firms, app-based companies and transport service aggregators are among those that have had to shut shop or scale down operations. Now, survival skills like upskilling and retraining will determine who makes it.
Tamal Bandyopadhyay details HDFC Bank's digital journey.
'The economy is in a free fall.'
'And it's been declining for so long, so consistently, that the promise of growth and better days now looks a fantasy.' 'A mid-1970s kind of pessimism, even hopelessness, is growing among the young.' 'This isn't what Mr Modi promised them.' 'Their aspirations and needs are clear and present, and not being fulfilled,' notes Shekhar Gupta.
Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd and AT&T have entered into an agreement to jointly offer Multi-Protocol Label Switching platform-based networking services in India, including ATM, Frame Relay and secure Internet Protocol dial services.
'The decision of August will have to be taken back. This is our resolve. When it will happen, how it will happen, the judge of our case are the people of this country.'
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There is a high demand for IT professionals who can envision, design and develop applications for the future.
Following a liquid diet without the supervision or guidance of an expert can lead to uncalled health consequences, says Nmami Agarwal.
Apps that offer location-based services, like Foursquare or maps, can be turned off when not required.
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