From girl-next-door to sexy siren!
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.
'.. if the cost is its own survival,' says Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
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?
A day after total shutdown in Assam to protest against the CAB, fresh protests erupted in the state and neighbouring Tripura and other parts of the nation.
French hacker Elliot Alderson had earlier pointed out UIDAI helpline (1800-300-1947) could just be "the tip of the iceberg", hinting there could be additional data or trackers on Indian phone manufacturers' devices.
Ashish Sharma remembers a time when he set up the Web Monkeys to save the still new internet from doom.
'In one instance of the Pakistani army's violation of the Ceasefire, I ordered a far tougher response designed to deter the enemy.' 'I warned that 'unexpected damage' to their forces will be inflicted if they continued with such ceasefire violations.' A fascinating excerpt from Lieutenant General K Himalay Singh's Making of a General: A Himalayan Echo.
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.
Buying online insurance is hassle-free and saves on premium paid too. These seven myths discourage you from buying insurance online. Beware!
'The government has made good arrangements to tackle this situation.' 'At the ITBP camp, doctors have arrived from different hospitals from every state of India.' 'They have training on how to deal with suspected coronavirus cases.' ''So I am sure India will handle the coronavirus situation well.'
A look at the top tweets from your favourite Bollywood celebrities.
Since you can't step out, virtual sessions held by fitness experts have come to the rescue.
Two types of deductibles are associated with auto insurance -- compulsory and voluntary.
Reliance, Lifecell and Cryobank have emerged leaders in the stem cell banking sector.
Whether it's an accident or a calamity, an ambulance always rushes to your help.
Will Covid-19 permanently change higher education, asks Ajit Balakrishnan.
How much do you know about lights and lamps? Take the rediff business quiz to find out.
Thanks to the Internet, booking a hotel room is so much more trouble-free.
For an entrepreneur, managing his personal finances well is half the battle won.
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.
The consumer confidence in urban India has increased by 9 points.
Myntra, Flipkart are doing more than 60% of their transactions on phones.
SBI offers reward points for various types of banking transactions.
Do not share your passwords or personal information with anyone.
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.
Here's the full text of President's Ram Nath Kovind's address to the joint sitting of both houses of Parliament on the first of Budget Session 2022.
The PM said looking at what the world is going through, this (lockdown) was the "only way left."
'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.'
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.
Did you know you've already broken the law without realising it?
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.
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.
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.
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.
From PhonePe to Jio, everyone wants to be a Super App but it is still unclear if they will actually work in India.
Spotlight likely on cement, metals, road cos
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