In order to improve services and business transparency, the Indian Railways will be launching digital contract. This contract will be a blanket digitisation of its entire supply chain across all zones. The digital contract with an integrated supply chain is expected to be launched on April 11 by Railway Minister[Read More…]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bangladeshi counterpart Sheikh Hasina held bilateral talks at Hyderabad House in Delhi on Saturday and inked 22 pacts in various key sectors, including a civil nuclear cooperation agreement. India has announced a credit line of $4.5 billion for investment in Bangladesh. “We are happy[Read More…]
Soft drink giant, PepsiCo, recently withdrew its latest advertisement campaign, “Live for Now Moments” after huge social media backlash. The ad was criticized for co-opting protest movements and appropriating an iconic photograph from the Black Lives Matter movement. It’s a shocker at least for the Indian audience. In October 2015,[Read More…]
The Confederation of Real Estate Developers of India (CREDAI) has announced a striving plan of creating 250 affordable housing projects across the country. These houses will be of 646 square feet. It will cost about Rs 60 lakh each and they are likely to be ready in just five years.[Read More…]
Women and their love for shoes never goes out of fashion. And as online markets are taking a lead in our generation, we are spoilt for choice. But one unarguable issue about buying your favourite footwear online is the fitting, which is quite uncertain! But for childhood friends, Kuppal Palaniappan[Read More…]
Cellular operators’ body COAI has said Reliance Jio’s current charges will continue to affect the industry and there is a fair risk of the pricing having an impact on banks and others that are associated to telecom industry. Jio’s lower pricing for consumers is subjected to a bigger question whether[Read More…]
Sanjay Chandra, Managing Director of real estate major Unitech and two others were arrested by the economic offenses wing (EOW) of the Delhi Police in a link of financial irregularities. Chandra faces the charge of illegitimately divesting the fund of one venture into a different company. He will be produced[Read More…]
Top firms like Apple Inc, Amazon.com Inc and Google are taking part in bidding for Toshiba’s NAND flash memory unit, competing with others for the Japanese firm’s prized semiconductor operation, the Yomiuri Shimbun daily reported on Saturday. Toshiba shareholders decided to split off its NAND flash memory business. The decision[Read More…]
Fondly known as Bauji, Om Prakash Jindal’s life is indeed inspiring. Born to a farmer in Haryana on August 7, 1930, Jindal’s determination and vision was incredible. He always wanted to see country developing economically – but the journey from a village boy to building up a multi-billion dollar empire[Read More…]
Over 200,000 Indian millionaires are readily choosing luxury in their air travel. India’s passenger growth has upped by 20% and according to the International Air Transport Association, we can overtake the United Kingdom as the world’s third-largest aviation market by 2026. While rich Indians can fly 1st Class, more and more[Read More…]
As the crackdown against slaughter houses are intensifying in Uttar Pradesh under the saffron rule, meat shop owners are constrained to sell tea to make ends meet. “My meat shop has been forcefully closed even when I had proper license, forced to sell tea now,” Nazakat, a resident of Muzaffarnagar,[Read More…]
While the crackdown on illegal slaughter houses and the burning of slaughter houses are putting lives of hundreds of meat traders at risk, online meat trading companies are reportedly getting fresh investments. Latest in the array is Bengaluru-based online meat startup Licious, which secured $ 10 million from investors including[Read More…]
