Archive Detail
| Title | Description | Posted Date |
|---|---|---|
| Jet stocks sink as investors react to su | Mumbai, April 18 (IANS) Jet Airways scrips tanked over 30 per cent on the BSE during the early trade on Thursday, after "temporary suspension of domestic and international operations" over the refusal of lenders to provide emergency funding. | 18-Apr-2019 |
| Air India keen on taking 5 grounded Jet | New Delhi, April 18 (IANS) Air India wants to take 4-5 wide-body Boeing 777 aircraft of the now-grounded Jet Airways and may hold discussions for it with the airline's lead lender State Bank of India (SBI). | 18-Apr-2019 |
| Panasonic targets Rs 1,000 crore revenue | New Delhi, April 18 (IANS) Targeting Rs 1,000 crore in revenue in India in the next three years, Japanese electronics major Panasonic has announced it has integrated its welding business and SMT (Surface Mount Technology) equipment business into one Smart Manufacturing Solutions company. | 18-Apr-2019 |
| Twitter acqui-hires quote sharing app Hi | San Francisco, April 18 (IANS) Twitter has acqui-hired quote sharing app Highly for an undisclosed sum. | 18-Apr-2019 |
| Jet Airways to suspend operations from t | Mumbai, April 17 (IANS) Jet Airways will temporarily suspend all flight operations from Wednesday night as it failed to secure an interim funding of Rs 400 crore for maintaining bare minimum operations, sources said on Wednesday. | 17-Apr-2019 |
| DGCA orders special audit of IndiGo as A | New Delhi, April 17 (IANS) India's civil aviation regulator has ordered a special audit of private carrier IndiGo, due to re-occurring glitches and non-reporting of incidents with its A320 Neo fleet. | 17-Apr-2019 |
| Why were demonetisation 'scams' not prob | New Delhi, April 17 (IANS) The Congress on Wednesday described demonetisation as the "biggest scam" of the country and alleged that it "may have helped criminals to monetise by looting the treasury and the poor". | 17-Apr-2019 |
| 60% Indian firms worried about Internet | New Delhi, April 17 (IANS) Nearly 60 per cent organisations in India are concerned that the Internet is getting increasingly unstable from a cybersecurity standpoint and they are unsure how to react, according to a new report from Accenture. | 17-Apr-2019 |
| Tech startups crunching key poll data fo | New Delhi, April 17 (IANS) In the offline world, it is not difficult to understand where you need to run your campaigns to get the attention of the voters you want to target. | 17-Apr-2019 |
| Why TikTok ban may not have the desired | New Delhi, April 17 (IANS) With crores of people in India already using TikTok and all of them having the option to share the app with others, blocking its access on Google Play Store and Apple App Store may not have the desired results, say experts. | 17-Apr-2019 |
| SC issues notice to Centre, states on mi | New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Tuesday issued notice to the Centre and Karnataka, Jharkhand and Odisha governments on a PIL questioning the extension of over 350 mining leases to various companies in 2014. | 16-Apr-2019 |
| Facebook joins GAME to train entrepreneu | New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) Facebook and the Global Alliance for Mass Entrepreneurship (GAME) -- a consortium of public and private organisations -- on Tuesday announced a partnership to train entrepreneurs and create jobs across India. | 16-Apr-2019 |
| CBDT reply on tax on solatium to victims | New Delhi, April 16 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Tuesday asked the Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) to consider if the provision that mandates deduction of tax on the interest accrued upon award or compensation, granted by the Motor Accident Claim Tribunal (MACT) to accident victims, can be quashed. | 16-Apr-2019 |
| US dollar falls amid rising British poun | New York, April 16 (IANS) The US dollar decreased as the British pound got a boost by British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt's remarks over the domestic Brexit talks. | 15-Apr-2019 |
| US stocks slide as bank shares lag | New York, April 16 (IANS) US stocks declined as major bank shares fell, weighing on the market. | 15-Apr-2019 |
| WPI rises over higher oil, food prices | New Delhi, April 15 (IANS) India's inflation based on the Wholesale Price Index -- which tracks the price of goods sold in bulk -- rose for a second consecutive month owing to a rise in fuel prices. | 15-Apr-2019 |
| Lenders with vested interest shouldn't b | New Delhi, April 15 (IANS) In a decision likely to have major impact on insolvency proceedings, the Chennai bench of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) has said that any lender with vested interest in, or having relations with, a corporate debtor should not be part of the Committee of Creditors (CoC) in a resolution process. | 15-Apr-2019 |
| Jet pilots, engineers joining SpiceJet a | New Delhi, April 15 (IANS) Low-cost carrier and top rival SpiceJet appears to be making the most of the crisis at Jet Airways. | 15-Apr-2019 |
| American Airlines extends 737 MAX flight | Washington, April 15 (TIWN / IANS) American Airlines has extended the cancellation of its Boeing 737 Max flights until August 19 due to the indefinite global grounding of the plane model, the company has announced. | 15-Apr-2019 |
| Japan's Nikkei rises on strong Wall Stre | Tokyo, April 15 (IANS) Tokyo stocks opened sharply higher on Monday following Wall Street's solid lead late last week. | 15-Apr-2019 |
| Centre should release MoM of Rafale deal | New Delhi, April 14 (IANS) The Congress on Sunday demanded that the Centre make public the minutes of the meeting (MoM) between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and former French President Francois Hollande, which culminated in the Rafale fighter aircraft deal. | 14-Apr-2019 |
| Jet Airways' independent director Rajshr | Mumbai, April 14 (IANS) Rajshree Pathy, an Independent Director of the crisis-hit Jet Airways' has resigned from the post, the company said on Sunday. | 14-Apr-2019 |
| Mayo, Welhams, American Embassy schools | New Delhi, April 14 (TIWN / IANS) In the continuing IL&FS noxious bonds saga, the creme de la creme of some of Indias top educational institutions have now come under the bus. Some of the toniest names have their staff provident funds enveloped by the disturbing scandal. A hapless government and new Uday Kotak-led management looks on, but does nothing as the case is being heard in NCLAT. While NCLAT wants to speed up the hearing on the intervening petitions filed by the parties impacted, the new management/government cannot let those who have impleaded get priority in the creditor queue. | 14-Apr-2019 |
| Jet stops forward booking for east-bound | Mumbai, April 14 (IANS) Crisis-ridden Jet Airways has stopped forward bookings for some of its international sectors, including those for east Asia, sources said on Sunday. | 14-Apr-2019 |
| Microsoft issues security alert over cyb | San Francisco, April 14 (IANS) Microsoft has alerted some of its webmail users of possible hacker attacks that could access their email accounts illegally, media reports said. | 14-Apr-2019 |
| US stocks close higher on upbeat corpora | New York, April 13 (IANS) US stocks ended higher as the market cheered a batch of ebullient corporate news. | 13-Apr-2019 |
| Marquee MNC names trapped in IL&FS bond | New Delhi, April 13 (IANS) Amazingly, the allure of the triple A rated IL&FS bonds now toxic was such that while both Indian private and public sector got sucked into the honeycomb, a vast swathe of top rated multiple national corporations also decided to invest their employees hard earned savings in them. | 13-Apr-2019 |
| FB spent $20mn on Zuckerberg's security | San Francisco, April 13 (IANS) Facebook spent $20 million on its CEO Mark Zuckerberg's personal security last year -- four times more than what he received for security in 2016. | 13-Apr-2019 |
| US officials made fake FB profiles to na | London, April 12 (TIWN / IANS) Waking up from slumber, Facebook has said that the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) violated its guidelines by creating fake profiles on its platform tied to the University of Farmington -- a sham institution that left over 600 students, 90 per cent of them Indians, in detention. | 12-Apr-2019 |
| Twitter records 45.6 mn tweets as India | New Delhi, April 12 (IANS) Twitter recorded 45.6 million tweets on its platform during a one-month period in the run-up to the polls, registering 1.2 million tweets on the first day of voting on Thursday. | 11-Apr-2019 |
| RBI injected Rs 2.98 lakh cror liquidity | New Delhi, April 12 (IANS) The Reserve Bank of India injected a total liquidity of Rs 2.98 lakh crore in the market in 2018-19, one of its reports said on Thursday. | 11-Apr-2019 |
| Reinsurance brokers allowed to open fore | New Delhi, April 12 (IANS) The Reserve Bank of India on Thursday allowed reinsurance brokers to open non-interest bearing foreign currency accounts with banks for undertaking transactions. | 11-Apr-2019 |
| Jet cancels west-bound international dep | Mumbai/New Delhi, April 12 (IANS) With the government closely monitoring the operational situation at Jet Airways to ensure its compliance with overseas flying rules, the airline on Thursday suspended long-haul west bound international departures for one night. | 11-Apr-2019 |
| 7 in 10 Indians sharing personal info wi | Mumbai, April 11 (IANS) Seven in 10 consumers in India are willing to share personal information like location data and lifestyle information with their bank and insurer in exchange for lower pricing on products and services, a new report from Accenture said on Thursday. | 11-Apr-2019 |
| Netflix to launch own publication to cha | Los Angeles, April 11 (IANS) Streaming platform Netflix will begin publishing a journal tentatively titled Wide to tout its voluminous programming to members of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. | 11-Apr-2019 |
| Banks reduce interest on home, auto loan | Mumbai, April 9 (IANS) Within days of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) lowering its key lending rate, state-run State Bank of India (SBI) on Tuesday reduced its benchmark marginal cost of funds based lending rate (MCLR) and home loan rates, effective from April 10. | 09-Apr-2019 |
| Government meets FY19 fiscal deficit goa | New Delhi, April 9 (IANS) The government has met the fiscal deficit target of 3.4 per cent of the gross domestic product (GDP) in FY19, by reducing spending and higher borrowings from small savings funds, according to a government source. | 09-Apr-2019 |
| Six entities for Jet EoI; stake sale up | New Delhi/Mumbai, April 9 (TIWN / IANS) Global private equity firm TPG Capital and international airline such as Lufthansa are among six entities who are believed to have shown interest in the "expression of interest" stake sale process of the debt-ridden Jet Airways, sources said. | 08-Apr-2019 |
| Abhishek Banerjee's wife to appear befor | Kolkata, April 9 (TIWN / IANS) The Calcutta High Court on Monday directed that Rujira Naroola, the wife of Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee, will not need to appear before the Customs authorities on its summons till July 31. | 08-Apr-2019 |
| Star Worldwide Group acquired by ShiftKa | New Delhi, April 9 (TIWN / IANS) ShiftKarado a Gurugram-based packing and moving startup, said on Monday that it has been acquired by Star Worldwide Group. | 08-Apr-2019 |
| Sensex down 340 points over weakness in | Mumbai, April 8 (IANS) The Sensex reversed early gains to fall over 340 points owing to sharp rise in crude oil prices. The rupee, in line with equities, weakened by over 50 paise against the dollar during the intra-day trade on Monday. | 08-Apr-2019 |
| LS polls: Facebook removing 1 mn account | New Delhi, April 8 (IANS) With the first phase of Lok Sabha polls just days away, Facebook on Monday said it is removing or blocking about one million abusive accounts a day with the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) tools. | 08-Apr-2019 |
| SC to hear pleas on 10% EWS quota on May | New Delhi, April 8 (IANS) The Supreme Court will hear on May 2 a batch of applications seeking to put on hold the appointments being made under 10 per cent quota for economically weaker section (EWS) of society in the unreserved category. | 08-Apr-2019 |
| Veeam appoints Belinda Jurisic APJ Chann | Mumbai, April 8 (IANS) Backup solutions provider Veeam Software on Monday announced the appointment of Belinda Jurisic as the Channel Director for Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ). | 08-Apr-2019 |
| India must try to be developed nation by | New Delhi, April 8 (IANS) Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Monday that India should aspire to be a developed country by 2047, the 100th anniversary of its Independence, and added that a BJP-led government will lay the foundation for this in the next five years. | 08-Apr-2019 |
| Petrol prices down by 6 paise, diesel by | New Delhi, April 7 (IANS) Domestic fuel prices declined on Sunday with the cost of petrol falling 6 paise across the four metros, data on the Indian Oil Corp's website showed. | 07-Apr-2019 |
| Hackers forced a Tesla to enter the wron | San Francisco, April 7 (IANS) Hackers have demonstrated how they could trick a Tesla Model S to enter into the wrong lane by using a method called "adversarial attack," a way of manipulating a machine learning (ML) model. | 07-Apr-2019 |
| Protests against Jammu and Kashmir highw | Srinagar, April 7 (IANS) National Conference and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) activists on Sunday protested against the ban on civilian traffic on the Jammu-Srinagar highway on Sundays and Wednesday, with one leader saying it had become a "humanitarian disaster". | 07-Apr-2019 |
| CBI books Delhi-based co over Rs 2,348-c | New Delhi, April 7 (TIWN / IANS) The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Saturday conducted searches at several locations in Delhi-NCR, Chandigarh, Kolkata and Orissa, at the offices of a New Delhi-based private company in a bank fraud case. | 07-Apr-2019 |
| Air India saves time, fuel as Pakistan o | New Delhi, April 7 (IANS) With Pakistan opening its airspace partially from Thursday, national passenger carrier Air India has started saving on time and fuel for its US and Europe-bound flights, said an airline official on Saturday. | 07-Apr-2019 |