Three in every five Indians admitted using mobile phones while driving. North India with 62 per cent leads as compared to South with 52 per cent, a survey said here on Friday. According to a Nissan Connected Families of India survey, only one in four Indians have admitted that they have been caught by policemen breaking this law. "O...
Key Indian equity indices traded on flat on Friday with marginal negative bias, taking cues from benchmark Asian indices. Both the BSE Sensex and the the NSE Nifty50 traded lower. "Market, taking cues from their key Asian counterparts, traded in a narrow range," said Dhruv Desai, Director and Chief Operating Officer of Tradebulls. Around 12.45...
India's tea exports grew by nearly 7 per cent to 221.54 million kg during April-February period of 2017-18 (FY18) as compared to 207.22 million kg exported in the corresponding period the previous fiscal. According to provisional data of Tea Board India, tea exports to Pakistan grew significantly to 14.13 million kg in the period under review, up...
In much-awaited relief to Reliance Communications (RCOM), the Supreme court on Thursday cleared the decks for the sale of its spectrum and optical fibre assets to Reliance Jio Infocomm as it vacated a stay granted by the High Court. The bench comprising Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel and Justice Rohinton Fali Nariman vacated the stay by the ...
Indian e-tail major Flipkart on Thursday announced its tie-up with leading online travel company MakeMyTrip for travel bookings. "Through the partnership, users can now make travel bookings through MakeMyTrip's services using Flipkart's mobile application," an official from MakeMyTrip told IANS here. The partnership will be rolled out with...
Although the number of data breaches dropped by nearly 25 per cent in 2017, Cloud-related cyber attacks saw a significant 424 per cent jump largely owing to human error, a report by technology giant IBM said on Thursday. According to the report by IBM Security titled "2018 IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index", "As cybercriminals shif...
Bharti Airtel has appointed Santanu Bhattacharya as its Chief Data Scientist, a company statement said here on Thursday. Santanu has a Ph.D. from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, is an MIT Sloan and MIT Media Lab alum and BTech from IIT (Bombay). In his new role, Santanu will be responsible for leveraging data science capabi...
Ahead of the outcome of the RBI monetary policy meet later Thursday, the barometer 30-scrip Sensitive index (Sensex) of the BSE surged over 400 points tracking positive cues from the Asian markets, along with healthy buying in metals, auto and banking stocks. The other benchmark index -- the NSE Nifty50 -- edged higher by almost 150 ...
Facebook has admitted that information of up to 87 million people, mostly in the US, may have been improperly shared with the British political consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica. In a press conference on Wednesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that they did not put out the 50 million number as previously reported. "That came fro...
Key Indian equity indices tumbled during the late-afternoon session on Wednesday to provisionally close on a lower note after further trade protectionist measures were imposed on each other by two major global economies. Besides, investors remained cautious ahead of the outcome of the central bank's first bi-monthly monetary po...
