Low cost carrier IndiGo on Saturday said it accepts the Supreme Court's decision...
In late New York trading on Friday, the euro decreased to $1.2298 from $1.2332 in the previous session, and the British pound increased to $1.3969 from $1.3958 in the previous session, Xinhua news agency reported. ...
The Singapore Tourism Board (STB) on Friday said India has emerged as the third largest visitor arrivals (VA) source market for the island nation, notching the highest growth rate of 16 per cent. "STB announced that India, for the first time, has moved up from fourth to third place (ahead of Malaysia and behind China, Indonesia) as a VA source...
In a move that is likely to hit Indian IT firms and their employees, the Trump administration has announced a new measure that makes it tougher to issue H-1B visas to those to be employed at one or more third-party worksites. The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) published a policy memorandum on Thursday saying it may requ...
With an aim to creating a pool of highly-skilled workforce in the country, Google on Friday announced a three-day 'Developer Students Club' (DSC) summit in Goa. The summit -- from February 23 to 25 -- is aimed at giving the Indian student community a head-start on Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Mobile and Web Devel...
The Enforcement Directorate on Friday said it has frozen diamond trader Nirav Modi's bank account and shares worth Rs 43 crore in connection with an ongoing probe in the Rs 11,300 crore Punjab National Bank fraud case. According to the financial probe agency, they have also seized a large collection of imported watches from severa...
Admitting that India's urban infrastructure was under "extreme strain", Union Minister of State for Housing and Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri has said the government was committed to bringing holistic transformation in the country's infrastructure development, including providing 12 million houses in urban areas by 2022. ...
Seventy years after Independence, a 7.5-km long undersea cable has finally brought electricity to the world-famous Gharapuri Isle, which houses the UNESCO World Heritage site Elephanta Caves, about 10-km from Mumbai, a top official said here on Thursday. The project to electrify the island, thronged daily by thousands of India...
While global smartphone sales to end users were down 4.6 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2017, Samsung retained its top spot with 18.2 per cent share, Gartner said on Thursday. The South Korean giant though saw a year-on-year unit decline of 3.6 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2017, but this did not prevent it from defending its to...
Reliance Infrastructure Limited has won an engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract of Rs 3,647 crore from Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation Limited (TANGEDCO) for balance of plant (BoP) package and allied civil works for a 2 x 800 MW supercritical coal-based Uppur Thermal Power Pro...
