Bengaluru, Aug 2 (IANS) Karnataka on Thursday launched a pilot project using drones for providing better governance, primarily in agriculture, urban development and police civic operations. “As we are keen to use drone technology for…
New Delhi, Aug 2 (IANS) Noting that the availability of water is going to be a major issue for the country in future, Commerce and Industry Minister Suresh Prabhu on Thursday urged corporates to provide…
New Delhi, Aug 2 (IANS) Public sector undertaking NBCC has bagged a Rs 400 crore project to construct the India Pavilion at the Dubai World Expo 2020. According to the state-run firm, the contract was…
Kolkata, Aug 2 (IANS) The Kolkata Police on Thursday identified one more ATM in addition to two others where the machines were allegedly used to clone people’s card details and fraudulently withdraw around Rs 18-20…
By Gokul Bhagabati Bengaluru, Aug 2 (IANS) Admitting that Lenovo made some “mistakes” in the smartphones business in India, company CEO Yang Yuanqing on Thursday vowed to bounce back by launching right products for the…
Kolkata, Aug 2 (IANS) Bihar Deputy Chief Minister and GST Council’s member Sushil Modi on Thursday said the Council can think of bringing the petroleum products under the new tax regime only after the monthly…
Mumbai, Aug 2 (IANS) Paints and coatings maker Akzo Nobel India on Thursday posted a standalone net profit of Rs 43.51 crore, up 5.86 per cent year-on-year, for the quarter ended June 30. The company…
London, Aug 2 (IANS) The Bank of England (BoE) on Thursday raised its key interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point, from 0.5 per cent to 0.75 per cent — the highest level…
New Delhi, Aug 2 (IANS) The Railway Ministry on Thursdasy announced that it is likely to increase the vacancies for Assistant Loco Pilots and Technicians from 26,502 advertised earlier to nearly 60,000. “The Ministry had…
New Delhi, Aug 2 (IANS) State-run explorer Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) on Thursday declared a 58.15 per cent jump in net profit for the first quarter ending in June at Rs 6,143.88 crore…
Kolkata, Aug 2 (IANS) Battery maker Exide Industries plans to start manufacturing lithium-ion batteries in the second quarter of next fiscal, an official said on Thursday. “Our capital expenditure would be Rs 1,100 crore in…
Chennai, Aug 2 (IANS) Stem cell bank major LifeCell International on Thursday said its subsidiary Fetomed Laboratories will be merged with itself by the end of this year following acquisition of its entire stake. In…
Mumbai, Aug 2 (IANS) Broadly negative global cues along with disappointment over the RBI’s lending rate hike and a weak rupee dragged the key Indian equity indices — NSE Nifty50 and S&P BSE Sensex –…
Dhaka, Aug 2 (IANS) The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Bangladesh on Thursday signed agreements for $500 million in loans to develop a state-of-the-art 800-megawatt (MW) power plant in the country’s Khulna region, along with…
Beijing, Aug 2 (IANS) The US is playing hard and soft tactics with China on the trade issue, but such a two-faced approach is doomed to be futile and will disappoint countries and regions opposing…
Mumbai, Aug 2 (IANS) Reliance Industries on Thursday said that its telecom subsidiary Jio has entered into an MoU with State Bank of India (SBI) to deepen their digital partnership. According to a company statement,…
New Delhi, Aug 2 (IANS) In a relief to about 40,000 Amrapali home buyers, the Supreme Court on Thursday directed the public sector undertaking (PSU) National Building Construction Corporation (NBCC) to takeover all the 16…
New Delhi, Aug 2 (IANS) Envisaged to be one of the largest hackathons in the world, the NITI Aayog on Thursday launched a global mobility hackathon “Move Hack” to crowdsource future mobility solutions for India….
Beijing, Aug 2 (IANS) After reports surfaced that Google is planning a censored Search engine for China, more reports claimed on Thursday that the tech giant is also developing a “government-friendly news app for the…
New Delhi, Aug 2 (IANS) Nearly 63 per cent of the Indian organizations are struggling in their compliance journey towards the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that came into effect on May 25,…