New Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) High taxes on cigarettes has given rise to an illegal industry and tobacco consumption shifting to cheaper non-cigarette forms, said the Tobacco Institute of India on Friday. “Due to the…
Amritsar: Canadian politician and the Premier of Ontario Kathleen Wynne at the launch of Datawind Netbook Droidsurfer in Amritsar, on Jan 31, 2016. (Photo: IANS) Mumbai, Feb 19 (IANS) Canada’s Ontario plans to invest around…
Abu Dhabi, Feb 19 (IANS/WAM) India’s oil imports from Saudi Arabia and Iraq hit the highest in more than a decade in January as OPEC’s top producers gained at the expense of Latin American crudes,…
New Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) The India consumer storage flash memory market that includes memory cards and flash drives grew 42 percent during the calendar year 2011 to calendar the year 2015 in terms of…
Hyderabad, Feb 19 (IANS) Leading information technology firm Cyient on Friday launched the work on technology development center in Warangal town of Telangana. Information Technology Minister K.T. Rama Rao laid foundation stone for the facility…
Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 19 (IANS) The sale of Indian-Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) has dipped by one-fourth over the past 21 months compared with earlier sales figures, after a new liquor policy came into force in Kerala,…
London, Feb 19 (IANS) HSBC bank is set to launch voice recognition and fingerprint ID security services in Britain in an effort towards introducing biometric banking, the media reported on Friday. The bank said its…
Bengaluru, Feb 19 (IANS) Leading Indian E-commerce company Flipkart on Friday said its mobile application on Google Android Play store is the first Indian app to clock 50 million installations. “Flipkart has become the first…
New Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) Automobile major Honda Cars India (HCIL) on Friday announced a voluntary recall of 57,676 vehicles of previous generation models of City, Jazz and Civic. According to the company, the exercise…
By Nityanand Shukla Ranchi, Feb 19 (IANS) Around a million farmers are involved in the National Dairy Development Board’s activities, earning a profit of Rs. 15-20 per litre by selling milk to its various federations,…
New Delhi, Feb 19 (IANS) A day after promising to restore its online pre-order services for the Indian masses to book the world’s cheapest “Make in India” smartphone, the “Freedom 251” website continued its poor…
New Delhi, Feb 18 (IANS) ‘Modern Essentials’ selected by David Beckham, a line especially handpicked by the English football great for Sweden-based brand H&M, on Thursday hit stores globally, including in India. The collection will…
New York, Feb 18 (IANS) Indian-origin researchers have proposed a new method for detecting fraud from the payment-per-click model – a pricing model used for online advertising. “If somebody likes something, they can click on…
Mumbai: Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses at the inauguration of the Make in India Week, in Mumbai, on Feb 13, 2016. (Photo: IANS/PIB) Mumbai, Feb 18 (IANS) India’s biggest manufacturing promotional till date at home…
New Delhi, Feb 18 (IANS) Chinese internet conglomerate LeEco says it will come out with another flash sale on February 25 for its Le 1s smartphone, which has elicited a strong response from buyers. LeEco…
By Sourabh Kulesh New Delhi, Feb 18 (IANS) The much-hyped launch of the world’s cheapest Made in India smartphone was thrown into disarray on Thursday as a mad rush to book the Rs.251 (less than…
(150508) — TOKYO, May 8, 2015 (Xinhua) — Japan’s auto giant Toyota’s president Akio Toyoda speaks during a press conference to announce its financial report for 2014 in the headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, May 8,…
Mumbai: Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses at the inauguration of the Make in India Week, in Mumbai, on Feb 13, 2016. (Photo: IANS/PIB) Mumbai, Feb 18 (IANS) India’s biggest domestic manufacturing promotional fair till date…
Mumbai, Feb 18 (IANS) US agency Moody’s Investors Service on Thursday forecast for India a “stable GDP growth at around 7.5 percent in 2016 and 2017”, saying the country is relatively less exposed to external…
Caracas, Feb 18 (IANS) Venezuela has hiked gasoline prices for the first time in 20 years following plummeting revenues from crude exports, the media reported on Thursday. The price hike came as a shock to…