New Delhi: SoftBank Chairman and Chief Executive Masayoshi Son and President Nikesh Arora during the opening session of launch of “Start Up India“ in New Delhi on Jan 16, 2016. (Photo: Amlan Paliwal/IANS) New Delhi,…
New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley speaks during the opening session of the launch of “Start Up India“ in New Delhi on Jan 16, 2016. (Photo: Amlan Paliwal/IANS) New Delhi, Jan 16 (IANS) Finance Minister…
Washington, Jan 16 (IANS/EFE) The US retail giant Walmart Stores, Inc. on Friday announced plans to close 269 stores and lay off 16,000 employees, 6,000 of them outside the US. In a news release, the…
The interiors of Barcelos The interiors of Barcelos New Delhi, Jan 15 (IANS) Little did 29-year-old Himanshu Gupta, who assists his father in the family’s construction business realise when he stepped into the Barcelos casual…
New Delhi, Jan 15 (IANS) Bollywood actors Sonam Kapoor and Hrithik Roshan have been roped in as the South Asia region brand ambassadors for mobile phone brand OPPO. The actors have been a part of…
New Delhi, Jan 15 (IANS) As Prime Minister Narendra Modi gears up to give a shot in the arm to start-ups with the launch of ‘Start-up India, Stand up India’ initiative on Saturday, Google India…
Washington, Jan 15 (IANS) US space agency NASA announced on Thursday that it has awarded the second round of commercial contracts to resupply the International Space Station to three private spaceflight companies Orbital ATK, Sierra…
Bhopal, Jan 14 (IANS) Madhya Pradesh and the Singapore government have signed four MoUs including one on clean energy providing for setting up a 1000 MW wind energy project in the western part of the…
Bengaluru, Jan 14 (IANS) Global software major Infosys Ltd on Thursday appointed noted investment manager Punita Kumar Sinha, wife of union Minister of State for Finance Jayant Sinha, as an independent director on its board….
Washington, Jan 13 (AFP) Al-Jazeera America, the cable news cable launched by the global Qatar-based media group in 2013, will be shut down April 30, the company said today. An internal memo from director general…
Washington, Jan 13 (IANS) The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a leading US think tank, has announced the launch of its sixth international centre to produce high-quality public policy research about critical national, regional, and…
New Delhi, Jan 13 (IANS) The Supreme Court on Wednesday asked Mysuru-based CFTRI lab to get more samples of Maggi to test the lead and Mono Sodium Glucomate (MSG) contents in its taste makers. The…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi. (File Photo: IANS/PIB) New Delhi, Jan 13 (IANS) A grand event led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been planned for the launch of another of his pet initiatives — Start-up…
Hyderabad, Jan 13 (IANS) Steel Exchange India Limited (SEIL), a part of the Vizag Profiles Group, will invest Rs.7,937 crore to expand its steel plant in Hyderabad. The capacity of the plant located in Sreerampuram…
Pepsico Chairperson and CEO Indra Nooyi and President of CII S Golapakrishnan during CII session on `Managing Uncertainty – Leadership in Turbulent Times` in Mumbai on Nov.15, 2013.(Photo: IANS) Washington, Jan 13 (IANS) Indra Nooyi,…
New Delhi, Jan 13 (IANS) Tucked away in the heart of Delhi’s bustling Connaught Place is Zizo, a restaurant plating bite-sized Lebanon, just the way a local cafe in Beirut would. Here is where food…
Kochi, Jan 13 (IANS) A brand new 3.3 lakh square feet building, which has a special economic zone (SEZ) classification, will open on January 21 as part of the second phase of the Thrissur Infopark…
New Delhi, Jan 13 Lauding the new “industry friendly” provisions of the Defence Procurement Procedure (DPP), industry lobby CII noted that its recommendations, including a level playing field, fast-tracking of procurement and preference in procurement…
Detroit, Jan 13 (AFP) Google plans to partner with automakers on its self-driving car project, but is not yet ready to announce anything concrete, the head of the project has said. “We are going to…
New Delhi, Jan 12 (IANS) Mukesh-Ambani-led Jio took to Twitter in yet another novel way for communicating its new-gen handset called LYF, adding a splash of vibrant colors to its packaging. It aligned to an…