After launching car subscription services in Delhi-NCR, Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Pune, India’s largest carmaker has brought the service to Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Thane, Chennai, Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar. The service will cost around Rs 14,690 per month in Gujarat for a Swift LXi for a four-year contract, excluding GST. In Chennai, it will cost Rs 15,196 […]
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan has withdrawn the controversial Sec 118A of the Kerala Police Act, also known as the anti Fake News law, pending fine-tuning and further consultations. “Whoever makes, expresses, publishes or disseminates through any kind of mode of communication, any matter or subject for threatening, abusing, humiliating or defaming a person or […]
L&T Technology Services has been certified by Amazon to put Alexa voice technology into all kinds of devices. Alexa is a voice-interaction technology developed by Amazon, and is quickly emerging as one of the leading standards of voice-based interaction for devices. While it started out as a way to interact with Amazon devices such as […]
Outsourcing major Wipro Ltd said it will replace the current way in which it has structured its business by reorienting it along two core themes — product-related services, and infrastructure-related services. Earlier, Wipro used to divide its services into seven verticals and five capabilities. The seven verticals included segments like manufacturing, telecom, consumer products, financial […]
With around 40% of the votes counted, the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance has maintained its lead over the opposition grand alliance in Bihar, indicating that the BJP-JDU combine is likely to retain the people’s mandate in the state of Bihar. However, even as the numbers are likely to lift the spirits in the saffron camp, […]
Exit polls has predicted a win for the Rashtriya Janata Dal-Congress Party government in Bihar, with Lalu Prasad Yadav’s son Tejaswi likely to become the next chief minister, ejecting incumbent Nitish Kumar. C-Voter, which did exit polls for both Times Now and ABP Network, predicts around 116 seats for the BJP-led NDA and around 120 […]
Two young people committed suicide in Kerala, allegedly after they were caught up in an elaborate web of conspiracy and fake news aimed at tarnishing the image of the ruling CPIM in Kerala ahead of elections in April. While the details of the case are subject to much debate, the basic facts are not in […]
OnePlus, the premium smartphone brand from Chinese manufacturer BBK Electronics, saw its India sales double during the third quarter (July to September), thanks to the launch of India’s cheapest 5G smartphone, OnePlus Nord. The phone, priced at around Rs 28,000, helped the brand double its sales in India with a growth of 104% during July-September […]
Zee5, the on-demand content app from Zee Entertainment, has stopped sharing its content with the content app of at least one telecom player. Punit Goenka, CEO of India’s largest home-grown television broadcaster, said his company has decided not to renew a content sharing deal with a telecom player when it expired in August. He said […]
Bharti Airtel said it has expanded its broadband offering under tie-ups with local cable operators to 48 cities as of the end of September, up from 18 cities three months earlier, and will scale it up even faster in coming days. It said it took seven eight months to get the model right, but the […]
The numbers released by India’s three telecom operators on their July-September performance show a remarkable trend reversal: For the first time ever, Reliance Jio was no longer the fastest growing data operator in India, losing the crown to Bharti Airtel. While Jio’s mobile data traffic went up by 220 million GBs in July-September compared to […]
The amount of 5G spectrum set apart for 5G wireless services in India is likely to increase by ten times or more, going by comments made by various government officials at a telecom event today. At present, the amount of 5G spectrum that has been set apart for 5G in India is 275 MHz, which […]
Bharti Airtel, the former No.1 telecom provider of India, has doubled the pace of its 4G roll-out by adding nearly 333 new 4G base stations every day during the July-September period. That works to over 10,000 base stations per month, or almost 14 new 4G base stations per hour — including at night. In comparison, […]
Future Retail, the pioneering modern retail chain founded by Kishore Biyani, today said it will take steps to implement its agreement with Reliance Retail as it is not a party to the agreement quoted by global retailer Amazon to block its merger with Reliance Retail. The agreement is with one of its promoters and group […]
Some of the gains made by the e-commerce sector during the COVID-19 lockdown is permanent and retailing will never be the same again even after the pandemic, said Sanjiv Mehta, chairman and managing director of Hindustan Unilever Ltd. As India’s largest supplier of consumer goods, HUL has a lot at stake in health and longevity […]
GTPL Hathway, one of India’s top cable TV and cable internet providers, indicated it was not overly worried about telecom players like Bharti Airtel luring away its local cable operator partners under their new LCO partnership strategy. Bharti Airtel had announced some weeks ago that it plans to authorize local cable operators (LCOs) to resell […]
The number of new broadband subscribers added per month on Jio Fiber — the wired connectivity service from Reliance Jio — has crossed the 1 lakh mark for the first time — a year after the company started giving connections commercially. According to India’s monthly broadband addition numbers, the total number of high-speed internet users […]
Sun cuts NCF by 62% from Rs 153 to Rs 59 per month Makes it the cheapest pay DTH or cable service in India Could pressurize other DTH players to follow suit When TRAI’s new tariff order came into effect in early 2019, both the regulator and the consumers expected monthly cable and DTH bills […]
Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Industries and Reliance Jio, today announced his company’s fiber optic service will reach 50 million households — or about a fifth of India’s population. Ambani, however, did not give a timeline for when he expects to achieve this milestone. Nevertheless, the number is still significant as industry experts differ widely […]
Metropolis Healthcare, one of India’s biggest diagnostic services providers, said it has seen a sharp up-tick in its revenue this year, benefiting from increased demand for COVID-19 testing. As of September 2020, said the company, its total revenue is 40% higher than the same month of 2019. Within this, the non-COVID services/revenue has achieved ‘normalcy’ […]
