A report by the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has revealed that NDTV 24×7 has the highest number of peak-hour advertisements among English news channels in India, followed by Times Now, India Today and CNN-IBN. According to the report, NDTV showed an average of 22.66 minutes of advertisements per hour during the period under survey. […]
On the same day as Uber made announcement, rival Ola said it too will offer bike taxis in Bangalore. “Bike Taxis on the Ola app will help customers zip through traffic with ease, at lowest fares,” the company said. The fare will be Rs 2 per km plus Rs 1 per minute of trip time. […]
Maruti Suzuki said it has increased its car prices slightly to pass on a new ‘infrastructure cess’ imposed by the central government as part of its Budget 2016-2017 exercise. Interestingly, the price increase is around half of what was expected, going by the percentage cess imposed. For example, on small cars, the infrastructure cess is […]
Bajaj Auto said its sales for the month of February rose 12% year on year, one of its strongest numbers in recent months. Domestic sales increased 33% on year even as exports slumped 12%. The rise in overall numbers was led by a 9% jump in motorcycle sales. Total number of vehicles sold in the […]
The government today issued clarifications on the imposition of income tax when a salaried employee claims his provident fund benefit from his Employees Provident Fund or EPF. It said the new tax has been imposed to discourage people from withdrawing and spending their pension funds Under previous rules, money invested in EPF is not taxed, […]
Jet Airways’ Chief Financial Officer, Amit Agarwal is taking on the responsibility as Acting Chief Executive Officer effective March 1, 2016, the company said. He will function as Acting Chief Executive Officer in addition to his responsibilities as CFO of the Company, till the appointment of a new CEO. The company’s last CEO, Cramer Ball, […]
Piramal Enterprises Ltd said it acquired the assets of pharmacy software maker Adaptive Software, LLC and entire control and ownership of its wholly owned subsidiary, AdaptiveRx LLC for $7.4 million. Adaptive is eligible to receive up to an additional $11.1 million if and when it meets certain post-closing requirements, which must be satisfied within six […]
Tata Motors Limited, India’s largest automobile manufacturer, has become the second Indian company to join RE100 – a global initiative of the world’s most influential companies committed to 100% renewable power. The company, which manufactures a range of commercial and passenger vehicles as well as defence and homeland security vehicles, has set itself the goal […]
L&T Hydrocarbon Engineering, a unit of Larsen & Toubro, said it has signed a long-term agreement with McDermott International to explore joint execution of subsea projects in deepwater segment emerging on the east coast of India. Under the agreement, LTHE and McDermott will develop a cost-effective approach which will utilize LTHE’s state-of-the-art, strategically located Kattupalli […]
SpiceJet, India’s most aggressive airline, has seen its website crash today due to heavy load on the first day of its pre-summer sale. Fares under the offer start at Rs 599 plus taxes and levies. The three day sale launched today will be open till midnight, 25th February 2016. The travel period covered in this […]
The impact of rising prices is being felt more by people in the villages compared to those in the cities due factors including unscrupulous traders, Assocham said. “Amidst the agriculture sector facing a crisis-like situation, distressed rural population is carrying the burden of only in food and beverages but also in a number of essential […]
Air India had the largest number of passenger complaints in January, according to numbers released by the Airports Authority, while Vistara passengers complained the least. Among the big domestic airlines, both Indigo and Spicejet scored high with low levels of passenger complaints while Jet Airways and Go Air saw passenger complaint rates that were double […]
Lalu Prasad Yadav, the leader of Rashtriya Janata Dal and partner in Bihar government, accused the Bharatiya Janata Party of cooking up the issue of Leftist students raising anti-national slogans in the JNU to divert attention from the suicide of Dalit student Rohit Vemula. Talking to the media, Prasad said Kanhaiya Kumar, who also hails […]
The Bar Council of India, the top professional body for lawyers, has instituted a new enquiry into the violence in Patiala House court compound. The panel will consist of three members. If the findings are adverse, the rioting lawyers could lose their advocates’ license, which will prevent them from practicing law. The Bar Council of […]
Times Now has surprised many fans on Twitter after the channel today adopted a tough stand against patriotic lawyers who attacked Jawaharlal Nehru University students union president Kanhaiya Kumar and the media that they feel support “anti-nationals”. Today, on the second day of trial, Kumar was attacked for the second time by self-described nationalist lawyers, […]
In a new twist to the ongoing saga involving the battle of ideologies in Jawaharlal Nehru University and its spillover into national politics and riots at Patiala House courts in Delhi, the Supreme Court will hear a petition on the subject tomorrow. The SC has agreed to hear the petition by an ex-student of the […]
The Delhi High Court today dismissed a petition seeking an order for an inquiry by the National Investigation Agency into student protests in Jawaharlal Nehru University. The High Court dismissed the plea after noting that the Delhi Police’s inquiry cannot be faulted so soon and it cannot be assumed that the Delhi Police is incompetent […]
The Congress Party has won the Deoband assembly seat in Uttar Pradesh, while the BJP has won Muzaffarnagar. All the three seats undergoing bypolls in the state are sitting seats of Samajwadi Party. In Muzaffarnagar, BJP’s Kapildev Aggarwal won. In Deoband, the Congress candidate Mavia Ali beat SP’s Meena Rana by 3,000 votes. BJP came […]
Brigade Group, one of the biggest developers in Bangalore, announced a new villa project at Devanahalli, near the ‘new’ Bangalore Airport. The project, called Atmosphere, offers 4 bedroom signature villas with sizes ranging from 3010 sq.ft to 3410 sq.ft, the company said. “The project aims to bring back the concept of courtyard homes, a way […]
The overall wholesale price index for January declined by 1.0 percent, primarily due to lower fuel costs, but prices of primary articles and pulses continued to increase or remain high. Total inflation is divided into three groups — primary articles (20% of total), fuel (15%) and manufactured goods (65%). PRIMARY ARTICLES Out of these, primary […]
