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The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India still has some questions on free data services. After issuing a ruling on differential pricing of data services in February this year, the regulator floated another consultation paper on Thursday on "Free Data" . This one focuses on schemes that can...

With Apple CEO Tim Cook currently in India, the company is making news in the country left and right. On Thursday, the iPhone maker announced it was opening a centre in Hyderabad that will focus on development of the Maps app for the iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch. Apple says the new...

Although India's use of the internet is lower than many poorer countries, the country's e-commerce sector tripled - or grew by 209 percent over the last five years - from $4.4 billion (Rs.20,020 crore) in 2010 to $13.6 billion (Rs.83,096 crore) in 2014. This data was contained in a reply given...

Ashok Prasad, a 35-year-old grocery shop owner in a small town on the outskirts of Bhimtal in Uttarakhand, has been looking to upgrade his feature phone. He wants a smartphone to watch Hindi movies and songs and get local weather updates. For this, he's willing to do two things: wait for such...

The Indian Startup ecosystem continues to remain a hot topic for all and sundry. After acquiring an unmatched level of funding, more than $9 billion, 2015 was perhaps the best year so far for the entrepreneurs. The year 2016 started with perhaps the biggest organized and mobilized event in the...

Fast paced growth in computer literacy and greater use of data on mobiles will help India's Internet economy grow to $200 billion or 5 percent of the GDP by 2020, Telecom Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said on Wednesday. Accepting that India's broadband penetration is low, the minister said the...

Taxpayers account for just about one per cent of India's population, but tax outgo was over Rs 1 crore for as many as 5,430 individuals, as per the latest data disclosed by the government for assessment year 2012-13. As part of a transparency drive, the government has made public direct tax...

Gujarat High Court Thursday issued a notice to the state Government on a petition filed by the online retail major Flipkart against the entry tax in the state on the goods bought through the e-commerce portals. The division bench of Chief Justice R Subhash Reddy and Justice V M Pancholi...

The economy is expected to grow over 8 per cent this fiscal with the forecast of above-normal monsson raising hopes of the agriculture sector's revival after two successive drought years, Niti Aayog vice-chairman Arvind Panagariya said today. "The economic growth rate will be more than 8 per...

India has replaced China as top destination for foreign direct investment by attracting $63 billion worth FDI projects in 2015, says a report. "India was the highest ranked country by capital investment in 2015, with $63 billion-worth of FDI projects announced," according to fDi Intelligence, a...

Agartala on Wednesday became India's third internet gateway after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bangladeshi Premier Sheikh Hasina inaugurated an internet connectivity project between the two South Asian neighbours. "Leasing of international bandwidth for internet at Akhaura to Agartala will...

With the extraordinarily cheap internet package, BSNL is likely to give competition to private players who have snatched a major share of the telecom market. State-owned telecom company BSNL has released an exciting internet package which would leave customers stunned. BSNL is offering 20 GB of...

Mark Zuckerberg just paid $700 (around Rs 47,000) to an Indian cyber squatter for rights to maxchanzuckerberg.com. Amal Augustine is a student at KMEA college at Kochi and apparently makes a habit of picking up domain names that he thinks will be relevant in the future. When GoDaddy sent...

Imagine paying for everyday purchases directly from your bank, without the need for carrying cash. The RBI's new interface helps you do just that. Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan launched the Unified Payments Interface (UPI) system on Monday, as its latest offering in boosting...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) retained India's GDP forecast for this fiscal year and the next, confirming its status as the world's fastest-growing major economy, as it pared global expansion estimates citing weakening worldwide recovery amid increasing financial turbulence. India's...

Both the Internet and the smartphone industry have seen sharp curves in distribution and consumption patterns in the past decade in India. In fact, both are observed to be mutually exclusive in this thriving digital era. The telecom minister estimating India’s Internet users to shoot upto 50...

Along with virtual reality, Facebook Live and other in-house projects, Facebook is now venturing into the hyperlocal services segment in India. The social networking giant has introduced the services rather discreetly into the market. One can now look for spas, pet services, and even event...

Ratings agency Moody's has said India's rising foreign direct investment provides stable financing of its current account deficit and is a credit positive, implying that it would count positively towards a ratings upgrade at the time of the review. In the report " "Rising Foreign Direct...

Aiming to attract the growing number of smartphone users, Public Broadcaster Doordarshan has started beaming free TV services to mobile phones in 16 cities, including the four metros. In a statement here, the broadcaster said Digital Terrestrial Television services of Doordarshan have started...

With its ranking going up by three places, India has now been ranked sixth among the world's 10 largest manufacturing countries The country previously held the 9th rank. It also said that the quarterly index of industrial production ( IIP) shows 1 per cent growth of manufacturing output in the...