Mumbai Reliance Industries (RIL) chairman and managing director Mukesh Ambani on Thursday launched JioGigaFiber at RIL’s 41st annual general meeting (AGM). This is the broadband service of Reliance Jio, Reliance Industries’ telecom arm that will be spread in 1,100 cities of India. “The JioGigaFiber will allow the users to watch 600 plus TV channels, thousands of […]
Moscow At a World Cup rocked repeatedly by the fall of giants, Brazil and Belgium have managed to hold firm in the maelstrom and will meet in a blockbuster quarterfinal in Kazan on Friday. Most pre-tournament modelling has been put through the shredder by the eliminations of traditional heavyweights like Germany and Spain. However, the clash of the fancied […]
Jakarta Olympic silver medallist P V Sindhu celebrated her 23rd birthday with a straight-game win over Japan’s Aya Ohori, while H S Prannoy eked out a three-game victory over Wang Tzu Wei of Chinese Taipei to enter the quarterfinals of the $1,250,000 Indonesia Open in Jakarta on Thursday. World no 3 Sindhu, who had reached […]
New Delhi The Centre today asked the states and Union territories (UTs) to check incidents of mob lynching fueled by rumours of child lifting on social media. More than 20 people have been lynched over the last two months on suspicion of child lifting, the latest being the killing of five men in Maharashtra’s Dhule […]
Bank designates 60 branches as ‘systemically important’ The fraud-hit Punjab National Bank (PNB) on Wednesday said it had begun a credit restructuring exercise that will ensure that large accounts as well as lending operations are concentrated in a few specially designated branches. “To ensure better accountability and operations, the bank is shifting most of the […]
Solution to the State’s problems lay in empowerment of the people and strengthening of the institutions of local self-governance, he says. Concluding a two-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh said the Union government was committed to taking measures to bring accountability, transparency, and good governance to the region. […]
The tariff war in India’s highly competitive telecom market is shifting from mobile to broadband. Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited, the state-owned telecom player, has announced a new Rs 491 landline broadband plan, which it calls the “most economic broadband plan” in the country. The new broadband plan from the telecom operator offers 20GB of data […]
60 years since Pele became the fourth teenager to score multiple goals in a FIFA World Cup™ game, Kylian Mbappe became the fifth. 48 years had passed since a team had overturned a two-goal deficit and won a knockout-phase match at the World Cup until Belgium rallied to stun Japan 3-2. The last had been West Germany, who came from two goals down to […]
New Delhi Music streaming app Saavn and telecom firm Airtel are among the dozens of companies that received either a special, one-time exemption from Facebook after it cut off access to user data in 2015 or signed data sharing agreements with the social networking giant as part of an “integration partnership”. This information comes from […]
Former World No. 1 Saina Nehwal swatted aside her Indonesian opponent Dinar Dyah Ayustine with a victory in straight sets to book her place in the second round of the ongoing Indonesian Open 2018. Nehwal registered a 21-12, 21-12 score over the currently 54th ranked Indonesian, wrapping up the match in just 35 minutes. The […]