New Delhi India’s monetary policy committee voted unanimously to increase the benchmark repo rate for the first time in more than four years, as it tries to fend off rising inflation pressures. The repo rate was raised by 25 basis points to 6.25 percent. The last time this benchmark rate was raised was in January […]
New Delhi While Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) is leaving no stone unturned to provide quality services to passengers on train, not all efforts are going down well with the company in terms of revenue. For IRCTC to up the food quality in trains, it says it has to bring down the quantity. […]
YouTube is dominating social media use among teenagers, as Facebook fades from popularity, according to a new survey. A Pew Research Center survey shows that 85 percent of U.S. teens, ages 13 to 17, use YouTube, compared with 72 percent for the Facebook-owned Instagram and 69 percent for Snapchat. Use of the main Facebook service […]
Scientists tracked down the oldest known lizard, a tiny creature that lived about 240 million years ago when Earth had a single continent and dinosaurs were brand new. Scans of the fossilized skeleton of Megachirella revealed the chameleon-sized reptile was an ancestor of today’s lizards and snakes, which belong to a group called squamates, an […]
New Delhi Air India stake sale: After the government failed to receive any bids for Air India, Anand Mahindra called for turning the crisis into an opportunity, and also listed out several measures to be taken. Calling it a matter of ‘national pride,’ Mahindra & Mahindra’s top boss said that there must be a resolve that a sale […]
Mumbai Google on Thursday unveiled a new social app called Neighbourly in India, at an event in Mumbai. The tech giant’s Next Billion Users team has developed the app to help people source local information from their neighbors. With an increased focus on India, Google has been releasing several initiatives in the country, including Tez mobile payments app, Google Areo, Google Station, […]
New Delhi ICICI Bank on Wednesday said it will conduct an independent inquiry into an anonymous whistleblower’s complaint against the bank’s Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer Chanda Kochhar for allegedly violating the bank’s of conduct. The inquiry will be conducted by an ‘’independent and credible” person appointed by the bank, ICICI Bank said in […]
New Delhi After gaining popularity in the consumer goods market, Baba Ramdev’s Patanjali is now entering the telecom space in collaboration with State-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL). Patanjali on Sunday launched its own SIM cards called Swadeshi Samriddhi SIM cards. According to Patanjali, the SIM cards will come with 2GB data and unlimited calling […]
New Delhi Three days after the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Class 12 results were declared, results for with Class 10 will be out tomorrow. The results will be available at cbse.nic.in, cbseresults.nic.in, results.nic.in, Microsoft SMS Organizer app, www.google.com, www.bing.com and UMANG app. This year, 28 lakh took the annual exam, out of which […]
New Delhi The month-long wait for nearly 12 lakh students has finally ended with the CBSE declaring the Class 12 results this afternoon. The topper, Meghana Srivastava from Uttar Pradesh, got 499 out of 500 marks. The second topper, Anoushka Chandra, also from Uttar Pradesh, is just one mark behind with 498. Third is Chahat […]