Business
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Sebi to put in place framework to prevent frauds by stock brokers
New Delhi: Markets regulator Sebi on Wednesday approved a slew of proposals, including ending the practice of individuals holding permanent directorship at boards of listed companies and putting in place a framework…
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Women, small towns influenced by digital as men, big towns in viewing options: Report
New Delhi: Women, small towns, and older age groups are just as influenced by digital as men, big towns, and younger age groups in their viewing choices, a report showed on Wednesday.…
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Elon Musk, top researchers call for immediate pause on all giant AI experiments
New Delhi: As AI chatbots come of age, several top entrepreneurs and AI researchers, including Tesla and Twitter CEO Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak, Co-founder of Apple, have written an open letter,…
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NPCI clarifies that customers won’t be charged for UPI transactions
New Delhi: The National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) on Wednesday said that it has now permitted the Prepaid Payment Instruments (PPI wallets) to be part of the interoperable UPI ecosystem and…
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Approximately 11,000 MT of wheat procured in current Rabi season: FCI chief
New Delhi: Procurement of wheat for Rabi marketing season 2023-24 has been to the tune of 10,727 metric tonnes till March 27 as compared to nil procurement last year. Food Corporation of…
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Adani debunks reports on repayment of loans against shares
New Delhi: The Adani Group has strongly refuted news reports which makes the baseless and deliberately mischievous claim that the Group has not completed the repayment of USD 2.15 billion in share-backed…
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Apple contribution to ‘Make in India’ smartphone reaches 25% in value terms
New Delhi: ‘Make in India’ shipments from Apple grew 65 per cent (on-year) by volume and 162 per cent by value, taking the brand’s value share to 25 per cent in 2022,…
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Govt sanctions Rs 800 cr for installing 7,432 EV fast charging stations
New Delhi: The Ministry of Heavy Industries on Tuesday said Rs 800 crore under FAME India Scheme Phase II has been sanctioned to three PSU oil marketing companies (OMC) for setting up…
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Uber Eats to delist thousands of virtual brands from its app
San Francisco: Uber Eats has said that it will shut down thousands of online-only brands from its app this week as the platform is being flooded by restaurants listing the same food…
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Total amount of cess and surcharge grew by 63.74% from 2017-18 to 2022-23
New Delhi: The total amount of cess and surcharge grew by 63.74 percent from 2017-18 to 2022-23 (RE), the Parliament was told on Monday. Collections under GST Compensation Cess grew by 107.6…
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RBI may pause repo rate hike next month: SBI Report
New Delhi: The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is likely to apply the pause button on continuous hikes in repo rates during next week’s meeting of its monetary policy committee (MPC), says…
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7th batch of Google startups accelerator India now open
New Delhi: Tech giant Google on Monday announced to invite applications for the seventh batch of its startup accelerator programme in India that aims to nurture startups looking to leverage the potential…
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Musk attacking us as he is stressed about AI safety: OpenAI CEO
San Francisco: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has hit back at Twitter CEO Elon Musk for criticising his for-profit company which is now owned by Microsoft. During the ‘On With Kara Swisher’ podcast,…
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Musk will give Twitter workers stock awards based on $20 bn valuation
San Francisco: Elon Musk has finally broken his silence on giving stock awards to employees, saying that they will get stock awards based on a roughly $20 billion valuation. It is less…