Category: India News

WhatsApp hires Amazon Pay’s Mahatme to lead India payments -sources

WhatsApp has hired a top Amazon executive to head its payments business in India, two sources told Reuters, as the messenger service gears up to expand in the booming sector. Manesh Mahatme, who has worked at Amazon Pay (AMZN.O) for nearly seven years, is due to join WhatsApp’s payment service […]

India’s richest state hit by biggest virus surge, hospital beds fill up fast

India’s financial capital Mumbai is facing a second wave of COVID-19 infections that could overwhelm its health facilities, doctors said on Friday, after a record daily increase in cases in its home state Maharashtra. New infections in India rose on the day by the highest in more than […]

Unplanned lockdown disaster continues to haunt country:Rahul Gandhi

New Delhi, Mar 19: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday alleged that lakhs of families have suffered pain due to the government’s “incompetence and myopia” as the unplanned lockdown continues to haunt the country. The government had imposed a nationwide lockdown on March 24 last year to curb the […]

Nearly 40k coronavirus cases in India: Govt

New Delhi, Mar 19:  India saw 39,726?new coronavirus infections being reported in a day, the highest single day rise recorded so far this year, taking the nationwide COVID-19?tally of cases to??1,15,14,331,?according to Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday The daily rise in infections (39,726) was the highest […]

Students protest at elite Indian university as academics quit amid row over freedoms

Students and staff at an elite Indian university on Thursday demanded the reinstatement of a prominent academic, who they say was forced to resign in an attack on freedom of speech. Pratap Bhanu Mehta, one of India’s best known intellectuals and a vocal government critic, resigned from the […]

Pandemic pushes 32 mln Indians out of middle class, says Pew Research

Financial woes brought by last year’s coronavirus pandemic have pushed about 32 million Indians out of the middle class, undoing years of economic gains, a report showed on Thursday, while job losses pushed millions into poverty. The number of Indians in the middle class, or those earning between […]

India and Pakistan suffer resurgence of COVID-19 cases

India and Pakistan reported a big jump in new coronavirus infections on Thursday, driven by a resurgence in cases in their richest states. In efforts to curb the spread of COVID-19, Punjab state in India extended a night curfew across nine districts and the New Delhi city government […]

Why Mumbai police held press conference over TRP scam? HC

Mumbai, Mar 16:  The Bombay High Court on Tuesday asked what had prompted the Mumbai police to hold a press conference last year over the alleged Television Rating Points (TRP) scam. “Does the police have an obligation to interact with the press? Why did the commissioner (of police) […]

India says it has no concern about AstraZeneca vaccine side effects

India has no concern about possible side effects of the AstraZeneca (AZN.L) COVID-19 vaccine being used in its immunisation campaign, government health official Vinod Kumar Paul told a news conference on Wednesday. Reuters March 17, 2021 Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles. https://www.reuters.com/world/india/india-says-it-has-no-concern-about-astrazeneca-vaccine-side-effects-2021-03-17/

SAG Infotech is Emerging as Key Player in Tax Industry

(Eds: Disclaimer: The following press release comes to you under an arrangement with PRNewswire. PTI takes no editorial responsibility for the same.) JAIPUR, India, March 17, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — SAG Infotech has achieved boundless feet in organizing the tax software companies and also made a worthy name in […]

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