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It's sale as usual: Amazon, Flipkart tell online-only companiesMarketplaces to rephrase pacts with brands, appoint multiple sellers and tweak websites.
Online electronics brands looking at fresh strategies to de-risk playWhile online-exclusive brands such as Vu, BPL, TCL explore ways to push sales, Flipkart and Amazon are unlikely to change their hiring plans
Gujarat government refutes allegations on poverty lineGujarat govt has refuted allegations made by Congress about the Rs 10.80 per day income norm for BPL card holders in the state.
Airtel fined Rs 1 lakh for violating pesky call normsTRAI has imposed Rs 1 lakh penalty on Bharti Airtel in 2012-13 for violating norms laid by it to check telemarketing calls and SMSes.
- Pension under a central scheme enhanced
Government today decided to increase the rate of pension under a central scheme from Rs 200 to Rs 300 per month per beneficiary and to revi...
- Essar Teleholdings, Loop Telecom deny cheating charges
Promoters of Essar Teleholdings and Loop Telecom Monday told a Delhi court that the probe agency's claim of the promoters having conspired ...
- New BPL norms: If Rs 32 makes you poor, will Rs 33 make you rich?
Poverty line is at the centre of a big debate, a concept which determines how many Indians are poor and the benefits they are entitled to i...
- New BPL norms: Rs 39 enough for medical expenditure
On education, the plan panel feels those spending 99 paisa a day or Rs 29.60 a month in cities are doing well enough not to need any help.
- New BPL norms: Spend Rs 26 a day? Government says you can't be poor!
Those spending in excess of Rs 32 a day in urban areas or Rs 26 a day in villages will no longer be eligible to draw benefits of government...
- Former head of Loop Mobile Somasundram Subramaniam says co was controlled by the Essar group
Somasundram Subramaniam's statement was recorded before a metropolitan magistrate implying that it can be used as evidence by the CBI.
- Food Minister K V Thomas, Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar to discuss executing part of draft Food Bill
Under the draft National Food Security Bill, the Centre has proposed to give a legal entitlement to subsidised foodgrains to both BPL and A...
Will Direct cash transfer be a better reform than fuel and fertiliser subsidy?Nandan Nilekani will finalise a report to govt which could prove turning point in India's largely-failed attempt to reform its bloated subs...
- Parliamentary Committee questions move to introduce Food Bill
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on finance has questioned the government's move to introduce a right to food bill when it did not have...
- BPL math may hold up food security efforts
The lack of consensus between the states and centre over the house-holds that will qualify for subsidised food under the proposed food se-c...
- Fake identity: DoT fines telcos Rs 42 cr
The government has imposed a penalty of a little over Rs 42 crore on the mobile operators for SIM cards bought on fake identity so far, whi...
- Loop Tele under DoT watch
The telecom department is set to issue a show-cause notice to Loop Telecom asking the telco to explain why its mobile licences across 21 ci...
- Loop Telecom in talks to sell majority stake
Loop Telecom, in which the Ruias have a 9.9% stake, is in talks with global telcos to sell controlling stake, valuing the enterprise at $3 ...
- BPL slaps Hutch Essar with Rs 1,300-cr claim
Industry experts say that the Ruias’ latest salvo could signal the Essar Group’s resolve to hold on to BPL Mobile and perhaps even sell it ...
- CAG pulls up Centre for faulty grain procurement
The UPA government at the Centre has been pulled up for ’inefficient’ foodgrain procurement and excessive reimbursement on procurement inci...
- With PDS, you con more poor
The common minimum programme (CMP) of the new coalition government promises to strengthen the Public Distribution System (PDS) and extend i...