Top tech and startup stories this weekWelcome to a new edition of ETtech Unwrapped – our weekend newsletter packed with the most important stories this week. Let’s take a look.
01 Mar, 2025, 07.20 AM IST
Eminent Muslims write to PM Modi, express concern over arrest of private Assam varsity chancellorA civil society group of eminent Muslims has appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi for justice after USTM chancellor Mahbabul Hoque was ...
27 Feb, 2025, 09.00 PM IST
USTM Chancellor Mahbubul Hoque arrested in Guwahati over exam fraud, fake degree scamMahbubul Hoque, Chancellor of the University of Science and Technology Meghalaya, was arrested by the Assam police in connection with exam ...
23 Feb, 2025, 08.38 AM IST
Investor growth tripled from 0.7% in 2019 to 2.3% in 2024 in AssamOfficials of NSE and NSDL highlight Assam's growing investor landscape, with 24.6 lakh registered investors and notable female participatio...
05 Feb, 2025, 06.56 PM IST
New RuPay payment mechanism using NFC: Know who will benefit from it and who may not need itNFC sticker powered by RuPay: A silicon sticker powered by RuPay using near field communication (NFC) technology is set to be launched. Thi...
30 May, 2024, 11.08 AM IST
Demo dividend only when cheating stopsThe introduction of the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Billis highly appreciated, emphasizing the necessity for states la...
08 Feb, 2024, 11.04 PM IST
Meta partners with Assam Police to launch a Digital Literacy and Awareness programme for adolescentsThe programme, We Think Digital, will focus on digital safety best practices and will provide easy access to youth to digital literacy awar...
20 May, 2022, 08.30 PM IST
Congress seeks SC-monitored probe into JEE exam paper leakAddressing a joint press conference, Congress spokesperson Gourav Vallabh, Delhi Congress leader Alka Lamba and NSUI national president Nee...
04 Sep, 2021, 03.22 PM IST
Assam government to link some government schemes to two-child normsChief minister, Himanta Biswa Sarma on Saturday said, “While Uttar Pradesh has taken a legislation route to bring in population control mea...
10 Jul, 2021, 08.32 PM IST
BJP will fight against interfaith marriages that take place owing to fraud: Himanta Biswa Sarma“Love jihad is promoted by social media. Assamese girls are becoming victims of love jihad,” Sarma said on Wednesday, addressing a meeting ...
14 Oct, 2020, 09.48 PM IST
Kejriwal is the biggest liar I have seen in my life: Amit ShahAddressing his first public meeting in the New Delhi constituency in support of party candidate Sunil Yadav, Shah asked the Delhi CM if he ...
30 Jan, 2020, 02.12 PM IST
Leadership, direction, plans needed to turnaround 'ravaged economy' lacking: Rahul GandhiTaking a dig at the Modi government, Gandhi "congratulated" it on 100 days of "no development".
08 Sep, 2019, 07.03 PM IST
Jan Dhan Yojana will check chit funds: Narendra ModiRaising Saradha scam issue for the first time in Assam poll campaign, PM Modi today said Jan Dhan Yojana has been launched to ensure that s...
13 Apr, 2016, 12.01 PM IST
Saradha Group gone, www. saradhagroup.biz web site still remains"We will look into the matter how the website is still there on the web," an official of CBI, which is probing the fraud, told PTI when ask...
02 Dec, 2014, 11.08 AM IST
Timely utilization of fund key to Northeast India development: Sarbananda SonowalHRD Minister, in a communiqué sought Gogoi’s cooperation and support for the critical initiatives for development of school education secto...
26 Jul, 2014, 03.10 PM IST
Saradha chit fund scam: CBI to visit Assam to investigateThe visit came in the wake of govt's decision last week to hand over some cases against chit fund firms to the probe agency.
29 Apr, 2013, 07.24 PM IST
Saradha chit fund scam: West Bengal, Northeast hot-bed of investment frauds; NRIs major targetA large number of NRIs having origins in these states are understood to have been defrauded by many such companies, including Saradha group.
26 Apr, 2013, 01.28 PM IST