New Delhi: With an aim of promoting interests of 5.77 crore small businesses, an online portal ‘e-lala’ was launched to promote business-to-business and trader-to-customer transactions and reduce costs. Urban Development Minister M Venkaiah Naidu inaugurated ‘e-lala’, an e-commerce portal of Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT). Naidu complimented CAIT for e-lala initiative which is aimed…
Thiruvananthapuram, Nov 26: India Met Department has forecast four days of heavy to very rains for Tamil Nadu, Puducherry and coastal Andhra Pradesh from tomorrow (Friday). Satellite pictures this morning showed an advance batch of clouds having penetrated the North Tamil Nadu coast after travelling hundreds of km from South Andaman Sea. ‘Low’ brewing It…
Google Maps’ offline feature with turn-by-turn directions is now available in India. Earlier while you could save a map offline, it would not give the exact directions to a place in the offline mode. In a press statement Google said, that users can now get driving directions, search for specific destinations, and find useful information…
NEW DELHI: India will overtake the US as the second-largest Internet user base in the world by next month, behind only China, which has more than 600 million subscribers. The number of Internet users in India is expected to reach 402 million by December, a growth of 49 per cent over last year, according to…
Heavy rainfall has thrown life out of gear in several parts of Tamil Nadu where educational institutions remained closed even as the weather office forecasts heavy downpour in the next 24 hours. In Chennai, residents had a harrowing time due to water-logging and delay in train services. Several areas, including Mylapore (South Chennai), Vysarpadi and Perambur…
The Mumbai traffic police, on Tuesday, launched a helpline number for dissemination of information and registering traffic-related complaints, at its headquarters in Worli. The helpline was launched by the hands of Bollywood actor Hrithik Roshan and commissioner of Mumbai police Ahmed Javed. “I now declare the Mumbai traffic police (MTP) helpline 8454 999 999 to…
New Delhi: The railways has doubled the ticket cancellation charge as it has proposed to change the refund rules to help genuine passengers getting confirmed tickets. There will be no refund after the departure of train and one has to get the refund four hours before the departure, according to the new refund rules. The…
WASHINGTON: Climate change threatens nearly 55 million people in India’s coastal areas and could lock in enough sea level rise to submerge land currently home to more than half a billion people globally if the temperature spikes by 4 degrees Celsius — humanity’s current trajectory. Homes of 55 million people in coastal areas of India…
India’s latest communication satellite GSAT-15 was successfully launched by Ariane-5 rocket in the early hours on Wednesday from the spaceport of Kourou in French Guiana. The European launcher blasted off at 03:04am (IST) and hurled the GSAT-15, designed to deliver telecommunications services, as well as dedicated navigation-aid and emergency services, into space in a flawless…
Swiss giant Nestle on Wednesday said government approved labs have found the newly manufactured samples of instant noodles Maggi safe and the company will start retail sales of the popular snack this month. All samples of the newly manufactured batches from its three plants — Nanjangud (Karnataka), Moga (Punjab) and Bicholim (Goa) — have been…
