Business Briefs: India Passes U.S. and China in Smartphone Market and Growth, Respectively
India Passes U.S. to Become World's 2nd-largest Smartphone Market
India has toppled the U.S. to become the second-largest market for the devices. Smartphone shipments to...
Facebook Board Member’s tweet creates online storm, Indians furious
NEW YORK & NEW DELHI-- A tweet by Facebook board member Marc Andreessen implying that Facebook’s Free Basics is the same as colonialism created...
Spying case: Former diplomat Madhuri Gupta’s charges carry 14-year term
By GarimaTyagi
NEW DELHI-- Former Indian diplomat Madhuri Gupta, accused of passing on sensitive information to Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), will be charged under the...
Leopard enters Bengaluru school, trapped after injuring five
BENGALURU-- A male leopard was on Sunday tranquilized and trapped after it quietly entered a private school in the city and injured five people,...
How much did the World Hindi Conference cost?
By Sidhartha Dutta
NEW DELHI--The external affairs ministry spent more than Rs.7 crore (over $1 million) on the 10th World Hindi Conference in Bhopal from...
Birds of 11 rare species found in Jharkhand
RANCHI--Birds of 11 rare species thought to be extinct have been found during a survey of the water bodies in Jharkhand, a state forest...
A modelling agency and state of for transgenders in India
By Nivedita
NEW DELHI--Even as the LGBT community in India has been fighting a legal battle asking for Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code...
Bahadur Shah Zafar’s wish remains unfulfilled despite promises by Indian leaders
By Vishal Gulati
YANGON-- India's last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar died in this former capital of Myanmar 154 years ago. But his exile still...
50 percent Indians will be digitally literate in 3 years: Prasad
NEW DELHI-- In the next three years, the government aims to take digital literacy to at least 50 percent from the current level of...
Invest Karnataka 2016 brought 100-plus ready-to-invest projects, 5,000 delegates
BENGALURU-- Invest Karnataka 2016 is the first Global Investors Meet (GIM) with more than 100 ready-to-invest projects, said Karnataka's Large and Medium Industries Minister...
