New Delhi, Aug 1: Mobile payments company MobiKwik on Monday announced a tie-up with the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) to power e-cash payments on IRCTC’s e-catering “Food on Trackâ€. The company — which also powers payments for IRCTC Connect allowing users to book train tickets instantly — said the e-catering app allows […]

Bengaluru, Aug 1: State-run Indian Institute of Management-Bangalore (IIM-B) is offering a certificate programme in general management for health care professionals in partnership with Apollo Medskills, the B-school said on Monday. “The course begins on Tuesday with an overview of the executive education by chief program officer Madan Mohan Raj and an address by Apollo […]

New York: You will soon be able to impress your girlfriend in a novel way. Here comes a 3D-Printed Food that can fabricate edible items through computer-guided software and the actual cooking of edible pastes, gels, powders and liquid ingredients — all in a prototype that looks like an elegant coffee machine. The printer is […]

New Delhi: The government on Monday sought Parliament’s nod for additional spending of Rs 1.03 lakh crore, though the cash outgo will only be Rs 20,948.26 crore. “Approval of Parliament is sought to authorise gross additional expenditure of Rs 1,03,013.74 crore. Of this, the proposals involving net cash outgo aggregate to Rs 20,948.26 crore and […]

Social media giant Facebook has decided to give a structure to the open source software with its new Facebook Incubator hub, prompting the developers to think new ways about the software. “Successful Facebook Incubator projects will be carefully scrutinised and managed. Proper documentation, community engagement and widespread adoption will help Incubator projects graduate into their […]

New Delhi/Chennai: Banking operations across the country were hit on Friday as around 10 lakh employees of private and nationalised banks struck work for a day to protest against central government’s policies for the sector. “The strike has evoked a good response nationwide as around ten lakh has participated in it. Most of the nationalised […]

New York, July 29: Hurt by a failed $7.6 billion Nokia experiment amid growing losses in the smartphone hardware business segment, Microsoft has announced to lay off an additional 2,850 workers to the previously 1,850 jobs it said it would cut. In a regulatory filing, the tech giant said it will cut 4,700 jobs globally […]

Kolkata, July 29: One of the reasons for the US’s interest in the integration of northeast India with south-east Asia is a “lurking concern” about China’s looming presence in the region, a political science expert said here on Thursday. “Regional integration (by the US) is seen as a good thing as it will lead to […]

New Delhi: The pathetic conditions in which  Hen coops  are kept, in tiny wire cages without enough space to move around, was raised in the Supreme Court on Friday. Senior counsel K.K. Venugopal told the apex court that the manner in which egg-laying hens are caged is cruel and in breach of the provisions of […]

New Delhi: The Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) said on Friday it will assist Noida Metro Rail Corporation (NMRC) in operating and maintaining the 29.7-km-long Noida-Greater Noida Metro corridor. A memorandum of understanding (MoU) to this effect was signed between the two entities on Friday. The DMRC will be providing the assistance to the NMRC […]