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Modi hooks Microsoft, Google, Qualcom and Facebook to `Digital India'
28 Sep 2015
While Google plans to enable Wi-Fi internet to 500 railway stations, Microsoft wants to help the government take low-cost broadband to five lakh villages, Chip-maker Qualcomm will set up a $150 million fund for start-ups in India and Facebook has started a project to enable Wi-Fi hotspots in rural India
Modi hooks Microsoft, Google, Qualcom and Facebook to `Digital India'
28 Sep 2015
While Google plans to enable Wi-Fi internet to 500 railway stations, Microsoft wants to help the government take low-cost broadband to five lakh villages, Chip-maker Qualcomm will set up a $150 million fund for start-ups in India and Facebook has started a project to enable Wi-Fi hotspots in rural India
Modi hooks Microsoft, Google, Qualcom and Facebook to `Digital India'
28 Sep 2015
While Google plans to enable Wi-Fi internet to 500 railway stations, Microsoft wants to help the government take low-cost broadband to five lakh villages, Chip-maker Qualcomm will set up a $150 million fund for start-ups in India and Facebook has started a project to enable Wi-Fi hotspots in rural India
Modi hooks Microsoft, Google, Qualcom and Facebook to `Digital India'
28 Sep 2015
While Google plans to enable Wi-Fi internet to 500 railway stations, Microsoft wants to help the government take low-cost broadband to five lakh villages, Chip-maker Qualcomm will set up a $150 million fund for start-ups in India and Facebook has started a project to enable Wi-Fi hotspots in rural India
SC rap makes Haryana pull up its law officers
19 Sep 2015
Haryana moves SC over new civic election law
19 Sep 2015
Tax issues being ‘put to sleep’, reforms in offing: Jaitley
19 Sep 2015
Finance minister Arun Jaitley said on Friday efforts are being made to "put to sleep" pending taxation issues to attract investments and make the fundamentals of the economy sound so that it can withstand the global turmoil
India could’ve been hardware leader, regrets Narayana Murthy
18 Sep 2015
IT doyen Narayan Murthy says wrong policies held back India’s hardware potential in the past, and the poor quality of college education is doing the same now
Visible wealth makes economic inequality worse, experiments show
18 Sep 2015
The economic gap between the rich and poor becomes even wider when the inequality is made visible, a new Yale University study says
SC refuses to stay Bombay HC order lifting meat ban
18 Sep 2015
The Supreme Court on Thursday refused to lift a Bombay High Court order staying a ban on meat imposed in Mumbai during a Jain festival
Moody’s expects RBI rate cut amid falling prices
12 Sep 2015
Moody’s expects RBI rate cut amid falling prices
12 Sep 2015
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