Newsmakers: Jaitley gets best FM award, I-T tool to check PAN details and more

Jaitley gets best FM of Asia award: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has been chosen as 'Finance Minister of the Year, Asia' by London-based publication Emerging Markets. In an article the magazine said that Jaitley too deserves 'some recognition' for India's relative economic success over the last 18 months.

TCS reports Rs 6,055-cr net profit: Country's largest software services firm Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has reported a 16 per cent rise in net profit to Rs 6,084.66 crore for the quarter ended September 30. The Mumbai-based firm had reported a profit of Rs 5,244.28 crore in the corresponding period last fiscal, it said in a regulatory filing. 

I-T tool to check PAN transactions history: The government is set to unveil an ambitious PAN activity monitoring and analysis software tool that will enable Income Tax department to check transactions history of a person country-wide and help sleuths in effective tracking of black money trail.

Google launches Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P in India: Google launched its Nexus smartphones 5X and 6P in India. Both these smartphones were unveiled last month in the US. There is a new feature Now on Tap for accessing more information, which is based on machine learning. These smartphones also support Nexus Imprint, a fingerprint sensor that can be used to unlock the device and for payments too. Nexus Imprint continues to read the finger print and enhance with time. Both the Nexus smartphones will be available for pre-booking starting Tuesday in online as well as offline retail and will go on sale from October 21.

Facebook app to add shopping features: Facebook wants its users to shop for clothes and other products from their mobile phones without ever leaving its app. In an effort to move further into e-commerce and compete with Amazon 's retail offerings, Facebook announced that it is testing several ad features that allow users to shop directly through its app.