HDFC Bank has managed to create massive wealth by focusing on retail banking, especially auto, gold and education loans. Expansion in rural markets helped in scaling up further

Unlock 40 in Rajasthan: 50 per cent of teaching and non-teaching staff to be called to schools at a time for online teaching, tele-counselling and related work

The coronavirus-induced lockdown was first announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on March 25 and was extended in phases till May 31. The unlock process of the country began on June 1 with the graded reopening of commercial, social, religious, and other activities

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Amazon on Thursday announced its entry into the fitness smartwatch market with a smart band called Halo and a subscription service by the same name.

As the e-commerce transaction process entails multiple entities at different stages, such as marketplace, merchants, payment gateways, financial institutes, apart from the consumers, each of them can act as a vulnerability or attack point for malicious actors

Nandan Nilekani said that during the ongoing crisis, digital and medical technologies stood out, which enabled people to work from home, among other things, and helped in dealing with the virus by developing better tests, drugs, and vaccines

The survey noted that almost all of the responsive states use physical (non-digital) mechanisms to track the progress of learners with majority of them either practising home visit by teachers or systematic parental guidance via phone calls

OFC in Andaman and Nicobar Islands: Spanning across 2,313 km, the cost of implementation of the undersea cable laid between Chennai and Port Blair is Rs 1,224 crore

The submarine cable will also connect Port Blair to Swaraj Dweep (Havelock), Little Andaman, Car Nicobar, Kamorta, Great Nicobar, Long Island, and Rangat

Digital solutions can place India at the vanguard of a fourth industrial revolution, while positively impacting 30 million jobs, says Chandrasekaran, chairman of Tata Sons

NEP 2020 has got the ball rolling to fix the school education but is innocuously quiet in acknowledging the contribution of the private schools and the failure of the public school system

Among the relaxations, the state government allowed increasing size of the workforce to 75 per cent in private establishments in non-containment zones which are under Greater Chennai Police limits

This uptick in hiring has fuelled the confidence of active job seekers towards career progression as findings show that about 2 in 3 professionals will increase their time spent searching for and applying to jobs in the next 2 weeks

The Aatma Nirbhar Bharat App ecosystem has the potential to unlock value for the Indian tech start-ups and help them get a pie of the multi-trillion-dollar App Economy

India is the second-largest smartphone market in the world. According to Statista, over 19 billion mobile apps were downloaded in the country in 2019, as compared to over six billion in 2016

\"Many people are opposing lockdown. They say that lockdown is affecting the economy. To such people, I would say that I am ready to lift the lockdown, but if people die due to it, would you take the responsibility?...Even we are concerned about the economy,\" he said.

A note issued by the Mahindra group says that the various university programmes will be located on the 130-acre and will offer undergraduate, post graduate and PhD courses

The EY survey, which polled over 4,000 respondents equally divided between metro and non-metro markets, was conducted to ascertain the potential impact of pandemic-related disruptions on consumer sentiments, its report said

Data shows that 50 per cent of school children in India, a whopping 12 crore, go to private schools