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  • Male Shoppers Outdo Women in Online Shopping in India: Survey

    Bangalore : There is a greater appetite for online shopping among male shoppers in India than their women counter-parts, finds the latest MasterCard Online Shopping Survey. The survey, which serves as a benchmark that measures consumers’ propensity to shop online, was conducted in November and December 2012 and reached 7,011 respondents from 14 markets across […]

    Rupee hits over 11-mth low vs dollar

    Tracking massive fall in equities, the rupee declined by 12 paise to end at 11-month lows of 56.50 against the US dollar amid worries over current account deficit and GDP growth. Rupee commenced lower at 56.50 from previous close of 56.38 at the Interbank Foreign Exchange (Forex) market on Friday. With FII outflows of USD […]

    Airport Metro launches 30-trip pass, lowers cost of travel

    Reliance Infrastructure (RInfra) on Friday said its Delhi Airport Metro Express has launched a 30-trip monthly pass for commuters that will make travel cheaper and minimise the waste on account of unused trips. “New monthly pass gives discounts ranging upwards of 60 per cent over the existing single journey fare. With the new monthly pass, […]

    Plan Panel nod for Rs 53,000cr outlay for Andhra in 2013-14

    The Planning Commission on Thursday approved and annual plan outlay of 53,000 crore rupees for Andhra Pradesh for the year 2013-14. This was finalised at a meeting between Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission, Mr. Montek Singh Ahluwalia and Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh, N.Kiran Kumar Reddy. On plan performance , Mr Ahluwalia said the […]

    IMF to disburse third instalment under ECF to Bangladesh

    The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF ) has completed the second review of Bangladesh’s economic programmme under a three-year arrangement supported by the Extended Credit Facility and approved the immediate disbursement of the third installment under the ECF arrangement for an amount equivalent to about 136.6 million US dollars. With this the […]

    UN report sets out roadmap for eradicating extreme poverty by 2030

    A commitment to end extreme poverty by 2030 is one of the key recommendations from an international panel co-chaired by British Prime Minister David Cameron. Mr. Cameron urged a new global partnership to tackle some of the world’s biggest problems as the body’s report was presented to the UN. Other goals include improvements in women’s […]

    Sensex tumbles 455 pts as rate cut hopes dim, GDP growth slows

    The BSE benchmark Sensex on Friday tumbled by 455 points to close below key 20000-mark, wiping off Rs 1.1 lakh crore in investor wealth, on panic selling in realty, banks and PSUs as hopes of rate cut crashed after RBI comments amid GDP growth slumping to decade-low of 5 per cent. The 30-share barometer, after […]

    NVIDIA Extends PC Gaming Leadership With New GeForce GTX 770 GPU

    Mumbai : NVIDIA today launched the NVIDIAGeForce GTX 770 GPU, which offers an unprecedented level of PC gaming performance for only INR 29,990. The newest addition to the award-winning  NVIDIA Kepler™ architecture lineup of gaming GPUs for the high-end market, the GTX 770 joins the GTX TITAN and theGTX 780in delivering superiorgaming performance, advanced features, […]

    Air France – KLM India announces business class summer bargain deals to Europe!

    New Delhi  : Air France-KLM a  global leader in air transportation and a member of the Sky Team alliance today announced a special 10 percent promotional discount for travel from India to Europe in Business class. To avail this offer, customers can book tickets online at www.airfrance.in or www.klm.com . The tickets can also be […]

    ViewSonic Announces Joint Venture with Hanvon to capitalize handwriting market

    New Delhi :  ViewSonic Corp., a leading global provider of Visual solution products has announced a joint venture with Hanvon – a world leader of hardware and software solutions provider in handwriting recognition technology and OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology. The joint venture between ViewSonic and Hanvon results in the new ViewSonic Hanvon Touch Technology […]