Google has launched an Android and Apple smartphone payments app in India called Tez. The app allows users to transfer money to one and other, and to buy from mobile websites and physical stores. It is based on the country’s government-backed system launched last year to encourage digital payments – Unified Payment Interface (UPI) standard. Google announced that Tez works […]
» Read moreAfter Korea Open Super Series badminton tournament, Olympic and World Championships silver-medallist P.V. Sindhu will aim to continue her rich vein of form when she heads into the Japan Open. Sindhu, seeded fourth in the tournament, will have to be at her best to get past world No. 19 Minatsu Mitani in the opening round of the women’s singles event […]
» Read moreChief Minister Siddaramaiah is expected to offer ‘bagina’ to the Kabini reservoir, which has reached its brim with the revival of monsoon. According to Irrigation Department officials, Chamarajnagar MP R. Dhruvanarayan visited the reservoir on Tuesday and asked officials to make arrangements for the CM’s visit, tentatively scheduled for 3 p.m. on Thursday. Meanwhile, the water level in the reservoir […]
» Read moreThe State government is holding deliberations with the Centre for immediate release of funds owed to Andhra Pradesh, according to Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu. “A sum of ₹3,850 crore has to be released by the Centre towards the Polavaram irrigation project. Our aim is to complete it by 2018, which is possible with due support from the Centre,” Mr. […]
» Read moreEighteen dissident AIADMK MLAs belonging to the T.T.V. Dhinakaran faction, who had withdrawn support to Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami, were on Monday disqualified from their posts by Assembly Speaker P. Dhanapal. Announcing this, Assembly Secretary K. Boopathy said in an official release that since the Speaker has disqualified them under Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly (Disqualification on Ground of Defection) Rules, […]
» Read moreSenior IPS officer Y.C Modi, who was part of the Supreme Court-appointed Special Investigation Team that probed the 2002 Gujarat riot cases, was on Monday named chief of the National Investigation Agency (NIA). The federal probe agency is tasked with probing terrorism and terror-financing related cases. The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) approved Mr. Modi’s appointment as Director General […]
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