Air traffic rises 15% in December, SpiceJet registers highest percentage of...
New Delhi: Domestic air passenger traffic increased by 15.29 percent in December to 64.40 lakh passengers — up from 55.86 lakh in the corresponding month last year, official data showed.According to data from the civil aviation ministry, passengers carried in 2014 rose 9.70 percent and stood... read more »
Twitter acquires Indian mobile marketing startup ZipDial
Twitter has just acquired an Indian startup ZipDial, a mobile marketing and analytics company based in Bangalore. ZipDial came into prominence in 2013, when it effectively converted missed calls into business, allowing users to call a business and hang up before being charged, and subsequently... read more »
Government hikes import tariff value on gold, silver
NEW DELHI: The government today hiked import tariff value on gold to $401 per 10 grams and on silver to $543 per kg in line with global price trends. The tariff value on imported gold was at $392 per 10 grams and for silver it was at $519 per kg in the first fortnight of this month. The import... read more »
RSS wants Modi government to ban Flipkart, Amazon and eBay?
Claiming that foreign e-commerce firms such as Amazon and eBay are ‘killing domestic players in the Indian market’, the economic wing of the RSS has asked the government to ban them. However, that is not the end of the story. The RSS reportedly wants Indian e-retailers such as Flipkart... read more »
