Ahead of Independence Day, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch a new tax scheme tomorrow. The platform “Transparent Taxation – Honoring the Honest” will be launched by PM Modi via video-conferencing tomorrow. The event will be witnessed by various Chambers of Commerce, Trade Associations, Chartered Accountants’ associations and also eminent taxpayers, apart from the officers and officials […]
Continue ReadingNokia rolled out on Tuesday new 5G stand-alone wireless networks for industrial clients and unveiled an order to build one for mining technology firm Sandvik at its site in Tampere, Finland. “We’re paving the way to accelerate digitalization in the most demanding of use cases such as automotive manufacturing, where cloud, robotics and autonomous machine operations create mission-critical […]
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On March 24, Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had announced the waiver of charges for cash withdrawals from any other banks’ ATM and non-maintenance of minimum balance penalties in savings accounts till June 30. These measures were announced to ease the daily difficulties of people during the COVID-19 pandemic and the nationwide lockdown that followed. As […]
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Before a loan is granted to a customer, the bank or financial institution carries out various checks to make sure that the customer will repay the loan along with the interest due. One such determinant when granting a loan is the credit score. This measure indicates the customer’s credit history, with respect to his bank and loan accounts, […]
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Most mobile applications that track the spread of COVID-19 require access to users’ personal data, but only a handful indicate the data would be anonymous, encrypted and secured, according to a study by Indian-origin researchers in the US. Professor Masooda Bashir and doctoral student Tanusree Sharma from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign analysed 50 COVID-19-related apps available in […]
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In a major relief for 23 crore individual vehicle owners and 40 crore citizens, who benefit from a private or state health insurance scheme, the ministry of finance has amended the law and extended validity of insurance papers till April 21, 2020. In a gazette notification, the ministry of finance amended section 64VB of the […]
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India could face between around 100,000 and 1.3 million confirmed cases of the disease caused by the new coronavirus by mid-May if it continues to spread at its current pace, according to a team of scientists based mainly in the United States. The estimates reinforce concerns among some medical officials and experts in India that the country […]
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Bharti Airtel on Sunday announced its partnership with Bharti AXA Life Insurance to introduce its most affordable prepaid bundle with built in life insurance cover of Rs 2 lakh. Airtel’s new prepaid bundle at Rs 179 offers unlimited calling to any network, 2 GB data, 300 SMS along with a term life cover of Rs […]
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Photo-sharing app Instagram offers a variety of features on its mobile application. Even though there is a web version of the app, it does not support as many features as the mobile app. We take a look at 5 features that are available on Instagram’s mobile app but are not there on the web version Dark Mode […]
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Instagram has introduced new TikTok-like features for its ‘Boomerang’ tool which is available on Stories. The new Boomerang new features are now available on Stories and require no update for the same. Boomerang on Instagram now has four new features along with the existing classic one. There’s ‘SlowMo’, ‘Echo’, ‘Duo’ and ‘Trimming’. These features sound self-explanatory but […]
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