An Assistant Commissioner of the Indian Revenue Service (IRS) was sacked earlier this year for being absent from duty since June, 1997. It is reported that the sacking order was issued by Central Board of Excise and Customs (CBEC) on January 4, 2016. That means after a whole 18 years since he was missing from duty.
when Freecharge released a report which implied that it was doing better than its competitors, rival MobiKwik wasn’t pleased.
The Indian Government has approved a proposal for merging five associate banks of State Bank of India (SBI) group with the parent SBI. This has set in motion the long discussed consolidation of India’s public sector banks.
Paytm has a finger in most pies in the digital world, selling everything from gold loans to bus tickets, but now it seems to be moving into a direction that no other e-commerce company has yet explored. It has just launched its own Scoopwhoop-style entertainment blog.
Microsoft has announced that it will be acquiring professional social network LinkedIn.
Yahoo has announced that it would be phasing out the messenger on August 5th, in favour of a newly designed chat-app which would pretty much do what Yahoo messenger did, and more. It would allow users to chat, exchange photos, GIFs, “like” things, and make groups – features that Facebook and Whatsapp currently provide. However, the new Yahoo app would also come with an “Unsend” option for those hurriedly sent angry texts or autocorrect disasters.
Oyo Rooms has been taken to court by a company that accuses it of not having made Rs. 1.5 crore worth of payments.
Umesh Sachdev, co-founder and CEO, Unifore Software Systems (USS) is among the ten persons named by Time magazine in its 2016 list of “next generation leaders who are changing the world” released earlier this week.
Twitter is littered with customers ranting about their poor experiences with brands. People complain about delayed shipments, unreturned cashbacks, and in some cases, receiving stones and bricks when promised iPhones. But it’s not every day that you see a startup CEO tweet to a fellow startup CEO because they haven’t received their money.