Opposition party leaders of seven parties, such as Sitaram Yechury, D Raja, Manoj Jha and Thol Thirumavalavan, have written to President Ramnath Kovi

Why only big e-commerce companies have the luxury of having very expensive IT solution to run their businesses? A Hyderbad-based startup, ONGO Framew

Top retailers have sought Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami’s intervention to allow them to restart operations.“We request you to allo

The government on Friday announced raising its borrowing by over 50 per cent of Budget Estimate during the current fiscal. Additional borrowing means

Malaysia, Philippines show interest; weak rupee makes country competitive

With an increasingly large share of the Indian workforce working from home (WFH) amid the lockdown, and with the trend expected to continue for the n

Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) Limited has received bids from project developers to supply round the clock power from renewable energy (RE)

Tech giant Google is set to add more 3D objects viewable right from the search results page on mobile, including Neil Armstrong’s spacesuit and anatom

The Finance Ministry on Friday allowed discounting of prolonged stay period in India for the purpose of determining residency status from the taxation

Milaap, considered as South Asia’s largest online crowdfunding platform, has collected nearly Rs 90 crore which will be used to help stranded migrant

Social media site Facebook announced on Friday that it is set to roll out its redesigned desktop website to all its users over the next few weeks. It

Maharashtra Chief Minister, Uddhav Thackeray on Friday said that State Government could ask the Centre for additional manpower for policing as the Mah

Microsoft has revealed that it plans to deliver a feature update (May 2020 Update) between May 26 and May 28, said a report in Windows Latest.Microsof

The company will soon integrate Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, Malayalam, Kannada, Marathi, and Gujarati

The World Health Organization on Friday said that a wholesale market in Wuhan, China had played a role in the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in 201

Japan has asked India to allow Japanese companies to resume their work in India. This comes as India witnessed a surge in the number of coronavirus pa

Video-conferencing tool Zoom is releasing an update for its app today as part of its 90-day plan to enhance the tool’s security.In this new update, th

Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp is currently working on a feature that will allow users to connect their WhatsApp account to multiple devic

In Maharashtra, there are enough supplies of cottonseed and there would no delay in seed disbursal to the farmers. Large-scale retail sales of the se

On Monday(May 11), Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will hold a meeting with chief executives of Public Sector banks ( PSBs) and Chairman of State

Smartphone maker Lava has resumed production at its Noida factory after receiving permission from authorities to begin limited operations, the company

Mobile ATM stationed at Perianaickenpalayam and Vadavalli

The death toll due to Covid-19 rose to 1,981 and the number of cases climbed to 59,662 in the country on Saturday, registering an increase of 95 death

Authority for Advance Rulings (AAR) of Karnataka in its recent ruling mentioned that services for fees collection for tonsuring the heads of devotees,

India was the biggest market for Zoom in April in terms of downloads according to Sensor Tower.According to a report by GadgetsNow, the video-conferen

The World Health Organization (WHO) is planning to launch a new coronavirus app to enable people from under-resourced countries to self-assess their s

This is the Indian Navy’s first massive evacuation exercise during the Covid-19 lockdown.

The US is working to temporarily ban the issuance of some work-based visas like H-1B, popular among highly-skilled Indian IT professionals, as well

Road construction companies expected a smooth road in 2020, but the coronavirus-induced lockdown has thrown fresh challenges their way. So, what lies ahead for the companies?

Tamil Nadu has constituted a high-level committee under the Chairmanship of former Governor of Reserve Bank of India, C Rangarajan, to advise the gove

The Congress Party has asked the Telangana Government to bring back the migrant labourers stranded in the Gulf countries.Addressing a press conference

The net interest margin was the highest ever at 3.87 per cent in the fourth quarter

The large-cap-oriented fund has contained losses well in these difficult market conditions

EU states should guarantee vouchers for travel cancelled during the coronavirus pandemic and start lifting internal border restrictions in a bid to s

The evaluation for class 10, 12 Board exams will be done by teachers at their homes and 3,000 schools have been identified as exam centres to deliver

LG, Samsung, Vivo and Xiaomi are also rolling out hyperlocal sales platforms that will connect their offline stores to consumers searching products online so that the outlet nearest to the consumer can deliver the order, industry executives said.

From laptops to apparels, people are logging on to e-commerce platforms like Amazon, Paytm Mall and Snapdeal to place orders for non-essential items, but lack of adequate manpower amid the lockdown could delay deliveries.

Lockdown could see at least 20% of Indian retailers collapse or wind up their business in next few months. “Ever since the lockdown was imposed on 24th March, the Indian retail sector has lost a gigantic sum of approximately Rs 5.50 lakh crore in this period and is likely to witness at least 20% of Indian retailers collapse and wind up their businesses in the next few months,” CAIT said.

Following these challenging times, CAIT has urged the government to award a substantial package to traders to ensure their survival. COVID-19 has caused a huge dent in retail trade which will have a devastating effect on the whole country, CAIT Secretary-General Praveen Khandelwal said.

Deals on grocery and FMCG had evaporated days before lockdown in March last week when panic buying had started.

Large operators of malls such as Xander-backed Virtuous Retail, Select Group, Phoenix Group and Blackstone-backed Nexus have not waived rentals for their tenants.

Kishore Biyani is planning to sell a massive stake to Amazon in an attempt to keep its crown jewel afloat.

"If such payments are made, the business of the traders will fall like anything and in absence of any inflow of money, such payments will be disastrous for the retail trade of the country and in turn will badly affect the economy," CAIT Secretary General Praveen Khandelwal said in the letter to Goyal.

Currently, owing to lockdown, JioMart is serving limited inventory. But everything is about to change.

“The idea of store-on-wheels is that customers should not feel suffocated that they can’t go out and shop, and feel the same pleasure right at their doorsteps,” said Vishnu Prasad, managing director of Future Lifestyle Fashions that owns Central and Brand Factory.

N. Sankar will continue as Registrar (in-charge) until the lockdown ends, said Madurai Kamaraj University Vice-Chancellor M. Krishnan. Mr. Sankar subm

Government staff affiliated to Tamil Nadu Government Employees Association staged a demonstration in front of their offices here on Friday condemning