Going forward, as tax revenues significantly increase, India will have GST slabs of 0 per cent, 5 per cent and a standard rate between 12-18 per cent for commonly-used items, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said Monday. Luxury and sin goods will, however, continue to be taxed in a higher bracket. In a Facebook post titled Eighteen Months of GST’, Jaitley said, of the 1,216 commodities which are used, broadly 183 […]

Telecom operators Airtel and Vodafone-Idea may soon do away with life-time free incoming plans by charging a minimum amount from subscribers to keep their number in use. Telcos feel that the aggressive competition in the market led by Reliance Jio has not only impacted their revenue, but also have led them to revamp the current tariffs. Customers will no longer be able to avail life-time free incoming calls. This comes […]

Technical Guruji, a YouTube channel run by Dubai-based Gaurav Choudhary, which is one of the most subscribed tech YouTube channel has now become the world’s first tech YouTube channel with 10 million subscribers and over 800 million views. Gaurav Choudhary, the man behind the world’s only most subscribed tech YouTube channel — Technical Guruji — rose to fame for his tech videos in Hindi. Technical Guruji basically provides information and […]

Clean-energy lights are transforming lives—and creating entrepreneurs—in Africa and India. Prashant Mandal flips on a candy-bar-size LED light in the hut he shares with his wife and four children. Instantly hues of canary yellow and ocean blue—reflecting off the plastic tarps that serve as the family’s roof and walls—fill the cramped space where they sleep. Mandal, a wiry 42-year-old with a thick black beard and a lazy eye, gestures with […]

Paytm’s parent company One97 Communications has reported a higher net loss of Rs 1,490.4 crore for the year ended on March 31, 2018, compared to Rs 879.6 crore in the previous fiscal, according to regulatory filings. One97 Communications’ revenues from operations, however, grew manifold to Rs 2,987.41 crore in FY2017-18 as against Rs 624.76 crore in FY2016-17, according to the company’s filings to the Corporate Affairs Ministry provided by business […]

Reliance Jio is once again ready to disrupt the telecom sector with its exciting festive offer. Jio has announced the Jio Diwali 100 percent cashback offer which brings to users a 100 percent cashback. The Rs 1,699 plan, announced as part of Jio Diwali Dhamaka offer on October 18, will give users 1.5GB data and 100 free SMSs per day and unlimited voice calls for a year. In addition to […]

The online shopping battles are about to get underway. The e-commerce giant Flipkart will organize the Big Billion Days Sale from October 10 to October 14. At the same time, Amazon India will also host the Great Indian Festival from October 10 to October 15. During this period, both shopping platorms will offer huge discounts on various products ranging from smartphones, electronics, accessories to fashion and home decor. Apart from […]

It’s a downward slide in the stock markets. You have levels being flashed one after the other. The Sensex tanks close to the 35000 mark and the Nifty dipped lower below 10,550. The chartists are flashing red flags about moving averages crumbling and the average investor worrying about their savings. The Bank Of America Merrill  Lynch says a storm is brewing across the Indian stock markets and they have taken […]

US President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed on Wednesday to start trade talks in an arrangement that, for now, protects Japanese automakers from further tariffs, seen as a major threat to the export-dependent economy. In a joint statement, the two countries said the talks “will respect positions of the other government,” drawing lines on autos and Japan’s agriculture sector. Trump has made clear he is unhappy […]

I believe that we need to walk the talk that we always preach about. If we want someone to imbibe our values, we ourselves must have embodied those values. As a Take Charge expert and an empowerment coach, I have come across many people who have stunning ideas, tools, and systems which they spent a lot of time to bring to perfection. But these geniuses don’t succeed in a larger […]