Oppo is not a name that is anything like as familiar as Apple, Xiaomi or Huawei worldwide, but there’s further proof that it is most definitely one to watch, according the findings of a new report.

That’s because the little-known phone-maker scooped the top spot for smartphone sales in China last year, for the first time, fractionally beating out its sister company Vivo and heavyweight Huawei. Apple and Xiaomi, two massive names, meanwhile, posted their first annual shipment declines, highlighting the different struggles that both companies face in The Middle Kingdom.

Mumbai: Finance minister Arun Jaitley announced in the budget last week that the Indian Railway Catering and Tourism Corp. Ltd (IRCTC) will list along with other government-owned railways enterprises soon. So how will a listed, profitable IRCTC with a Rs1,500 crore turnover stack up against its listed peers?

Jaitley also announced that the government will waive off service charge on tickets booked through IRCTC (which is Rs20 or Rs40 at present, depending on the ticket category).

Bengaluru: Infosys Ltd may end the practice of giving an annual revenue forecast because of the difficulties associated with estimating how much its US clients will spend, especially after Donald Trump became president.

For the first time since Infosys started giving a revenue growth outlook in June 2001, the company’s board is debating if the company can predict its own business amid uncertain client spending, according to two executives directly familiar with the development. Both executives said that a decision has not been reached for now.

Telecom Commission has asked DoT to seek clarification from Trai on the Rs 3,050-crore penalty recommended by the watchdog on three service providers Bharti Airtel, Vodafone and Idea Cellular for allegedly denying interconnectivity to newcomer Reliance Jio. “The Telecom Commission has asked DoT to seek clarification from Trai on 10-12 points, including whether the 90-day period was given to telecom operators for providing point of interconnection, method of calculating penalty of Rs 50 crore per circle etc,” an official source said.

State-run power equipment maker BHEL today said that it has secured order for the installation of Solar PhotoVoltaic (PV) rooftop systems totalling 3.6 MW from Surat Municipal Corporation. While all the 10 identified areas of installation would be within the municipal limits of the city; 1MW energy will be required for Surat Smart City, BHEL said in a statement today. According to the statement, this is the single largest order for a Rooftop PV system won by BHEL and will be an important step in establishing the Maharatna company as one of the leaders in Rooftop PV system segment also.

BSE Ltd, the first listing of the new year 2017, opened for trading at Rs 1,085, a stellar 34.6% premium to its offer price of Rs 806 per share. The shares of India’s first stock exchange to be listed soon soared further, and were trading at up 1,111.3, after hitting a high of Rs 1,200.

The first mega IPO of the year had got an overwhelming response with an oversubscription of over 50 times the issue size.

YES Bank will be upgrading its systems "to provide you superior banking experience," the bank told its customers in an e-mail notification.

According to the email, the system upgradation is likely to take four days and the bank notified its customers that during the time of its systems upgrade, its Internet banking services will be unavailable.

Supreme Court-appointed administrators of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) on Monday closed offices of President Anurag Thakur and Secretary Ajay Shirke and sacked employees appointed by them. Appointments and tenure of other BCCI officials will now be overseen by BCCI CEO Rahul Johri.

Last week, the Supreme Court had appointed former Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) Vinod Rai to head the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), along with noted historian Ramachandra Guha, managing director of IDFC Limited Vikram Limaye and former captain of the women's cricket team Diana Edulji as other administrators.

V K Sasikala, aide and head of late J Jayalalithaa’s domestic arrangements for about three decades, will be the next chief minister of Tamil Nadu.

She’d smoothly taken over as head of the ruling AIADMK after Jayalalithaa’s death in December, without any dissent. The entire senior leadership said they saw her as the late supremo’s successor – she was formally elected party head on December 30.

A Delhi-bound Air India flight from Bhopal, carrying 122 passengers and crew on board, was diverted to Jaipur on Monday after the aircraft suffered a bird hit.

All the passengers deplaned safely after the aircraft landed at Jaipur, an Air India spokesperson said.

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