San Jose: Google will COLLABORATE with the Indian Railways to provide wi-fi services at 500 stations by next year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on Sunday as he visited the headquarters of the search engine giant in San Jose.

Modi, who took a tour of the Google campus seeing the latest products and forward-looking researches, was given a presentation of Google Earth in which the ghats of his Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi were shown.

New Delhi: The Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) on Monday successfully launched astronomy satellite Astrosat along with six foreign satellites from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, an island off the Bay of Bengal coast in Andhra Pradesh.

This is India’s first dedicated satellite for astronomy mission. The satellites were released through the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLC -C30.

Mumbai/Washington: India’s biggest lender, State Bank of India (SBI), sees inflation below the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) target at year’s end, giving governor Raghuram Rajan room to reduce borrowing costs.

Rajan is expected to lower the benchmark repurchase rate for the fourth time this year to 7% in a policy review on Tuesday. Thirty seven of 45 economists in a Bloomberg survey predict a quarter-point cut, with seven forecasting no change and one anticipating a 50 basis-point reduction.

NEW DELHI: Even as Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in the US, Air India on Sunday announced it was starting the only non-stop link with America's west coast with a flight between Delhi and San Francisco from December 2.

"San Francisco will become Air India's fourth destination in the United States. Air India operates daily non-stop flights to New York (JFK), Newark (EWR) and Chicago (ORD)," a statement said. The service is looking to cater to the large Indian community in Silicon Valley, where Modi paid a visit.

In the first ever merger of two regulators, over 60-year-old commodities regulatory body FMC today merged with the capital markets watchdog Sebi with Finance Minister Arun Jaitley ringing the customary stock MARKET bell to formalise the amalgamation.

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) Chairman U K Sinha said that the commodities market entities would get a timeframe of up to one year to adjust to the new regulations as they would have to follow the same norms that are applicable to their peers in the equity segment.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives in Silicon Valley tonight where he will learn firsthand the success story of iconic companies and their leaders with the objective of building a similar ecosystem of innovation and entrepreneurship in India.

During his two-day stay in Silicon Valley, he would begin and conclude his engagements with the Indian-American community, the last one being addressing a strong crowd of over 18,500 Indian-Americans at the SAP Centre in San Jose.

New Delhi: Gold prices retreated from one-month high to slip below the Rs27,000-mark by falling Rs260 per 10 grams, snapping its three-day rising streak, in Delhi bullion market on Saturday, largely in tune with weak global cues and fall in demand from jewellers.

Bullion traders said besides a weak global trend, easing demand from jewellers and retailers at the existing levels dragged down the precious metal from its one-month high.

Bajaj Auto has launched the qualicycle RE60 for export to 16 countries even as the automaker awaits a supreme court verdict before it launches the vehicle in India.

Now called 'Qute, the quadricycle will be exported to Latin America, Africa, Europe and Asia at price of around $2000.

The Andhra Pradesh Government has signed a Rs 40,000-crore memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) for setting up a LNG Regasification Terminal in Kakinada Deep Water Port.

The Andhra Pradesh Government has signed a Rs 40,000-crore memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) for setting up a LNG Regasification Terminal in Kakinada Deep Water Port.

Microsoft India on Friday unveiled three new Xbox one console bundles that will launch on October 2, to celebrate their first anniversary. Customers can pre order from September 25 on Amazon.in.

Xbox One Forza Motorsport 6 limited edition console is the first of its kind with a racing theme. The bundle has 1 TB hard drive, matching wireless controller and a tenth anniversary car pack. The bundle is priced at Rs 39,990.

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