Looking to add a ‘new dimension’ to customer service, Flipkart has launched ‘experience zones’ in 20 stores across 10 cities.

E-commerce marketplace Flipkart has announced the launch of 20 ‘experience zones’ across the country enabling self-product pick-ups for consumers. This new supply-chain initiative under Flipkart’s alternate delivery model will allow customers to walk into their nearest ‘experience zone’ and collect their shipments at their convenient time.

New Delhi, July 28 (PTI): President Pranab Mukherjee, Vice-President Hamid Ansari, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and a host of dignitaries on Tuesday paid their homage to former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, whose mortal remains were brought here from Shillong, where he died on Monday night.

The dignitaries placed wreaths on the body, which was wrapped in the tricolour and placed on a deck on the tarmac at the Palam technical area. An Indian Air Force aircraft had brought it from Guwahati.

OnePlus, the China-based smartphone maker that sold more than 1.5 million units of its debut device, has finally launched its follow-up: the OnePlus 2.

The company first phone drew plaudits for delivering the specs and experience that compete with some of the best in the industry at a mere $300 price point. The OnePlus 2 is largely cut from the same cloth, with a slightly higher price of $329 for the 16GB version, or $389 for a more generous (and powerful) 64GB model, but more for your money. OnePlus is calling it a killer and certainly, with a new iPhone or top-end Samsung device costing $800-plus, the pricing is pretty lethal.

AirAsia India is now offering a flat discount of 20% on basal fares for all flights, the budget carrier said on Monday. The offer can be availed between July 27 and August 2, and the travel period is between July 28 and November 30.

This offer is valid on all domestic routes and over 100 destinations across Asia. Apart from the website, the promotion is also applicable on mobile app and mobile site.

Microsoft’s new Windows 10 operating system debuts tomorrow, as the longtime leader in PC software struggles to carve out a new role in a world where people increasingly rely on smartphones, tablets and information stored online.

No one’s expected to line up overnight for Windows 10, the way people did 20 years ago for Windows 95. But Microsoft is counting on tens or even hundreds of millions of people to download its latest release for free in the coming months.

Shares of Punjab National Bank rose over 6 per cent on its first quarter net profit of current fiscal.

At 2:30 pm, Punjab National Bank stocks traded 4.62 per cent up on BSE. On NSE, PNB stocks rose 5.03 per cent.

The Indian basket of crude oil price has plummeted to $54.41 per barrel, its lowest in four months, on the back of multiple factors, including a contraction in the manufacturing sector in China, the world’s second-largest consumer of crude after the US. A stronger US dollar has also made non-US investors to sell commodities, pressuring prices already impacted by the global oversupply concerns from the just-concluded Iranian nuclear deal.

The Indian basket represents the average price of Oman and Dubai sour grade crude and the sweet Brent crude oil processed in Indian refineries in the ratio of 72:28. It stood at $54.41 per barrel on the last trading day of July 24, falling from a peak of $66.54 per barrel on May 6, and the lowest since April 2 price of $54.77 per barrel.

ICICI Bank, the country’s largest private sector lender, has decided to sell loans turned sour of about Rs 1,000 crore to asset reconstruction companies (ARCs).

A top executive with an ARC said the bank had put two accounts, of Falcon Tyres and Tulip Telecom, on sale. The lender has an exposure of Rs 700 crore to Tulip and Rs 300 crore to Falcon.

Markets regulator the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Sebi) has intended to treat brokers of commodity exchanges at par with their counterparts at equity exchanges in terms of registration and transaction fee ahead of registration process.

In a meeting recently held with representatives of commodity broking fraternity, Sebi said that commodity brokers should be treated at par with equity brokers and therefore, pay uniform registration fee of Rs 50,000 per member as currently paid by equity brokers.

Maruti Suzuki, India's biggest car maker, today posted 56 growth in its net profit at Rs 1,192 crore for the quarter ended June 30, 2015, as against Rs 762 crore posted for the same quarter last year.

Net sales of the company grew 18% to Rs 13,078 crore during the reporting quarter as compared to Rs 11,073 crore posted in the corresponding quarter a year ago.

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