Paisabazaar all set to bring cooperative banks to its platform

Paisabazaar.com claims to get around 20 million customers on its platform every month and since its inception in 2014, has registered a growth of more than 150% per annum. https://ift.tt/2SH8pIm https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Restrictive Delhi HC order pushes India's online pharmacies on the backfoot

Investors have continued to pour in significant amounts of capital in the burgeoning space, but the latest court decision is likely to affect future investments. https://ift.tt/2SK2xy1 https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Paytm Payments Bank reports Rs 20 cr loss, Rs 720cr revenue

The Noida based bank which completed its first full year of operations in 2017-18 has shown Rs 654 crore of income from sources like commission, brokerages and exchanges https://ift.tt/2SMxyBo https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Google launches shopping experience for Indian users

ET had first reported that the Shopping tab will be piloted soon, prior to a full fledged launch before the end of the year​. https://ift.tt/2C8VN7z https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Delhi high court bans online medical sales across country

A bench of Chief Justice Rajendra Menon and Justice V K Rao passed the order while acting on a PIL filed by Delhi-based dermatologist Zaheer Ahmed who complained that lakhs of medicines were being sold on the internet every day without much regulation, posing a huge risk to patients and doctors alike. https://ift.tt/2QqzzXe https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Reliance Retail may use 5k Jio points for e-commerce connect

Reliance Retail will undertake assisted sales of sugar, pulses, soaps and biscuits to apparel and shoes from the Jio Point stores to be delivered to doorsteps using the existing Jio distribution network https://ift.tt/2Bexbsp https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

India pushed draft data protection with dynamism: UK Information Commissioner

Data, according to The UK Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham, is an asset of the fourth industrial revolution and privacy had emerged at a key aspect globally. https://ift.tt/2UHRkQe https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Online companies are now selling meat and a new perception

Sellers like Licious are trying to bring convenience and hygiene to the unorganised business https://ift.tt/2BcjMkn https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Linking of Aadhaar & Voter ID may be made mandatory

Election commission plans to propose amendments to the Representation of the People Act. https://ift.tt/2UHRjMa https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Fab Hotels plans to double inventory by 2019

Fab Hotels, which operates primarily through franchising arrangements, plans to double its inventory to 20,000 rooms by the end of next year. https://ift.tt/2EigeR2 https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

BharatNet crosses halfway mark, links 1.2 lakh panchayats

The ambitious project, which was originally conceived by the UPA-II government in 2011 as the National Optical Fibre Network (NOFN) and renamed as BharatNet, is being monitored by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) but has missed several deadlines since its launch. https://ift.tt/2Qv2CsM https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Swiggy set to roll out 'Launchpad' to enter new markets through educational universities

Swiggy is currently running pilots for the Launchpad in universities including Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Hyderabad, Lovely Professional University in Punjab and Chitkara University, also in Punjab. https://ift.tt/2RQOYg5 https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Visa has reached 20 million contactless cards in India

The company said that more than 3.3 million merchants in India now accept cashless payments through multiple payment options and contactless cards https://ift.tt/2Py6bJt https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

Glossary: Smart farming

Learn definitions of commonly used terms in smart farming. The terms include Agriculture 4.0, agronomic data, farming-as-a-service, precision agriculture, and more.

5G chipset market predicted to hit $22.9B by 2026

5G networks in the sub-6 GHz frequency range are predicted to comprise 77% of the market in 2020, though mmWave deployments will increase as engineering difficulties are overcome.