MUMBAI: India is considering asking e-commerce and social media firms to exclusively store customer data locally, a move that could affect global giants that operate in the country such as Amazon, Facebook and its messaging service WhatsApp...
It comes at a time when deep-pocketed foreign players are rapidly investing in India’s e-commerce market, which Morgan Stanley estimates may be worth $200 billion in a decade...
About 300 people lined up at Apple’s store in Mumbai on Tuesday, as fans took selfies with Chief Executive Tim Cook who inaugurated the first retail store run by the company in India, underscoring the importance of its market...
People gathered from across the nation, hoping to be among the first to enter the store in an opening event featuring local music and folk dancers...
NEW DELHI: The death toll from drinking tainted liquor in a Mumbai slum climbed to 84 in the worst incident of its kind in more than a decade, police said Saturday...
Another 31 people, 13 of them in serious condition, were being treated in hospitals after drinking the cheap liquor Wednesday night in Malad, said Deputy Commissioner Dhananjay Kulkarni...
NEW DELHI: India’s foreign ministry said on Thursday it has asked Britain to deport the embattled former airline boss Vijay Mallya, who faces a money laundering investigation...
Mallya, a part-owner of the Force India Formula 1 team who used to run a liquor empire, left India on March 2 owing more than $1 billion and is believed to be in Britain...
The 60-year-old liquor baron, once dubbed the “King of Good Times”, left India on March 2 despite calls for his arrest and is believed to be in Britain...
The move comes days after India suspended Mallya’s passport at the request of the Enforcement Directorate, which had issued a series of summonses for the businessman to appear before it...
Some state leaders had pushed for liquor stores to be reopened earlier, saying the money from alcohol sales was a major source of tax revenue...
The Delhi government said late Monday that it would slap a 70 per cent "special corona fee" on liquor sales from Tuesday to boost revenue badly hit by the pandemic, local media reported...
At least 25 people have died after drinking toxic alcohol in northern India, police said on Sunday...
Police have arrested 10 men for selling the liquor in sprawling Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state...
Three people were fatally shot at a Walmart store in Colorado on Wednesday evening, police said, in a country that is struggling with frequent deadly gun violence...
Hubs have already been inaugurated in Quetta, Muzaffargarh, Lahore and Hyderabad...
Published in Dawn, May 25th, 2015On a mobile phone? Get the Dawn Mobile App: Apple Store | Google Play...
SHANGHAI: Disney opened its first Chinese store on Wednesday, before the launch of its first mainland theme park, as it seeks to sell Mickey Mouse and friends to the Asian giant’s middle classes...
The 860 square-metre store opened in Shanghai, where the park — initially due to open this year but put back until next spring — is under construction...
WASHINGTON: The United States plans to store heavy military equipment in the Baltics and Eastern European nations to reassure allies made uneasy by Russian intervention in Ukraine, and to deter further aggression, a senior US official said on Saturday...
“We will pre-position significant equipment,” the official said, commenting on a New York Times report that the Pentagon was poised to store battle tanks, infantry fighting vehicles...
The online news site The Intercept said US intelligence developed the plan with allies in Britain, Canada, New Zealand and Australia, a group known as the “Five Eyes” alliance...
Published in Dawn, May 22nd, 2015On a mobile phone? Get the Dawn Mobile App: Apple Store | Google Play...
LAHORE: A huge fire engulfed Al-Fatah department store in the Liberty Market on Monday, causing a loss of millions of rupees and huge damage to the entire four-storey building...
Rescue 1122 spokesman Jam Sajjad said 114 people were evacuated from the store and all the adjacent buildings...
Such a structure, known as contango, can make it profitable for traders to store oil in tanker ships for delivery later, although data compiled by Bloomberg and E...
SINGAPORE: Apple opened its first Southeast Asia store in Singapore on Saturday, drawing hundreds of excited fans to the swanky two-storey site in the city’s upmarket shopping district...
Hundreds of shoppers camped out in anticipation of the launch, while more than a thousand thronged the store soon after the doors opened, an AFP reporter observed...