Tech major HCL Chairman Shiv Nadar today made an offering of Rs one crore and one (Rs 1,00,00,001) to the Lord Venkateswara shrine near here. The hill temple PRO Talari Ravi said after offering prayers, the HCL chairman handed over the offering in the form of a cheque to TTD Executive Officer D Sambasiva Rao inside the shrine. He requested the...

Pfizer Inc. is close to an agreement to buy Medivation Inc. for about $14 billion, people familiar with the situation said, the latest in a long run of blockbuster deals in the drug and biotechnology industries. The deal may be announced as early as Monday, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the matter is still private....

Megastar Chiranjeevi, who turned 61 on Monday, was presented with a special teaser from the makers of his upcoming project, his 150th film, as a birthday gift. The video introduces viewers to the technical team of the film. The 52-second teaser introduces Chiranjeevi as a conqueror of millions of hearts and the undisputed king of the Telugu film industry. Read: Chiranjeevi...

Sometimes, they look like puppies, and at times they look like ice cream. We are talking about Uber’s car icons that most of time look a bit dull and boring on the maps page that most of us end up staring at when we are hunting for ride. Today, however, the company has given every customer in India a reason...

The BSE Sensex and NSE Nifty opened flat on Monday after appointment of Urjit Patel as new RBI Governor amid mixed global cues. Patel will succeed Raghuram Rajan, whose tenure ends on September 4. At 9.35 am, Sensex was trading 16.26 points up at 28,093.26, while NSE Nifty was trading 3.75 points up at 8,670.65. Below are the 11 stocks that are in focus...

Bollywood actress Deepika Padukone has been roped in as the new brand ambassador of domestic airline company Vistara. A new multimedia brand campaign of Vistara along with its first TV commercial (TVC) will be launched on Monday. The campaign reinterprets and delivers on the brand promise of “Fly the new feeling”, through the eyes of Deepika. The concept of the TVC revolves...

Chinese smartphone maker is all geared up today for the launch of its first selfie smartphone called the Gionee S6s. The ‘s’ in the S6 model name stands for selfie and the smartphone adds to the lineup of the Gionee S6and S6 Pro (which has yet to be announced). While things have not been confirmed for now, Gionee could...

9:30 p.m.: Welspun India slumps 20 per cent after Bloomberg reported that Target Corp is ending all business with the company, "after saying the supplier was sending it phony Egyptian cotton sheets". 9:25 p.m.: Sensex overcame a weak start to move higher with FMCG and energy stocks edging higher in early trade. Sensex up over 50 points while Nifty rises to 8,685 at day's high. The...

Scientists, including some of Indian origin, have developed a new method of communication that may allow power constrained devices such as brain implants, contact lenses and credit cards to ‘talk’ to smartphones and watches. The “interscatter communication” works by converting Bluetooth signals into Wi-Fi transmissions over the air. Using only reflections, an interscatter device such as a smart contact lens...

We already rely on Amazon Prime to bring us necessities like food, clothing, and five-pound Hershey bars, so why not entire cars? Hyundaiis going to try that, although only to quickly bring you a car to test-drive. There's no one-click ordering for Elantras yet. The program, called "Prime Now. Drive Now", is an extension of the Prime Now fast delivery...