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New Delhi, Aug 2025 : The Adani Group is set to invest up to $10 billion in Vietnam as part of its long-term expansion strategy, according to a report by Vietnam’s Tuoi Tre News. Group Chairman Gautam Adani outlined the ambitious investment plan during a meeting with Vietnamese Party General Secretary To Lam in Hanoi last week, signaling a significant deepening of India-Vietnam economic ties. The report, quoting Vietnam’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, stated that Gautam Adani expressed admiration for…

 In a major step toward accelerating India’s digital transformation and industrial modernization, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) and Numaligarh Refinery Limited (NRL) signed a landmark Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) during the “Industry 4.0 Workshop for CPSEs” organized under the aegis of the Ministry of Finance in Guwahati. The workshop witnessed participation from several senior dignitaries, including the Secretary, Department of Public Enterprises (DPE), CMD NRL, Director (Enterprise Business) BSNL, MD NRL, MD AMTRON, and other senior officials from the Ministry of Finance and various CPSEs. Discussions focused on empowering Central Public…

New Delhi, Aug 2025 : With the deadline for filing Income Tax Returns (ITR) extended to September 15, taxpayers now have additional time to evaluate and choose between the old and new tax regimes. This decision is crucial, as it directly impacts tax liabilities and benefits for the assessment year. For salaried individuals and pensioners without business income, switching between the old and new tax regimes is relatively simple. They can opt for the preferred regime every year while filing…

New Delhi, Aug 25 : India Post Payments Bank (IPPB), a pioneer in accessible banking services, announced the nationwide rollout of Aadhaar-based Face Authentication facility for customer transactions — a breakthrough initiative aimed at empowering every Indian, especially the elderly and differently-abled, by making banking more secure, inclusive, and convenient. The face authentication feature, developed under the framework of UIDAI (Unique Identification Authority of India), enables customers to perform banking transactions using facial recognition, eliminating the need for physical biometric…

Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), India’s trusted state-owned telecom giant, today launched its much-anticipated ‘Freedom Plan’—a limited-period ₹1 offer that gives users to test BSNL’s 4G mobile services for one full month. This initiative marks BSNL’s celebration of India’s Independence Day and offers citizens a chance to experience India’s own indigenously developed 4G technology at no cost. The plan includes: Announcing the offer, Shri A. Robert J. Ravi, CMD, BSNL, said: “With BSNL’s 4G—designed, developed, and deployed under the ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ mission—we are…

A complain of a serious financial fraud was lodged at Lahori Gate Police Station, Delhi exposing an alleged multi-crore scam involving a major national bank and its associated insurance partner. The complaint was filed by Vijender Bansal, a long-standing account holder, who claims to have been defrauded of a substantial amount through misleading insurance schemes. According to the complaint, the bank officials persuaded Bansal to invest nearly Rs. 05 Crores over time in various insurance policies, promising high returns, reportedly…

Quick commerce platform Blinkit is running pilots for prescription medicine delivery, including antibiotics, eyedrops, and anti-histamines, expanding its earlier assortment of over-the-counter drugs, while Blinkit’s pharmacy service is currently available in select areas of Bengaluru, offering prescription medicines for heart diseases, lung diseases, neurocare, and antibiotics, among others The offering, which includes medicines for respiratory, heart, eye and ear conditions as well as neurocare, is currently available in select pin codes of Bengaluru. Eternal’s Blinkit is the second entrant in…

According to recent scientific inventions, Smartphones must stay connected to mobile networks at all times to function properly. The core component that enables this constant connectivity is the communication modem (baseband) inside the device. KAIST researchers, using their self-developed testing framework called ‘LLFuzz (Lower Layer Fuzz)’, have discovered security vulnerabilities in the lower layers of smartphone communication modems and demonstrated the necessity of standardizing mobile communication modem security testing. It is Professor Yongdae Kim and his team from the School…

Researchers from IMDEA Networks, in collaboration with Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, IMDEA Software Institute, and the University of Calgary, have conducted the first large-scale study, “Your Signal, Their Data: An Empirical Privacy Analysis of Wireless-scanning SDKs in Android”, on how certain Android mobile applications use a device’s Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connections to track users’ movements in their daily lives, thereby violating their privacy. The study explains how certain technologies, such as small Bluetooth-emitting devices placed in public spaces (e.g.,…

Jyotiraditya Scindia Announces Launch of Sanchar Saathi Mobile App in Hindi and 21 Regional Languages Union Minister for Communications, Shri Jyotiraditya M. Scindia, chaired a stakeholders meeting today along with Secretary, Department of Telecommunications, Dr. Neeraj Mittal under the Sanchar Saathi initiative to ideate and further strengthen efforts against telecom-related cyber frauds, in light of the urgent need for greater awareness, implementing preventive measures, and encouraging Jan-bhagidari through citizen reporting. This citizen-centric digital safety initiative ‘Sanchar Saathi’ integrates advanced tools such as…