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Will Jio raising tariffs make India’s data boom go bust?Are days of cheap data over in India?
Updated July 21, 20224 min read
Are days of cheap data over in India?
Female voters may be coming out in never-seen-before numbers in India, but politics is still not a burning passion for most.
Amidst all the job woes for immigrants in the US due to Donald Trump’s work visa clampdown, there’s still no dearth of Indian students taking their dreams there.
A small Chinese smartphone brand is using its bigger brother’s tricks to beat it on Indian turf.
Actor and writer Kalki Koechlin added another feather to her cap last year when she became a podcast host.
The University of Michigan began creating online learning content over a decade ago. Since then, over six million students have enrolled for these courses, a tenth from India.
After clamping down on deep discounting on Indian e-commerce websites, the Indian government now wants to protect consumers from other malpractices that are frequent on these portals: Counterfeit goods, fake reviews, lengthy delivery timelines, and rejected returns.
The financial year ending March 2018 was a blockbuster year for Indian IPOs. But it’s gone all downhill since then.
A US court’s recent order leaving the jury out on H-4 visa holders’ work permit is at best a temporary relief and should not be seen as a permanent solution. For over 100,000 Indian women, the biggest recipients of the visa, the future is still in limbo.
On Nov. 8, 2016, India’s prime minister Narendra Modi unexpectedly announced the demise of the Rs500 and Rs1,000 currency notes. With around 86% of the currency in circulation (by value) pulled out of the system, ostensibly to fight corruption and terrorism, the next several weeks were chaotic for Indians. The note ban shaved off over 2% from the country’s economic activity between November and December 2016.
India’s biggest states have the biggest prison problems.
LinkedIn’s reach in India has more than doubled in the last 20 months.
Indians are going to receive the biggest hikes in the Asia-Pacific next year, even if it is only going to be a marginal change from this year’s raise.
Japanese investors are not holding back when it comes to backing Indian startups.
What do 300 mobile telephone numbers—including those belonging to 40 journalists, three opposition leaders, one constitutional authority, one supreme court judge, several activists, some scientists—have in common? Spyware has been reportedly snooping on them.
A major face-off between Reliance Jio and incumbents threatens to wreck the telecom industry body, Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI), from within.
Chinese internet giant Tencent Holdings has just led a $100 million funding round in MX Player, marking its foray into on-demand video streaming in India.
Search for visa-related terms by those seeking US jobs, especially Indians, saw an unusual spike last year.
When a Bollywood star launched her beauty brand earlier this week, she got access to 10 million customers right away, all thanks to one startup: Nykaa.
A few years ago, Indian e-commerce marketplace Snapdeal was in shambles—but not anymore.
The Indian startup community is debating the best way to stay connected and WhatsApp seems to be a winner.
Mumbai is often touted as the city of dreams, and its residents are a mixed bag of achievers and strugglers.
A one-man venture capital fund is giving Indian startups some money and a lot of credibility.
Big and small companies alike are driving innovation in India.