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Apple iPhone X pre-booking starts today; base model priced at Rs 89,000

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Apple iPhone X will be available in two colour variants - silver and space grey - and two storage options - 64 GB and 256 GB. The price of iPhone X will start at Rs 89,000 for base model Latest news  : After launching iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus, Apple is gearing up to bring its anniversary edition iPhone X to India on November 3. The smartphone will be available for pre-registration through e-commerce platforms starting today. Apple iPhone X will be available in two colour variants – silver and space grey – and both the variants will come with two storage options – 64 GB and 256 GB. The price of iPhone X will start at Rs 89,000 for the base model. In terms of design and features, the iPhone X sports glossy stainless steel frame body covered on the front and back by a glass design. It has a wide 5.8-inch Super Retina OLED display. The glassy back is accentuated by a vertically placed 12-megapixel dual camera set-up, which supports optical image stabilisation (OIS)...

Ahead of sell-off, Air India may offer voluntary retirement to 15,000 staffers

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Earlier this month, it decided to stop non-vegetarian meals in economy class on domestic flights LATEST NEWS    : This story was first published in Business Standard on 18/07/2017 Air India is drawing up a proposal to offer voluntary buyouts to just over a third of its 40,000 employees, a senior company official said, one of the largest such offers in India's state sector, as the carrier slashes costs ahead of a 2018 sale. The official, who could not be named as the plans are not public, said the state-owned airline had also put fleet expansion on hold, scrapping a proposal to lease eight Boeing 787 wide-body aircraft. Air India's board approved the proposal in April but nothing further had been done. India's flag carrier is on the block after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's cabinet last month approved plans to privatise the loss-making airline - selling part or all of the company and ending decades of state support. Founded in the 1930s and kno...

Liquor ban along highways adds Rs 5,000 crore in losses for Adityanath govt

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SC had last year ordered a ban on all liquor shops along national as well as state highways Latest news : The Uttar Pradesh government has incurred a loss of about Rs 5,000 crore following the Supreme Court order banning all liquor shops along national as well as state highways. Of the 8,591 highway liquor shops affected by the Supreme Court order, 2,000 are yet to be relocated while 3,000 shop owners have surrendered their liquor licences, said UP Excise Minister Jai Pratap Singh. "We have incurred a loss of about Rs 5,000 crore in 2016-17 fiscal ending March 31. Out of the target of realising Rs 19,000 crore, the excise department could generate Rs 14,000 crore following the apex court order," the minister told PTI. The Supreme Court had last year ordered a ban on all liquor shops along national as well as state highways across the country and prohibited all signages indicating the presence of liquor vends. The Supreme Court again on March 31 reiter...

Amazon India to double storage, hire 5,000

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The additional 14 fulfilment centres will bring the total to 41 centres for Amazon in India Amazon India is doubling its storage capacity with the addition of fourteen new fulfilment centres this year as it looks to cater to a growing base of Prime customers who demand expedited shipping. The company says the expansion will create an opportunity for the employment of around 5,000 individuals, spread across its 14 new centres. This figure will not include the temporary workforce Amazon hires to fulfill increased order demand during festivals and sales. Read this: Gaining in translation: Language users are blowing up internet in India "We've continued to expand our network over the past three years. For Prime customers, this growth in fulfilment centres enables them to get deliveries faster. So as the Prime customer base in India grows bigger they will be able to benefit from this," said Akhil Saxena, Vice President for Customer Fulfilment at Amazon Indi...

PM Modi launches UDAN scheme from Shimla; now fly to Himachal for Rs 2,000

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Air India subsidiary Alliance Air will operate the Delhi-Shimla flight Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the UDAN regional connectivity scheme on Thursday from Shimla that will allow tourists to fly to Shimla from New Delhi for just Rs 2,000. Modi during his day-long visit to the Queen of Hills launched the central government's UDAN, or "Ude Desh ka Har Nagarik" scheme, building efficient regional air connectivity, from Jubbarhatti, the tabletop airport located 2,196 metre above sea-level and some 22 km from here. Read this : BJP triumphant, AAP defiant: MCD results prove it is Modi wave not EVM wave  Accompanied by Himachal Governor Acharya Devvrat, Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh and Union Ministers P. Ashok Gajapathi Raju, Jayant Sinha and J.P. Nadda, Modi simultaneously flagged off the inaugural UDAN flights on the Kadapa-Hyderabad and Nanded-Hyderabad sectors through video conferencing. The Shimla Airport had been shut for scheduled flights sin...