After Karbonn, Bharti Airtel has now tied up with Celkon to offer a full touchscreen 4G smartphone at an effective price of Rs 1,349 and an upfront cost of Rs 2,849. The partnership is part of Airtel’s ‘Mera Pehla Smartphone’ initiative. It had announced a similar offer in association with Karbonn two weeks ago. The […]
Vodafone India unveiled a new pack priced at around Rs 69 that allows users to make unlimited calls for one week at just Rs 69. The scheme is among the most affordable voice plans in India for GSM users. The total cost works out to about Rs 250 per month. Unlike other schemes that are […]
Bharti Airtel announced that it will sell high-end smartphones online with instant financing. The phones, including the iPhone 8, will be available at low downpayment and bundled monthly packages, which will make them more or less free of charge. The model was first tried by Reliance Communications several years ago. The company had, at the […]
Most customers of Reliance Jio, the country’s largest telecom operator by volumes, will not be able to get the 84GB-for-399 plan starting next month, the company’s deputy chief financial officer V Srikant said on Friday. Asked how the company’s average revenue per user (billing rate) is likely to move going forward, Srikant said it was difficult […]
Idea Cellular, which has been under pressure in recent months due to aggressive offerings from rivals Bharti Airtel and Reliance Jio, has unveiled a new promotional offer that gives 1 GB per day for 28 days at a price of around Rs 250. Unlike other plans, this one does not offer any voice benefits. But […]
Reliance Jio has opened pre-booking for the new Apple iPhone with an effective price of just Rs 9,200 under a dual cashback offer. The sticker price of iPhone 8 is Rs 64,000 in Jio stores. However, if you buy the device along with a 12 month contract of services from Jio, the company will return […]
Central Government will give up to Rs 2.5 lakh as interest subsidy for people who take home loans to purchase their house under the Pradhan Manthri Awas Yojana, said Minister of Housing & Urban Affairs Hardeep Singh Puri. He also revealed plans to hand over government land to private builders as part of the scheme. […]
Bajaj Finance will offer ‘no cost EMI’ schemes on over four lakh products during the Flipkart’s ‘Big Billion Days’ sale that starts tomorrow and ends on Sunday to its existing customers. “The existing EMI Card customer can transact on Flipkart without any processing fee or any down payment at No Cost EMI,” the company said. […]
ICICI Bank is offering cash back of up to 10% for those who use its free Pockets prepaid payment card on platforms such as Flipkart, Amazon and Reliance Retail. Pockets prepaid card is a free card that is delivered to anyone who installs ICICI Bank’s wallet app — Pockets — and makes a request for […]
Jet Airways said it would offer up to 20% discount on international tickets under a week-long sale that will end on Sep 6. “Under the offer, guests enjoy attractive savings of up to 20% discount on the lowest prevailing return base fares,” the airline said. The offer is valid for travel only on direct flights […]
State Bank of India, India’s largest commercial bank, has waived processing charges on car loans till the end of the year, while halving the charge on some personal loans till Sep 30. The bank did not specify the new rates. It already has zero processing fees when someone transfers a home loan from another bank […]
Trying to differentiate itself from regular ecommerce websites and apps, Yes Bank has launched an impulse buying app known as Tap To Shop. Unlike regular online shopping apps, Tap To Shop will be focused exclusively on delivering deals that are not available at most times. The customer must have installed the Yes Pay wallet on […]
Even as India more or less sticks to the target on adding large solar farms under its ambitious Solar Mission project, the other leg of the plan — rooftop solar — remains woefully behind target. Under the solar mission, India is supposed to have put in 5,000 megawatt of solar plants on the roofs of […]
The latest entrant to India’s telecom market, Reliance Jio, has announced an unprecedented offer — a 4G enabled phone with support for apps and videocalling for free. According to Mukesh Ambani, customers do not have to pay anything for the phone as the cost of the phone will be returned to the buyer when he […]
Mukesh Ambani, chairman of Reliance Jio will make a ‘significant announcement’ about the 4G wireless service provider’s offerings at 11 AM on Friday while delivering his annual speech at its parent’s annual general meeting. A live webcast of Mukesh Ambani’s speech at the AGM, at which he is expected to announce the launch of ultra-cheap […]
Faced with a slowdown due to the emergence of the pan-India competitor Reliance Jio, state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd has halved the price of its unlimited 2 Mbps DSL broadband plan to 599 per month. The player was earlier offering unlimited 2 Mbps for Rs 1,199. Though cheap by the company’s standards, the earlier offer […]
Users of the JioFi, the personal hotspot device from Reliance Jio, will be able to get a new plan that takes the free data offered per day to 5 GB. At present, the highest amount of free data that any user on the 4G service can get is 2 GB, for a payment of around […]
Airline SpiceJet said it has opened its first physical store under its new ‘SpiceStyle’ retail brand at Galleria Mall in Gurgaon, near Delhi. The launch of its first physical store marks SpiceStyle’s entry into the offline segment besides its ecommerce portal and a brand store launched in association with Amazon. It also announced freebies, including […]
In an effort to boost tourism in its home town of Abu Dhabi, government-controlled Etihad Airways announced a set of freebies and packages for passengers transiting through the Gulf city. The biggest freebies are for first class passengers. They will get two free nights at any of the 60 hotels with which the airline has […]
SpiceJet, arguably the most aggressive low-cost carrier in India, has entered the e-commerce business with a new venture named ‘SpiceStyle!’ and also tied up with online giant Amazon. Products from the company will be available via the eponymous website, as well as on Amazon. The unit has been created as a subsidiary of SpiceJet. SpiceStyle! […]
