National anthem to BCCI: SC verdicts that stirred the nation in 2016

Of the several judgments delivered, most were monumental, though some could be termed as surprising

Breaking News - It was a happening year for the Supreme Court as it produced several judgement in the course of the year. While most of them were monumental, a few could be termed as surprising.

Business Standard  brings you the top five judgements by the apex court of the nation.

SC verdicts that stirred the nation in 2016

J&K's Constitution subordinated to Indian Constitution

Rap on the knuckles to BCCI 

National anthem in cinema halls

The Cauvery tangle

The Sahara case

2016  was a happening year for the Supreme Court as it produced several judgement in the course of the year. While most of them were monumental, a few could be termed as surprising.

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Year End Special: Top 5 cars launched in 2016 (Watch Video)

Demonetisation marred high-growth hopes, but there were several interesting launches during the year

Latest News -  The year 2016 has been one of joy and agony for automakers. Even as sales volumes had been looking up in the earlier part of the year, igniting the hope of a double-digit growth for the sector, the central government’s decision to demonetise high-value currency notes in November seemed to have dented the prospects of a robust recovery.

Business Standard  brings you its selection of top five launches of the year, rated on the basis of appeal factor, as well as sales performance.

#1. Maruti Suzuki Vitara Brezza

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#2. Tata Tiago

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#3. Ford Mustang

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#4. Toyota Innova Crysta

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#5. Toyota Fortuner

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From surgical strike to 80 martyred personnel, 2016 a mixed year for Army

Biggest deal to be struck during 2016 was the one for 36 Rafale fighter jets for 7.8 billion Euros

Latest News - Signing of long-pending deals including one for Rafale fighters, a logistics agreement with the US, Surgical Strikes, new blacklisting and defence procurement policies besides induction of indigenous nuclear submarine were some of the achievements of the defence ministry in 2016, which was a mixed year for the armed forces.

The high point for the military was the daring surgical strike carried out by the special forces on terror launch pads across the LoC it lost a number of soldiers during the year.

Jammu and Kashmir alone saw over 80 security personnel being killed while countering Pakistan's proxy war. The army managed to eliminate about 160 militants in the state including the poster boy of militancy Burhan Wani.

Many security personnel were also killed fighting armed insurgency. Deadly attacks on the Pathankot air base, and army camps in Uri and Nagrota were a setback that led to the loss of several lives.

The armed forces also had a mixed year when it came to administration and compensation issues.

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2016: A very bad year for women

By the measure of women's greater visibility in politics, 2016 has been a vintage year

Latest News -  On balance, 2016 was a year of highs and lows for women. The lows, however, have been of the “how-low-can-you-go” variety. In fact, there have been moments when it felt like the year of the anti-woman.

By the measure of women’s greater visibility in politics, 2016 has been a vintage year. I can’t think of another in which there has been so much conversation and public debate about women, ranging from the probing and aspirational to the prodding and vicious.

One step forward, two steps to the right

High profile women are inevitably more vulnerable. But does having women in top leadership positions promote the causes and concerns of most women?......

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Women in Europe

In the 1930s, feminist internationalist and novelist Winifred Holtby was particularly alarmed about what authoritarianism and fascism meant for women. She noted that “whenever women hear political leaders call their sex important.......

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The biggest upset

It hardly needs to be said that the greatest blow for women has been the American election. Even had Hillary Clinton won, the election campaign would have been traumatic enough for women: politically, sexually, ......

Historical reflection cannot offer future projection. However, the cycles of modern feminism are figured by the cresting and the crashing of waves. Tallying up women’s most newsworthy achievements and setbacks, 2016 has not been a good year for women and certainly not for feminism. It has been an anti-woman year.

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Year End Special: Top 6 bikes launched in 2016

Here are the six most spectacular bike launches for the Indian two-wheeler industry in 2016

Breaking News - The year 2016 has been an action-packed one for India’s two-wheeler market. From the Royal Enfield Himalayan, which the makers claim is India’s first all-terrain motorbike, to the Bajaj V12, made from the steel of the iconic INS Vikrant naval ship – there have been several interesting two-wheeler launches for the domestic market.

As the year draws to a close, Business Standard bring you the six most spectacular top bikes 2016  launches that the Indian two-wheeler market witnessed this year:

#1. Triumph Bonneville T100 

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#2. Bajaj Dominar 400

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#3. Royal Enfield Himalayan

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#4. Tork T6X

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#5. Bajaj V12

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#6. Honda CB Hornet 160R

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Brexit, note ban, Trump and more: 10 events that moved the markets in 2016

After a roller-coaster year, Indian indices set to end 2016 with little gains

 Breaking News - The year 2016, indeed, has been a year of many surprises. From Britain’s unexpected vote to exit the European Union to Republican candidate Donald Trump’s upset victory in the US Presidential election, from Raghuram Rajan’s decision of not seeking a second term as the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) governor to India’s sudden surgical strike on Pakistan – the Indian stock market dealt with all these shocks through Markets 2016. The biggest of them all, however, was the government’s call towards the end of the year to demonetise Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes.

After 12 months of a roller-coaster ride, the market now seems poised to end the calendar year at almost the same level as at the start of 2016. As at close on Tuesday, the BSE benchmark Sensex was merely 96 points, or 0.4%, higher at 26,213.44, and the broader National Stock Exchange Nifty was up 86 points, or 1%, at 8,032.85.

1. January: The devaluation of the yuan

2. February: Union Budget 2016-17

3. June: The so-called Rexit

4. Brexit

5. July-September: Monsoon, GST Bill

6. September: Surgical strike

7. November: Donald trumps Hillary in US election

8. November: Demonetisation of high-value currency

9. December: Surge in oil prices

10. Another rate hike by the US Fed

What lies ahead?

Going into the calendar year 2017, the market will track the demonetisation impact on quarterly earnings. The Budget 2017 and any development on GST will also be in focus. Baliga believes the Union Budget could be tilted to balance the ill-effects of demonetisation. On the global front, Trump’s policies in the US and the impact of Brexit on the European economy will be keenly watched. 

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PokemonGo to Rio2016: The top five social media trends in 2016

A selection of events that played out big on social media in the year 2016

Latest News - The year 2016 is nearly over and, like previous years, this one also saw some good, some bad and some strange stuff on social media.

It is not unusual for people to comment on the speed with which an entire year went by, that does not, however, mean that the year was not full of action. Here is a recap of some of the major topics that  top trended on social media 2016 to help refresh your memory:

#Brexit

To stay or leave? In June this year, British citizens voted to answer this question about Britain’s membership of the European Union. In an event that sent shockwaves around the world, 52 per cent of the voters who participated in the ......

 

#PokemonGo

In July this year, Niantic released an augmented reality game for mobile phones and people all over the world left their homes in search of imaginary creatures called Pokémon. Gamers tried to locate and...

 

#Rio2016

The year 2016 happened to be one of the 31st Olympic games in the city of Rio de Janiero, Brazil. Just like Pokemon Go, #Rio2016 was a global phenomenon that became one of the biggest trends this year...

 

#Trump

The year 2016 was also one of the US Presidential election, and it was an engrossing battle between the Democrats and the Republicans. Democrat Hillary Clinton fought with all her might but.......

 

#Demonetisation

If you thought #Brexit was a prank that went too far, wait till you hear about this one! It was November 8, 2016, when Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced on national television that the currency notes of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000......

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Demonetisation: Are your digital transactions secure?

There are no easy solutions regarding securing oneself in the cashless digital world

Latest News -  Paper money is becoming passe as the year comes to an end. The New Year brings in the promise of India going cashless with the population of 1.3 billion being pushed into a digital economy.

Today many users are being exposed to plastic money for the first time. Even the most learned people make mistakes in the digital world and that can prove very costly. Hence, for first-time users, it is a minefield out there and negotiating it needs a lot of tact.

Earlier this year, 3.2 million credit and debit card details, with a bulk of them from India's largest banker the State Bank of India, allegedly got compromised and till date, the investigating agencies have not been able to make much headway.

In a country where, according to UN figures, about 287 million adults are still illiterate how safe is it to indulge in cashless transactions?

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Modi says law against benami property soon: All you need to know

Modi promised to operationalise the law to deal with 'benami' properties

Breaking News - After demonetisation, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will crack the whip on benami property holders.

 

"You are possibly aware of a law about Benami property in our country which came into being in 1988, but neither were its rules ever framed, nor was it notified. It just lay dormant," Modi said in his monthly 'Mann ki Baat' radio address.

 

The New Benami Act came into effect from November 1.

It prohibits illegal benami transactions, under which up to seven years of imprisonment and penalty for those indulging in such activities could be handed out.

 

Benami is one of the most searched on Google with people enquiring about 'How to convert black money into white money'.

 

What is Benami?

What constitutes Benami property?

What is Benami Act?

What isn’t a benami transaction?

What falls under benami transaction?

How it affects the people?

 

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Demonetisation: Rs 50,000 as penalty for possessing old notes after Dec 30?

Possession of old notes after December 30 may invite penalty of over Rs 50,000

Breaking News - The government is mulling an ordinance to bring a new law under which possessing, transferring or receiving over Rs 10,000 in banned 500 and 1,000-rupee notes post December 30 will be a punishable offence for possessing old notes after Dec 30.

Reports said that there could be a cap of holding no more than 10 notes of each after December 30 and violation of the rule could draw a fine of a minimum of Rs 50,000 or 5 times the amount in question -- whichever is higher, but there was no confirmation. There will be a criminal liability and a municipal magistrate will hear cases involving violation and decide on penalty.

 

Holders of such currency have an option to deposit them in RBI by March 31 but even that period may be curtailed, they said.O

Of the Rs 15.44 lakh crore worth of 500 and 1000 rupee notes in circulation on November 8, close to Rs 13 lakh crore have been deposited in accounts or exchanged for valid currency.

There was no official word on the move which is likely to come up before the Cabinet on Wednesday.

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2016, the year that was: Science + Technology

A round-up of major events in science and technology

Breaking News - Science & Technology 2016 may have been gruelling for some, with the political shockwaves of Brexit and the election in the US of Donald Trump, not to mention a spate of celebrity deaths.

But it was a big year for those engaging the tools of empirical science to better understand the natural universe around us.

In fact, 2016 kicked off with one of the biggest discoveries of this century so far: the detection of gravitational waves by an international team of scientists, including several from Australia.

 

1st Woman CM, Wani's Death, Surgical Strike: 2016 A Year Of Turmoil For J&K

Fortuitously enough, this came almost precisely 100 years after Albert Einstein predicted such waves ought to exist, and is a testament to the power of the scientific method. Based on the observations of his day, along with the power of mathematics and his inspired imagination, Einstein was able to describe a phenomenon that it was impossible for him to test.

 

Yet the dogged persistence of scientists in the intervening century enabled them to build a detector with a sensitivity that boggles the mind: it could spot a wobble in the fabric of spacetime that was 10,000 times smaller than the width of a proton.

Yet, in light of this profound discovery, we still don’t teach Einstein’s theories in high school.

 

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McDonald's, Pizza Hut & KFC are empowering Indian women; here's how

The increasingly female face of a new Indian workforce shines at suburban Delhi's Mall of India

 Latest news today - American fast-food chains have become an unlikely source of female empowerment in India, a country where traditionally most women are kept from working outside the home.

The increasingly female face of a new Indian workforce shines at suburban Delhi’s Mall of India. Close to half of the employees in its five floors of newly opened food and fashion outlets are women. Just across the street in the old shopping district, females are few and far between. Even the women’s clothing stores are almost entirely manned by men.

Indian Men Emerge Big Online Shoppers Of 2016: Flipkart

“I wouldn’t feel comfortable working with so many other men there,” said Poonam Rawat, a 21-year-old woman who works at Wendy’s in the mall. “Besides, my family would never give me permission.”

 

The female participation rate in India’s labour force is among the lowest in the world. It has slid 9 percentage points over the last 10 years to 27% of the workforce as safety concerns have soared and economic expansion has failed to generate many good jobs for women.

 

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GPS chips and radioactive ink in new notes: Top 10 fake news in 2016

Along with India's national anthem being declared the 'Best National Anthem In The World'

Breaking News - From currency to salt–very little escaped the reach of fake news in 2016. Rumours spread from WhatsApp and other social media into the mainstream media. Institutions such as the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had to step in and tell us what was true. Even Facebook and Google, two of the world’s biggest Internet companies, sat up and took notice.

Such news can have widespread reach: India is one of the biggest markets for several social media and communication companies–it has 160 million of WhatsApp’s one billion-plus monthly active users, 148 million Facebook users, and over 22 million Twitter accounts.

Here are some of the most popular Indian fake news stories of 2016:

1. UNESCO declares PM Modi best Prime Minister

2. UNESCO declares Jana Gana Mana best national anthem

3. UNESCO declares new Rs 2,000 note best currency in the world

4. New notes have a GPS chip to detect black money

5. New notes have radioactive ink

6. WhatsApp profile pictures can be used by ISIS for terror activities

7. RBI declares the Rs 10 coin invalid

8. Jayalalithaa’s ‘secret daughter’ and heir lives in the US

9. Salt shortage in India

10. “Nehru Govt has stood like a Banyan Tree”: Mark Tully

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Six ways to target your audience like a pro

Advertising on Facebook is growing and these six methods can come in handy

There is huge power in Facebook ads if you learn how to do targeting well. Here are six ways to target your audience & make your advertisements reach your most desired audience.

Method 1: Facebook life events targeting

This first method is to plan, create, and build your Facebook advertising strategy around the life events of your prospects. Facebook has a “Timeline feature” that allows Facebook users to document significant events. As a business, it is possible to make use of Facebook Insights to analyze the demographics of your Facebook page.......

Method 2: write to target emotions

In the digital world, true influence is not just about what you see or listen to. Rather, it can be defined by how you make people feel. If you apply this concept to digital marketing, true influence can then be defined as the identification of your clients’ pain points and then offering creative and effective solutions to solve them.......

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