Amit Sinha

Paytm Mall sales seen $4 bn by year-end, half-a-billion during festival season, says COO Amit Sinha

Approach taken by e-commerce platforms has not tapped into millions of shopkeepers and retailers across the breadth and length of the country, feels Paytm Mall COO

Paytm to hire 10,000 agents to expand offline merchant network

Mobile payments and commerce platform Paytm will hire over 10,000 agents to expand offline merchant network to over 20 lakh touch-points by the end of the current fiscal. Currently, the Alibaba-backed firm has about 4,000 such agents and over one lakh offline merchants on its platform.

Bad weather hampers cremation, cleaning of debris in Kedarnath

While 36 bodies were cremated in shrine area earlier, 23 more bodies were cremated at Gaurikund and Junglechatti close to the temple on Wednesday after a gap of several days due to bad weather.