The minister said the real-time market is an organized market platform to enable the buyers and sellers pan-India to meet their energy requirement closer to real-time of operation.

Indian companies, government bodies, and enterprises are likely to severely cut spending on information technology in 2020, as they try to absorb the blow to their revenues. Research and advisory firm, Gartner expects IT spending in India to decline by 8.1 percent in 2020 versus 2019. In absolute terms, that works out to around $7.3 billion. (see table below).

WhatsApp Chief Operations Officer Matt Idema said in a blog post the messaging platform would work with Gojek "to support the growth of millions of businesses".

A day after dozens of Facebook employees staged a virtual walkout over the issue, the Facebook chief met Tuesday with employees for a Q&A session held via online video.