Technology
Indian innovators receive global attention
Source: Connect – Canada in India Three Indian innovators were among the 20 finalists who got a chance to participate in the C2-MTL conference in Montreal, Canada. This conference, which explored the relation between commerce and creativity, provided the participants with a platform to explain their innovations to top industry leaders from around the world and [...]
» read moreIndia develops cheap vaccine against major cause of diarrhea deaths in children
Source: Toronto Star via Indian Economic Business News The Indian government announced recently the development of a new low-cost vaccine proven effective against a diarrhea-causing virus that is one of the leading causes of childhood deaths across the developing world. The Indian manufacturer of the new rotavirus vaccine pledged to sell it for $1 a dose, [...]
» read moreIndia, long the home of outsourcing, now wants to make its own Chips
Source: New York Times via Indian Economic Business News The Government of India, home to many of the world’s leading software outsourcing companies, wants to replicate that success by creating a home grown industry for computer hardware. But unlike software, which requires little infrastructure, building electronics is a far more demanding business. Chip makers need vast [...]
» read moreIndia ranks 8 among 27 most powerful nations in world
Source: The Times of India via Indian Economic Business News India is among the top 10 most powerful countries in the world. In a first-of-its-kind study of “national power” a group of eminent strategic experts and scholars have placed India at the eighth position among a group of 27 most powerful countries in the world. The [...]
» read moreIndia says it plans to double renewable energy sources by 2017
Source: Thomson Reuters via Indian Economic Business News The Indian government recently said it planned to double its renewable energy capacity by 2017. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that India would ramp up its use of wind, solar and biomass energies in the coming years. “It is proposed to double the renewable energy capacity in [...]
» read moreAnand Sharma launches 21 new textiles parks
Source: Press Information Bureau via Indian Economic Business News Union Minister for Commerce, Industry and Textiles Anand Sharma launched 21 New Textile Parks approved under Scheme for Integrated Textile Parks (SITP). These new parks take the total number to 61 parks as 40 Parks were sanctioned earlier. The Scheme for Integrated Textiles Parks (SITP) has [...]
» read moreIndia introduces Central Monitoring System
Source: The Register Phone calls, texts, emails and even social media all now snoopable. Privacy advocates are up in arms after the Indian government began quietly rolling out a Rs.4 billion (£47.8m) Central Monitoring System (CMS) designed to give the authorities sweeping access to citizens’ phone calls and internet comms in the name of national [...]
» read moreOnline education growing in popularity, education expert says
Source: Times of India TIMES VIEW The wave of the future The observation by Curtis Uhelein, president of US-based Apollo Global, doesn’t come out of the blue. The trend towards online education is something that has been percolating through the world of higher education for a few years now. Given how new the [...]
» read moreIndian heads project to prove Einstein’s prediction
Source: Times of India LONDON: Albert Einstein’s 100-year-old theory of relativity may finally be proved in the next five years. An Indian astronomer at the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Pasadena is heading a global project which is poised to discover proof that space and time can wrinkle in the form of [...]
» read moreSteel imports to remain a hot issue for India
Source: Business Standard The speed at which China built steel capacity has left the rest of the world bewildered Overcapacity and production more than the market can absorb at rates remunerative for suppliers have remained principal concerns for the world steel industry since the 2008-09 global financial meltdown, the members of which still keep flying. [...]
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