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India Today
September 21, 2019
Rating firm S&P Global said on Friday India's move to cut corporate tax rates was a "credit negative development" despite potentially boostingÃâà...
Science News
September 21, 2019
The sun is setting on India's first attempted lunar landing. As night fell over the lunar south pole on September 20, scientists' hopes that theÃâà...
India Today
September 21, 2019
Google hosted the fifth edition of its annual Google for India event in New Delhi on Thursday, September 19. The event, the first edition of whichÃâà...
BBC News
September 21, 2019
A former Indian federal minister from the governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been arrested in connection with allegations of sexualÃâà...
Moneycontrol.com
September 21, 2019
In 2012, Indian vaccine maker Biological E launched the country's first Japanese encephalitis (JE) vaccine under the brand name Jeev.
India Today
September 21, 2019
Indian envoy to the United Nations (UN) Syed Akbaruddin, in an exclusive conversation with India Today TV, characterized Pakistan's efforts toÃâà...
India Today
September 21, 2019
India is an important actor and "fundamental partner" in international efforts on climate action and is making a "fantastic effort" to grow itsÃâà...
CNBC
September 21, 2019
The India S&P BSE Sensex index jumped 5.3% to notch its biggest one-day gain since May 5, 2009. That day, the index soared 17.3%.
The New York Times
September 21, 2019
TIRUPUR, India — When Alan Greenspan ran a consulting firm and wanted to know where the economy was headed, he would often look atÃâà...
The New York Times
September 21, 2019
But unlike traditional trade pacts, which cover nearly all sectors of the economy, the India deal appears likely to be confined to only a fewÃâà...
TIME
April 27, 2018
It's been a busy week for geopolitical meetings. While Western leaders convened in Washington and Korean leaders got together in the demilitarized zone, India's Narendra Modi headed to the Wuhan province in China to talk with President Xi Jinping for a two-day informal summit beginning Friday.
The Guardian
April 27, 2018
Yet sexual abuse in India remains widespread despite tightening of rape laws in 2013. According to the National Crimes Records Bureau, in 2016 the rape of minor girls increased by 82% compared with the previous year. Chillingly, across all rape cases, 95% of rapists were not strangers but family, friendsÃâà...
Quartz
April 27, 2018
As ATMs run dry in India, the Narendra Modi government and the payments industry have learnt an important lesson: cash isn't going anywhere. While the government shifted the goalpost several times following November 2016's shock demonetisation, one of its key objectives was to increase digitalÃâà...
Economic Times
April 27, 2018
Cisco CEO Chuck Robbins today said India can play an important role in developing technologies around areas like healthcare and education that can be ... Speaking to PTI, Robbins said the company's India R&D unit -- which has over 6,000 engineers -- is working on the "next wave" of solutions that areÃâà...
Economic Times
April 27, 2018
Refugees in India's western state of Maharashtra have been granted land ownership rights 70 years after fleeing what is now Pakistan, when the ... About 3 million refugees from the Sindh and Punjab provinces in Pakistan are believed to have fled to India, as carnage between Hindus and Muslims sparkedÃâà...
BBC News
April 27, 2018
India's religious groups have so often clashed, with recent years marred by violence. But a remarkable gesture has helped foster a rare harmony in one village. As mason Nazim "Raja" Khan toiled over the construction of a Shiva temple in a Punjab village, a thought nagged at him. There he was, a Muslim,Ãâà...
New York Times
April 26, 2018
NEW DELHI — Thirteen children were killed after their school bus was hit by a train in northern India on Thursday. The accident's cause may have been infuriatingly simple: The bus driver was wearing earphones. The authorities said the driver had not seen or heard the enormous train barreling toward him,Ãâà...
The Wire
April 24, 2018
At one time, it was widely believed that India's young population was a fantastic asset and would reap a handsome demographic dividend. Now, it is commonly acknowledged that India's future is more uncertain and questions are being asked about the kind of economic contribution its young populationÃâà...
Quartz
April 24, 2018
Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, India's top diplomat till three months ago, has a new job. On April 23, the $145 billion Tata group, comprising over 100 companies that produce everything from steel to software, announced that Jaishankar would take over as its president for global corporate affairs. “In his newÃâà...
Moneycontrol.com
April 24, 2018
The road into food retail business in India is no longer smooth for Amazon, as the government has directed the e-commerce giant not to share any equipment, machinery or warehouses from its current marketplace business for the planned venture, reported The Economic Times. In July last year, theÃâà...
BBC News
April 24, 2018
For more than a month, Rajeshwari, a 42-year-old temple elephant in India, lay desultorily on a patch of sand, her forelimb and femur broken and her body ravaged by sores. An animal lover went to the court, seeking to put her down. The court said the pachyderm could be "euthanised" after the vets examined her.
cricket.com.au
April 24, 2018
The prospect of the Adelaide Test continuing its budding day-night tradition would appear to have grown with India reportedly giving the green light to a pink-ball debut ahead of their Test tour of Australia. Virat Kohli's side are set to resume their rivalry with Australia for a four-Test series this summer but theÃâà...
The Drive
April 24, 2018
India has reportedly stopped working with Russia on the long-troubled Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft program, or FGFA, a shared effort that was supposed to produce an improved variant of the equally vexing Su-57 stealth fighter. Though hardly surprising, with years of reports that the Indian governmentÃâà...
BBC News
April 24, 2018
"When I played hockey as a young man, I broke many Indian hearts," Ahmed told the news channel Sports Tak, which published the video on YouTube. He then directly appealed to India's foreign minister Sushma Swaraj, asking her to grant him a visa as soon as possible. Ahmed is considered a hockey legend in Pakistan.
The Guardian
April 24, 2018
According to the National Crime Records Bureau data from 2016, in 94.6% of cases, the perpetrator is known to the victim – usually a brother, father or someone from the family's social circle. Reporting rape in India's patriarchal family structure is often fraught with victim shaming and further alienation.
Quartz
April 23, 2018
India's complicated relationship with virtual currencies and firms dealing with them has now reached the courts. On April 22, the Delhi high court issued a notice to the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) after a petition challenged the banking regulator's April 06 order barring lenders from doing business withÃâà...
The Diplomat
April 23, 2018
The Indian Air Force (IAF) has reportedly withdrawn from one of the most ambitious and controversial joint Indo-Russian defense programs to date: the co-development and production of the Sukhoi/HAL Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft (FGFA), also known in India as the Perspective Multi-role Fighter (PMF).
CNNMoney
April 23, 2018
Reliance Industries, the conglomerate owned by India's richest man Mukesh Ambani, achieved a market capitalization of $100 billion back in 2007, according to FactSet data, but has since slipped back a bit. Reliance is now worth about $89 billion. TCS is part of the Tata Group, another of India's bigÃâà...
CNN
April 23, 2018
India's Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj said the two countries had agreed to re-open the Nathu La Pass, a key route for Indian pilgrims to reach Mount Kailash, a holy mountain for Buddhists and Hindus. She also said Beijing and New Delhi will resume sharing data on the Brahmaputra and Sutlej rivers,Ãâà...
CNN
April 23, 2018
As the tech hub has flourished, Gurgaon has seen an explosion in residential real estate. "Ten years ago, most people used to live in Delhi but work in Gurgaon. Now it's different," says Goyal. "We don't see a strong reason to look for any other city in India." Akbar's company has built a 30-acre (around 12Ãâà...
Engadget
April 23, 2018
Having surpassed the US to become the second largest smartphone market after China, India is now the latest battleground for some of the top mobile brands. According to Canalys, even Samsung lost its top position there to Xiaomi as of Q4 2017, followed by Vivo, Oppo and Lenovo. Meanwhile, ASUS isÃâà...
Economic Times
April 23, 2018
Washington/New Delhi: India retained the top position as recipient of remittances with its diaspora sending about USD 69 billion back home last year, the ... Remittances to India picked up sharply by 9.9 per cent, reversing the previous year's dip, but were still short of USD 70.4 billion received in 2014.
Economic Times
April 21, 2018
Engineers are quietly giving up on IT as a career choice. The once sought-after sector is losing a chunk to the brick and mortar automobile industry. Queries and CVs from engineers, a lot of them with IT experience, are on the rise for auto companies such as Mahindra & Mahindra, Ashok Leyland and MarutiÃâà...
Economic Times
April 21, 2018
WASHINGTON: The major reforms undertaken by the Indian government for raising economic growth and maintaining macroeconomic stability have made the country one of the fastest growing major economies in the world, said Subhash Chandra Garg, Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs (DEA).
National Geographic
April 21, 2018
... the child brides of Shravasti, Khandelwal sees signs of young girls forced into marriage across the country, even in the metropolis of New Delhi. She plans to turn her camera's lens on these communities to show how the practice may be illegal and declining, but in India it's still flourishing on the sidelines.
Fstoppers
April 21, 2018
If you are like me, you probably get numerous emails and Facebook messages from people in India wanting you to use their services for your image editing. While these individuals may give outsourcing to India a bad reputation, I'm here to show you what it's really like at the reputable post-productionÃâà...
Moneycontrol.com
April 20, 2018
India has started investigations into alleged dumping of a chemical, used mainly in the paint industry, from China, European Union, Korea, Taiwan and Thailand following a complaint from a domestic industry. Atul Ltd has filed an application before the commerce ministry's Directorate General ofÃâà...
Moneycontrol.com
April 20, 2018
India is in discussions with South Korea, a global leader in telecom technologies, for jointly setting up 5G test laboratories. "The telecom ministry is in discussion with South Korea to collaborate in the field of telecommunications including setting up of 5G test laboratories," an official source told PTI.
BBC News
April 20, 2018
A Hindu priest from a temple in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad made headlines for carrying a Dalit (formerly known as untouchable) man on his shoulders into the temple's inner sanctum. It has been seen as a dramatic move because Dalits have historically been denied entry into temples as they areÃâà...
The Atlantic
April 20, 2018
Stories of sexual violence are common in India's morning papers. If anything, the nationwide upheaval of December 2012, following a murderous sexual assault on a 23-year-old woman in a moving bus in Delhi, led to more such stories making the front page than ever before. More rapes are now reportedÃâà...
Moneycontrol.com
April 20, 2018
India's financial inclusion efforts have won recognition from the World Bank as their data indicate that 55 per cent of new bank accounts opened are from India, Financial Services Secretary Rajiv Kumar said today. "WorldBank Global Findex Report recognises India's Financial Inclusion efforts. Of the 51.4Ãâà...
Wired.co.uk
April 20, 2018
This is when the nation's brightest minds sit the examinations that will determine whether they secure entrance to one of India's prestigious Institutes of Technology (IITs), medical institutes, or business schools. They dream of becoming engineers, dentists, or doctors. But with only 23 IITs in one of the mostÃâà...
BBC News
April 20, 2018
India's youngest billionaire broke all the rules in 2010 when he started the digital payment company, Paytm. Fast forward to today, and Vijay Shekhar Sharma, 39, is the owner and chief executive of India's second-most valuable internet firm. Paytm, which is backed by Alibaba, is now worth some $10bn.
BBC News
April 20, 2018
The UK has apologised after the Indian flag in London's Parliament Square was torn down amid protests against Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit. Hundreds of people gathered on Wednesday outside Downing Street where Mr Modi met his British counterpart Theresa May. The protests seem to haveÃâà...
Quartz
April 20, 2018
E-commerce giant Amazon is going all out to get Indians to access the Internet—and its own website. The Seattle-headquartered company has launched 'Internet', a data-light mobile web browser for Android phones that promises to be “extra small,” allowing for ample storage space on phones. The appÃâà...
New York Times
April 20, 2018
NEW DELHI — For the second time in 18 months, India has a shortage of cash. And like last time, economists say, it's primarily the government's fault. Empty A.T.M.s and bank restrictions on withdrawals have been reported in eight states this week, and some bank managers said the cash crunch has beenÃâà...
Quartz
April 18, 2018
On April 11, Buyukkokten introduced his “hello” app in India, once a massive market for Orkut, which shut four years ago after losing out to Facebook. Launched in Brazil last year, hello focuses on making new connections rather than sharing one's thoughts with known people, like on Facebook.
BBC News
April 18, 2018
In 2014 Mr Modi told a gathering of doctors and medical staff at a Mumbai hospital that cosmetic surgery existed in ancient India. More recently, in September, junior education minister Satyapal Singh raised a few eyebrows when he claimed that the airplane was first mentioned in the ancient Hindu epic Ramayana.
Moneycontrol.com
April 18, 2018
India has sought consultations with the US under the WTO's safeguard agreement against American authorities' decision to impose import duties on certain steel and aluminium products. The consultations however don't fall under the World Trade Organisation's (WTO's) dispute settlement system. The USÃâà...
The Guardian
April 18, 2018
It would be wrong however to see these cases as simply part of the violence against women which has been endemic in India. In Kathua, in Jammu and Kashmir state, an eight-year-old Muslim girl was abducted, drugged and brutally gang-raped and murdered in a Hindu temple by a group of men.
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