New Delhi (TIP) (Secondary Research): The Government of India has announced highway projects worth US$ 93 billion, which include government flagship National Highways Building Project (NHDP) with total investment of US$ 45 billion over next three […]
New Delhi (TIP) : The Government has earmarked Rs 50,000 crore (US$ 8 billion) to develop 100 smart cities in the country from which each selected city would get assistance of Rs 100 crore (US$ 16 […]
TIP (Secondary Research): Europacific Growth Fund, the largest foreign portfolio investor (FPI) in India was born seven years before liberalisation ushered foreign investment into Indian equity markets. Today, it holds $131 billion in assets under management; […]
Is China’s rise as a military power a threat to international, or even regional security? To answer this question one has to carefully consider not just geopolitical realities but also China’s strategic outlook in an increasingly […]
Phone calls between relatively low-level diplomats are normally not newsworthy. But Monday’s conversation between U.S. Undersecretary of State Victoria Nuland and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin on the simmering conflict in Ukraine is an […]
Despite the cordial meetings between PM Modi and President Xi’s and their photo ops on the sidelines of the BRICS and SCO summits, India has been drawing the red line with China on its concerns. Official […]
“Westphalian sovereignty is the principle of international law that each nation state has sovereignty over its territory and domestic affairs, to the exclusion of all external powers. The principle of non-interference in another country’s domestic affairs, […]
Moscow: India and Russia seek to increase trade to US$ 30 billion by 2025 from US$ 9.5 billion last year, by overcoming challenges of inadequate connectivity, language barriers, visa barriers and regulations. Both countries recently reached […]
On November 10, 2010, President Obama announced US support for admitting India into the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG). And in May 2011, prior to the June 2011 NSG Consultative Group (CG) and Plenary meetings at […]
LONDON (TIP): An eccentric American showman wanted to buy the 16th Century Stratford-upon-Avon house where British playwright William Shakespeare was born and have it shipped, brick by brick, to New York in the 1800s. Showman […]
HYDERABAD (TIP): Tata Advanced Systems Limited (TASL) and US-based aircraft maker Boeing on Wednesday signed a strategic framework agreement here to collaborate in the sphere of aerospace and defence manufacturing as well as explore the […]
HYDERABAD (TIP): Japanese auto major Honda Cars India Limited (HCIL) expects its newly launched third generation Honda Jazz to rev up the company’s sales and help it register a double digit growth in FY16 surpassing […]
ATHENS (TIP): Greece’s parliament early on Thursday strongly approved a bill of tough reforms demanded by the country’s creditors in return for a new bailout, according to official results. A final count showed 229 lawmakers […]
SAN FRANCISCO (TIP): In 1999, Infosys brought global attention to Indian IT when it listed on the Nasdaq. It was then software services. Sixteen years later, an Indian software product company, InMobi, has created a […]
NEW DELHI (TIP): E-commerce major Snapdeal today re-launched Shopo, a mobile-based open marketplace which will allow small businesses to list their products without paying any commission. Snapdeal had acquired Shopo in mid-2013 for an undisclosed amount. […]
“The 100 Indian-based companies surveyed for the study have made an aggregate $15.3 billion investment in their U.S. operations. That, in turn, has created 91,000 jobs in the U.S., which by any measure is a […]
WASHINGTON (TIP): US retail sales unexpectedly fell in June as households cut back on purchases of automobiles and a range of other goods, raising concerns the economy was slowing again. Tuesday’s weak retail sales report, […]
New Delhi: Foreign direct investment (FDI) into equity jumped 48 per cent after the launch of the ‘Make in India’ programme, the commerce and industry ministry said on Tuesday, July 14. The ‘Make in India’ […]
New York (TIP) July 15: A total of one hundred India-based companies have invested over $15 billion across the US and have created more than 91,000 jobs in a wide range of sectors across 35 American […]
Four Indians are among 32 young leaders named by a prestigious global non-profit organization as its 2015 class of young leaders, focused on shaping a brighter future for the Asia-Pacific region and confronting the most […]
IKEA, world’s largest furniture retailer, has purchased a 13 acre land close to the IT hub in Hyderabad’s HITEC city. This first land purchase is part of their larger objective of expansion by setting up […]
New Delhi (TIP) July 14: The foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) today cleared 23 FDI proposals out of the 47 proposals which were considered in the meeting. The proposals cleared includes Bandhan, Catholic Syrian Bank, […]
Microsoft will cut 7,800 jobs and take a $7.6 billion impairment charge as it attempts to revive its flagging phone hardware business. The company paid $7.3 billion for Nokia’s phone business in April 2014, seeking […]
MasterCard recently announced the appointment of two Co-Presidents for the Asia/Pacific region – Ling Hai and Ari Sarker. The reorganization is in recognition of the growing importance of Asia/Pacific as a whole as it houses two of the […]
Five teenage girl students from Bengaluru won the Technovation challenge at a global pitch event at San Francisco city in the US. Sanjana Vasanth, N. Anupama, Mahima Mehendale, Swasthi P. Rao and B. Navyashree, all […]
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