Prime Minister Narendra Modi has debuted at the 13th spot in ‘Bloomberg Markets Most Influential’ annual ranking topped by US Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen. Chinese premier Xi Jinping, US President Barack Obama and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are other politicians ranked above PM Modi in the coveted list of 50 people. “He won election…
MUMBAI: Boeing and the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay ( IIT Bombay) will jointly host a global summit on aerospace innovation in New Delhi on October 16, the US plane maker said Monday. As part of Boeing’s global celebrations to mark its centennial in 2016, the summit will include panelists from government, industry, academia and…
NEW DELHI: India and Germany on Monday signed a deal to fast-track business approvals, an arrangement to make it easier for German companies to operate in Asia’s third largest economy that was announced as Chancellor Angela Merkel visited New Delhi. The fast-track approvals process will ensure that German firms will have a single point of…
Geneva: In a big jump, India has moved up 16 positions to rank 55th on a global index of the world’s most competitive economies, where Switzerland remains on top. The jump in India’s position underlines the country’s recent economic recovery, improvement in the competitiveness of the country’s institutions and its macroeconomic environment and a “slight…
(Vishnu Som was given access to the Kochi. Having examined its features and technology, he presents here a possible naval scenario involving the Rs. 3,900 crore-ship.) On a dark moonlit night, an Indian warship pierced the waters of the South China Sea at a brisk 25 knots. (In pictures) The only sound to be heard…
BANGALORE: US technology companies desperately want to win over people like Rakesh Padachuri and his family. Padachuri, who runs a construction business in this city, the center of India’s technology industry, uses his smartphone to reserve movie seats through BookMyShow and to order pizzas from Domino’s. His wife, Vasavi, orders clothes from Myntra and Amazon.com,…
New Delhi: Ever since the West Bengal government released the top secret files relating to Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, the debate over the veteran freedom fighter’s mysterious death has intensified further. Researcher and writer of ‘India’s Biggest Cover-up’, Anuj Dhar has come forward with a new theory that Bose might have stayed in China around…
NEW DELHI: Air India could soon be operating the world’s longest nonstop commercial flight. The airline is planning to link the IT hotspots of India and US — Bengaluru and San Francisco (SFO) — which are almost 14,000 km apart. At present the longest nonstop commercial flight is operated by Australian airliner Qantas between Dallas…
Bengaluru: The Indian space agencyISRO is all set to launch its first space observatory ‘Astrosat’ aimed at studying celestial bodies on board a PSLV rocket on September 28. ISRO’s PSLV-C30 will carry the 1.5 ton satellite to place it into a 650-km orbit following its takeoff from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Shriharikota, at 10…
