New Delhi, Global internet search engine giant Google will train two million new Android developers in the next three years, its chief executive Sundar Pichai said here on Thursday. “As per the new plan (by Google), we will train two million Android developers in partnership with 30 universities. This will be done over the time […]
New Delhi, Saudi Arabia has stepped up its economic engagement with India with yet another business delegation of nearly 50 members set to visit the country from December 13-18 to expore opportunities in diverse areas from retail to realty, officials here said. Led by Kamel S. Almunajjed, co-chair of the Saudi-India Business Council, the delegation […]
Beijing, Chinese stocks opened mixed on Monday with the benchmark Shanghai Composite Index down 0.07 percent to open at 3,433.86 points. The smaller Shenzhen index opened 0.25 percent higher at 11,991.7 points, Xinhua news agency reported. The ChiNext Index, tracking China’s NASDAQ-style board of growth enterprises, gained 0.36 percent to open at 2,658.97 points.
A record number of shoppers are expected to head online this year to do their Christmas shopping, a new nationwide survey commissioned by Australia Post reveals. The Australia Post research highlights 87 per cent of people will be turning to online shopping to buy one or more of their presents this year, compared to only […]
New Delhi, India is set to have more than half a billion (500 million) unique mobile subscribers, or actual individual subscribers, by 2015-end, thanks to affordable devices, easy tariff and digital literacy drives, a study by GSM telecom players global body GSMA said on Thursday. The report “The Mobile Economy: India 2015” said that 13 […]
By Nishant Arora New Delhi A “Candy Crush” freak, 30-year-old Arjun had been feeling pain and numbness in his thumb and index finger for some months now. Most of his free time went into playing games and texting messages on smartphone. Unable to understand the cause behind his misery, he sought medical help. Dr Maninder […]
India’s pending application for entry into the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) should come up for consideration at its plenary in June 2016. Indian diplomats have been in discussion with NSG members for some time, and on October 30, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj discussed the matter with visiting NSG chairman Rafael Grossi, who indicated that […]
As part of its explorations for geothermal energy, the Centre of Excellence in Geothermal Energy (CEGE) at the Gujarat-based Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University (PDPU) has found success by drilling the state’s first geothermal borewell in Ahmedabad. In common parlance, geothermal energy is about tapping the heat under the earth to generate electricity. It’s clean and […]
With the launch of the world’s first, ultra-secured silicon-based microprocessor that can detect cyber threats in real-time, the Indian companies have reacted positively to the announcement, flooding the Oracle India executives with queries about its availability and delivery to their doorsteps. The revolutionary 32-core, 256-thread SPARC M7 chip features an always-on security, the first-ever […]
India has called for reforming the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to reflect the rise of the developing and transitional economies and give them more say in governance. The share of the developing and economies in transition in the world gross domestic product has increased from 39 percent in 2008-2010 to 49 […]