US President Barack Obama has said that his summit meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping later this month will be “useful” and generate “a lot of outcomes”. Responding to questions after addressing members of the Business Roundtable on Wednesday, Obama said these outcomes would be “around things like energy and climate change, around improvements […]
The festive season beginning with the onset of Ganesh Chaturathi (September 17) may not give a desired boost to real estate sector that is facing slow down for the last two years. Residential real estate is reeling under weak sales due to a liquidity crunch, unaffordable prices, high interest rates and large scale delivery defaults […]
For anyone out there who is not a part of Apple Inc.’s workforce, it would be very hard to imagine the Apple logo without connecting the name of Apple’s late founder Steve Jobs in their heads. But the truth is that the company’s latest announcements, launches and strategies are in deviation of Jobs’ ideologies and […]
Climate change would be in focus at the India-Africa Forum Summit here this October with India proposing that the 54 African countries join a Solar Group of nations to tap the sunÂ’s rays for energy while forming another grouping with the coastal countries to harness ocean wave energy. As the October 26-30 mega diplomatic event […]
Addressed with skepticism by most, the term electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS) or wireless allergy or gadget allergy, is ascribed to a range of non-specific symptoms like headache and fatigue apparently due to heavy use of wireless communicating devices, especially those that emit electromagnetic radiation (EMR). Common sources of this Wi-Fi tsunami include mobile phone signals, Wi-Fi […]
A rapid expansion in the manufacturing accelerated India’s factory output growth to 4.2 percent in July against a marginal rise of 0.9 percent in the like month of last year, official data showed on Friday. According to the Central Statistics Office (CSO), which released the data on the Index of Industrial Production (IIP), the revised […]
Ford Motor Company on Thursday said it would expand its operations in Tamil Nadu but did not disclose the quantum of investment. In a statement issued here, Ford said the new investment will be for expansion of capacity at its car plant near here and for setting up of a new global engineering and technology […]
The government’s decision to allow 100 percent foreign direct investment (FDI) under the automatic route for white-label ATM companies is a welcome move but the business is a challenging one and needs cheap funds, said a top official of Financial Software and Systems Pvt. Ltd. (FSS). City-based payment technology leader FSS is also a brown-label […]
Indo-Canadian relations are poised for a leap growth in the coming years, says the Indo-Canada Chamber of Commerce (ICCC). The premier trade and business body between the two countries says the visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi here in April has put the growing bilateral ties on a fast track. “Canada was not willing much […]
Researchers at IIT- Hyderabad (IIT-H) have come up with a cost and time effective method of treating cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) in remote areas where tertiary care units are not available. A team of four IIT-H professors have proposed a two-tier-cardiology framework in which electrocardiogram (ECG) records can be transmitted even when available resources such as […]