December 2, 2023
India’s willingness to share climate-related technology will play a vital role in efforts to reverse the climate crisis facing the planet, Commonwealth Secretary-General Patricia Scotland has said as the COP28 climate conference got underway in Dubai on Thursday. Baroness Scotland, who is leading the Commonwealth delegation from London at the 2023 Conference of the Parties
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While India has made big strides in semiconductor design and innovation, the biggest gap in the industry remains the absence of a supply and manufacturing ecosystem, said industry executives here on Thursday at the Bengaluru Tech Summit. Suraj Rengarajan, chief technology officer of American semiconductor company Applied Materials, said that to make India a semiconductor
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An Indian national has been charged with plotting to assassinate a Sikh separatist leader on US soil, the Justice Department said on Wednesday, alleging an Indian government official was also involved in the planning. The Justice Department unsealed murder-for-hire charges against Nikhil Gupta, 52, “in connection with his participation in a foiled plot to assassinate
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Rescuers safely brought out all 41 Indian workers from the collapsed Himalayan Road tunnel where they were trapped for 17-days. Indian workers were greeted with wild cheers and flower garlands Tuesday as rescuers safely brought out all 41 from the collapsed Himalayan road tunnel where they were trapped after a marathon 17-day engineering operation. With
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The Indian ecommerce ecosystem is estimated to have posted about 23% increase in sales over the Black Friday weekend compared to last year’s Black Friday weekend with fashion and beauty products ‘dominating’ sales, according to ecommerce enablement platform Unicommerce. Websites run by individual brands saw order volumes rising by 28% during the weekend while marketplaces
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The workers have been trapped since 12 November when a landslide caused a portion of the 4.5 kilometre tunnel they were building to collapse about 200 metres from the entrance. ADVERTISEMENT India’s transportation minister says all 41 construction workers who were trapped in a collapsed mountain tunnel in the country’s north for more than two
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Rescuers in India have broken through to the 41 construction workers who have been trapped in a tunnel for 16 days with officials saying they are on the verge of pulling the men to safety, in what would be a dramatic end to an operation fraught with setbacks and delays. The workers have been trapped
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Premium Indian electric two-wheeler makers are accelerating their expansion into international markets in search of growth, even as domestic sales recover from reduced FAME II subsidies, as they look to capitalize on a rapidly growing market for electric vehicles. Legacy two-wheeler maker TVS Motor-backed Ultraviolette, which makes the performance electric bike F77, is set to
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Google is close to investing about $4 million in homegrown conversational artificial intelligence startup Corover.ai, said people in the know, in yet another indicator that the Indian AI startup space is poised for explosive growth. Last week, ET reported that Adobe has acquired Bengaluru-based AI-based video creation platform Rephrase.ai. Elevate Your Tech Prowess with High-Value
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