India’s two-decade long efforts to offer itself as an alternative to China in electronics manufacturing is finally finding success, thanks to a variety of global and local developments
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries said it has received Emergency Use Authorization or EUA from India’s Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) to manufacture and market a generic molnupiravir in India, a week after the US-FDA gave an EUA to its use in the US. The company has promised to make the oral drug, under the brand […]
The Chinese embassy in India has called the Indian move to block 59 apps from China as ‘discriminatory’ and ‘against the general trend of international trade and E-commerce’. India blocked the apps yesterday in response to China ratcheting up its military presence on the Indian border, ostensibly in preparation for an attack on India. The […]
Government of India has faced questions from members of parliament on reports that it has asked state-owned refiners to get ready to stop importing crude oil from Iran in the face of pressure from the United States. A question from Lok Sabha MPs Supriya Sule and Mullappally Ramachandran sought to know “whether the Government has […]
Maulana Masood Azhar, the founder of terror-cum-charity group Jaish-e-Mohammed, has warned the Pakistan government against giving in to the demands of the Americans, who want it to destroy all terror groups. Azhar said Pakistani media and intellectuals are trying to scare the people of the country into giving in to Trump’s demands. His comments come […]
India has plans to increase the output of uranium — the key fuel used in its nuclear weapons program — by ten times by 2031-32 and achieve self-sufficiency, the Department of Atomic Energy said. India is estimated to have 232,315 tons of uranium contained in deposits of 273,956 tons of tiiuranium octoxide. Even though the […]
Home Minister Rajnath Singh said India will go to any extent to save Kulbhushan Jadhav. “We will go to whatever extent we need to, but we will save Kulbhushan Jadav,” the minister said, while attending an event in Mumbai. The minister maintained that Kulbhushan Jadhav was not a spy, but a businessman who happens to […]
Traffic from India to major pornographic websites in the world rose sharply in November. The numbers also reveal that Indians use the Internet for accessing pornographic content more often than globally. For example, according to similarweb.com, a website that collates monthly web analytics data, there were no pornographic websites included in the list of the […]
Despite a moderation in India’s GDP growth rate in the short term due to cash crunch, the Indian economy will still grow faster than that of China, global ratings agency Fitch said. “We still expect India’s GDP growth to trend higher than China’s in the medium term,” said the agency, whose primary job is to […]
Pharma major Lupin Limited said it launched Iron Isomaltoside injectable iron formulation under two brand names “Isofer” and “Jilazo” in India. Lupin acquired the exclusive rights to market, distribute and sell the injectable formulation from Denmark based Pharmacosmos A/S. The product is currently marketed in 33 countries, including 21 European Union countries under the brand […]
India won the toss and chose to bat first in the third Paytm test match at Holkar Stadium, Indore. The pitch will favour the bowlers and batting would be difficult, was Sunil Gavaskar’s opinion. “It will be a batman friendly wicket”, said Virat Kohli after winning the toss for the third time in the series. […]
The eighth edition of India-Russia Joint Military Exercise ‘INDRA-2016’ has begun in the Ussiriysk district of Vladivostok in Russia, even as Russian forces arrived in Pakistan on its first ever-joint military drill. Main focus of the Indo-Russian joint exercise is on ‘Counter-Terrorism Operations in semi mountainous and jungle terrain under United Nations Mandate’, said the […]
Following the terror attack in the army camp in Uri which killed 18 Indian army personnels, the BCCI has made it clear that India will not play cricket with Pakistan in the near future. BCCI president Anurag Thakur said, “There will be no question of playing cricket with Pakistan.” The two countries last played in the ICC […]
The Indian Cabinet today approved extending ‘permanent residency’ to foreign investors. So far, one had to be a citizen to be a permanent resident in the country. Others faced hassles such as regular attendance at foreigners registration offices and visa extensions if they were to continue to remain in the country. The present tenure of […]
