KOLKATA: Textiles Minister Smriti Irani on Saturday said that the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown up opportunities and the sector should commercialise this scope. She said that the textiles sector is always looking for subsidy but one should keep in mind that subsidy is taxpayers’ money. “There is a need to see opportunities and not wait … Read more
NEW DELHI: India has gradually ramped-up its testing capacity for COVID-19 and conducted over 4.20 lakh tests in a day, the highest ever, the Union Health Ministry said Saturday, crediting the increase in number of labs for the achievement. India had only one lab for testing samples for the disease in January but it has … Read more
The alleged rapist was a 19-year-old fellow patient at the center in the capital, New Delhi, Parvinder Singh, an additional deputy commissioner of Delhi police, told CNN. “The two did not know each other beforehand, the rape took place in an isolated area at the center and a 20-year-old man, a friend of the 19-year-old, … Read more
NEW DELHI: India and Russia are finalising a defence logistics sharing pact that can enable seamless access to each other’s military bases and support facilities, and the formal agreement is likely to be signed at the annual summit planned later this year. The Reciprocal Exchange of Logistics Agreement will simplify interoperability and enable support to … Read more
NEW DELHI: Rahul Gandhi on Monday picked on the Chinese cross-border intrusion to mock Prime Minister Narendra Modi by alleging that the latter’s “fabricated strongman image” has now become India’s “biggest weakness”. Claiming that the Chinese attack on Indian soldiers were designed to mar Modi’s projected image, Gandhi said the question now is whether Modi … Read more
The weapons apparently originated from Norinco, a Chinese state-owned ordnance company, and despatched by its affiliate TCL. SynopsisRecently, Maj Gen Tun Tun Nyi of the Mynamar Army told the media in Nay Pyi Taw that the Arakan Army(AA) and its associate group Taáng National Liberation Army (TNLA) had acquired Chinese weapons. This has lent credence … Read more
NEW DELHI: India has proposed imposing customs duties on computer-aided design, or CAD, files, which are necessary for 3D printing, while pitching its case for countries to be able to tax electronic transmissions. Electronic transmissions are at present immune from taxation in the World Trade Organization (WTO) under a moratorium. If the moratorium continues, India … Read more
Greater investment in infrastructure through adding more data centres in India and giving a major push to the app ecosystem were some of the steps Google could undertake in India. Sources told ET that the PM might have virtual meetings with global leaders in the days and weeks to come. Source link
By Andy Mukherjee It took a pandemic and a lockdown to highlight the precarious existence of the country’s blue-collar workers. Left without jobs and shelter, an estimated 30 million — roughly a fifth of the urban labor force — have gone back to their villages, with many completing long, hazardous journeys on foot when trains … Read more
Uber’s top rival in India has some unsolicited advice for the U.S. startup: Go local. “They have a very cookie-cutter approach in terms of what the model is and how [to] force feed it into any geography,” Pranay Jivrajka, a top executive at Ola Cabs, said on the sidelines of CNN’s Asia Business Forum in … Read more