The subsequent changes in the social, geopolitical, and economic balance in the Indo-Pacific region in the last year have brought the recent Prime Minister Narendra Modi meeting with the US President Joe Biden. This first in-person meet of the Quad Summit will be reviewing the vaccine initiatives and the spiking global issues of cyber security, ...

There is disagreement amongst the government bigwigs over-tightening the noose around e-commerce rules for companies operating in the country. According to the finance ministry, some of the rules are ‘excessive,’ and seemingly unnecessary. The new rules will impact the business of companies like Flipkart, Walmart, Reliance Industries, and Tata Group. As buying sensibilities of the ...

Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has secured its first ever overseas solar project. This is the first project with Mauritius in the form of a grid connected solar power project. This is going to start at the Tamarind Falls, Henrietta (Phase II), for Mauritius on Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) basis, a formal statement by ...

As India celebrated its 72nd Republic Day on the 26 Jan 2021 with great galore and pride, the farmers during the tractor rally faced tear gas and lathi-charge from the Delhi Police. After a lot of discussions with the farmers’ unions, the Delhi Police had reached a consensus to permit farmers to hold a peaceful ...

For over 22 years, Google has been the most predominant web search engine in the world. Vivek Raghunathan and Sridhar Ramaswamy, former Google executives and IIT alumni, a start-up company is gearing up to take on Google with a new search engine called “Neeva”. ‘Neeva’ will be the first advertisement free search engine with absolute ...

India is moving ahead with its plans to conduct trilateral military exercises with France and the UAE.  As a part of its part of the deal, UAE is providing fueling helo for three Rafael aircrafts that are being transported from France to India.  Credit apparently lies on the shoulder of PM Narendra Modi who has ...

According to the formidable candidate as Biden’s head of the Pentagon, Gen (retired) Lloyd Austin feels America’s focus must be solely on Asia, especially China.  He has described China’s “increasingly aggressive actions” across the Indo-Pacific as a key concern. If appointement, Austin (67) would become the first African American armed forces personnel to be seated ...

Individuals who are on medication that affects their immune system are advised not to take Covaxin, the developer Bharat Biotech cautioned on Monday via a factsheet. The company strongly urged people to reveal to their immunization officers about any serious health-related conditions or allergies before getting the jab.  Bharat Biotech stated that people who are ...

Farmers Pull-In Billionaires: The farming law saga has finally pulled in India’s richest into the privatization of the farming controversy. This includes Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Adani. In response to the discovery that (probably) Ambani could be roped in for the private buying drive of grains from the Indian farmers, farmers had vandalized his company’s ...

Chinese FDI Investments: India is not moving ahead of a huge backlog of Chinese investment proposals, even while Beijing tries to sound of the Centre of the monumental delays. Pending proposals range from everything starting from power to telecom, electronics and even the financial sector.  Even existing Chinese partnerships are facing a huge problem.  These ...