NEW DELHI: Amid the pandemic induced gloom and doom about the Indian economy, Deepak Bagla is refreshingly different. In a frank chat on The Gist, the CEO and managing director of Invest India, the government agency charged with bringing foreign direct investment into the country, says there’s a lot of overseas interest in the India […]Read More
NEW DELHI: One would presume that microblogging site Twitter with an estimated 34 million users in India and a growing revenue base would do anything to safeguard and promote its business. But Twitter’s behaviour has been decidedly odd. Over the last month, it has had four criminal cases filed against it (one for posting child […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Reliance Chairman Mukesh Ambani has unveiled an ambitious ₹75,000-crore plan to transform his company’s core energy business with the focus on green and renewable energy. At the company’s annual general meeting, he announced that work is underway on developing the Dhirubhai Green Energy Giga Complex on 5000 acres in Jamnagar. “We plan to […]Read More
NEW DELHI: India has embarked on an ambitious Deep Ocean Mission over the next five years at a cost of over Rs.4000 crore. The mission is as much a result of deep sea research and expertise over the last few decades, as also the recognition that India needs to step up the pace of research […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Indian diplomacy’s “secret sauce” is fence sitting! India manages to be all things to all men, with the result it is neither influential nor indispensable to the world. These and other descriptions about Indian foreign policy may not be new but Mohamed Zeeshan has brought some fresh insight into it through his book […]Read More
NEW DELHI: Twitter will now be held legally liable for all Tweets on its platform in India. Meaning criminal action can be taken against its top executives in India for any content deemed inflammatory or unlawful. This flows from Twitter’s failure to comply with the new social media guidelines which came into effect on May […]Read More
NEW DELHI: The new IT rules that took effect earlier this week has pitted the government against social media platforms such as Twitter and Whatsapp who say it could compromise data encryption and, as an extension, user privacy. The government insists it’s committed to the right to privacy of its citizens but at the same […]Read More
NEW DELHI: As the centre of gravity of geopolitics and the world economy shifts towards Asia where the biggest beneficiaries of globalization are housed, what should India’s approach be? More engagement, especially in the immediate and extended neighbourhood, says Shivshankar Menon, who has been India’s Foreign Secretary and National Security Adviser. We must use the […]Read More
NEW DELHI: 5G trials will begin in India in about two months and will last six months, according to the Department of Telecom. In a press note, it said four telecom providers will carry out the trials, Bharti Airtel in tie-up with Ericsson, Vodafone with Samsung, Reliance Jio Infocomm with Nokia and MTNL with C-DOT. […]Read More
It was hardly surprising that the focus of this year’s Raisina Dialogue would be on dealing with the fallout of Covid-19 and how nation states could better work together to realise this aim. Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for global systems to reinvent themselves to face “common challenges that threaten humanity”. In this way, he […]Read More
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