Technology

The National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog) has defined clear objects for 2022-23 in its comprehensive national Strategy for New India.

Indian Register of Shipping (IRClass), the leading international classification society recently conducted a Technical Seminar in Mumbai for the industry on a wide variety of topics including Cyber Risk Management with respect to ISM code, IMO DCS.

Bajaj Allianz General Insurance Company Limited (BAGIC) has selected Majesco Distribution Management for the incentive and reward management for their employees, said the Navi Mumbai-based Majesco Ltd.

The Indian electronic-commerce (e-commerce) market was US$38.5 billion in 2018-19, a strong increase of 17% on 2017-18’s US$33 billion, according to a review by the National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM).

A Singapore-based mobile services provider, VivoHub, has selected Tata Communications to turn its VivoBee mobile app into a one-stop suite of mobile services designed to meet the city state's one million migrant workers needs.

Foreign Direct Invest (FDI) has increased to US$60.97 billion in 2017-18 from US$45.15 billion in 2014-15, Minister of State for Commerce and Industry, C. R. Chaudhary, updated parliament in a written reply on 17 Dec 2018.

France is supporting the Indian government’s ambitious plan for the deployment of electrical vehicles by maximizing solar mobility and minimizing its grid impact.

The 'Digital India' programme, politics-neutral, centre-state-neutral and ideology-neutral, had resulted in large-scale technology adoption, leading India to be a trillion-dollar digital economy in the next two to three years.

Austrian-Russian companies will be helping out with cable cars and airboats for travelling across hilly areas and over rivers, said Nitin Gadkari, Minister for Road Transport and Highways, Shipping and Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation.

A World Bank loan of US$200 million is supporting the Ministry of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises' Rs.2,200 crore implementation of Technology Centre Systems Programme (TCSP) for over 63 million MSMEs in the country.