Technology

Technology required to store green energy Source: Tata Power. India’s power sector, with 41.81 gigawatt of under severe financial stress, are hopeful of growth drivers including the Railways and villages yet to receive electricity. The sector’s hope lies in Railways,...

Washington told its WTO request is invalid   India, rated among the world’s largest green energy market, has rejected the United States claim on its solar power policies, seen as protecting local industry at the World Trade Organization hearing on...

Dynamics to set up card-facility in India IndusInd Bank and Dynamics Inc plans to introduce the first battery-powered, interactive payment cards to the Indian market this year. The new IndusInd Bank card from Dynamics has multiple buttons that let the...

Global focus with India-Rwanda programme The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) has appointed a high-powered Innovation and Technology Board to mentor the programmes and activities of the FICCI Centre for Innovation, Science and Technology Commercialization (C-Tech)....

Asean India PBD updated on opportunities Source: gov.sg Indian companies should take advantage of partnering more and more Singapore headquartered multi-nationals to venture into markets of the Association of South East Asian Nations (Asean), a consumer base of 624 million...

IAN's US$70M fund and nurturing for young businesses Indian Angel Network (IAN), one of the world's largest seed and early stage investment groups in the startup eco-system, is to raise US$38 million from India and overseas for its second round...

Bharat Electronics’ LICEWS order cleared Ministry of Defence has approved the procurement of P-8I Training Solution and Low Intensity Conflict Electronic Warfare System (LICEWS). Costing Rs.2419.32 crore, these contract proposals were approved by Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. The P-8I Training...

Indian banks gets financing support for projects World Bank, International Finance Corporation and other multilateral financial institutions are assisting India’s solar power programmes, parliament was told on 4 Jan 2018. The World Bank is providing assistance of US$100 Million for...

Govt approves Rs.1,381 crore facility upgrade   The government has approved an investment of Rs.1,381.04 Crores for fast track production of Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) to 16 from eight at Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL). In the meantime, HAL has already...

Scope of work to enhance river navigation The cabinet has approved a World Bank-supported capacity augmentation of navigation on National Waterway-1 (NW-1) at a cost of Rs 5369.18 crore. The Jal Marg Vikas Project (JMVP) Project is expected to be...