Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Wabtec Corporation is one of America’s largest rail-technology companies. The company reported $11.2 billion in sales for 2025 and operates in more than 50 countries. Its experience in India offers a useful example of how an American industrial company can build a substantial long-term business in...
Ravi Shankar Prasad: Minister for Law, Communications, Electronics, India, 2019
Ravi Shankar Prasad was born on August 30, 1954 in Patna the capital city of the northern state of Bihar. He has post graduate degrees in Political Science as well as Law. In 1995, Prasad became a member of the National Executive Committee of the Bharatiya Janata Party. Later, he...
IBM AI to Predict India Crop Yields
India's government policy think tank NITI Aayog signed a deal with IBM India Private Limited to develop a prediction model for crop yields using artificial intelligence (AI). IBM will be develop the technological model for improving agricultural output and productivity for various crops and soil types, and NITI Aayog will...
Alstom Partners Indian Railways to Make Locomotives in India
The joint venture between France headquartered Alstom and State-owned Indian Railways now operates a locomotive factory on a 250 acre lot, in Madhepura, 175 miles northeast of Patna, the capital of India's northern state of Bihar. Earlier this year, the JV showcased its first all-electric locomotive constructed here -- India’s first...
GE Power India Wins $80 Million in NTPC Contracts
GE Power India Ltd., was awarded one contract worth over $45 million by state-owned NTPC Limited, India's largest power utility, for installing a Flue Gas Desulphurization (FGD) system at Phase-I of NTPC’s Super Thermal Power Project in the southern state of Telangana. According to the emission norms for controlling sulfur oxides,...
Ram Nath Kovind Will Be India's 14th President
Ram Nath Kovind, the presidential candidate proposed by the ruling BJP-led National Democratic Alliance, won 66 per cent of the votes cast by an electoral college of Ministers of Parliament and state lawmakers, defeating the opposition's candidate Meira Kumar, and will be the next President of India. He will be...