India’s top public healthcare establishment, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in Delhi, is in talks with Ohio State University (OSU) to set up the country’s first comprehensive regenerative medicine facility. Regenerative medicine deals with the process of creating living, functional tissues to repair or replace tissue or organ function...
MediaTek opens second R&D location in India
Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek already runs a tech center in Noida, outside New Delhi and had now expanded to southern India. The company will invest $200 million in India over the next few years to boost R&D capabilities towards developing affordable solutions for the super-mid market. "MediaTek Bangalore R&D center caters to the...
India Elections 2014 Result
Hopes for maintaining freedom and democracy are shaky in many countries today from Egypt, to Ukraine, to Iraq and Afghanistan. On the other hand the continued success of autocracies such as China has its scholars arguing that they have created a system better than Western democracy. The Economist recently ran...
German Retailer Metro to Expand by 210 Percent in India
Europe's fourth-biggest retailer, Metro AG, said it wants India to become one of its "focus expansion countries", alongside Russia, China and Turkey. "We have seen continuous like-for-like growth recently in India. Now we decide to inject extra momentum into our expansion course there," Metro CEO Olaf Koch confirmed. The company...
Lush to enter India with Delhi Store
The beauty brand Lush, which runs 900 stores globally, wants to open a store in Delhi by the end of 2014. “Our investment will initially be limited to setting up and running a single shop in Delhi…. If the market responds well, we plan to develop this into a much larger...
Revlon Expands Retail Reach
Revlon’s joint venture partner in India will make the brand available in 100 new retail locations soon. "India has always been a priority market for Revlon with its ever-growing appetite for retail spending. These are exciting times for the company here as we are broadening our target horizon and plan...