By the end of September 2018, India recorded 56o million internet users marking 65% growth from 340 million connections in March 2016. According to a report from the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India 64% of the internet connections are from urban areas while 36% are from its rural regions. India's...
Spain's Iberchem Expands Footprint in India
Having established a production facility at Ahmedabad in India's state of Gujarat in 2010, Spain-based Iberchem S.A., announced the opening of a fragrance and flavor creative center in Mumbai, India. "The new creative center in Mumbai reflects Iberchem Group’s global business strategy to strengthen its presence in fast-growing markets such...
India's Reliance Defense Will Repair U.S. Navy Warships
Navi Mumbai based Reliance Infrastructure-controlled Reliance Naval and Engineering signed a master ship repair agreement with the U.S. Navy. In January this year, the Reliance Shipyard at Pipavav in the western state of Gujarat was qualified by the U.S. Navy to perform complex repair and alternation services for its Seventh...
India Appoints New Chairman of Atomic Energy Commission
According to an official order issued by the Government of India, renowned scientist Kamlesh Nilkanth Vyas has been appointed as the secretary of the Department of Atomic Energy and chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. Vyas, who is currently director of the Bhabha Atomic Research Center (BARC), has been appointed...
India's Immigrants Have Built a Hospitality Industry in the U.S.
Starting as far back as the 1940s, Indian immigrants steadily began building hospitality industry that their children and grandchildren have joined. Half the country’s motels are now owned by Americans that originated from India. A majority of these owners are from India's western state of Gujarat. The first Gujarati hotelier...
Indian Scientists Discover a New Planet
Professor Abhijit Chakraborty and a team at the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, in India's western state of Gujarat, has discovered a super-Neptune size planet around a Sun-like star. The research was published online in the Astronomical Journal of the American Astronomical Society. The planet which will be known as EPIC 211945201b...