Wisconsin-based Johnson Controls and Hitachi Airconditioning India Ltd., will develop and manufacture air-conditioners in its plant near Ahmedabad, Gujarat, for sale in the Middle-East and Southeast Asia. Global CEO Franz Cerwinka said, "We also want to expand our manufacturing to export out of India. The Indian operations contribute 12 percent...
India's Shrimp Industry Shows Steady Growth
India’s export of shrimp was 382,959 tons in Calendar Year 2015, up 9.8 percent from the previous year India’s cultured shrimp production in the year ending March 2015 was about 426,500 tons, up 30 percent from the previous year (Figure 1). From 2005 to 2015, shrimp production has grown at...
Facebook Rolls Out Express Wi-Fi in India
Facebook announced the commercial launch of Express Wi-Fi, its second attempt to bring millions of Indians online at an "affordable" fee. The service is currently available in the four Indian states of Uttarakhand, Gujarat, Rajasthan, and Meghalaya, where the company has 700 hotspots through other internet providers. It has also partnered...
MIT Grads Provide Biodegradable Sanitary Pads to Rural India
A startup, Saathi (meaning 'companion' in Hindi), founded by three graduates from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a graduate from Nirma University in India, is hoping to improve access and waste disposal of sanitary pads for women in rural India. 275,000,000 women in India cannot access pads because they are...
Emma Watson Wears Indian Bodice
In Beauty and the Beast, Disney's film set in France, Britain's Emma Watson, starring as Belle, wears a beautiful, delicately hand embroidered bodice created by India's artisans. "They used a technique called 'Aari work' which is a very fine chain stitch traditional to the Kutch area of Gujarat," said assistant...
14-Year-Old from India Builds Drone to Zap Landmines
The Mirror reports that 14-year-old Harshwardhan Zala from the western state of Gujarat in India has struck a $730,000 deal with the Indian Government for his invention of an anti-landmine drone which can help to detect and defuse hidden bombs in fields. The drone is equipped with an infrared sensor,...