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...
India to Set Up World's Largest Solar Farm
The Government of Gujarat, a state in the western part of India, approved setting up a 5 gigawatt solar farm at the Dholera Special Investment Region. The project will contribute significantly toward Prime Minister Modi's target of producing 175 gigawatt of electricity through renewable energy sources by 2022. The solar...
Larsen & Toubro to Supply Steam Generators to NPCIL
Mumbai, India-based engineering and construction firm Larsen & Toubro (L&T) won a $124 million contract from state-owned Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd. (NPCIL), to supply steam generators and end shields for its 700 MWe Pressurized Heavy Water Reactors. Commenting on the order, Shailendra Roy, director of Power, Heavy Engineering...
Scientists from India Develop World's Thinnest Material
Indian scientists at the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, in the state of Gujarat, have claimed to have created the world’s thinnest material, 100,000 times narrower than a sheet of paper -- a two-dimensional material of just one-nanometer thickness. The three member research team includes two students working toward a...
India to Get its First Cartoon Network Themed Park
Turner International India, a division of New York City-based Times Warner, and the Rajgreen Group of Companies based in Gujarat, India, announced a 10-year partnership in Amaazia — India’s first Cartoon Network-branded amusement park. The Rajgreen Group invested $66 million in the venture which is located at Surat in the state of...