Rakesh Deshmukh, Sudhir Bangarambandi and Akash Dongre, alumni of the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and co-founders of Mumbai-based Indus have customized Android to build a regional mobile operating system called Indus OS for smartphones sold across the diverse landscape of India. The operating system was built on the following...
Stanford Spurs Med-Tech Startups in India
By using experiential teaching methods with cross-disciplinary teams, the Stanford India BioDesign fellowship has managed to create a cohort that is focused on creating new, cost-effective, devices customized to India's healthcare needs. Products include devices for pregnant mothers and newborn babies and those that help with biopsies and fecal collection....
Saint-Gobain Inaugurates New Research Center in Chennai, India
French Multinational Corporation, Saint-Gobain, opened its new cross-functional research center, Saint-Gobain Research India (SGRI), in Chennai, in the eastern state of Tamil Nadu. Located on the campus of Indian Institute of Technology Madras, in Chennai, spread over 2.7 acre , and built at an investment of $29.5 million (€26million),...
MIT Postdoc from India Innovates for the Visually Impaired
Dr. Rohan Paul, a computer science graduate of Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, a Rhodes scholar in Oxford where he received a Ph.D.in mobile robotics, and a postdoctoral fellow at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Labs, has changed the life of thousands of visually impaired people in India by his...
Boeing Expands Research Center in India
Chicago based aircraft maker, Boeing is expanding its research center in Bangalore and is also considering investing in Indian companies manufacturing aeronautical components, with a view to bolstering its supply chain. “[The] investment environment in India is improving. Given that background, we are open to making equity investments,” said Pratyush...
Cochin Becomes India's First Solar-Powered Airport
Cochin International Airport, located in the southern state of Kerala, is the first airport in India to be solely powered by the sun. At its international cargo complex one can see a farm of 46,150 solar panels laid out on 45 acres of land. Currently, the airport produces between 50,000...