Eighteen-month-old Lybrate, based in New Delhi, which aims to increase access to doctors and quality healthcare information, received $10.2 million in funding from Tiger Global, Tata Sons’ President Emeritus Ratan Tata and existing backer Nexus Ventures. The Opportunity: People in metro areas put off visiting doctors for lack of time, traffic congestion,...
India Evinces Interest in ISTAR Aircraft
Airforce-technology.com reports that India has offered to buy two intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance – ISTAR – aircraft from Raytheon on a government-to-government basis. These planes use an active electronically scanned array radar which is able to increase the ground-detection capabilities of the air force by scanning targets at...
Many Countries Evince Interest in India’s Proposed Smart Cities
During the Smart Cities India 2015 Expo in New Delhi from May 20 – 22, many countries expressed keenness in investing in the Indian Government’s smart cities project. Poland expressed interest in partnering with India’s smart cities and industrial corridors, exploring investments in power and mining sectors in many Indian...
News Corp Founder's Son James, Meets Prime Minister Modi
21st Century Fox Company CHief Operating Officer James Murdoch and Uday Shankar, CEO of Fox's Star India, met Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi. Details of what was discussed at the meeting are not available. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Star India operates more than 40 networks, reaching...
Modi Accelerates India Defense Spending
In a concentrated effort to modernize its armed forces, the Defense Acquisition Council of India has approved 41 proposals at a cost of $19 billion since June, defense minister Manohar Parrikar told parliament in New Delhi this December. In July this year, Modi increased the limit on foreign direct investment...
India Reports “forward looking” Talks with U.S. Nuclear Energy Advance Team
Ahead of President Barack Obama’s visit to India in late January 2015, a meeting of a US-India contact group took place in New Delhi to have discussions on civil nuclear cooperation. The negotiators included U.S. industry representatives from GE-Hitachi and Westinghouse and counterparts from the Nuclear Power Corporation of India,...