Speaking at a session on Opportunity in Infrastructure, Logistics Technology and Equipment in New Delhi this November, the Federal Minister for Road Transport & Highways, Shipping, Water Resources, Nitin Gadkari, said that the federal government is committed to providing transport and logistics infrastructure in the country. Gadkari noted that the...
Satellite Imagery Highlights India's Rapid Urban Growth
New satellite imagery released by NASA shows a huge growth of Indian cities in recent years. Vast swaths of northern India, relatively dark in 2012 night shots, are lit up by large new urban areas in imagery from 2016. According to the Oxford Economics Global City Forecast: For Asia and...
Indian Stents Gaining Global Market Share
Surat, in the western Indian state of Gujarat, is typically known for the diamond cutting business. The inventor of a laser cutter machine in the 1980s that was widely adopted by local gem cutters, decided to modify the technology to cut metal tubes to make coronary stents. This expertise in manufacturing...
India Becoming World’s Second Largest Internet Population
India is on track to overtake the U.S. in its number of Internet users. Quartz quotes from a report by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and IMRB International, a market research firm, that by December, India will have 402 million internet users, of which 351 million will...
Supply Chains Pose Challenges for India E-commerce
India is the world’s biggest untapped shopping market says the Wall Street Journal, as it traces one online order and its delivery on a 1200 mile journey from Surat in the western state of Gujarat where the garment was manufactured to Madurai in the eastern state of Chennai where the...
Indian, Foreign Contenders Partner on Navy Bid
India's Ministry of Defense reissued a request for proposal to three local private sector shipyards to build four amphibious assault ships for about $4 billion. All three contenders are permitted to enter into joint ventures with foreign original equipment manufacturers. ABG Shipyard, Larsen & Toubro, and Pipavav Defence & Offshore...