Swedish furniture and home furnishing retailer Ikea inaugurated its first store in India on August 9 in the southern city of Hyderabad and will soon have two more. The 400,000 square foot facility in Hyderabad has the biggest Ikea restaurant anywhere in the world, with seating for 1,000 people. In India,...
Japan and Singapore Stand 1st on Henley Passport Index
The Henley Passport Index is the original ranking of all the world’s passports according to the number of destinations their holders can access without a prior visa. The ranking is based on exclusive data from the International Air Transport Association, which maintains the world’s largest and most accurate database of...
Ericsson Launches 5G Lab at IIT Delhi
Ericsson, Sweden's multinational networking and telecommunications company headquartered in Stockholm, inaugurated a Center of Excellence and Innovation Lab for 5G at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. Borje Ekholm, president and CEO of Ericsson attended the launch. Telecom chipset makers Qualcomm and Intel will support the development of 5G devices...
At India's DefExpo 2018, Multinationals Ink Partnerships
India’s largest Land, Naval, and Internal Security System’s Exposition, DefExpo India, has become one of the largest events of its kind in the world for the last 10 years. Defense Expo 2018 was a four-day event at the southern city of Chennai, India. The tagline this year was "India: The...
India's Renalyx Innovates End-to-End Renal Care System
Bangalore-based Renalyx Health Systems has developed an end-to-end renal solution that screens chronic kidney disease, has an in-built renal information management system, and offers a connected dialysis machine. Sixty to seventy million people in India suffer from chronic kidney disease caused by diabetes and/or hypertension. Patients in the final stage,...
Japan's Uniqlo to Debut in India
Based in Japan, Fast Retailing Co., Asia's largest clothing chain that owns the Uniqlo brand applied for approval to open stores in India. The brand’s international store count surpassed the number of locations in Japan two years ago. In India it will compete with Spanish clothing retailer Zara, Swedish clothing-retail...