The Multi Super-Specialty Government Hospital located at Omandurar Estate became the third state-owned hospital in Chennai to install and inaugurate brachytherapy equipment. These devices were purchased from Germany at a cost of $250,000 each. The machines are mainly used to treat cervical cancer where only the cancerous tissues are completely...
India Produces First Genetic Test to Diagnose Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis
Haystack Analytics, a health-tech start-up incubated at the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, in collaboration with healthcare solution provider LifeCell India, based in Tamil Nadu, have created India’s first genetic test diagnosing drug-resistant tuberculosis. ΩTB or Omega TB, the whole genome sequencing test has a starting price of $80, and offers...
Apple Adds iPhone 12 to India Assembly Activity
Apple Inc., has started the assembly of the iPhone 12 in India, via its partner Foxconn in Tamil Nadu, as the company ramps up manufacturing operations in the world’s second-biggest smartphone market. "We are proud to be starting production of iPhone 12 in India for our local customers," Apple said,...
Flex Expands Operations in India
San Jose, CA-based Flex, electronics and original design manufacturer launched a new manufacturing facility, Flex Chennai Industrial Park 3, at Walajabad, in India's southern state of Tamil Nadu. In addition to this new plant, Flex has ten other facilities in India totaling more than one million square feet. Richard Hopkins,...
India's Most Powerful Woman Is Now Finance Minister: Nirmala Sitharaman
One of the fastest rising stars in India's cabinet is its new Finance Minister. She has western experience from her time in the United Kingdom and started out as the top spokesperson for the Prime Minister's party just 13 years ago. For the last two years she was responsible for...
India's Prolgae Spirulina to Make Food Products
Prolgae Spirulina Supplies a Tamil Nadu, India-based Nordic-Indian joint venture supplies sun-dried spirulina microalgae nibs and powder as ingredients to food and nutraceutical markets in Europe and the U.S. The blue-green algae became famous after it was used by NASA as a dietary supplement for astronauts on space missions. To...