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...
India to Set Up 21 New Nuclear Reactors by 2031
Currently, India has 22 power reactors in operation at seven plant sites with a combined capacity of 6,780 MWe. It now expects to bring 21 new nuclear power reactors with a combined generating capacity of 15,700 MWe into operation by 2031, Jitendra Singh, the country's minister of state for the...
AstraZeneca, Indian Cancer Society to Launch Cancer Screening
AstraZeneca Pharma India in partnership with the Indian Cancer Society, announced the launch of a nationwide cancer awareness initiative – Cancer Screening for Women. Under this program, free, specialized cancer-screening will be conducted across the country for women from underprivileged families. These screening camps will focus on prevalent cancers of...