In collaboration with Chennai headquartered Phoenix Medical Systems, the Indian Institute of Technology Madras, launched India’s first in-house designed wheelchair Arise that enables a disabled person in a wheelchair to shift from sitting to standing position, and vice versa, independently, and in a controlled manner. The device was designed by...
India to Become Unilever's Largest Global Market
U.K.-headquartered Anglo-Dutch company Unilever is bullish on India's conusmer market. Sanjiv Mehta, chairman and managing director, Hindustan Unilever Ltd., said, "For Unilever, India is currently the largest market in volume terms and the second largest in value terms, and in the very near future we clearly see a day when...
India’s First Crafted Gin Hits the U.K. Market
Bangalore-based Nao Spirits & Beverages introduced their Greater Than brand of London Dry Gin to the U.K. market in July. Greater Than is the first craft gin produced in India by entrepreneurs Anand Virmani and Vaibhav Singh. Nao Spirits produces two crafted gin products: London Dry Gin and Hapusa Himalayan...
India's Airtel, Reliance Jio to Start Voice over Wi-Fi Services
New Delhi-based Bharti Airtel and Navi Mumbai headquartered Reliance Jio Infocomm (RJio) are in advanced stages of testing Voice over Wi-Fi (VoWi-Fi) services, a technology that keeps users connected even without a mobile signal. This move will enable telecom companies to take on over-the-top players such as Skype, WhatsApp, Hike, Facebook...
In Three Years Automation in Factories to Double in India
According to a survey by London U.K.-headquartered Willis Towers Watson, automation will double over the next three years in Indian factories. Companies in India expect use of automation in the workplace to increase from a current 14% to 27% in three years; higher than the global and APAC average. ...
India Up 31 Places in Global Average Broadband Speeds 2018
The second year's U.K.-based Cable compiled data produced by M-Lab, a partnership between New America's Open Technology Institute, Google Open Source Research, Princeton University's PlanetLab and other supporting partners, found that the average global broadband speed measured during the year ending May 2017 was 7.4 Mbps. The average global broadband...