Amazon launched its Fire TV stick in India with Amazon's Prime Video India director and country head Nitesh Kripalani and Amazon Fire TV vice president Marc Whitten at the launch. India is the fifth country where the device becomes available after the U.S., U.K., Germany and Japan. Priced at $62,...
National Security Advisor McMaster meets PM Modi
On his first official visit to the region, United States National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster, met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in New Delhi, this week. McMaster is the highest ranking Trump administration official to visit India so far. "The two sides discussed a range of bilateral and regional issues, including...
India Could Outpace China with Shifts in U.S. Policy
In a long article, supported ably by charts, the South China Morning Post compares the differences between the economies of India and China, and puts forth reasons why "India could trump China as U.S. policy shifts". Highlights of the publication's views: SCMP Views on India China Debt India’s debt ratios...
In a U.S.- China Trade War, Does India Benefit?
Analysts differ on their opinions on whether India stands to gain if there were to be a trade war between the U.S. and China, but the majority say India stands to benefit from the tensions. The Economic Times reports that Seshadri Chari, a national executive member of the ruling Bharatiya...
India Buys Ocean Sensors from U.S., Missiles from Israel
The Defense Acquisition Council of India's Defense Ministry approved the purchase of 'Expendable Bathythermograph Systems', which are small torpedo-shaped devices fitted with temperature sensors and transducers to detect changes in water temperature. These devices, meant for India's Navy, will be acquired from the U.S. The government also approved the procurement...
India Launches 100 Satellites on Single Rocket
India's Space and Research Organization disclosed that it had successfully launched more than a hundred nano satellites that weighed less than 22 pounds each, in a single mission. "All 104 satellites were successfully placed in orbit," the space agency’s chairman, A.S. Kiran Kumar, said. These included an Indian Earth observation...