Clariant, a specialty chemicals company headquartered in Muttenz, Switzerland, will commence its new greenfield production facility in Cuddalore in the southern state of Tamil Nadu by the second semester of 2017. “The new site will serve the Indian pharmaceutical industry with state-of-the-art desiccant products produced under the strictest quality and...
4G Subscribers in India Close to 70 Million
Reliance Jio claims to have signed up 52 million 4G subscribers since its official launch in September, while Airtel added nearly three million 4G users in the second half of the year, taking its total to 7.4 million. Idea Cellular at number 3 is forecast to have 4.2 million 4G...
India Rises in WEF's Competitive Rankings
India jumped 16 places to number 39 out of 138 countries rated in the World Economic Forum’s competitiveness ranking, due mainly to better infrastructure and strong economic growth. In the World Competitiveness Report 2016-2017 rankings are made on the assessment of 12 parameters: institutions, infrastructure, macroeconomic environment, health and primary...
Tinder Rolls Out Group Chat Features in India
InterActiveCorp, New York-based Tinder is launching a new feature, Tinder Social, that allows groups of friends to discover each other and meet up. The company chief told the BBC that this move marked the "first step that we're taking to make Tinder more social and a little broader when it comes to...
India is Top Six Manufacturer says UNIDO
Headquartered in Vienna, Austria, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) has just released its 2015 Yearbook. A report on global manufacturing output mentions China at the top of the list of the top 10 industrial producers followed by the U.S., Japan, Germany, and Korea. India at the sixth place...
India Joins Nanotech-Enabled Drug Delivery Market
India’s National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER) located at Mohali, in the northern state of Punjab, has been able to manufacture raw material for generating nanocrystal-based medicines. The U.S. and Ireland are other countries where this capability exists. NIPER has obtained an Indian patent for the technology and...