New Delhi: When Tim Cook took over as Apple’s chief executive in August 2011, following Steve Jobs’ second departure from the company amid his deteriorating health, expectations were sky-high and doubts were equally strong. Now, as Apple gets a new CEO, Cook’s journey offers a...
New Delhi: The NPCI International (NPIL) has paved the way for Indian tourists, business travellers and students to use UPI for making instant cross-border merchant payments by scanning Uzbekistan’s national interoperable QR code, UZQR, according to a Finance Ministry statement issued Monday. The NIPL, the...
New Delhi: The government is considering liberalisation of foreign direct investment (FDI) norms in the defence sector to further attract overseas investors, an official said Monday. The Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade is holding stakeholder consultations on the subject. "Some easing in...
New Delhi: The government has notified the Semicon 2.0 scheme with an outlay of Rs 1.27 lakh crore to boost the chip manufacturing ecosystem in the country. The scheme has been divided into six segments covering designing of chips by Indian firms, setting up units...
New Delhi: The 2023 in-flight shutdown of an engine on an Air India Boeing 787-8 aircraft prompted manufacturer GE Aerospace to expand borescope inspection requirements for affected engines, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has told the Central Information Commission (CIC). The disclosure came...
New Delhi: Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has told the Supreme Court that it has proposed to provide a prominent front-of-pack warning label in red colour for food products which are high in added saturated fat, added sugar and salt. In a...
New Delhi: The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) has inked a pact with a non-government organisation to enhance the counter-drone capabilities of its personnel in securing vital installations under its security cover, especially in the aviation, nuclear and space domains. A statement issued by the...
Mumbai: The benchmark equity indices opened higher Friday, supported by gains in information technology stocks, while investors remained cautious ahead of US Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh’s remarks at the Jackson Hole Symposium. During early trade, the Sensex was trading 193.02 points, or 0.25 per...
Kanpur: A trainee pilot and an instructor were killed Thursday when a training aircraft crashed in Kanpur along the banks of Ganga, a senior police official said. The Tecnam aircraft operated by Garg Aviation took off around 1130 am and crashed about 20 minutes later...
Oakland(US): Meta has agreed to pay USD 17 billion and add child-safety measures to its Facebook and Instagram platforms to end a landmark trial over teen social media addiction and settle claims filed by 47 states, state attorneys general announced Wednesday. California, Colorado, Kentucky and...
Banning books by governments does not surprise much since this has been going on across the world since long. But...
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The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) in its latest report released recently has castigated India for...
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Climate justice should become one of the most important points when discussing climate change. The harsh reality of human-induced climate...
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A foreign outlet interviewed me this week and at the end of it, after we had wrapped up, the interviewer...
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