San Francisco/New Delhi: India and the US have signed an agreement to promote innovation through increasing cooperation among startups, address regulatory hurdles, and share best practices on fundraising by entrepreneurs, an official statement said on Wednesday. The memorandum of understanding (MoU) on enhancing innovation ecosystems through an innovation handshake under the framework of India-US Commercial…
New Delhi:Â India is unlikely to go in for hyperloop technology for ultra high-speed trains in the near future as the technology is at a ‘very low level’ of maturity and may not be economically viable at the current juncture, NITI Aayog Member V K Saraswat said on Sunday. Saraswat, who is heading a committee to…
New Delhi: iPhone-maker Apple Inc on Tuesday said it does not attribute threat notifications, such as the ones received by some MPs belonging to Opposition parties, to any specific state-sponsored attackers and that it cannot provide information on what causes such warnings. After some of the most vocal critics of the government said they received warnings…
New Delhi: The Indian Army’s Light Combat Helicopter (LCH) ‘Prachand’ on Monday successfully carried out the firing of 70mm rockets in both day and night conditions, officials said. The firing was carried out at a firing range near Likabali in Assam, they said. “The inaugural firing of 70 mm rocket and 20mm turret guns of Light Combat…
New Delhi:Â Reliance Jio has unleashed the world’s fastest roll-out of 5G mobile telephony network, deploying a 5G cell every 10 seconds and together with its fixed-wireless broadband offering has made India the broadband capital of the world, its chairman Akash Ambani said on Friday. Speaking at the Indian Mobile Congress, Ambani said that Jio “is…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday launched a fresh broadside against Congress as he termed 2014 as not just a date but a ‘badlav’ (change) when people rejected outdated phones with frozen screens to choose a government that has transformed the landscape. Speaking at the India Mobile Congress here, Modi reeled out statistics…
Bangalore: Profinch Solutions, a bootstrapped Indian Fintech company, appears to have been embroiled in a financial crisis, which put the lives of its 1500-work force literally onto the streets. The Company which was founded in 2014 and Finalist of Fintech Scaleup of the year 2022, on the verge of collapse. It is a conglomeration of…
New Delhi:Â Ministry of Electronics and IT will start setting up Bharat Semicoductor Research Centre from next year in collaboration with the industry and academia, minister of state Rajeev Chandrasekhar said on Friday. The minister said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision is that Indians should be involved in the leadership of semicoductor research. “A group…
New Delhi: Internet major Google will make the Pixel series of smartphones in India, starting with Pixel 8, and plans to roll out the India-made devices in 2024, a senior company official said on Thursday. The tech titan outlined its manufacturing plans at the annual Google for India event that also saw other key announcements…
New Delhi:Â The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will carry out the first of several test flights ahead of the Gaganyaan mission on October 21, Science and Technology Minister Jitendra Singh said on Tuesday. The test vehicle development flight (TV-D1) will be conducted at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh to test…
