Mirc Electronics, the manufacturer of Onida brand of consumer electronics, is looking for overseas acquisition opportunities to beef up its research and development capabilities.
DRDO has goals to develop stealth aircrafts and long range reusable hypersonic cruise missiles.
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Under the next phase of missile development programme, the DRDO was working on Long Range Surface-to-air Missiles (LR SAM), which have a range of 70 km, with international collaboration, Prahlada said but declined to name the countries with whom the joint research will be done.
Owing to cancelled schedules, busy Bollywood celebrities are engaging in all sorts of fun activities with their brood.
"Many people have to be tended here. I have an organic feel to MindTree. A gardener's job is never over," Bagchi told the media, adding that his new role was apt given MindTree's history. Information technology (IT) firms of late have been introducing catchy designations like 'Chief Fun Officer', 'Chief Happiness Officer', and even 'Chief Energising Officer' as they revamp their organisations and the roles of some of their senior executives.
Since Malvinder Mohan Singh announced last week that he would sell leading Indian generic drug maker Ranbaxy to Daiichi Sankyo of Japan, incredulous friends have deluged him with messages.
Most Indian IT firms work as system integrators for Huawei and though the exposure is very less as of now, the potential is more due to 5G roll out. As pressure to keep the Chinese firm out of the 5G network grows, other global firms, including Japan's NEC, South Korea's Samsung, Finland's Nokia and Sweden's Ericssion are increasing their investments to grab more market share in the telecom sector.
With India aiming to increase its research and development expenditure in the coming years, the country is likely to emerge as the next global hub for innovation and join the club of developed nations, a study has said.
An area of 150 acres has been earmarked for the Education City, in which, 75 acres has been reserved for private institutions in phase one and 75 acre for an institute of design and other professional colleges. This would include a 30-acre area for common facilities like market, gym, sports facilities etc.
A state of the art nano-manufacturing lab costing over $ 7.5 million donated by a global nanotechnology major was inaugurated at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay on Thursday. The prestigious institute located in Mumbai also signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Applied Materials (AMAT) Inc, which donated three advanced tools to IIT, for collaboration in R&D projects.
Amgen, the world's largest biotechnology company, has entered India by opening a wholly owned subsidiary Amgen Technology in Mumbai.
This year, MindTree improved from 68th in 2007 and has been ranked 54th, while also being named one of the 20 best companies by services offered in the category of product research, development and manufacture. The list is published in May 5 issue of Fortune magazine. Winners were chosen through an evaluation process that considers four key criteria -- size and growth in revenue, employees, development centres and countries served customer experience.
Defence Minister AK Antony told Parliament recently that one of the terms of references of the committee was to utilise the expertise of selected non-resident Indians and foreign consultants
Unreserved railway tickets, which are bought by 16 million passengers daily in India, will soon be available through cell phones, thanks to a major IT initiative of Centre for Railway Information Systems (CRIS). The CRIS official also announced that the IT-based unreserved Ticketing System (UTS), which began six years ago as a pilot project to dispense unreserved tickets through a wider and universal access to information technology, would be extended to 6,275 stations.
Hyundai Motor India Limited is taking the adage -- what cannot be measured cannot be controlled -- very seriously. In a move to control costs, it is implementing an innovative plan where the car-marker has incentivised every small idea to reduce the weight of the car it makes by offering Rs 100 for every gram saved in weight.
According to sources, developers of many of the 59 banned apps had taken down their apps from Google Play Store voluntarily.
Moscow's example highlights to India that in a balance of power world, India has to learn to deal simultaneously with all major powers to enhance its own national interest.
Researchers at the University of Sheffield and Aston Business School have found that investment in Research and Development (R&D) is rapidly shifting from North America and Europe to Asia.
The operators say that the move to have an India-specific standard will raise the costs not only of telecom networks but of chipsets for mobile devices because they will have to be made for the local market and, as such, will not enjoy global economies of scale.
Besides making India its global small car hub and increasing the R&D headcount by four fold, the company would start exporting its engines from the Chennai plant from next year.
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This has prompted public health groups to call the concerns of Swiss drug major Novartis that inadequacies in Indian patent law will have negative consequences for patients and public health in India as 'bogus'.
ATI Technologies, designer and manufacturer of 3D graphics and digital media silicon solutions, plans to invest $ 50 million in research and developement facility in India in the next five years.
In his address to RIC Foreign Ministers, Wang said the three countries should 'correctly handle and properly deal with sensitive factors in bilateral relations and safeguard the overall interests of mutual relation', without directly referring to the current round of India-China military tensions along the Line of Actual Control, (LAC).
Consumer electronic goods manufacturers are moving from 'Made in India' to 'Designed for India' products.
If Microsoft's bid for Yahoo! goes through, the combination will mean stiff competition for Google and AOL in the Rs 230 crore online advertising market in India that is growing rapidly.
Swedish telecom major Ericsson has expanded its research and development activities in Chennai by opening a new facility.
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Signalling its increasing dependence on India for R&D requirements, Cisco, the global networking solutions provider, has set up a new business unit in Bangalore - the first by the company to be based outside the US.
Villagers and the people of the Varkari sect are on one side and state government and Dow Chemicals on the other. The bone of contention is the future of Dow Chemicals' $100-million R&D project, for which 100 acres of land was allotted in the village near the Sudha -- held sacred by the followers of a Bhakti cult called Varkaris.
The R&D centre would come up at Chennai, the company said.
Subroto Bagchi, author of the recently published book 'Go Kiss the World -- Life Lessons for the Young Professional' talks about India's youth, why they need to be self-confident and why hire and fire policies are not good for the growth of Indian companies.
These companies were identified through the India Innovation Growth Programme, an innovation contest through which the US firm identifies Indian research and development potential.
'Industry realises we cannot overly depend on imports from anywhere including China.'
The clarifications came after media reports on Saturday quoted officials as saying that R&D work on Trishul will be stopped in December.
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