Matrix's new SIM offering promises less paperwork.
The private IndusInd Bank plans to enter into strategic tie-ups with foreign banks in the US, UK and South East Asia for its expansion plans.
Rajbaris are a link to Bengal's rich past, of grand mansions, classical fine dining, and allow guests to be pretend zamindars for those few hours or days that they stay.
Indian tourists are getting adventurous and travelling to lesser known destinations.
Michael Pritchard's bottle uses a filter that can clean up any water including faecal matter making it a veritable boon in disaster-hit areas where clean drinking water is rare
Gold is an efficient hedging instrument against inflation.
Sports footwear and apparel company Adidas on its ninth year of operations in India, on Wednesday said the country would take over from Malaysia as the number one market for the company in South East Asia.
Processed diamond exports from India, which meets nearly 80 per cent of global demand, have been hit by the Iraq war and a deadly flu-like virus in South East Asia, industry officials said.
Although India has sought inputs from the Myanmar army since most of those involved in Thursday's ambush would have sneaked across into Myanmar, the fresh operations would smoke out insurgents based in hideouts on the Indian side along the border.
Millennium Telecom, a joint venture company of two telecom PSUs Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited and Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited has floated a Rs 1,600-crore (Rs 16-billion) tender to lay a submarine cable between India and South East Asia, the landing station for which would be located in West Bengal. "The cable landing station for this cable would be set up at Digha in West Bengal," the department of telecommunication has informed the state government.
Bob Houghton's team was thrashed 7-1 in the Asian Cup football qualifying match.
"Which foreign powers may be interested in taking advantage of unrest and instability in Manipur? Does the geopolitics of south east Asia also have a role in these events," he asked.
FMCG major HUL on Friday announced the appointment of Rohit Jawa as the managing director & chief executive officer to succeed Sanjiv Mehta who will retire from the company after leading it for a decade. Jawa, presently the Chief of Transformation for Unilever, would take over the leadership role for a term of five consecutive years with effect from June 27, 2023, the company said in a statement. "The appointment of Rohit Jawa as a whole-time director and MD & CEO will be subject to approval of Shareholders and other statutory approvals as may be applicable," it added.
Concerned over the outbreak of dengue fever in neighbouring countries like Bangladesh, Bhutan, Indonesia and Sri Lanka, it has told India to be on an alert.
While for some other destinations like France, Russia, the UK and South East Asia, the rates would vary from Rs 3.25 to Rs 4 a minute, depending on the denomination value of CallNow cards, Kuldeep Goyal, CMD of BSNL told reporters. BSNL has launched a calling card -- CallNow - which allows BSNL and MTNL's landline subscribers to make much cheaper ISD calls to the US and Canada.
Ever since the Quad started taking shape in 2007, China has been saying that the four-member grouping will be bound to fail. But much to the chagrin of Beijing, it picked up pace in the recent years emerging as a premier strategic group especially challenging China's assertiveness in the disputed South China Sea.
There is no official word either from China or from India on who will represent Beijing at the upcoming G20 summit.
Having invested close to $15 billion in Indonesia, Indian firms have lined up further $15-16 billion investments.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Myanmar is aimed at transforming the arch of Bay of Bengal into the Circle of Southeast Asia, says Anirban Ganguly.
With South East Asia becoming a hub for tourists both from India and the west, the Taj Group of hotels on Friday said it will manage an exotic island resort in Malaysia to set up its presence in one of the region's key destinations.
US construction equipment major Caterpillar Inc plans to source products from India for its overseas markets as part of strategies to make the local subsidiary a global sourcing hub, a top company official said.
Global oil and gas majors Shell and ConocoPhillips have offered to sell Australian liquefied natural gas to India to meeting its growing energy needs, petroleum secretary S C Tripathi said on Monday.
"A recent risk assessment of the situation in India conducted by WHO found that resurgence and acceleration of COVID-19 transmission in India had several potential contributing factors, including increase in the proportion of cases of SARS-CoV-2 variants with potentially increased transmissibility; several religious and political mass gathering events which increased social mixing; and, under use of and reduced adherence to public health and social measures. The exact contributions of these each of these factors on increased transmission in India are not well understood," it said.
India is aiming to export arms and ammunition worth $20 in 2003 by showcasing, in the international market, indigenous upgraded versions of 130MM and 105MM artillery guns, mine-protecting vehicles as well as various assault rifles.
The Indian leg of the Manchester United Premier Cup (MUPC), for under-15 footballers, will kick-off at the Cooperage ground in Mumbai on Wednesday.
Mumbai-based IT education group Aptech launched on Monday its training centre in Kuala Lumpur to address the shortage of skilled workers in the country and develop it as a hub to service clients in south-east Asia.
The 1-1 draw gave India its first point in the competition after five defeats in Group 'A'.
The Women's Tennis Association, which has turned to Asia to grow its sport, is unclear how the International Tennis Premier League is going to pan out. 'We are still learning about it, just as the world and the media is,' said Melissa Pines, Vice-President, Asia-Pacific, on the sidelines of its new announcement to bring the season-ending BNP Paribas WTA Championships to South East Asia for the first time this year.
The President, at the banquet held in honour of his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, said the epicentre of terrorism is in Indias neighbourhood.\n\n
India meet the West Indies on September 14, as per the tentative itinerary for Singapore-Malaysia tournament.
