By Nikunj Ohri and Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI, Feb 1 (Reuters) – India’s government on Sunday gave Apple a major victory by allowing foreign companies to supply machines to their contract manufacturers in certain areas for five years without any tax risk. Apple has been growing in India in recent years as it diversifies beyond … Read more
By Sudarshan Varadhan SINGAPORE, Jan 27 (Reuters) – India and China have cut emissions from electricity generation by accelerating the use of clean energy, researchers say, offsetting the growing use of coal in the United States and limiting the global growth of pollutants linked to climate change. Power sector emissions from China and India, the … Read more
Heavy monsoon rains in Bengaluru, India, caused substantial damage to avarekai (also known as Indian bean or hyacinth bean), NewsFirst Prime reported. The loss has put both farmers and consumers in a difficult position. What is going on? According to NewsFirst Prime, the price of the popular Indian staple has risen to between 80 and … Read more
A dispute that started over heating a dish in a microwave ended with two Indian students winning a $200,000 settlement from an American university. Aditya Prakash and his fiancee, Urmi Bhattacheryya, told the BBC they filed a civil rights lawsuit against the University of Colorado, Boulder, after facing a series of “microaggressions and retaliatory actions” … Read more
Eight elephants were killed early Saturday when a Delhi-bound passenger train hit a herd in the northeastern Indian state of Assam, railway authorities said. The crash happened at around 2.17 am local time in Assam’s Hojai district at a site not designated as an elephant corridor, local officials added. The impact caused the locomotive and … Read more