Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s meeting with US investors, India on Thursday gave a major tax concession to foreign companies that don’t have a permanent set-up in India but operate out of countries with which New Delhi has double tax avoidance treaties. Technically, the ministry of finance has decided to amend the Income Tax […]
Welcoming Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s second visit to the US, several US lawmakers have hoped it would deepen Indian investment in the US and drive more development in India with use of US technological knowledge. “Under your leadership, our bilateral relationship has been revitalised and India has undergone a domestic transformation while engaging with the […]
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday sought Ireland’s support for reforms of the UN Security Council within a fixed time frame and India’s permanent membership as he held talks with Ireland’s Prime Minister Enda Kenny. Modi, who arrived here earlier in the day on a day-long visit, said he exchanged views on a broad range […]
India has withdrawn what is called the Draft National Encryption Policy following outrage. Okay, you won’t have to store all WhatsApp messages and emails. For now. Life moves fast in the social media era. In the space of 48 hours, India managed to float a draft of something as geeky as an encryption policy, trigger […]
With more and more teenagers giving up books for Facebook and Twitter, an Indian-American businesswoman cum author has recently launched an app that features short fiction for young readers or what she calls the “Snapchat generation”. Each book on the app called Hooked will be roughly 1,000 words and is designed to be read in […]
US President Barack Obama has said that his summit meeting with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping later this month will be “useful” and generate “a lot of outcomes”. Responding to questions after addressing members of the Business Roundtable on Wednesday, Obama said these outcomes would be “around things like energy and climate change, around improvements […]
The festive season beginning with the onset of Ganesh Chaturathi (September 17) may not give a desired boost to real estate sector that is facing slow down for the last two years. Residential real estate is reeling under weak sales due to a liquidity crunch, unaffordable prices, high interest rates and large scale delivery defaults […]
For anyone out there who is not a part of Apple Inc.’s workforce, it would be very hard to imagine the Apple logo without connecting the name of Apple’s late founder Steve Jobs in their heads. But the truth is that the company’s latest announcements, launches and strategies are in deviation of Jobs’ ideologies and […]
Climate change would be in focus at the India-Africa Forum Summit here this October with India proposing that the 54 African countries join a Solar Group of nations to tap the sunÂ’s rays for energy while forming another grouping with the coastal countries to harness ocean wave energy. As the October 26-30 mega diplomatic event […]
Addressed with skepticism by most, the term electromagnetic hypersensitivity (EHS) or wireless allergy or gadget allergy, is ascribed to a range of non-specific symptoms like headache and fatigue apparently due to heavy use of wireless communicating devices, especially those that emit electromagnetic radiation (EMR). Common sources of this Wi-Fi tsunami include mobile phone signals, Wi-Fi […]