Tasmania’s economy will receive a $40 million injection and more than 400 new jobs will be created thanks to the $13 million Australian Government Innovation and Investment Fund and $27 million in matching investment by local businesses. Minister for Industry and Science Ian Macfarlane said,”Forty one businesses across the State will receive from $50,000 to […]
Washington, March 11 Louisiana’s Indian-American governor Bobby Jindal has jumped into a war of words between the White House and Senate Republicans over a letter to the government of Iran on a potential deal over its nuclear programme. Jindal, who is testing the waters for a 2016 presidential run, issued a call on Tuesday for […]
-By Killugudi Jayaraman Bengaluru, March 10 Cold fusion, a revolutionary source of energy — discovered 25 years ago but was cold-shouldered by mainstream physicists — is now staging a comeback thanks to researchers who doggedly pursued the science behind it. In a set of 34 peer-reviewed articles published recently in the journal “Current Science”, nuclear […]
New Delhi, March 9 Larsen and Toubro and Pipavav Defence, in which Reliance Infrastructure of Anil Ambani Group is acquiring a majority stake, have been shortlisted for the Rs.60,000-crore potential contract to build six submarines for the Indian Navy, sources said Monday. “Project 75i, as we call it, is for purchasing six next-generation submarines with […]
Mumbai, March 9 A benchmark index of Indian equities markets, the 30-scrip Sensitive Index (Sensex), plunged 327.55 points or 1.11 percent as banking stocks plummeted on Monday. The wider 50-scrip Nifty of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) was also trading at 104.55 points or 1.17 percent down at 8,833.20 points. The Sensex of the S&P […]
-By Jaideep Sarin Chandigarh, March 8 Thousands of people may have driven out of Chandigarh’s Sunday car bazaar with their newly-acquired possessions in the past three decades, but the well-known used car market of the region is still looking to park itself in a permanent space to carry out its business. Car dealers operating from […]
New Delhi, March 6 ,Giving a major fillip to India’s neighourhood outreach in the Indian Ocean region, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be on a five-day visit to the three key island nations of Seychelles, Mauritius and Sri Lanka from March 10. However, the Maldives leg of the visit is not on, in view of […]
Washington, March 5 President Barack Obama has nominated Sunil Sabharwal, an independent Indian American investor in the payments sector, as US Alternate Executive Director at International Monetary Fund for a term of two years. The White House sent Sabharwal’s nomination to the Senate on Wednesday. At over two dozen, Obama administration boasts of having the […]
New York, March 5 Financial giant JP Morgan Chase has elevated India-born Anu Aiyengar as co-head of mergers and acquisitions for North America, a media report said on Thursday. Aiyengar and Henry Gosebruch, both 42 years old, will soon assume the newly created roles. Aiyengar has worked on several of JP Morgan’s biggest assignments in […]
Hyderabad, March 5 (IANS)Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu on Thursday invited Japanese firms to invest in the development of the new state capital and in various sectors which offer huge opportunities.He promised the investors faster clearances, allotment of any amount of land, round-the-clock electricity supply, water and hassle-free business environment.Naidu was addressing a […]