Air India plans to boost its freight and cargo operations over the next few years on the back of an enhanced cargo-handling capacity, thanks to the wide-body planes the Tata group airline has on order from Airbus and Boeing. The 70 wide-body aircraft ordered by Air India as part of …
Read More »3rd largest economy in 3rd Modi term? Anatomy of India’s growth | Explained News
Inaugurating the newly built International Exhibition-cum-Convention Centre (IECC), named Bharat Mandapam, in New Delhi on Wednesday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said that when he took charge in 2014, India was the tenth-largest economy in the world. During his second term as PM, he said, India had become the fifth-largest economy. …
Read More »US chipmaker AMD to invest $400 mn in India over 5 years, to set up design centre | Business News
US Chipmaker AMD will invest $400 million in India over the next five years, the company’s CTO Mark Papermaster said Friday. The California-based chipmaker will use that investment to open its biggest chip design centre in the tech hub of Bengaluru, Papermaster said. The new 500,000-square-foot (55,555 square yards) campus …
Read More »India pulls out of games in China over stapled visas for Arunachal athletes | Sport-others News
As a mark of protest against China’s decision to issue stapled visas — instead of stamped ones — to three athletes from Arunachal Pradesh, India withdrew its entire wushu (martial art) team from the World University Games which begin Friday in Chengdu. The decision came hours after airport authorities in …
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