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Genome Valley: It is home to more than 200 companies with a scientific workforce of about 20,000 professionals

By Peter Brian Wang An opportunity has arisen. For small and middle powers, increasingly uncertain and aggressive geosecurity has provided a chance to influence global developments. For the Pacific Islands, their time in the sun may have just begun, and they could look to other regions of the world for clues on how to play […]

Deliveroo operates a three-sided marketplace comprising consumers, restaurants and grocers, and delivery riders to bring people food and groceries in as little as 20 minutes.

New Delhi: Petrol and diesel prices are likely to be hiked this week as oil companies prepare to pare losses accumulated from keeping rates steady for over four months in the run-up to Assembly elections in five States, including UP, despite international oil prices jumping to a 13-year high of USD 140 per barrel. West […]

Hyderabad: Adding another feather to its cap, Telangana will be home to Asia’s largest fruit market at Koheda in Rangareddy district. Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao will lay the foundation soon for the fruit market which is being built as per international standards. Being developed in about 178 acres, the Koheda fruit market will be […]

Washington: Shortage of microchips in production processes in the United States cost the American economy 240 billion USD last year, and electronics companies encountered the most significant impact, the US broadcaster CBS News reported, citing experts. Disruptions were sparked by closure of major chip production plants in Asia due to the pandemic, according to the […]

Hyderabad: For CtrlS Datacenters’ founder Sridhar Pinnapureddy, green and sustainability measures are a way to keep the planet healthy and safe for the future generations. Under his leadership, 200 innovations combined with 25 green initiatives have been taken up by the Hyderabad-based company to reduce carbon footprint & dependency on fossil fuels, eliminate wastage of […]

Hyderabad: Hyderabad-based CtrlS deployed Asia’s largest Gas Insulated Substation (GIS) in Mumbai. The state-of-the-art GIS is currently equipped with a 300 MW capacity and can scale up to 700 MW. The GIS is backed by three different sources and diversified paths ensuring 100 per cent availability of power, thus powering the two million square feet […]

New Delhi: India is likely to overtake Japan as Asia’s second-largest economy by 2030 when its GDP is also projected to surpass that of Germany and the UK to rank as world’s No.3, IHS Markit said in a report on Friday. Currently, India is the sixth-largest economy in the world, behind the US, China, Japan, […]

By Muhammad Ali Nasir Will 2022 be the year where the world economy recovers from the pandemic? That’s the big question on everyone’s lips as the festive break comes to an end. One complicating factor is that most of the latest major forecasts were published in the weeks before the Omicron variant swept the world. […]

Hyderabad: Netherlands-based mobility tech company Stellantis, is embarking on its journey to clock €4 billion in revenues by 2026 and €20 billion by 2030, and believes that Hyderabad in particular, and India in general have a key role to play in contributing to it. The company plans to hire 2,200 people in Hyderabad by 2024. […]

By Samudrala VK As the political dust in war-torn Afghanistan is settling down, multiple questions are cropping up in the minds of dovish political analysts. Will powerful countries let smaller or weak nations act according to their own fate or wishes? Will global powers shed their helicopter parenting role? Will they allow peace to prevail […]

Given the changing geopolitical realities in Asia, in the wake of China’s growing belligerence, there is a strong case for India to deepen its relationship — economic and strategic — with Taiwan, a tiny island state which has stood up to the hegemony of Beijing. In fact, it is surprising that New Delhi has never […]

Hyderabad: The Rajiv Gandhi International Airport here is getting bigger, and better. According to a post from the RGIA social media handles on Monday, expansion of the airport, which was earlier this month awarded the Gold Recognition by the Airports Council International (ACI) Asia-Pacific Green Airports Recognition 2021 in the below 25 Million Passengers Per […]

Bernard Kim, Zynga's president of publishing, said that the mobile game developer is keeping an eye out for markets in Asia with its broad portfolio of casual and free-to-play mobile games.

"Immunisation efforts in Asia, meanwhile, have lagged behind and authorities have largely kept in place tougher border controls to keep the virus out. Still, Covid-19 has spread," the report said on Saturday.

The African Covid-19 Critical Care Outcomes Study, co-led by various researchers including from the University of Cape Town, is based on data from 64 hospitals in 10 countries.

This will clear the canal and allow movement on the busiest waterway in the world. Crude prices fell after rising 4 per cent over the last few days as the blockage was causing $ 9 billion of trade loss every day.

Speaking from Emory University in Atlanta after meeting Asian-American community leaders on Friday, Biden acknowledged there has been "a skyrocketing spike" in hate against Asian-Americans over the last year, Xinhua news agency reported.

Likewise, the NSE barometer Nifty settled with a gain of 232.40 points or 1.60 per cent at 14,761.55.