Tag: India

• Tuesday, December 17th 2013 - 03:04 UTC

  Indian designed tablet goes on sale in the UK at £30 (48 US dollars)

  

  A tablet costing £30 (48 US dollars) has gone on sale in the UK. The UbiSlate 7Ci, made by UK-based company Datawind, is the commercial version of the Aakash 2 tablet, which was originally launched in India, where it is mainly used by students and was designed to provide cheap internet access to help improve education.

• Thursday, September 26th 2013 - 21:04 UTC

  A sugar rush that could fuel the economy

  

  By R. Viswanathan (*) - India should take its cue from Brazil and invest in ethanol as a viable commercial substitute for costly petrol.

• Tuesday, August 13th 2013 - 02:02 UTC

  Brazil military regime wanted the ‘bomb’ fearing an armed conflict with Argentina

  

  The military dictatorship that ruled Brazil from 1964 to 1985 was planning to develop an atomic bomb according to secret documents from the Armed Forces Chief of Staff to which the influential newspaper O Estado de Sao Paulo had access and released details.

• Tuesday, August 6th 2013 - 07:49 UTC

  Trade expert and career diplomat, next Argentine ambassador in India

  

  The Argentine Foreign ministry informed that India has extended its placet to trade expert and career diplomat Raul Ignacio Guastavino, as the next ambassador in New Delhi.

• Friday, June 28th 2013 - 07:37 UTC

  Aditya Birla Group has the largest business turnover among Indian companies in Latin

  

  Aditya Birla Group is a late entrant to Latin America and came very much later than the Tatas and Reliance, the other big iconic Indian business groups. However Birla has made up for lost time by emerging as the Indian company with the largest annual business turnover in Latin America, which was around 1.8 billion dollars last year. Birla is also the largest investor from the Indian private sector in Latin America.

• Wednesday, June 19th 2013 - 00:14 UTC

  India-Argentina pledge to improve trade; Timerman thanks Delhi support on Malvinas dispute

  

  India and Argentina pledged to improve trade relations, particularly in “non-traditional areas” said Argentine Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman alongside his counterpart, Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid, at the end of his visit to India. Timerman also thanked New Delhi for its support in the Falklands/Malvinas dispute.

• Monday, June 17th 2013 - 19:44 UTC

  India's Energy Ties with Iran Unsettle Washington

  

  India's relentless search for hydrocarbons to fuel its booming economy has managed the rather neat diplomatic trick of annoying Washington, delighting Tehran and intriguing Baghdad, all the while leaving the Indian Treasury fretting about how to pay for its oil imports, given tightening sanctions on fiscal dealings with Iran.

• Saturday, June 15th 2013 - 02:05 UTC

  Timerman arrives in India for a four-day visit to promote closer relations

  

  Argentine Foreign Minister Hector Timerman begins Saturday a four-day visit to India to co-chair, along with Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid, the fourth India- Argentina Joint Commission Meeting (JCM).

• Wednesday, April 17th 2013 - 07:43 UTC

  India’s exports to booming Colombia have crossed the billion dollar mark

  

  By R. Viswanathan - Yes. India's exports to Colombia have crossed the billion dollar mark, reaching 1.124 billion dollars in 2012. Colombia is the third biggest destination of India's exports to Latin America after Brazil and Mexico.

• Tuesday, April 2nd 2013 - 05:23 UTC

  India/Mexico bilateral trade expected to reach 15bn dollars by 2015

  

  By R. Viswanathan - Yes… steady is the word to describe the growth of India's trade with Mexico, the second largest market of Latin America. The bilateral trade reached 6.29 billion dollars in 2012 from 4.15bn in 2011, 2.9bn in 2008 and 1.03bn in 2003.