President Ram Nath Kovind on Saturday appointed Suresh Prabhu as the new Civil Aviation Minister, a statement said. A communique from the Rashtrapati Bhawan said Commerce and Industry Minister Prabhu will take additional charge of the Ministry of Civil Aviation. The announcement came two days after P. Ashok Gajapathi Raju stepped down as the Aviation M...
Non-practicing entity Portal Communications has filed a lawsuit against Apple for alleged infringement of three patents related to natural language voice query systems -- the technology being used by the iPhone-maker in its products in the form of the Siri virtual assistant. According to tech website Appleinsider, in its filing with the Eastern ...
German car manufacturer Volkswagen is set to recall 33,142 vehicles in China after detecting faulty drain valves, the Chinese General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine on Saturday. The car maker has filed a plan to recall the Touareg models manufactured between December 2014 and November 2017, the reports Xinhua news ag...
The International Solar Alliance (ISA) on Saturday signed agreements with global financial institutions, including development banks. "The International Solar Alliance and the African Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, the Green climate fund, and the New Development Ba...
San Francisco, March 10 Microsoft has started selling a customised version of the newly-launched Samsung Galaxy S9 and Galaxy S9+ on its store. The "Microsoft edition" smartphones will give users access to a range of Microsoft's apps such as Excel, Skype, Cortana, OneNote, PowerPoint, Word and Microsoft Launcher after setting up the phon...
Twitter has appointed distinguished engineer Parag Agrawal, an alumnus of Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay (IIT-B), as its Chief Technology Officer, according to an update at the microblogging site. He takes the position most recently held by Adam Messinger, who left in late 2016, CNBC reported late on Thursday. The appointmen...
Over the last seven decades, Indias relationship with France has been steady and stable, but perhaps a bit stale and out of energy -- just like a long-married couple. The election of Narendra Modi in 2014 as the Indian Prime Minister and the advent of Emmanuel Macron as the French President last year and the rapid economic reforms in bot...
The South Korean government on Friday slammed the US government's decision to impose new tariffs on steel and aluminium imports and said that it was considering protesting against the measure at the World Trade Organisation (WTO). "We express regret over the US government's decision to impose tariffs on imported steel even though the Korean gove...
India will require 1,750 new passenger and cargo aircraft over the next 20 years to meet an exponential rise in both passenger and freight traffic, according to Airbus latest India Market Forecast. To help meet this growth, India will need 1,320 new single-aisle aircraft and 430 wide-body aircraft valued at $255 billion, a statement said here ...
Key Indian equity indices extended their gains for the second consecutive session on Friday, with the BSE Sensex gaining over 100 points. According to market observers, easing geo-political tensions in the Korean peninsula, along with healthy buying in consumer durables, auto and IT stocks, added to the indices' upward trajectory. Ar...
