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carpooling among employees, battery-operated cabs, preferred parking and virtual meetings wherever possible -corporate India is going the extra mile to ensure a greener future as the country looks to transition towards net zero. A clutch of companies including Infosys, Capgemini, Ericsson, and EY Global Delivery Services (GDS) are making employee travel more sustainable to reduce their carbon footprint. While increasing the usage of electric vehicles (EVs) is one part of the strategy, these companies are also focusing on measures like cutting down non-essential travel, phasing out CNG vehicles, and encouraging carpooling among employees.

Tata Sons, the holding company of the salt-to-aviation Tata Group, has appointed Banmali Agrawala as the new chairman of Tata Advanced Systems (TASL), the group's aerospace and defence solutions unit, according to people aware of the development. Agrawala succeeds Vijay Singh who has retired. Agrawala is also a senior advisor at Tata Sons and chairman of Tata Electronics.

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has asked for industry opinion on ways to encourage and better the research and development ecosystem for telecom, broadcasting and information and communication technology (ICT) in the country in a new discussion paper released Friday. Issues like the role of telecom operators in facilitating R&D in the country, steps to improve government-industry-academia dynamics, simplifying patent application and encouraging private sector R&D through incentives are among those raised in the paper titled 'Encouraging R&D in Telecom, Broadcasting and IT (ICT) Sectors'. «The consultation paper is aimed at understanding the present ecosystem of R&D in India, identify and learn from practices adopted by R&D leaders across the globe and account for issues to be consulted with the stakeholders for enhancing the R&D scenario in India,» Trai said in the paper. Trai also asked for industry opinion on why multinational companies focus on software rather than hardware in India, and the measures that could be taken to promote basic/applied research by MNCs strengthening the current R&D efforts in software and improving R&D efforts in hardware. «How can awareness about IPR be increased among the researchers and industry in ICT sector? Is there a need to reduce the cost of filing patents in India? If yes, how can it be done?» the sector regulator asked.

₹17,000 crore over six years. Spokespeople for Meity, HP, Dell, Apple, and Lenovo did not respond to queries as of Friday evening.

India market share is one of the highest for any airline in a domestic market across the world. But its larger strategy now is becoming a more global airline from a purely domestic one, Pieter Elbers, who was brought in as chief executive last year from Air France-KLM, tells Arindam Majumder. Edited excerpts:Q. It has been a year of aggressive expansion adding international destinations where Indians hardly travelled before. Are those yielding money? A: It is a strategy that we launched a year ago — that we build our own network, develop partnership, and expand connectivity.

climate change and clean energy supply chains, and on infrastructure through the Quad Infrastructure Fellowships Program and the Quad Partnership for Cable Connectivity and Resilience," said the joint readout of the meeting. “We continue to advance the development of a secure and trusted telecommunications network with a network modernization project and Open Radio Access Network deployment in Palau, progress on Quad cybersecurity initiatives — and explore avenues to share Earth Observation data to monitor extreme weather events and support climate adaptation.

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inflation, volume growth is finally returning and rural demand is witnessing green shoots, Procter & Gamble Hygiene and Health Care Ltd (PGHHL) said on Friday. PGHHL, which reported a 12 per cent sales growth in FY23 and 3 per cent sales growth in the first quarter this fiscal, said FMCG consumption in the June quarter was the fastest in the last six quarters. «Inflation is softening and volume growth is finally returning.

Kovind for simultaneous elections will be held here on Saturday to discuss the roadmap and how to go about holding consultation with stakeholders. Kovind had recently told reporters in Odisha that the meeting will be held on September 23. The government had on September 2 notified the eight-member «high-level» panel to examine and make recommendations at the earliest on the issue of holding simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha, state assemblies, municipalities and panchayats. People aware of the details said the meeting will be «introductory» in nature and members will discuss the roadmap on how to go about the mandate given to the panel. The panel, they said, will also discuss on how to go about holding consultations with stakeholders, research on the subject and preparation of working papers. Home Minister Amit Shah, former leader of the opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad and former finance commission chairman N K Singh are among the committee's members. Congress' leader in the Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury was also a member.

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) has asked for industry opinion on ways to encourage and better the research and development ecosystem for telecom, broadcasting and information and communication technology (ICT) in the country in a new discussion paper released Friday. Issues like the role of telecom operators in facilitating R&D in the country, steps to improve government-industry-academia dynamics, simplifying patent application and encouraging private sector R&D through incentives are among those raised in the paper titled «Encouraging R&D in Telecom, Broadcasting, and IT (ICT) Sectors». “The consultation paper is aimed at understanding the present ecosystem of R&D in India, identify and learn from practices adopted by R&D leaders across the globe and account for issues to be consulted with the stakeholders for enhancing the R&D scenario in India,” Trai said in the paper. Trai also asked for industry opinion on why multinational companies (MNCs) focus on software rather than hardware in India and the measures that could be taken to promote basic/applied research by MNCs strengthening the current R&D efforts in software and improving R&D efforts in hardware. “How can awareness about IPR be increased among the researchers and industry in ICT sector?.. Is there a need to reduce the cost of filing patents in India? If yes, how can it be done?” the sector regulator asked.

If your track record is very clean, then most banks would like to offer you add-on credit cards with a higher credit limit and added features. An add-on card is like a supplementary or secondary card. These cards can be used by your spouse, children and even parents and siblings.

A cash gift from parents is exempt from tax but taxpayers are required to report it in their Income Tax Return as exempt income. However, many taxpayers are unsure as to how and where they can report such gifts in ITR. Further, there seems to be some confusion about the formalities one should complete to remain clear in the eyes of the Income Tax Department.

IT hardware players that the process of import authorisation for laptops, tablet, servers etc. will be completely online and has sought data of the past three years for the inbound shipments of mobile, IT and telecom products, sources aware of the development said.

Apple stores in France began a nationwide strike over pay and working conditions on Friday in a protest designed to coincide with the launch of the iPhone 15. It is the latest headache for the tech giant in France after it was forced to stop selling its iPhone 12 model earlier this month for above-threshold radiation. Apple disputes the findings of the French watchdog. About 30 staff were picketing outside the company's store in Opera in central Paris, one of three in the French capital, a few metres away from a line of about 40 customers waiting in the rain to enter the shop. «We are still the people who make Apple's wealth, and therefore I think that we deserve a little more honorable treatment than what we are given today,» said Anais Durel, a 36-year old who has worked for Apple for 10 years. Apple unions including CGT, Unsa, CFDT and Cidre-CFTC, which also plan to strike on Saturday, have asked for a 7% wage increase to compensate for inflation, and an end to a months-long hiring freeze.

I2U2 Group, consisting of India, the US, Israel, and the UAE, has launched a private enterprise partnership to increase awareness of its initiative in business communities and support projects that further its goals. The four-nation grouping also launched its website to enhance cooperation between the member countries and partnerships across the globe. The launch announcement was made during the I2U2 Sherpas meeting in New York on the sidelines of the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly by India's Ministry of External Affairs Secretary (Economic Relations), Dammu Ravi, Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director-General Ronen Levi, UAE's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Minister Ahmed Ali Al Sayegh, and US Department of State Under Secretary Jose W.

Indigo flight, a 41-year-old man, identified as Biswajit Debath, made an attempt to open an emergency door while the aircraft was in mid-air. Authorities reveal that Biswajit, a resident of Jirania in West Tripura, was struggling with depression and reportedly expressed a desire to jump from the plane. The incident escalated into a confrontation with the flight crew, resulting in Biswajit Debath being detained on charges of «endangering the lives of hundreds of passengers.» Airport Police Station in Agartala's Officer in Charge, Abhijit Mandal, stated, «Biswajit has confessed that he suffers from depression and was trying to open the emergency door mid-air.» This unsettling episode transpired around 1 pm on Thursday, when the plane was merely 15 miles away from Maharaja Bir Bikram Airport in Agartala.

summer was the hottest ever in the Northern Hemisphere. In fact, scientists announced last week that June, July and August this year were the warmest on record globally, confirming that the horrific heat waves in many places were as awful as they seemed. But, as you're probably already aware, the summer didn't bring record-breaking heat to California. Some daily temperature records were broken in July in Palm Springs, Anaheim and Redding, but overall, the Golden State actually enjoyed its coolest summer since 2011, said Dan McEvoy, a researcher with the Western Regional Climate Center. That's a particularly big relief after three consecutive summers that all ranked among the state's 10 most sizzling on record. The northern third of California was warmer than usual (compared with the past 30 years) because of a high-pressure system over the Pacific Northwest that reached into the northernmost parts of the state, McEvoy said.

«Second, this inclusion, JP Morgan GBI-EM diversified 110 inclusion, obviously it is good news for the country, for the bond markets and what is good news for bond markets is obviously also good news for primary dealers like PNB Gilts,» says Vikas Goel, MD, PNB Gilts.PNB Gilts is in the business of debt broking. Now that the bond market will open up, how will life change for PNB Gilts?So first, let me clarify, we are not a debt broker; we are a primary dealer in government securities, the only listed primary dealer. So our license is primarily focused on allowing us to be a market maker and supporting the government's borrowing program via being an underwriter. So we are essentially not a broker, we are a dealer. Second, this inclusion, JP Morgan GBI-EM diversified 110 inclusion, obviously it is good news for the country, for the bond markets and what is good news for bond markets is obviously also good news for primary dealers like PNB Gilts.

GrainCorp boss Robert Spurway says the company can cope well with adverse weather conditions as forecasts point to an end to a golden run of harvests.

South Africa will host a meeting of nations participating in the U.S. Africa Growth and Opportunity Act despite earlier calls to exclude the country from the forum due to its ties to Russia and the docking of a sanctioned Russian vessel near Cape Town ...