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₹2 trillion worth of electronics manufactured in the country. “Samsung Fold Five and Apple iPhone 15 are already being manufactured here", he added, while stressing the need to take this success in mobile and electronics manufacturing further.

Narendra Modi inaugurated the 7th Edition of India Mobile Congress 2023 on October 27 and said 'The Future is Here and Now," reported ANI. The event is taking place at Bharat Mandapam, Pragati Maidan in New Delhi.

Launched in September 2019, Mint’s Emerging Markets Tracker provides a summary of economic activity across 10 large emerging markets based on seven high-frequency indicators. With a composite score of 79, India topped the EM league table in September.

green card queue, the majority are in the EB-2 and EB-3 categories. There is a high chance that the backlog for these categories will grow further in 2024. The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) website mentioned the inventory of employment-based adjustment of status applications for EB-2 and EB-3 categories from India is significantly high for the fiscal year 2024 and beyond (October 1, 2023 - September 30, 2024).

Google introduced Immersive View for routes. Starting this week, Immersive View for routes is gradually becoming available in Amsterdam, Barcelona, Dublin, Florence, Las Vegas, London, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Paris, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, Tokyo, and Venice on both Android and iOS platforms. Immersive View for places, powered by AI blends thousands of Street View and aerial images, allowing users to preview restaurants or landmarks ahead of your visit.

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Question: We are an Indian-based entity with various group companies in foreign jurisdictions. There are many intercompany transactions with such group companies which are subjected to a lower withholding tax rate in accordance with the relevant treaty owing to MFN. Kindly highlight the recent Supreme Court judgement in the case of applicability of the Most Favoured Nation MFN.

Edelweiss Mutual Fund on Thursday said it has mobilised over Rs 1,000 crore during the new fund offering (NFO) of its multi-cap fund. The Edelweiss Multi Cap Fund has recorded the highest collection ever achieved by the fund house in an equity NFO, with over 65,000 applications.

Co-working startup Innov8 has announced that it will double its footprint in the ongoing financial year FY 2023-2024. The company added 5 new centres in key business cities in India in early 2023 and is all set to inaugurate 5 more centres in the current quarter.

Have Indian equity markets decoupled? While the global equity markets have faced challenges, with declines of average 2.37% in last six months as against Nifty Fifty returns of 11.5%, India has managed to buck the trend and gain ground. The resilience and strength displayed by the Indian equity markets have led some to believe that they have decoupled from global trends.

“Country after country as well as World Bank, United Nations, WTO, Africa Union, European Union, G20, BRICS, everyone is chanting that the digital infrastructure that India has built can accelerate the world economy, especially in those countries which have lack of infrastructure,” Bharti Airtel chairman Sunil Mittal said during the inauguration of India Mobile Congress. He also stressed about the success India has achieved in manufacturing, particularly digital infrastructure in the last few years. “I spoke about it last year that manufacturing of the scale and size which we want may not happen in India during my lifetime. But I realised that India is moving fast,” Mittal said. He highlighted that companies ranging from Apple to Dixon to Samsung and Tata’s, every company, be it small or big, are getting into manufacturing and India is emerging as a world leader in manufacturing, especially digital infrastructure.

India will be a leader in telecom technologies in years to come with the investments being made by the country in 5G and 6G and domestic equipment manufacturing, telecom minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said. He was speaking during the inaugural session of the India Mobile Congress 2023. “Today, the whole world is watching India expectantly.

Elon Musk closed a $44 billion deal to take over Twitter, after trying to pull out in between but facing a lawsuit. Since then, the microblogging platform, which has been rechristened X, has been on a roller-coaster ride, with few ups and lots of downs, losing money, advertisers and trust. To mark the one-year anniversary, X chief executive Linda Yaccarino penned a lengthy, glass-half-full blog about the platform under its new ownership and management.

PTI, “Whether it is World Bank, United Nations, WTO, African Union, European Union, G20, OECD countries, BRICS; everyone is saying that the digital infrastructure that India has built can accelerate the world economy, especially in those countries which have lack of infrastructure." Mittal informed that Airtel has already extended its WiFi services to 5,000 towns and 20,000 villages and expressed the company's commitment to providing nationwide 5G coverage by March 2024. Also Read: India Mobile Congress 2023: PM Modi inaugurates tech event at Bharat Mandapam today; Theme, schedule, other details here Mittal stressed, “Satellite communication and said that it is here to serve every inch of our country and of course the globe.

Narendra Modi inaugurated the 7th Edition of India Mobile Congress 2023 on October 27, which is taking place at Bharat Mandapam, Pragati Maidan in New Delhi. PM Modi will present awards to 100 ‘5G Use Case Labs’ established in educational institutions across the country, reported ANI.

Jaya, a female street dog from Varanasi, is about to embark on a journey to a new country with her new owner from the Netherlands. Meral Bontenbel, a native of Amsterdam, fell in love with Jaya during a visit to Varanasi and decided to bring her home as a pet. Bontenbel shared her experience, saying, «I traveled to Varanasi to explore the city.

Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited on Friday demonstrated India’s first satellite-based giga fiber service called JioSpaceFiber to provide high speed broadband services to previously inaccessible geographies within India at India Mobile Congress 2023. Jio has partnered with SES to access its medium earth orbit (MEO) satellite technology, the only MEO constellation capable of delivering truly unique Gigabit, fiber-like services from space, it said in a statement. Jio has so far connected four remote locations – Gir (Gujarat), Korba (Chattisgarh), Nabrangpur (Odissa), and ONGC in Jorhat (Assam) to demonstrate the new service. “Jio has enabled millions of homes and businesses in India to experience broadband internet for the first time.

Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) also needs to better incorporate “information operations” into their efforts to counter misinformation, and must co-ordinate with “other instruments of national power” during a time of so-called hybrid warfare.The document — which is not an official strategy or policy, but instead offers “guidance” — was released over the military’s internal communications network on Wednesday, and Global News obtained a copy through a source.It calls for a drastic reimagining of how the CAF views warfare ahead of the Liberal government’s long-awaited defence policy update, and while the CAF’s top brass are warning they are not prepared to properly address modern threats.The guidance document suggests that two adversaries — Russia and China — already believe themselves to be “at war” with Canada and its allies, and that those allies need to respond appropriately.“We must remember that Russia and China do not differentiate between peace and war,” Gen. Wayne Eyre, Canada’s Chief of the Defence Staff, wrote in the foreward to the document.“Their aim is not just regime survival, but regime expansion and a rewriting of the rules-based international order to their ends.

passports from India or any one of more than 50 African nations will be obliged to pay the fee, El Salvador’s port authority said in a statement on its website dated October 20. The money raised will be used to improve the nation’s main international airport, the authority added. El Salvador President Nayib Bukele this week met Brian Nichols, US assistant secretary of state for Western Hemisphere affairs, to discuss “efforts to address irregular migration," among other topics.

Joe Biden administration's determination to maintain a delicate balance. In an effort to prevent further aggression, which might be sparked by Israel's fight against Hamas, the United States wants to take maximum action against Iranian-backed organisations that it believes are aiming at the country. At the same time, it wants to avoid escalating the situation and starting a larger conflict, AP added.

visa processing services in the country. IRCC said in a statement a reduction in Canadian diplomatic staff in India may cause delays for Indian citizens in various services, such as visa processing and passport issuance. The statement also mentioned, “revoking diplomatic privileges and immunities is contrary to international law and this action taken by India is unreasonable and escalatory.