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India
Need to end needless rules to boost growth: Kant
India needs to do away with "unnecessary rules and procedures" to grow in double digits in the long term, Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant has said. He also said focus must also be on more systemic reforms in sectors such as education and health
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India
Govt looks to pull off 100 GW solar capacity by 2017
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India USA
After hair care, GCPL to explore beauty market for women of African descent
Godrej Consumer Products (GCPL) will explore the opportunity of serving both hair and beauty needs of women of African descent post acquisition of the US-based Strength of Nature (SON), a leading player in the hair care market catering to this segment of consumers.
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India
New models and discounts push passenger car sales up by 4.5%
Sales of passenger vehicles rose 4-4.5% to 2,50,000 units last month, driven by new models and discounts offered to push sales, initial industry numbers show.
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India
SC diesel car ban has pan India sales impact
The share of diesel vehicles in overall passenger vehicle sales shrank to 42% in the first two months of this year from 45% in the year-earlier period.
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India
Need dedicated policy to check import of commercial products, says Tata Steel MD
Tata Steel managing director, India and South East Asia, T V Narendran has suggested a dedicated national policy to contain the excessive import of commercial items in the domestic market at CFE Auditorium on Friday.
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Giappone
U.S. job-seekers return at fastest pace since before recession
Americans are flooding back into the job market at the fastest pace since before the Great Recession, encouraged by steady hiring and some signs of higher pay. The flow has halted, at least temporarily, one of the economy’s more discouraging trends: the sharp decline in the percentage of people either ...
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Giappone
Orders for lower-priced Tesla zoom to surprising 198,000
Demand for Tesla Motors’ new lower-priced electric car surprised even the company’s CEO Friday as 198,000 people plunked down $1,000 deposits to reserve their vehicles. “Definitely going to need to rethink production planning,” a surprised CEO Elon Musk said on his Twitter feed. Musk unveiled the car Thursday night at ...
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Giappone
Apple is still strong at 40, but are its best years behind it?
Apple turned 40 on Friday, and it is a very different company from the audacious startup that Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak launched in a Silicon Valley garage in 1976. Today, the maker of iPhones and Mac computers is the world’s most valuable public corporation, with 100,000 employees and a ...
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Giappone Taiwan
Hon Hai seals deal with Sharp
A foreign company is taking over one of Japan’s leading electronics makers after Sharp Corp. and Taiwan’s Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. sealed an agreement Saturday. The post Hon Hai seals deal with Sharp appeared first on The Japan Times.