Women from the private sector welcomed the law as forward-looking and pro-women empowerment.

Mumbai: India’s telecom price war is back, and this time the battle is being fought with freebies. After announcing the first tariff increase in three years in 2019, telecom carriers are offering incentives such as subscriptions to services from Netflix to Amazon Prime to win customers in a content-hungry market. With theaters in India, among […]

New Delhi/Ahmedabad: A fire at an Oil and Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) plant caused by a pipeline rupture has cut gas supplies to customers including power and fertiliser companies, said a person familiar with the matter at gas marketing firm GAIL (India) Ltd. The fire broke out on Thursday morning at ONGC’s Hazira gas processing […]

Dubai: The Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry and its counterpart in Tel Aviv, represented by the Federation of Israeli Chambers of Commerce, have signed a partnership agreement, which will come up with a study on “sectors of mutual interest”. Under the terms, they will also create a roadmap of “virtual events” and host a joint business […]

San Francisco: Tesla on Tuesday said it is slashing battery costs to speed a global shift to renewable energy, and could have a $25,000 model available in three years or so. Chief executive Elon Musk and the head of Tesla’s power team laid out battery design, material and production innovations that combine to cut the […]