Delivery app orders restaurants to cook almost whatever you want

Moscow. Russia’s largest tech company is launching a delivery service that allows a customer to tell a restaurant what to cook, whether it’s on the menu or not. Yandex NV will prepare meal kits with ingredients based on a customer’s requested dish and send it to a nearby restaurant for cooking. Once the food is […]

Dubai developers go big with monthly schemes

Dubai: Worried about meeting those down payments and subsequent instalments on the property? If yes, why not opt for more manageable monthly payments of Dh2,000 or Dh3,000? More developers in Dubai are offering such schemes on off-plan purchases, with the instalments set on terms easy on buyers’ pockets. For instance, someone buying a Dh475,000 studio […]

New bullet train model ‘Supreme’ hits record speed in test run

Tokyo. A new model of bullet train set to enter service ahead of the Tokyo Olympics hit a record speed of 360 kilometres (224 miles) per hour in a test run, operator JR Central said. The N700s — the suffix stands for ‘supreme’ — is the first new model of bullet train on Japan’s busiest […]

DP World and Hindustan Infralog to acquire a 76 per cent stake of KRIL

Dubai Hindustan Infralog, a joint venture between DP World and the National Investment and Infrastructure Fund (NIIF), said Thursday that it had completed its acquisition of a 76 per cent stake in KRIBHCO Infrastructure, an integrated multi-modal logistics operator in India. The acquisition was made through its 90 per cent owned subsidiary, Continental Warehousing Corporation. […]