Tech & Innovation
How will India's ban on inexpensive Chinese smartphones play out?Both, the Chinese smartphone manufacturers and Indian consumers, are dependent on each other.
Updated August 9, 20222 min read
Both, the Chinese smartphone manufacturers and Indian consumers, are dependent on each other.
When Sri Lankan president Gotabaya Rajapaksa fled a popular uprising and emailed his resignation from exile on 14 July, he left behind an economic shambles that hit everyone hard, including the country’s researchers and scientists.
Uber plans to sell its 7.8% holding in Indian food-delivery firm Zomato today (Aug. 2).
When the pandemic wiped out jobs in nearly all Indian industries, the country’s $227 billion IT industry stood out as a bright spot.
Tata Trusts has helped the Indian government set up free public wifi connectivity at thousands of railway stations across India “as part of charity.”
Amid a crackdown on Chinese smartphone manufacturers by India, Honor has chosen to exit the country for “obvious reasons.” However, the Shenzhen-based firm’s Indian business will continue, managed by local partners.
Will Domino’s really walk away from Zomato and Swiggy in India?
In 2021, the Indian government published the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, filled with tall asks from social media companies. More than a year on, in its proposed amendments (pdf), it’s angling for a tighter hold on these platforms.
Students at the elite Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT-B) are protesting against a massive jump in fees.
Foreign nations are turning to India to solve global hunger.
The Delhi high court has heeded Vivo’s plea to access its funds.
Indian e-commerce startup Udaan has lost its antitrust case against Parle Products.
A bakery in Bengaluru has learnt the hard way not to mess with trademarks. Especially those of a behemoth like Facebook.
Three weeks after the Indian Premier League (IPL), an annual cricketing carnival of sorts, ended this year, a fraudulent version began in a small village in Mehsana in the country’s western state of Gujarat.
Twitter suing the Indian government may be an applause-worthy move, but it’ll take a lot more to safeguard Indians’ free speech rights.
India has raided at least 40 Vivo offices across the country based on money laundering allegations.
Twitter is officially pushing back against New Delhi.
A fintech firm’s handling of data privacy has become a point of contention in the Indian government’s crackdown on AltNews, a fake-news fighting platform.
Although India’s decision to tax casinos, horse racing, and online gaming at a hefty 28% has been deferred, it’s unlikely to be off the government’s table.
The Indian government may now be on to Sikh voices, having suppressed many official Pakistani accounts in recent weeks.
Byju’s is set to splurge $1 billion on US-based ed-tech firm 2U but it may be in dire need of better bookkeeping back home.
Indian authorities don’t want citizens to have access to Pakistani views—especially the official ones.
For the past two years, ed-tech startups in India have been tirelessly working to keep school kids up to date with their school curriculum. With students now slowly trickling back to physical classrooms, the scope of both offline and online classes is growing. One gaping hole, though, gets in the way: teachers.
India’s hot ed-tech market seems to be cooling down with companies ramping up their offline play.