INDIA

India is emerging as an attractive destination for electronics manufacturing, with global tech giants considering the country for its portfolio of production bases.

Countries like India and China — the two largest consumers — saw coal demand grow by more than 5% in the first half of 2023.

Environment ministers from G20 nations failed to agree on peaking global emissions by 2025 and other crucial issues to address the global climate crisis at their meeting in India on Friday.

Latin America received an uptick in attention in India when Foreign Minister S Jaishankar visited Guyana, Panama, Colombia and Dominican Republic earlier this year. This also marked a diplomatic shift because high-level visits from India to Latin America were rare.

Currently, the Indian economy sits in the fifth position in the world, behind the U.S., China, Japan and Germany.

"Unless the manpower in R&D sector is raised by at least 10 times, it cannot compete with China in the same sector. It has to raise by a factor of 40-50 to complete with USA. So that's a big vacuum,"

"Piloting rupee trade with India's most important partners in the immediate neighborhood, both economic and strategic, is of great significance to bring in predictability and assurances in long-term trade," Dr. Sabyasachi Saha, associate professor at the Research and Information System for Developing Countries, said.

"We decided to create something that is iconic, that borrows ... from its context and the community we are working (with)," Sonali Rastogi, co-founder of Morphogenesis, the Indian architecture firm that masterminded the building, said.

"The Byju's crisis does impact India's image as an investment destination so the Indian Government and StartUp ecosystem needs to take strong measures to make sure that it does not occur again, for this there need to be strong checks and balances at key institutional bodies like the MCA (RoC)," StartUp Consulting India founder Vivek Bhojwani told International Business Times.

"The company is not looking at the option of a joint venture in India even as some of its Chinese peers, such as those in the auto space like MG Motors and BYD, are eyeing the route to overcome the problems of getting more equity to support their venture," Muralikrishnan B, president of Xiaomi in India, said.

New Delhi has big ambitions in chip manufacturing and hopes to attract big players in the sector to set up shops in India to boost the country's own manufacturing capabilities, but the country's present share in the global semiconductor supply chain is negligible.

"A sherpa, in a way guides or shepherds the process of planning, negotiation and implementation of the agenda for a particular member country," a T20 secretariat research coordinator for Think20 said. "Their work begins way ahead of the summit as they organize the agenda and look for political consensus at the highest levels."

"The incident of Manipur which has come to the fore is shameful for any civilization. The country is shamed. I appeal to all chief ministers to strengthen laws to take stringent action against crime, especially against women," Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said.

These supercritical thermal power plants "can reduce waste heat by 25% and lower pollution and CO2 emissions by approximately the same percentage," said Manish Vaid, a junior fellow at Observer Research Foundation. "Nevertheless, these improvements fall short of meeting the ambitious climate targets set by the Paris Agreement."

The International Air Transport Association revealed that every 568 flights in 2022 had one incident involving an unruly passenger, marking an increase compared to the figures in 2021, which saw one such incident per 835 flights.

A man driving his car in reverse for 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) on a major Indian highway collided with a college student who was riding a scooter.

"This move could push Indian battery manufacturers to enhance productivity and improve quality to meet the global standards set by Panasonic. It will not only help the Indian battery market grow but also elevate India's presence in the global battery market," Neeraj Kumar Singal, Indian entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Semco Group, told International Business Times.

"Implementing an INR-based international trade settlement mechanism can enhance India's trade with dollar-shortage countries, stabilize the INR against the USD and promote its acceptance as a regional/global currency," Kumar told IBT.

The river running through India's capital New Delhi has reached a record high due to monsoon floods, authorities said Friday as army engineers were deployed to try to contain the waters.

"After failure of Lander on Chandrayaan 2, ISRO has been working incessantly to rectify problems in lander" and the new lander has seen "many improvements," said Sandip K. Chakrabarti, one of India's most notable scientists in the field of astronomy and astrophysics.

"With the rising strategic rivalry between the United States and China, India and France as middle powers in the international system are also trying to fill the strategic vacuum by engaging more with each other," said Shairee Malhotra, Associate Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation.