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By Sheela Mamidenna The youngest of the German cars in India, BMW, is fighting back to reclaim its leadership position in India. With its new Indian President and the company’s ‘power to lead’ strategy, BMW India recently launched the newest version of its luxury sedan, the 5 series, on June 29. Locally produced at the BMW Plant Chennai, the all-new BMW 5 Series will be available in diesel and petrol variants at all BMW dealerships across India from 1 July 2017 onwards. With the official implementation of GST on July 1, BMW is hopeful that it will make a strong comeback in India in a segment that accounts for less than 2% in the passenger vehicle market. With BMW, MINI and Motorrad, the BMW ...

The Dollar Business Bureau  India and the UK on Friday decided to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) in urban transport sector to cooperate in policy planning, institutional organisation and technology transfer.  India’s Road Transport, Highways and Shipping Minister Nitin Gadkari, who is on a 3-day visit to the UK, concluded the bilateral cooperation agreement between the Transport for London (TfL) and India’s Road Transport and Highways Ministry, which would cover a broad range of solutions in transport mobility and related activities in urban settings. “The signing of the MoU will be completed through diplomatic channels shortly,” Gadkari said.  During his visit to the TfL headquarters in London, a presentation was given to Gadkari on strategy & policy reforms, experience of customers and data analysis ...

The Dollar Business Bureau Niti Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant is taking no chance in promoting the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs). With oil prices perennially increasing, awareness about ecology and atmosphere being discussed and steps being taken to implement clean energy drive, he says India faces the challenge of not wasting anymore time in adopting measures that would reduce the dependence on diesel and petrol.  In its annual report, India Leaps Ahead: Transformative Mobility Solution, NITI Aayog and Rock Mountain Institute specify that, “Accelerated adoption of electric and shared vehicles could save $60 billion in diesel and petrol costs while cutting down as much as 1 gigatonne (GT) of carbon emissions for India by 2030.” It estimates that the country could save ...

The Dollar Business Bureau  Of all the people who have migrated to UK on work visas, Indians contributed 57%, according to figures released by the Office of National Statistics (ONS). In 2016, Indians accounted for 53,575 work visas from UK, out of a total number of 93,244. USA's figure of 9,348, although second biggest, is far behind India's.  An industry-wise division of skilled Indian workers highlights IT as the biggest sponsor of work visas, constituting 42% of total work visas. While professional, technical and scientific activities comprised 19%, another 12% was attributed to insurance and financial sector.  Also, Indians make for more than half the applicants in this category of visas. Of a total number of 56,058 applications, 30,556 were from Indians. According to statistics from 2010, 40% of the total ...

Sairaj Iyer | The Dollar Business Bureau The smartphone is a wonderful device, wherein ‘everything’ works at the touch of a button. Today, things such as PDA, calculator, pagers are redundant as smartphones, computers and various other electronic devices have taken over their space. They are fast, easy to use and are getting better and better. Customers too have set their expectations high. Their demand for better goods and services keeps increasing with the changing times. And this could pose a critical challenge for an enterprise to fulfill. IDC, (International Data Corporation), organized a conference to address critical questions on mobile software. The event had nearly 75 CIOs (Chief Information Officers) and CTOs (Chief Technology Officers) gracing the occasion. Presentations on solutions and ...

Source: PTI Microsoft India will engage and train Andhra government’s key IT executives on Microsoft technologies The Andhra Pradesh government on Monday said Microsoft India will be setting up a Centre of Excellence in Visakhapatnam as part of its digital inclusion drive in the state, besides sharpening focus on raising productivity. The technology giant signed an MoU with the Andhra Pradesh government in deployment and use of information and communications technologies to offer better citizen services in the state, an official release said. Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu hosted a breakfast meeting for Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella – who is currently on a visit to Hyderabad – at his residence on Monday. The meeting lasted for 80 minutes, ...