India

Meta partners with Reliance on first India AI data centre

Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance will build a 168 megawatt (MW) data centre in Jamnagar that Facebook’s parent will lease

Rapid technology changes have already begun showing up at TCS, which last year said it planned to cut 12,000 jobs. 

Tata boss predicts AI agents will replace half its tech jobs

It already has an agreement with OpenAI to build AI data centres

A member of one of India’s wealthiest families, Anil Ambani is embroiled in a series of overlapping probes into his companies.

How Anil Ambani’s once-sprawling business empire landed in investigators’ crosshairs

Authorities allege Ambani’s companies misused bank loans to pay off other lenders, extend credit to related companies and funnel money to shell entities

IHG Hotels & Resorts in May said that it would work with the airports arm of Adani Group to develop five hotels in key aviation hubs and debut its ultra-luxury Kimpton brand in India.

Global hotel giants bet India’s local travel boom can defy slowdown

The rush by operators to add rooms reflects a surge in demand from the country’s growing middle class

Carlsberg India is the country’s second-largest brewer, with a market share of about 22 per cent, a company presentation revealed.

Carlsberg nears filing for US$700 million India IPO: sources

It is working with Kotak Mahindra Capital and local units of JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup on the share sale

Law Minister Edwin Tong calls on Singaporeans to be more discerning when viewing online content and to not disseminate it if it is harmful.

Singapore must act firmly when others seek to divide it: Edwin Tong on blocked online content

[SINGAPORE] Singapore must act firmly and reject attempts by those who wish to harm the nation and divide it, said Law Minister Edwin Tong on Saturday (Jun 6).

MHA says: “Singapore firmly opposes nativism and xenophobia. Any attempt to pit one community against another here must be firmly rejected."

Singapore blocks online posts targeting Indian community; content likely from China-based platform

It uses footage of crowded streets in Little India, Indian devotees at a religious festival in Pagoda Street

India has been one of the economies hardest hit by the Iran war that has stretched into a fourth month.

India’s GDP grows 7.8% in January-March on resilient farm, construction output

The Middle East war is seen pulling down growth in the economy to 6.6% this fiscal year

Low Indian rates are at the heart of the weak-rupee problem.
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