British universities cool to India campus plans (Business Standard India)
Buffeted by major funding cuts, major British universities have noted the Indian Cabinet’s approval this week of a bill allowing foreign universities to set up campuses in India, but have no immediate plans to do so.
The Hindu Business Line : Indian varsities demand level-playing field (The Hindu)
Indian universities want a level playing field if foreign universities are permitted to open campuses in India.
Qualcomm Unveils LTE Plans for India (Light Reading)
Qualcomm Inc. (Nasdaq: QCOM ) shook up the mobile broadband market today with plans to bid for 2.3GHz spectrum in the upcoming auction in India. If successful, the company plans to introduce TD-LTE technology into the Indian market with the help of local network operator partners.
Renault Nissan inaugurate first India plant (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Renault SA and Nissan Motor Co. inaugurated their first joint car factory in India on Wednesday, the companies said. The plant in the southern Indian city of Chennai is part of a $990 million joint investment and will be able to produce up to 400,000 vehicles a year by 2015.
Husain’s hounding ‘blow to the idea of India’: Indo-Canadian leader (Sify News)
Ujjal Dosanjh, former Canadian health minister, has called painter M.F. Husain’s decision to give up his Indian citizenship ‘a blow to the idea of India.” The Indian government should not allow fundamentalists to dictate and persuade Husain to retake his Indian citizenship, Dosanjh, a leader of the influential Indian Canadian community, said.
Husain’s hounding ‘blow to the idea of India’: Indo-Canadian leader (New Kerala)
By Gurmukh Singh, Toronto, March 17 : Ujjal Dosanjh, former Canadian health minister, has called painter M.F. Husain’s decision to give up his Indian citizenship ‘a blow to the idea of India.’
