Has India’s toy story started to falter?After hitting a high of $177 million in the financial year 2022, India’s toy exports are seeing a fall. To add to the pain, imports are als...
01 Jun, 2024, 10.20 AM IST
Japan's 'Moon Sniper' attempts precision lunar landingJapan's precision "Moon Sniper" began its "power descent sequence" early Saturday towards the lunar surface, one of several new missions sp...
20 Jan, 2024, 02.47 PM IST
Japan's 'Moon Sniper' attempts historic lunar landingWith its Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM) mission, Japan wants to become the fifth nation to pull off a fiendishly tricky soft la...
19 Jan, 2024, 08.26 AM IST
Indian toy industry can learn from expertise of G20 members to boost manufacturingUS has a strong toy market, and studying their strategies and approaches can help India increase toy consumption among its population. Expe...
04 Sep, 2023, 12.03 PM IST
Even after a decade, the India-Japan free trade deal has not worked. Why?Japan is the only G7 country with which India has a trade agreement. But India’s share in merchandise exports to Japan has hardly improved,...
17 Jun, 2023, 09.46 AM IST
Can India be a toy hub of the world, as PM Modi has exhorted? It’s a tough gameIndustry experts also say the PM’s call to develop India into a toy hub and the commerce ministry’s move to make BIS certification compulso...
20 Sep, 2020, 09.45 AM IST
Reducing dependence on China: India Inc advise on import substitutionGlobal supply chains were disrupted after the Covid-19 outbreak, hurting India’s manufacturers and exporters, and that was followed by bord...
03 Jul, 2020, 07.55 AM IST
India fears US-China trade war will lead to dumping of Chinese steel: SourcesSince last year, China and the United States have been locked in a trade conflict as Washington seeks to fix the trade balance, currently t...
14 May, 2019, 04.29 PM IST
Robots as partners are becoming popular, here are a few tech controversies that made headlinesIt has been predicted that robotic companionship is going to be a normal affair 20 years from now.
14 Feb, 2019, 06.23 PM IST
Indian & western classical go well together: Hungarian pianist Balazs FuleiOn a recent trip to India, where he has performed thrice earlier, Hungarian pianist Balazs Fulei mulled composing a mix of Western and clas...
17 Jun, 2015, 01.46 PM IST
- Int'l toy show opens, features 36,000 toys from around world
An international toy show opened in Tokyo Thursday, displaying about 36,000 toys from around the world.
19 Jun, 2008, 05.25 PM IST
- Increasing role of robots in Japanese factories
Robots are already taken for granted in Japanese factories, so much so that they are sometimes welcomed on their first day at work with Shi...
04 Mar, 2008, 12.59 AM IST
- Japan geared up for robot evolution
Govt has funded a plethora of robotics-related efforts, including some $42 million for the first phase of a humanoid robotics project, and ...
04 Mar, 2008, 12.00 AM IST
- Getting down to brass tacks
Think of Jamnagar, and you think of Reliance Industries’ mammoth refinery and the Jamsahib’s famous fetish for Rolls-Royces and his passion...
15 Oct, 2007, 04.33 AM IST
- Tainted exports hit China's plan to build reputation of brands
China's economic planners have been seeking to emulate Japan to shift to technologically advanced cameras and transistor radios.
27 Sep, 2007, 12.19 AM IST
- Videocon to set up LCD unit in China
Home-grown consumer durables major Videocon will set up an LCD manufacturing unit at Shenzen, China, at an investment of $ 1.5 billion, to ...
15 May, 2007, 06.12 PM IST
- India rings fastest cell growth
In yet another landmark for the cellular industry, India has added highest number of mobile subscribers in the world during August.
14 Sep, 2006, 05.04 PM IST