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Railways floats tender for 80k 'Make in India' wheels every year: Vaishnaw

The Railways has drawn up a blueprint to become an exporter of wheels and on Friday a tender was floated to build a wheel plant which would manufacture at least 80,000 wheels every year, Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Friday. This is for the first time that the Railways has floated a tender to invite private players to build a wheel plant and make wheels for high speed trains in India, he said. Indian Railways needs two lakh wheels per year. According to the plan, while Steel Authority of India Limited (SAIL) will provide one lakh wheels, the rest will be provided by a new 'Make in India' plant. Addressing a press briefing, Vaishnaw said the tender will be awarded on the condition that the plant will be exporter of wheels too and the export market will be Europe. The tender mandates that the plant has to be set up within 18 months, Vaishnaw said. The wheels of the Vande Bharat train were stuck in war-torn Ukraine and had to be airlifted to meet the timelines set for thei

Domestic drone industry in Uttar Pradesh gets 'Make in India' push

According to reports, India's drone sector is projected to clock a turnover of Rs 12,000-15,000 crore by 2026

Why 'Make in India' in defence may be leaving India vulnerable to threats

India's air force, army, and navy can no longer import some critical weapons systems to replace aging ones, the officials said

Cheaper iphone 14, made in India: Apple to introduce a host of changes

With the iPhone 14 series, Apple's iPhone production in India is slated to jump from 7 million iPhones in 2021 to touch a new milestone of around 12 million iPhones in 2022

Fixing the quality problem of Make in India

India needs to enforce stringent quality norms for goods produced within the country for both domestic and international consumers if it wants to become a manufacturing hub

Companies divided over the size of chips they plan to make in India

Chips of smaller nodes are faster and more profitable, but their factories can cost as much as a nuclear power plant

EU wants India to prohibit 'discriminatory buy national practices': Report

India's Make in India and Atmanirbhar initiatives aim to favour domestic manufacturing and discourage imports, the European Union said

French aircraft engine maker Safran Group to set up MRO facility in India

Defence minister welcomes Safran to be a part of joint development production projects

Want to support 'Make in India', says Israel, but flags IP concerns

Naor Gilon, Israel's Ambassador to India, said here on Wednesday that we are all interested in Make in India' and we see an immense potential for cooperation with India

OPPO leads 'Made in India' smartphone shipments with 22% growth in Q1

Global smart device brand OPPO emerged as the leader in the 'Made in India' smartphone shipments in the first quarter of 2022, recording a 22% (year-on-year) growth, a new report showed on Monday.

Why is India's local laptop production weak despite one year of PLI?

India had launched the Production-Linked Scheme to give fillip to manufacturing in the country. But why is domestic production of laptops still weak? Is the PLI scheme not attractive enough?

SankhyaSutra unveils 'Made in India' software for aircraft design

Reliance Industries Ltd had acquired an 83 per cent stake in SankhyaSutra Labs in 2019, with an investment of Rs 216 crore

DCM Shriram focusing on manufacturing versatile drones: Joint President

DCM Shriram Industries is focusing on developing and manufacturing versatile drones that will be used not just in the defence sector but across the board, its Joint President Rudra Shriram has said. The company is engaged in the businesses of sugar, chemicals and industrial fibre and has a turnover of around Rs 8,000 crore. It had last year invested USD 1 million (about Rs 7 crore) to purchase 30 per cent stake in Turkish drone company Zyrone Dynamics. "Luckily, we entered the (drone) market at the correct time and we have products ready of the market," Shriram told PTI in an interview. He said the idea is to manufacture drones completely in India. "The idea is to Make in India. Even for them (Zyrone), it is expensive to manufacture there. So, they can concentrate on technology development and we can concentrate on manufacturing at scale," he noted. He said DCM Shriram has a research and development (R&D) facility in Delhi and it has licences to manufacture defence drones across .

Micromax In 2C review: A low-cost smartphone best suited for light users

With 3GB RAM and 32GB on-board storage, mediocre camera performance, and UNISOC T610 processor, the Micromax's In 2C can be an option only for light users

Indian industry, 'Make in India' ray of hope for global growth: PM Modi

The Indian industry and the "Make in India" initiative are turning out to be a "ray of hope" for global growth, PM Modi said and asserted that the country is preserving and promoting its antiquity

PM calls upon spiritual centres to inspire startups, Make in India drives

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said that spiritual centers can become centers of inspiration for startups and Make in India initiatives in the country

LIVE: India becoming a trusted partner in global supply chain, says PM Modi

Live news updates: "India was hardly counted in start-up ecosystem; it now ranks third in the world," PM Modi said

New India doesn't think of secure future alone, it takes risks: PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the way technology is being included in governance in India, it shows country's new political will as also the delivery-capability of democracy

Hate-in-India and Make-in-India can't coexist: Rahul lashes out at Centre

Recently, Japanese auto maufacturer Nissan announced that it is halting the production of its Datsun vehicles in India

India says Tesla should not import cars from China for domestic sale

"Making in China and selling here is not a good proposition," the minister, Nitin Gadkari, said during a government conference