Robots Gain as Pandemic Lockdowns, Safety Issues Cause Factories to Automate July 21, 2020 By Rajesh Kumar Singh While a resurgence in coronavirus cases in Texas has brought many businesses to a screeching halt, eight robots have kept...
AI-Powered Supply Chain Software in Demand Amid Coronavirus Disruption June 19, 2020 By Rajesh Kumar Singh For the past seven years, a Munich-based firm called riskmethods has tried to interest companies in buying software that allows...
How Caterpillar, Deere Kept Equipment Making Plants Open During Coronavirus Outbreak May 8, 2020 By Rajesh Kumar Singh While Detroit automakers’ unionized auto factories have been idled by the coronavirus pandemic, farm and construction equipment makers Deere and...
India Coal-Fired Power Plant Explosion Kills 32 After 7 Months of Operation November 3, 2017 By Rajesh Kumar Singh An explosion at a newly commissioned unit of a coal-fired power plant in northern India killed 32 people, while about...
India Joins Nuclear Liability Pact, Opening Door to Foreign Reactor Investments February 5, 2016 By Rajesh Kumar Singh and Stephen Stapczynski India’s decision to join a global treaty on nuclear accident liability may help it woo reactor suppliers, including Westinghouse Electric...
Obama’s Visit to India Ignites Nuclear Accident Liability Debate January 23, 2015 By Archana Chaudhary, Rajesh Kumar Singh and Unni Krishnan It’s a $182 billion question for India with no easy answer. That’s the estimated amount the country plans to spend...
India’s Finance Minister’s Insurance Reform Agenda Runs into Political Hurdles April 30, 2013 By Manoj Kumar and Rajesh Kumar Singh An Indian Parliament deadlocked yet again over corruption scandals threatens Finance Minister P. Chidambaram’s ambitious reform agenda, dealing a harsh...
India Plans Reinsurance Pool to Cover Refiners Handling Iran Oil April 3, 2013 By Rajesh Kumar Singh and Manoj Kumar India plans to set up a fund of up to 20 billion rupees ($368.4 million) to back local insurers in...
India to Ensure Refiners Running Iran Crude Oil Get Insurance: Source February 13, 2013 By Rajesh Kumar Singh India will ensure its refiners have insurance for plants that run crude from Iran, a government source said on Wednesday,...
India’s Basic Realities May Confound New Finance Minister’s Reform Agenda August 10, 2012 By Rajesh Kumar Singh The return of a pro-market reformer to India’s finance ministry has cheered investors and contributed to a market rally, but...