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The September announcement from the White House that H-1B petitions would carry a fee of $100,000 per employee, hit India hard. India’s IT services companies are heavy users, capturing 71% of the 65,000 H1B visas issued annually. This shock move is a chance for Indian IT services companies to update their outsourcing model and invest at home, where their R&D-to-sales ratio remains abysmal.
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India is the second largest emitter of methane in the world. But methane-cracking has enormous economic potential. It can help India become a high-technology manufacturing powerhouse by producing a steady supply of methane-derived, advanced carbon materials and hydrogen-energized transportation
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Various unfavourable factors, attributed to both the government and the military, have resulted in dubbing India as the world’s largest arms importer. These factors – corruption, political interference and bureaucratic lethargy – have contributed to an absence of clarity on the use of arms in diplomacy.