
Sayan Chakraborty
Business Reporter at Nikkei Asia
@NikkeiAsia business reporter in India; usual disclaimers
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2 weeks ago |
asia.nikkei.com | Sayan Chakraborty
CHENNAI -- A few months ago, Arghya Paul was sitting pretty. From a modest upbringing as a farmer's son, he had studied hard, climbing the ladder to the kind of job many millions of Indians covet -- working for the government. But life turned upside down for the 36-year-old teacher and about 26,000 of his peers at various public schools in the Indian state of West Bengal in April.
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1 month ago |
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Hello from California, this is Yifan, your #techAsia host this week.
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1 month ago |
asia.nikkei.com | Sayan Chakraborty
BENGALURU -- India on Wednesday approved the establishment of a new semiconductor factory by Taiwanese contract manufacturer Foxconn and local company HCL Technologies, in line with the government's strategy to position the country as an electronics manufacturing hub. The new joint venture will require a total investment of 37 billion rupees ($433 million), the government said.
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1 month ago |
asia.nikkei.com | Sayan Chakraborty
BENGALURU -- India on Wednesday approved a new semiconductor factory set up by Taiwanese contract manufacturer Foxconn and local technology company HCL. The move is in line with the strategy laid out by the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to establish the country as an electronics manufacturing hub.
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1 month ago |
asia.nikkei.com | Sayan Chakraborty
BENGALURU -- Arjun Rao wanted to go off the beaten track with his venture capital firm Speciale Invest, convinced that he could strike gold with startups dealing in robotics, rockets and chips and other complex technologies loosely called "deep tech."Not many people in India shared his enthusiasm. Most money from global VCs flowed into e-commerce and food delivery ventures, and it took Rao two and a half years to close Speciale's first fund, of $8.5 million, in February 2019.
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