Surajeet Gupta

1 week ago | rediff.com | Surajeet Gupta

In the hottest sector of AI, where most global VC funding is going currently, the country's record has not been anything to write home about. IMAGE: Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal at Startup Mahakumbh, April 6, 2025.

1 week ago | business-standard.com | Surajeet Gupta

The semiconductor and AI (artificial intelligence) mission is moving fast even as it charts a $500 billion electronics-production target by 2030. Ashwini Vaishnaw, minister for electronics and information technology, railways, and information and broadcasting, in an interview with Surajeet Das Gupta in New Delhi, unravels the action on the ground and the move towards localisation.

2 weeks ago | rediff.com | Surajeet Gupta

Leading home-grown companies — Dixon Technologies (India), Amber Enterprises India, Tata Electronics, Chennai-based Munoth Industries, and Murugappa Group — along with global majors such as Japan’s TDK Corporation, Taiwan’s Hon Hai Technology Group (Foxconn), Austria’s AT&S Austria Technologie & Systemtechnik AG (AT&S AG), and Japan’s Murata Manufacturing Co, among others, have expressed initial interest in participating in the Rs 22,919 crore production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme cleared...

3 weeks ago | business-standard.com | Surajeet Gupta

The Indian gems and jewellery industry expects US President Donald Trump's decision to impose a 27 per cent tariff on imports from the country will be a "significant burden" and complicate the task of sustaining annual exports worth $10 billion to the US market. The US earlier imposed no duty on imported cut and polished diamonds and rough lab-grown diamonds, 7 per cent duty on plain gold jewellery, 5.50 per cent on studded gold jewellery, and 5.5 per cent duty on platinum jewellery.

3 weeks ago | rediff.com | Surajeet Gupta

Two-wheeler (2W) giant Bajaj Auto registered record sales across the country over the weekend on the back of Gudi Padwa, hawking 26,938 vehicles that included motorcycles and its electric scooter Chetak. That represents nearly a sixth of its total registrations across the country for March based on VAHAN data till 31st. According to the company, it also broke all records for sales in Maharashtra too over the weekend from March 29 to 30 on the festival heralding new year for Maharashtrians.