Author: Punit Panchal

New Delhi: A furore has been broken out in the Election Commission of India (ECI) as the two of the three members submitted dissenting voted remarks time and again against issues that arose during the electoral rolls nationwide revision. According to The Indian Express, the Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi raised at least 14 objections in the last ten months on the decisions that are tied to the Special Intensive Revision (SIR). Their concerns included being left uninformed, the addition and deletion of voters, and the centralisation of access to the voter database. These protests were directed…

New Delhi: The Indian government is getting ready to approve applications from car and auto-parts companies that have Chinese investment, as part of its Production-Linked Incentive (PLI) scheme. This is a sign of more openness toward Chinese capital coming into India’s manufacturing, officials say, remarking on Chinese President Xi Jinping’s recent visit to India. It could benefit two start-ups by Tata AutoComp Systems, which have also got a partnership agreement with China, and a Joint Company ‘JSW MG Motor India’ owned by JSW Group and SAIC Motor, China’s car maker. But it was made clear by a senior official that…

New Delhi: Nothing that started by Carl Pei is doing so to the budget brand CMF. This new entity will be set up in India and majority of its ownership and control will remain in Indian hands. There will still be a portion that’s small but not run by CMF. It will also establish its headquarters and lab within India. Like Japan, Korea and China did before, India has matured to create its own big tech names, says Carl Pei. He believes CMF may be one of the first Indian brands to get to that stage as it will now…

New Delhi: Five companies from the Adani Group have recently to settled a case with India’s stock market regulator, the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) on Tuesday in an order which stated that the companies would to pay a combined sum of Rs 1.5 crore (roughly $158,000) to settle the case. The five companies include Adani Enterprises, Adani Total Gas, Adani Wilmar (a special name before merger with AWL), Adani Green Energy and Adani Energy Solutions (Adani Transmission). SEBI had filed charges against the firms for violating the regulations regarding…

New Delhi: Qualcomm has recently used its annual Snapdragon Summit this week to introduce it two latest flagship and most powerful mobile chips, the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 and a beefed-up Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, and the pitch is crystal clear: more of the AI work should happen on the device, not in the cloud. The headline number is the mixture‑of‑experts model. The Extreme chip can reportedly run this 30‑billion‑parameter mixture‑of‑experts model. MoE architecture means that the full 30‑billion‑parameter mixture‑of‑experts model is huge but only a slice of those parameters actually fires for any given task. This…

New Delhi: Growing up, India would always face a problem a shortage of land, and this time it’s for solar power, as the nation looks to the country’s canal network, which ranks as one of the world’s largest, as an unlikely resource. Canal-top solar gains ground The Central government has given approval for PM Surya Sarovar Yojana to create 5,000 MW floating solar power on reservoirs and inland water bodies. For engineers, though, there’s another avenue of potential, namely canals. Canal-top photovoltaics (CTPV) is different from floating solar in that the solar panels are placed on structures constructed above irrigation…

New Delhi: Motorola pulled the curtain back on its new flagship, the motorola signature 27, at the Snapdragon Summit on September 22. The phone arrives as one of the first devices built around Qualcomm’s freshly announced Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 chip, and Motorola is billing it as the most advanced handset the company has ever built. It’s also a naming shift. The signature 27 is the second phone in Motorola’s ultra-premium signature line, and it kicks off a new numbering system tied to the coming year so expect a signature 28 next time around, rather than a random…

New Delhi: Lohum, which is also a key producer of critical minerals in India, is discussing acquiring nickel mines in Indonesia and the Philippines as part of its expansion to increase production capacity tenfold, according to the company’s chief executive and founder, Rajat Verma. The decision comes as part of a nationwide initiative to diversify the adoption of renewable energy and electric vehicles and reduce dependence on Chinese manufacturers of the raw materials for such sectors. Nickel is an essential metal in battery production and the secure and uninterrupted supply chains that are not of Chinese origin are a top priority…

New Delhi: Major trade agreement between India and Canada is coming to an end and PM Modi will be coming to Canada in December to aid in its finalization. The top diplomat in India, Canada’s High Commissioner Christopher Cooter, has shared this plan, by saying he is optimistic that the deal will going to be ready by the end of 2026. The trade deal is been called as the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA). It is also intended to facilitate the trade and commerce between the two countries. The trade volume between India and Canada is approximately $8 billion per year,…

New Delhi: Oppo just dropped the Find X10 Pro Max, and honestly, the camera setup is the headline here three 200MP sensors on the back, which is a bit absurd when you stop to think about it. You’ve got a 24mm main shooter on a 1/1.3-inch sensor with f/1.5 and dual-axis stabilization, a 13mm ultrawide with autofocus and a claimed 124-degree field of view, and a 70mm telephoto that can also focus down to 10cm for macro work. Oppo’s claiming 17 stops of dynamic range at 1x on the main camera, which if it holds up in real-world shooting rather…