Author: Punit Panchal

New Delhi: With the launch less than a day away, the spec sheets for both the iQOO 16 and the iQOO Pad Ultra have surfaced. The source is Digital Chat Station, a Weibo tipster with a decent track record, and the details were relayed by reports. Nothing is official yet, so treat it all as a leak until iQOO says otherwise. Start with the phone. The tip describes a 6.85-inch Samsung OLED panel at “2K+” resolution with a 165Hz refresh rate. Inside is the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, paired with iQOO’s own Q4 gaming chip. That’s the same…

New Delhi: According to several reports informed, Apple is working on introducing Apple Pay in India, the first partner in the banking sector being Axis Bank. The service goes to a market dominated by UPI, the instant payments service backed by the government. The first rollout will be a limited one. Apple Pay will be available on the Visa and Mastercard networks for eligible Axis bank credit cards, and not on India’s own card network, RuPay. The acceptance will also rely on whether the merchants and payment terminals are activated into the service. This can result in an inconsistent first…

New Delhi: Essar Group is investing $18 billion in the United States, including a proposed $15 billion facility to make steel in Iowa, U.S. President Donald Trump announced Monday, Sept. 28, at an event in which India will be among the top three investors. Trump said it was the “largest steel plant in American history. It will be operated via Mesabi Metallics, US subsidiary of Essar. About $3 billion of the total is slated for an iron ore mine and pelletising plant in Minnesota. The company will receive what it calls a “fully-integrated domestic supply chain” from that operation, which…

New Delhi: Nvidia on Monday released a suite of software safety tools for AI agents that it claims would have prevented the data hack on Hugging Face, the AI coding hub which it purchased for $13 billion after being terrorized by rogue OpenAI agents. This go-to package is referred to as the Open Agent Safety Platform. It couples the no-cost runtime, OpenShell, with a hardware watchdog, Sentry. It enables agents to be trapped inside OpenShell with features that are integrated into Nvidia’s central processor chips. Nvidia also is collaborating with Arm Holdings and Intel to make the system compatible with…

New Delhi: Treasury officials say that India’s central bank has sold its biggest annual net government bond sale in over 10 years in the current financial year, net selling bonds worth of ₹1 trillion. The pace is anticipated to keep up. It is expected that the RBI will part with another of ₹1 trillion by December, bringing the total to double in a year. Why the RBI is selling Sales have been designed to absorb excess cash flow in the banking system. A special window to raise dollars provided liquidity and made overnight rates less than the RBI’s policy rate.…

New Delhi: India is ready to invest $25 billion on indigenous deep-tech start-ups. The goal is to catch up with the United States and China, and to lessen its reliance upon foreign technology. Deep Tech includes start-ups in areas such as Drones, space technology, semiconductors, and artificial intelligence. India has invested around $11.6 billion in the sector in the last 10 years, said Indian Venture and Alternative Capital Association (IVACE) president Rajat Tandon to CNBC. Overall, the new number would be over twice as high. The bulk of the funding is anticipated to be through a government-sponsored Research Development Infrastructure…

New Delhi: Nvidia’s board has approved another $150 billion of stock repurchase of the company’s existing share repurchase program, which brings the remaining stock repurchase authorization to $235 billion. It’s the largest buyback authorization the company has made in its history, the company said. Nvidia expects to complete the rest of the program by FY28. The timeline continues to go until January 2028. This is higher than the previous record for an American business, authorized by Apple in 2024 with their $110 billion. Investors responded positively. In Monday’s trading, shares were 2.8% higher and are 1.7% higher in premarket trading.…

New Delhi: OnePlus has picked a date. The OnePlus 16 will be unveiled on October 12, according to China president Li Jie Louis, who confirmed it on Weibo. The news came out of the 2026 OnePlus Gaming Conference, which tells you what the company wants this phone to be known for. Three technologies did most of the talking. The first is a new-generation Fengchi Gaming Kernel, which OnePlus says can coordinate hardware resources across the whole device for the first time. The practical claim is that games with native 185FPS support can hold that frame rate for long stretches, without…

New Delhi: Nothing has finally taken the wraps off the Headphone (1) Pro, its new flagship over-ear pair, after a run of teasers that made it hard to pretend this was a surprise. The headline is a triple-driver setup. A 40mm dynamic driver handles bass, a second dynamic driver covers the middle, and an xMEMS driver with a silicone diaphragm takes care of treble. That’s an unusual arrangement at this level, and it’ll be interesting to see how it sounds once people get them on their heads. Noise cancellation gets a serious bump too. There are ten microphones in total…

New Delhi: The food industry in India has urged the Supreme Court to reconsider the colour red that was proposed for the ‘front of pack’ warning labels. It reportedly can be confused with the symbol for non-vegetarian foods. The All India Food Processors Association (AINPA), representing dozens of Indian and foreign food giants, has stated this in a court filing dated September 24th where it has pointed out that the colour and symbol for warnings must be carefully considered in the Indian context. Indian consumers are accustomed to associating red with the mandatory non-vegetarian logo and another major red logo…