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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories.Amid fuel supply disruptions due to the West Asia war, India's vehicle owners are increasingly turning to retrofitting—converting fossil fuel vehicles to electric vehicles (EVs) and hybrids—to cut running costs as well as to reduce dependence on petrol, diesel and gas.Retrofitting firms such as Bengaluru-based Exponent Energy and Gurugram-based Folks Motor said inquiries have more than doubled since the war, reflecting a sharp rise in consumer interest.While Exponent Energy focuses on the three-wheeler segment, converting liquefied natural gas or compressed natural gas (LPG or CNG) vehicles to EVs, Folks Motor works on converting internal combustion engine (ICE) cars to hybrids.“If you own an LPG or CNG vehicle in the three-wheeler space, you can just come in and overnight be converted to electric,” Arun Vinayak, chief executive and founder at Exponent Energy, told Mint.“We launched it early in Bengaluru as a pilot programme. But it's suddenly seeing a lot of interest, especially people who drive LPG vehicles,” he said.The company had announced entry into the retrofitting space in November, with early pilots beginning in Bengaluru.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The draft income tax rules released by India’s government for public comments are a marked improvement on what’s currently in force. For one, the number of rules and forms will almost be halved.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Landing a white-collar job is getting so tough that candidates—not companies—are paying recruiters to match them with positions. Through good economic times and bad, recruiters have usually operated the other way around: Companies pay them to find talent for tough-to-fill positions.

Dear reader, as 2025, a year of global tumult and volatility, rolls by, Mint's reporters and columnists look around the corner on what is coming in 2026—to help you know what to expect and prepare for it. Tell us what you think at [email protected]: Even by outlier standards, Coforge Ltd has been on a tear in India's $283-billion information technology (IT) services industry.It grew the fastest sequentially among the top 10 peers in the industry in calendar 2025, which helped it jump two places to the No.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. For years, MagSafe used to be one of those iPhone walled garden things, the kind of feature that iPhone users used to take for granted and flex in the company of Android users, even as the latter pretended not to care.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A small clearing within the lush environs of a park located along the Mandovi riverfront in Panaji featured a wooden structure with steps running along one side and clay pots scattered across the floor.

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Shankar Sharma has stirred discussions on social media by advising individuals to avoid stock market investments. His comments, shared on X (formerly Twitter), have gained traction, especially during ongoing market volatility.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Damu Nagar near Mumbai’s Sanjay Gandhi National Park is one of those places where slum fires are a frequent occurrence. When residents hear “Cooker phat gaya" (an LPG cylinder has blasted), they all fetch that one bag of documents, which is always kept handy, and run for their life.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Best Picture nominees at this year’s Oscars include two movies whose main characters embody a political truth that escapes too many of America’s Republicans and Democrats. Unfortunately, only one of the films allows viewers to see it.

The Corries emerged from the 1960s Scottish folk revival. Their rendition of the traditional 'The Bonnie Banks o' Loch Lomond' has its roots in the Jacobite uprising of 1745 when Charles Stuart a.k.a. Bonnie Prince Charlie tried to claim the British throne.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. A renewed focus on alcohol’s health effects has rekindled a common debate: Is alcohol or marijuana worse for you? Sorry, folks, but the short answer is that both can be bad. “The reality is, if you’re really worried about your health, you wouldn’t use either of them," says Ryan Vandrey, a professor at Johns Hopkins University who helps run the Cannabis Science Lab.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. In the midst of our cluttered, borderline-ADD-inducing digital lifestyles, e-readers, old or new, Kindle or Kobo, feel like a breath of fresh air in their distraction-free approach to serving up your favorite reads. That they were the only devices that still used black and white screens further reinforced the appeal — I mean, turning your phone to grayscale mode is a known hack to curb phone addiction.

Lawyers representing victims of a deadly Hawaii wildfire have reached a last-minute deal, averting a trial to determine how to split a $4 billion settlement

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Memory is a fickle thing. You often forget the names of the people you met, your daily tasks, and incidents from your life.

Union Minister Pralhad Joshi on Sunday honoured renowned Gondhali folk artist Venkappa Ambaji Sugatekar from Bagalkote, who was selected for the Padma Shri award, at his residence in Delhi.