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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Investors who wish to bet on India’s telecom sector have few pure-play options until Reliance Jio Infocomm is listed as a separate company. For now, tariff hikes have lifted all boats as far as the average revenue per user (Arpu) is concerned.

JSW MG Motor India on Wednesday said it is undertaking facility modifications at its Halol plant to enhance output to meet demand for its all-electric crossover utility vehicle Windsor and to prepare for new products to be sold under its premium retail chain MG Select. The company, which has witnessed the Windsor cross production milestone of 15,000 units, said it anticipates a production slowdown this month due to the facility modifications.

Niantic Inc., the company behind the 2016 hit Pokémon Go, is in talks to sell its video-game business to Saudi Arabia-owned Scopely Inc., according to several people familiar with the discussions.

Ola Electric Mobility fell as much as 3.44% on Monday to a day’s low of Rs 67.61 on the BSE after reporting a widening of its losses YoY to Rs 564 crore for the third quarter ended December 2024. With today’s fall, the stock has tumbled by 6% in the last 2 trading sessions.

BorderPlus, cofounded by Upgrad's cofounder Mayank Kumar, has raised $7 million in a funding round led by edtech focused venture capital fund Owl Ventures.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Reels and other short and slick content on smartphones are fast emerging as a formidable challenger to streaming platforms as they compete for a larger slice of the attention economy. With viewers increasingly given to scrolling on smartphones even while they watch OTT content, creators and platforms concede they are battling a stiff competition from smaller, second screens that distract and engage users away from the long-format content that they were watching.

Infosys on Friday terminated around 700 trainees it had hired from campuses two-and-a-half years ago but onboarded last October, terming that they failed to clear an internal assessment programme, according to several affected people and an organisation that works with IT employees.

Bharti Airtel’s annual capital expenditure will fall sharply in FY25 and FY26 compared with the record Rs 33,000 crore seen in FY24, as the nation’s second-largest telco has concluded its 5G rollout and won’t be spending extra cash on 4G capacity expansion going forward, its vice-chairman and managing director Gopal Vittal said.

bank will continue but will only be used as a measure of last resort, governor Sanjay Malhotra said.

BCE Inc. beat analysts’ fourth-quarter expectations as Canada’s largest telecommunications firm reduced costs.

AI models, On February 5. The Gemini 2.0 Flash model is now available to all, while the Gemini 2.0 Pro model is currently being tested for Gemini Advanced subscribers.

EKA Mobility on Thursday said it has inked an initial pact with KPIT Technologies to develop powertrain components such as traction motors, controllers, vehicle control units, and battery management systems for e-buses and CVs. The memorandum of understanding signed between the two partners will leverage KPIT's three-decades of work in mobility and an extensive lineup of indigenously developed electric powertrain technologies, which will enable EKA Mobility to deliver energy efficiency, reduce total cost of ownership, EKA Mobility said.

Ola Electric shares are likely to remain in focus on Thursday, February 6, after the company announced its entry into the motorcycle segment by introducing five variants of Roadster X series, with an introductory price of Rs 74,999. “Ola Electric, India's largest pure-play EV company, today announced its entry into the EV motorcycle segment with the launch of its Roadster X series to redefine motorcycling with impressive performance and a thrilling riding experience,” said the company in an exchange filing.

DeepSeek, whose chatbot became the most downloaded app in the United States, has computer code that could send some user login information to a Chinese state-owned telecommunications company that has been barred from operating in the United States, security researchers say, as per a report.

Assam Rifles, in coordination with Manipur police, apprehended eight insurgent cadres from different locations in the state. These joint operations were based on specific information about the presence of cadres involved in extortion and other unlawful activities.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Fitch Ratings has rated India as “BBB-" with a stable outlook. This means India’s credit quality is good and the chances of a default are low; however, adverse business or economic condition can impair this quality.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Centre’s India AI Mission, which seeks to bring India up to speed with the US, China and the rest of the world in artificial intelligence (AI), could be pivotal for India to avoid repeating the mistakes it made with semiconductor and mobile phone manufacturing, industry veterans told Mint.

Atul Lall, VC & MD, Dixon Tech, says the Budget is positive for the electronics industry. They had sought simplifying the duty structure for IFPD, and that has been achieved. Lall believes this will greatly boost IFPD manufacturing. Additionally, they had requested the reduction or elimination of certain duties on mobile components from 2.5% to 0%, and that has also been accomplished. They have lowered the duty on inputs for open cells, and agreed to requests on the deregulation front, all of which is beneficial for companies like Dixon. What is your take on the Budget? Atul Lall: For the electronics industry, the Budget is positive. There were certain specific asks from the industry. One was on rationalisation of the duty structure for IFPD, and that has been done. What we asked for, thankfully, was addressed completely in the same format.

Donald Trump signed an order to put tariffs on U.S. neighbors Canada and Mexico, as well as China, starting Tuesday. Canada and Mexico quickly announced retaliatory tariffs, while China said it would take «necessary countermeasures.»

discounted fares across domestic and international routes, in a bid to boost demand in the forthcoming holiday season.