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Amara Raja Infra on Monday said it has completed construction of India's first green hydrogen fuelling station in Leh, Ladakh, for NTPC Ltd. Union Minister for Power and Housing and Urban Affairs Manohar Lal inaugurated the facility on Saturday, the company said. The fuelling station project with a capacity of producing GH2 of 80kg per day was completed in two years, at extreme conditions at a height of 3,400 meters above sea level with temperatures varying between -25°Celsius to 30°Celsius, the company said. The landmark project will enable emission-free transport in and around Leh — making India among the few countries to take the lead in the green mobility space, Amara Raja Infra said in a statement, adding with the completion of the project, NTPC will now operationalise five hydrogen fuel cell buses in the region, it said.

Universal Account Number (UAN) and seeding of Aadhaar to bank account is must for employees who wish to claim benefit of Employment Linked Incentive (ELI) scheme, which is administered through the Employees Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO). This mandatory exercise needs to be completed by November 30, 2024, if you want to get the benefits of the ELI scheme. Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced this new scheme during the Union Budget 2024 in July and there are three types of ELI schemes (A, B, and C). «Since the benefits under Employment-Linked Incentive (ELI) scheme, will be disbursed through Direct Benefit Transfer (DBT) to eligible employees, Employers are urged to ensure UAN activation and Aadhaar seeding in Bank Account by 30th November 2024 in respect of all their employees who have joined in the current financial year, starting with the latest joinees,” the Ministry of Labour and Employment said in an EPFO in a circular dated November 22, 2024.

contingency plans for military deployments in Japan and the Philippines in case of an emergency over Taiwan, Japan's Kyodo news agency reported. They will be incorporated in a first joint operation plan to be formulated in December, according to sources familiar with Japan-US relations, Kyodo said late Sunday. A US Marine regiment which possesses the multiple-launch HIMARS (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System) would be deployed along Japan's Nansei island chain stretching from Kyushu to Yonaguni near Taiwan, Kyodo said.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. New Delhi: India's production sops programme which powered a ₹13 trillion manufacturing boom may not add any more sectors soon in the wake of slowing disbursements, two people aware of the matter said.

«In China, while the factory to export take-off from the cargo terminal is achieved on Day 1, in India, the export take off happens only by Day 2. This is a glaring chasm especially when seen in the context of the volume of exports which in the case of China is more than 30 times electronics output (USD 959 billion) compared to India (USD 29 billion) in 2023,» Mohindroo said. Electronics is already India's largest export in air cargo while it's ranked third overall behind engineering and petrol.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. With this year’s global summits on biodiversity (CoP-16) and climate change (CoP-29) done and the one on desertification (CoP-16) fast approaching, the consequences of the climate emergency are evident everywhere. Floods have ravaged central Europe, super-typhoon Yagi has just struck Southeast Asia, and Hurricanes Helene and Milton have wreaked havoc in the southeastern US.

mobile internet services for two days in seven districts of the state.

A British watchdog says Apple and Google aren't giving consumers a genuine choice of mobile web browsers

Reliance Jio's heavy 4G and 5G user losses following recent tariff hikes triggered a sharp fall in India's mobile broadband user base in September — the first decline after two years of steady growth since the launch of 5G services in October 2022. India's 4G-cum-5G user base plunged by a record 5.6 million in September, shrinking the nation's mobile broadband user base to 901 million, latest subscriber data collated by Trai showed. This user base had earlier risen from 790 million in October 2022 to around 906 million in August 2024. According to Trai data, Jio lost 8 million 4G/5G users in September while Airtel and Vodafone Idea added 0.4 million mobile broadband users each. State-run Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL), which did not raise prices, added 1.5 million such users.

Bharti Airtel to “positive” from stable, as it expects the Sunil Mittal-led telco’s earnings and cash flows to rise over the next 24 months, gaining from the industry-wide headline rate hikes of July. The positive outlook, it added, reflects the possibility of an improvement in Airtel’s stand-alone credit profile (SACP) owing to its healthy earnings and easing leverage. In an official statement Friday, the global ratings agency, though, said Airtel’s upgrade could “remain contingent” on a similar action on the sovereign rating on India.

BSE Odisha) has officially announced the results of the Odisha Teacher Eligibility Test (OTET) 2024 on November 22, 2024. Candidates who appeared for the exam can now access and download their marks through the official website, bseodisha.ac.in.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Call it slim pickings or an undisputed king of the hill, the Samsung Galaxy Tab S series have been the go-to for tablet buyers looking for a premium Android offering.

₹30k price bracket. In terms of competition, the OnePlus Nord 4 (Snapdragon 7+ Gen 3) garnered a score of around 1.1 million on Antutu in my tests while the Poco F6 (Snapdragon 8s Gen 3) scored around 1.4 million.On Geekbench 6, the T3 Ultra scored 2,064 on single core score and 5,621 on the multi core score.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to announce on Thursday a temporary GST break for certain essential items to help ease affordability pressures.

Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea cumulatively lost over one crore wireless subscribers in September, even as state-owned BSNL surprised with net adds of almost 8.5 lakh mobile users, as per monthly data released by TRAI. Reliance Jio lost 79.69 lakh mobile subscribers in September compared to the previous month, Bharti Airtel (14.34 lakh users), and Vodafone Idea (15.53 lakh users). Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) added 8.49 lakh users to its wireless subscriber tally. The wireless subscriber base of Reliance Jio stood at 46.37 crore in September, while that of Bharti Airtel was 38.34 crore. The wireless user base of Vodafone Idea was 21.24 crore as of September 2024.

BEIJING — Chinese tech giant Baidu on Thursday posted a 3% annual drop in third-quarter revenue, nevertheless beating market expectations amid AI cloud growth.

In a shocking case of cybercrime, a 59-year-old senior executive at a Mumbai-based software company lost ₹6.29 crore to fraudsters impersonating CBI officials, ToI reported. The incident, recorded as the largest online fraud case by the Pune Cyber Police, unfolded between November 9 and November 14 at the victim’s residence in Pashan, Pune. Police revealed that the crooks kept the victim under «digital arrest» for five days, using the pretext of verifying alleged money laundering transactions linked to his mobile number. «The victim, who will retire from service in the next six months, was thoroughly disturbed when he approached us with a complaint,» said Deputy Commissioner of Police (Cyber) Vivek Masal. «We took him into confidence and counselled him into lodging a complaint and registered an FIR. A police team has been formed to analyse the audio-video calls between the crooks and the victim and details of the bank accounts where money was transferred to establish the money trail.»

Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel and Vodafone Idea—continued to suffer major customer losses for the third month in a row in September, even as state-run BSNL continued its addition spree, following the mobile tariffs hikes by the private telcos in early July. As per data released by Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (Trai) for the month of September, Jio lost 7.9 million wireless customers, followed by Vodafone Idea which saw a decline of 1.5 million wireless customers and Bharti Airtel lost 1.4 million wireless users. Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL), was the only telco which added wireless customers in September as the state-run firm had not raised tariffs and is benefitting because users are shifting to the company. BSNL added 849,493 subscribers during the month. The three private telcos had raised mobile rates in the range of 11-25% in early July and these firms have been seeing their user base decline after that.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The Justice Department on Wednesday said Google should have to sell off its popular Chrome browser as part of a court-ordered fix to its monopolization of the online search market. The request follows the government’s victory this year in an antitrust case against Google and is likely to kick off a heightened legal fight with wide-reaching implications for the tech giant’s core business.

Priyank Kharge visited the Uber display at the Bengaluru Tech Summit on Wednesday to check out Uber Shuttle, the newest offering in India from the ride-hailing app. The mobility platform executives gave a demo of how the app works and explained about how Uber Shuttle would help more people book their travel in larger vehicles like Shuttles and take their own private vehicles off roads. The mass-transit mobility solution is designed for urban commuters, featuring real-time tracking, digital payments, pre-booked seats, and air-conditioned pocket-friendly rides, running on fixed routes, Uber said in a statement. Uber India president Prabhjeet Singh was present during the demonstration.

Manipur government on Wednesday extended suspension of mobile internet services for three more days in seven districts, according to an order. Amid escalating violence, the administration suspended the services on November 16 for two days to prevent anti-social elements from spreading content that might create law and order problems. It had been extended for two more days on Monday. «The state government after reviewing the prevailing law and order situation decided to continue suspension of mobile internet… services in the territorial jurisdiction of Imphal West, Imphal East, Kakching, Bishnupur, Thoubal, Churachandpur and Kangpokpi of Manipur for another three days,» it said.