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Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a ₹20,000 crore ‘Nuclear Energy Mission’ to develop indigenous Small Modular Reactors (SMR). File | Photo Credit: The Hindu Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman announced a ₹20,000 crore ‘Nuclear Energy Mission’ to develop indigenous Small Modular Reactors (SMR). The Budget proposes that at least five of these reactors will be operationalised by 2033. However, a perusal of the Budget documents suggests no financial commitments towards these this year.Watch: Union Budget 2025: What’s in it for the energy sector? The Department of Atomic Energy expects to spend ₹24,049 crore in 2025-26, or similar to the ₹24,450 crore…
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 is still a few months away, but that hasn’t stopped leaks from surfacing online. Most recently, a tipster has shared a new bunch of information about the book-style foldable phone on the Chinese social media website giving us an idea about its specifications. The Galaxy Z Fold 7 is said to offer a new hinge, enhanced main camera, and better water and dust resistance. The battery capacity of the phone is likely to remain the same as last year’s Galaxy Z Fold 6.Tipster Setsuna Digital on Weibo claimed that Samsung will add some notable improvements…
Brokerage firm CLSA has upgraded its rating on Tata Motors to ‘high conviction outperform’ and kept its target price unchanged at ₹930 per share an upside of 36.2% from the previous day’s closing price of ₹682.50 apiece.CompanyValueChange%ChangeThe brokerage said the company’s adverse near-term outlook is giving scope to enter at a favourable valuation.It said the stock has corrected 40% in the last six months on account of JLR’s weak demand outlook across key markets and domestic heavy commercial vehicles and passenger vehicles for FY26. In addition, the risk of import tariffs getting implemented in the US from Europe and that…
South Korean actor Kim Sae-ron’s death this week has triggered an outpouring of grief and calls for changes to the way the country’s celebrities are treated in the public arena and on social media, which critics say can foster a culture of harassment. The 24-year-old, who began her career as a child actor and earned acclaim for her roles in several domestic films, including the 2010 crime noir “The Man from Nowhere,” was found dead by a friend at her home in the country’s capital, Seoul, on Sunday. Her death was assumed to be a suicide. National Police Agency has…
You’ve seen these crown bottle caps, haven’t you? A type of bottle cap that has almost become indispensable and are found in bottles across the globe, the crown bottle cap, though small, played a big role in revolutionising the bottling industry. American inventor William Painter was the head behind these crowns. William Painter | Photo Credit: Orrin Chalfant Painter, Photographed by H.L. Perkins, December 20, 1896 / Wikimedia Commons Born in Triadelphia, Maryland in 1838, Painter was a tinkerer throughout his lifetime. By bringing together the ideation of an inventor with an engineer’s mindset, Painter was able to build a…
Huawei Mate XT Ultimate Design was launched in select global markets on Tuesday. The triple-folding smartphone is the first of its kind from the company. It was initially unveiled in China in September 2024. The handset offers a large 10.2-inch screen when fully unfolded. It sports a 50-megapixel triple rear camera unit including a 12-megapixel periscope telephoto shooter. The phone is claimed to offer an IPX8 rating for water resistance. The company has not yet confirmed an India launch of the handset. Huawei Mate XT Ultimate Design PriceHuawei Mate XT Ultimate Design’s price in the UAE is set at AED 12,999 (roughly Rs.…
iPhone components maker Murata Manufacturing Co. is weighing whether to move some of its production capacity to India, reflecting a global realignment of the supply chain toward the world’s most populous country.The Kyoto-based maker of multilayer ceramic capacitors sees growing demand in India and is running simulations for what it would take to dial up its pace of investment there, according to Murata President Norio Nakajima. “We’ve been making our newest capacitors mostly in Japan, but customers are asking us to manufacture more overseas due partly to business continuity planning purposes,” Nakajima said.Murata’s components are found in almost all electronics,…
The return capsule containing a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is seen shortly after touching down in the desert at the Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range in Dugway, U.S., September 24, 2023. | Photo Credit: NASA/Reuters Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, according to research that provides some of the best evidence to date that such space rocks may have seeded early earth with the raw ingredients that fostered the emergence of living organisms.The U.S.…
Realme Neo 7 SE and Realme Neo 7x are set to launch in China soon. After teasing the arrival of these smartphones over the past few days, the smartphone maker has finally announced the launch date of these smartphones in China. The Realme Neo 7 SE is teased to come in three colour options. It is already confirmed to be powered by a MediaTek Dimensity 8400-Max chipset. Both models are currently up for pre-reservations in the country. They are likely to arrive as a sibling of the Realme Neo 7.The latest Weibo posts by Realme reveal that the upcoming Realme…
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is seeking help from the Indian government to serve its complaint to Gautam Adani and his nephew Sagar Adani in relation to indictment, news agency Reuters reported.CompanyValueChange%ChangeThe SEC has also requested assistance from the ministry of law in India under the Hague Service Convention.”The process is ongoing, and the SEC will continue its efforts to serve defendants,” the SEC stated in its document, Reuters reported. In November 2024, the US SEC had summoned Adani group founder and chairman Gautam Adani and his nephew Sagar, within 21 days, to explain their stand on the…