Shares of Indigo Paints on Tuesday made an impressive market debut, listing with a premium of 75 percent against its issue price of ₹1,490. At the National Stock Exchange (NSE), it listed at ₹2,607.50. The company’s market valuation stood at ₹11,684.85 crore on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE). The second initial public […]
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SpaceX aims to launch ‘all-civilian’ trip into orbit
SpaceX announced yesterday it’s aiming to launch this year the first all-civilian mission into Earth’s orbit, led by a tech billionaire who plans to raffle off one of the spots aboard the craft. Entrepreneur Jared Isaacman is to be joined by three other novice astronauts for a multi-day journey into […]
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Halved risk for severe retinal disease in extremely premature infants
The risk for a severe form of retinopathy of prematurity, which can cause blindness in extremely premature babies, was halved when the newborns were given a new supplement combining various fatty acids, as shown in a Swedish study led from the University of Gothenburg. The study, now published in JAMA […]
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iOS 14.5 offers the fastest way to unlock your iPhone while wearing a face mask
As we are still in the middle of a pandemic, wearing a face mask is still required at all public spaces. If you’re using the latest iPhone 12 or past models that uses Face ID, you’ll know that facial recognition won’t work when half of your face is covered with […]
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Human activity threatens species survival, says study
Human activities such as farming and construction are threatening the survival of scores of wild species by forcing them to travel more to avoid mankind’s impact, research showed yesterday. According to the United Nations’ biodiversity panel, more than three-quarters of land and 40 percent of Earth’s oceans have already been […]
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Google closing in-house Stadia video game studio
Google yesterday said it is closing its in-house Stadia video game studio, leaving the job of making titles for play in its cloud-hosted arena to outside developers. The internet giant set out to transform the video game world in late 2019 with the launch of Stadia, a service crafted to […]
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Kangana summoned in defamation case filed by Javed, calls herself ‘lioness’
Kangana Ranaut reacted as a Mumbai court issued summons to her on Monday for a defamation case filed against her by Javed Akhtar. Sharing a news article about it on Twitter, she suggested that she is a ‘lioness’ among a ‘pack of jackals’. “Geedaron ka ek jhund aur ek sherni… mazaa aayega […]
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MediaTek launches 5G chip aimed at gaining US market share
Taiwanese chip designer MediaTek Inc yesterday released a new 5G chip aimed at helping it gain market share in the United States. Along with Qualcomm Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd, MediaTek is one of the few suppliers of modem chips that help devices such as smartphones connect to cellular […]
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Shiv Sena slams govt, says Centre should speak to farmers properly
Slamming the Centre, Shiv Sena Member of Parliament Sanjay Raut on Tuesday said the Centre should talk to the farmers in a proper manner to resolve the ongoing protests. His remarks came after a delegation of Shiv Sena leaders including him and party MP Arvind Sawant met Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) leader Rakesh Tikait at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh’s Ghazipur border today. “We spoke […]
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Marilyn Manson dropped by music label amid Evan Rachel Wood abuse allegations
Following American actor, Evan Rachel Wood’s recent accusation revealing that singer Marilyn Manson “horrifically abused” her for years when they were in a relationship, Loma Vista Recordings, which released Manson’s three most recent albums, has parted ways with the singer. As per Variety, the music label will no longer work with the singer. The […]
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Rakesh Tikait warns farmers’ agitation will not conclude before October
Bhartiya Kisan Union (BKU) spokesperson Rakesh Tikait on Tuesday warned the farmers’ agitation will not conclude unless government repeals the three newly enacted agriculture laws and it may go on till October. “Our slogan is ‘Kanoon Wapsi Nahi toh Ghar Wapasi Nahi’. This agitation will not conclude before October, it will not […]
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Indian Railway Finance Corp’s IPO will not dent government support
S&P Global Ratings has said that Indian Railway Finance Corporation’s (IRFC’s) initial public offering does not alter its view of government support to the company. The government, which has been the sole owner of IRFC since its inception in 1986, holds about 86 percent shares after the listing. In the IPO exercise, the government sold 5 […]
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Karnataka ACB raids several civic officials in disproportionate assets cases
Karnataka Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Tuesday raided the residence and offices of several civic officials in the state in connection with disproportionate assets cases. Disproportionate asset cases were registered in Bengaluru city, Bellary, Kolar, Dharwad, Dakshina Kannada, Chitradurga, and Kalaburagi district against seven government servants. Mangaluru City Corporation (MCC) town planning joint director K […]
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Union Budget 2021: Education gets 93,224 crore
The Ministry of Education has been allocated ₹93,224.31 crore in the 2021-22 Budget, an increase of more than ₹8,100 crore from the revised estimates for the current fiscal. The Ministry was originally allocated ₹99,311.52 crore for the 2020-21 fiscal, which was eventually revised to ₹85,089.07 crore as the coronavirus pandemic hit the country and […]
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Priyanka Chopra turns ‘white tiger,’ her dog Diana turns ‘her cub’
Following the massive success of her Netflix film ‘The White Tiger,’ actor-singer Priyanka Chopra Jonas turned into “a white tiger” and turned her dog Diana into “her cub”. The ‘Baywatch’ actor took to Instagram to drop the stunning picture of herself dressed in an outfit in the white tiger print with her pooch wearing a […]