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Okinawa Autotech plans to invest Rs 150 crore to set up new manufacturing unit in Rajasthan
The company, which had recently launched B2B electric two-wheeler – Okinawa Dual, priced at Rs 58,998, targeting the delivery sector, expects sales from the segment to account for around 20 per cent of its total sales.
”We are coming up with a new facility and new products. The total investment in the next fiscal year will be around Rs 150 crore,” Okinawa Autotech Managing Director and Founder Jeetender Sharma told PTI.
Crypto industry has ‘wind in its sails’, 8 companies eye public offerings
The IPO market has been red-hot since last fall as companies rushed to take advantage of the 70% surge in stocks since the March lows. Public debuts and blank-check companies have grown so popular that record after record fell. And first-day pops in share prices, a barometer of investor appetite for newly public firms, are among the biggest in decades.
It has all become too much to ignore for the crypto industry.
The IPO mania alone is enough to stoke bubble worries, but adding crypto to the mix after its record run is fueling concern that investors are setting themselves up for an especially painful comeuppance.
SAIL planning to set up India”s first gas-to-ethanol plant in Chandrapur
Mukesh Kumar, the Director of Steel Research & Technology Mission of India (SRTMI) told PTI that the plan is in line with the government”s aim to reduce the country”s dependence on import for crude oil besides addressing the issue of carbon emissions.
Google to redesign mobile search with new interface
According to The Verge, Aileen Cheng, who led the redesign, in an official release announced on Friday, “We wanted to take a step back to simplify a bit so people could find what they’re looking for faster and more easily.”
Elon Musk targets telecom for next disruption with Starlink internet
Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. has launched more than 1,000 satellites for its Starlink internet service and is signing up early customers in the US, UK and Canada. SpaceX has told investors that Starlink is angling for a piece of a $1 trillion market made up of in-flight internet, maritime services, demand in China and India — and rural customers such as Brian Rendel.
Air quality panel ropes in top institutions; to use AI to improve air quality in Delhi-NCR
The Commission has entrusted the task to expert groups from institutions and think tanks like Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), IITM-Pune, The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), IIT Delhi, NEERI and C-DAC Pune for framework development of air quality management DSS for Delhi.
The Air Quality Management Decision Support Tool (DST) integrates an emissions inventory development application and database; regional, local and source–receptor modelling; and Geographical Information System (GIS) based visualization tools in a software framework so as to build a robust system to formulate and implement source specific interventions to improve the air quality over targeted sectors of Delhi / NCR, the ministry said.
42 pc girls allowed access to mobile phone for less than an hour a day: Survey
Most parents felt that a mobile phone is ”unsafe” and an ”unhealthy distraction” for an adolescent girl, the survey said. ”Even when families and adolescents can afford smartphones, computers or other digital devices, it is always the male family members’ usage of such devices that is prioritized,” the survey found.
Noting that financial affordability is a major cause for lack of access, the survey said 71 percent of the girls do not own a mobile phone because they cannot afford it. ”81 percent of families say they cannot afford one, while 79 percent do not have a computer at home,” it said.
Car crashes in world’s oldest nation spur changes by automakers
Last year, Toyota upgraded its Safety Sense offering. The technology is designed to prevent or mitigate frontal collisions as well as keep drivers within their lane. By using high-resolution cameras on the windscreen and bumper-mounted radars, it can detect oncoming cars or pedestrians — or even bicycles in daylight hours — and give audible and visual alerts. If drivers fail to respond, automatic braking may be deployed. The new software also has intersection functionality to help detect oncoming obstacles if a car is making a turn from a stationary position.
Liability insurance industry in Asia-Pacific to reach $33.4bn in 2023,says GlobalData
Manisha Varma, Insurance Analyst at GlobalData, comments: “The demand for D&O policies is driven by increasing risks from environmental, product recall and libelous claims. Increasing number of cybercrimes has driven the demand for cyber-insurance.”
Trump seeks to curb foreign cyber meddling on last day in office
“Foreign malicious cyber-actors threaten our economy and national security through the theft of intellectual property and sensitive data, and by targeting United States critical infrastructure,” National Security Advisor Robert O’Brien said in a statement.