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Elon Musk has joined the high-stakes ‘war for talent’ with Facebook-parent Meta, Google, Microsoft and OpenAI, among others. The Tesla CEO is said to be taking a personal interest in recruitment for his artificial intelligence (AI) startup, xAI. The company has announced that it is hiring a “small, elite unit” of talent engineers who will…
Foxconn has rapidly scaled up its newest iPhone manufacturing facility near Bengaluru, hiring close to 30,000 workers within eight to nine months, marking the fastest workforce expansion by any factory in India to date. The swift ramp-up at the Devanahalli plant underscores Apple’s push to diversify its supply chain beyond China, according to people familiar…
PM Modi performs bhoomi pujan for Rs 10,600 cr fertiliser plant in Assam NAMRUP: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday laid the foundation stone of a Rs 10,601-crore brownfield ammonia-urea plant in Dibrugarh district of Assam, and asserted that it would usher in a new chapter of industrial progress in the region.The facility – Assam…
Consumers using CNG for transport and piped natural gas for household cooking are set to see lower fuel bills from January 1, 2026, after the petroleum regulator approved a rationalised pipeline tariff structure aimed at cutting costs, ANI reported.The Petroleum and Natural Gas Regulatory Board (PNGRB) has announced a unified tariff framework that will translate…
Housed Under Grasim, Clean Energy Biz Valued At ₹14.6K Cr MUMBAI: BlackRock, one of the world’s largest asset managers, is set to invest Rs 3,000 crore in Aditya Birla Group’s renewable energy business for a minority stake. The business, housed under Grasim, has been valued at Rs 14,600 crore, highlighting the growing investor interest in…
Vitamin D report that says “50” can mean two completely different things. One is excellent and the other is worryingly low. The only difference is the unit. That’s the entire message of Dr Arjun Sabharwal’s reel and it’s a mistake that quietly fuels panic, over-supplementation and endless Google searches about “severe deficiency”. Why one number…
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw said the combined entity would position Biocon among the few global players with scale in both generics and biologics NEW DELHI: Biocon will fully integrate its biosimilars arm, Biocon Biologics into the parent, in a deal valuing the unit at $5.5 billion.The move is aimed at creating a unified biopharma powerhouse, and to…
Dimapur: The Nagaland Bio-Resource Mission flagged off its first consignment of Zanthoxylum (michinga/tomar) seeds to a private company’s northeast unit at Tezpur in Assam from the State Institute of Rural Development (SIRD) in Kohima on Saturday, marking a milestone in the commercialisation of Nagaland’s bio-resources.Chief secretary Sentiyanger Imchen flagged off the consignment in the presence…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi (R) and Russian President Vladimir Putin (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: A cargo flight transported the first batch of VVER-1000 fuel assemblies from the Novosibirsk Chemical Concentrates Plant in southwestern Siberia to India, Rosatom said in a statement on Thursday.A total of seven flights from Russia are planned to supply the entire…
Afghan national Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, has been arrested in connection with a brazen daylight shooting in Washington, DC, just blocks away from the White House. In response to the shooting, the Trump administration announced a pause on all asylum decisions and a suspension of visa issuance for Afghan nationals.Lakanwal, who previously served with the US…
