Tata’s request for employees “Not to work from home”

IT major TCS will encourage employees to join offices by the end of calendar year 2021. At present, about 5 per cent of the IT major’s associates are working from offices

IT major TCS will encourage employees to join offices by the end of calendar year 2021. At present, about 5 per cent of the IT major’s associates are working from offices

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman told executives of top American companies that India offers a range of opportunities under the Atma Nirbhar Bharat initiative

The Blender Foundation, the organisation behind the popular open source 3D creation tool “Blender,” announced today that Apple has joined the Blender Development Fund as a Patron Member to support Blender’s ongoing core development.
Apple will provide engineering expertise and additional resources to the Blender HQ and development community, in addition to a contribution to the Development Fund, to help support Blender artists and developers.

The Modi government’s attempts to reduce India’s dependence on goods manufactured in China and push self-reliance alongside since the military confrontation in Ladakh last year does not seem to be making much headway if India-China trade figures are any indication.
While bilateral trade is on track to hit a record-high of $100 billion, New Delhi’s trade deficit with Beijing ballooned to $46.55 billion in the first nine months of this calendar year — higher than the full-year figure in the last fiscal — and is expected to rise further by the end of 2021, according to latest data from China’s General Administration of Customs (GACC).India-China total trade volume has already touched $90 billion by end September — following a steady trend of trade flow month by month.

Apple has been the most profitable and revenue-generating company in the handset industry. Despite contributing a relatively modest 13 percent to global handset shipments, it captured 75 percent of the overall handset market operating profit and 40 percent of the revenue in Q2 2021. While this performance demonstrates the strength of the Apple brand, it is still lower than the peak of Q4 2020, when its revenue share reached a staggering 50%, up from 28 percent in Q3 2020, and its profit share reached an unprecedented 86 percent, up from 51 percent the previous quarter.

Ex-cricketer Sanjay Manjrekar took a dig at certain players who were terribly out-of-form and also looked past their prime during IPL 2021, which according to him, was the reason why this season consisted of several bizarre ends and turnarounds.

For over 10 years Dorje Angchuk has been photographing astronomical phenomena as they look from earth.
In August, he was nominated to the International Astronomical Union for it.

The two Army personnel killed in the encounter with terrorists in Mendhar sub-division of Poonch included a junior commissioned officer (JCO) and a soldier.
Two Army personnel were killed during a counter-terrorist operation in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch district, Indian Army officials said on Friday. The operation was still underway, officials said.

The amount of sunlight that Earth reflects back into space — measured by the dim glow seen on the dark portions of a crescent moon’s face — has decreased measurably in recent years. Whether the decline in earthshine is a short-term blip or yet another ominous sign for Earth’s climate is up in the air, scientists suggest!
Earthshine — the light reflected from our planet to the dark portion of the moon and then back to Earth — decreased measurably in recent years, a sign our planet is capturing more solar energy than it has in years past.

China on Thursday sent it first solar exploration satellite into space from the Taiyuan satellite launch centre in northern Shanxi Province !
The Satellite was launched aboard a long March-2D rocket and entered its planned orbit successfully!

The Union Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister also stated that the government will give top priority to the demand for LPG gas pipelines in the Union Territory.