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After Ola, three others to repay customers for 'off-board charger'

All the three electric two-wheeler manufacturers have written to the ministry of heavy industries on Wednesday expressing their willingness to repay customers

How flexibility of labour laws could become a double-edged sword for states

Tamil Nadu walks back a key labour law amendment introducing flexibility in work hours that would have benefited foreign manufacturers with export targets, such as Apple's vendors

Govt faces hurdles in wooing Taiwan's chip assembly and testing firms

Companies have concerns on India's ability to provide a stable, predictable, and lasting policy environment for years to come -a key for capital-intensive business

Electric two-wheeler sales skid by nearly a fourth in April: VAHAN data

Govt's punitive action leads to a big dent in registrations

FAME subsidy saga: Ola to repay customers for separately billed chargers

Ola has indicated in meetings with officials of the Department of Heavy Industries that it will comply with the directive to offer this compensation

Taiwanese firm Gogoro eyes India as hub for making electric two-wheelers

The top 50 cities where Gogoro wants to operate account for 25 per cent of all the two wheelers - around 60 million

Electric 2-wheeler players take on heavy industries dept on FAME 2

The companies said subsidies of as much as Rs 1,400 crore had been passed on to customers over the past 15 months

After a slow start, PLI scheme may switch on the afterburners in FY24

Rs 8,083 cr is expected to be disbursed this fiscal

Electronics manufacturing gets a reality check; only $225 bn value by FY26

Owing to the lukewarm response, the PLI scheme for IT hardware is being rewor­ked

Electronics exports grew a whopping 50% in FY23; may overtake drugs, pharma

Smartphones alone accounted for 23% of the rise

Govt set to approve Micron Technology's $1-billion semiconductor plant

The global OSAT-ATMP market is projected to grow to $42 billion by 2026. ATMP players are a key link in the value chain of chip making

Ola Electric and Ather Energy's e-scooter prices to include the charger

The two companies are complying with a direction from the Department of Heavy Industries, which said failure to do so could result in the suspension of the subsidies they receive on each scooter

Apple's emerging India play, strategy notably different from Vietnam

In India, Apple has decided to focus on a few products but on a large scale, as they did in China, instead of assembling the entire range of its products in smaller volumes

Airlines must get new altimeters to ensure no interference from 5G: Telcos

At present the replacements are being undertaken on a first-come-first-served basis

Committed to grow, invest across India: Tim Cook tells PM Modi

Apple CEO asks for policy stability to continue, India wants long-term ties

Localisation plan: Indian firms to make key components for Apple

This will push the extent of domestic value addition in iPhones

India to make up 7% of iPhones assembled in the world, say experts

Under the PLI in FY23, the collective commitment of Apple vendors to be eligible for the scheme was to produce phones with an FOB value of Rs 24,000 crore

72% of workers in Apple's India factories are women; Foxconn best performer

The gender data is based on details provided to the states and the central government

Lynk Global eyes telecom companies for satellite direct to mobiles

Lynk is putting up small satellites which it calls 'cell towers in the sky' to provide coverage

Govt likely to ask Apple CEO Tim Cook to make more iPhones in India

The official said Apple is already planning to assemble iPods in the country with Foxconn