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Sunday, July 20, 2025
TopicApple iPhones

Topic: Apple iPhones

Trump threatens Apple with 25% tariffs if iPhones are made in India

In a post on Truth Social, the US President wrote that he has informed Tim Cook of the tax levies if the CEO insists on building and manufacturing in India or anywhere else rather than in the States.

Indonesia bans sales of Google phones days after blocking Apple’s iPhone 16

JAKARTA (Reuters) -Indonesia said it has banned sales of smartphones made by Alphabet's Google due to rules requiring the use of locally manufactured components, days after blocking sales of tech

Apple to open 4 more stores in India, start selling ‘Made in India’ iPhone 16 Pro from this month

The stores will come up in Pune, Bengaluru, Delhi-NCR and Mumbai. Its 2 existing stores are in Mumbai & Delhi.

Probe to begin at Hosur Tata plant making components for Apple iPhones

The fire at the Tata plant in the city of Hosur began Saturday in an area used to store chemicals, a fire official told Reuters.

Foxconn India systematically avoids hiring married women at iPhone plant — Reuters investigation

Reuters spoke to 17 staffers from Foxconn hiring agencies in India & 4 current and former Foxconn HR executives, who confirmed the discriminatory hiring practice at Tamil Nadu plant.

Apple overtakes Microsoft to return as world’s most valuable company

Its shares rose more than 2% to $211.75, giving it a market valuation of $3.25 trillion, while Microsoft's market capitalisation stood at $3.24 trillion.

Mos Rajeev Chandrashekhar slams WaPo report on Indian govt targeting Apple — ‘half facts, embellished’

Union minister of state for information technology was referring to Washington Post report on Indian govt targeting Apple after it gave hacking warnings to journalists, opposition leaders.

Apple plans to make over 50 million iPhones in India each year

After the next two or three years, Apple plans to increase production to additional tens of millions of units, reports Wall Street Journal.

‘State-sponsored attackers’ — Apple ‘warns’ Opposition leaders, journalists their phones may be hacked

Shiv Sena (Uddhav Thackeray)'s Priyanka Chaturvedi, TMC's Mohua Moitra, Congress's Pawan Khera among those who took to social media to share the communication.

With India-made iPhones, Tamil Nadu isn’t just competing with China, but rest of India

Once known for Rajiv Gandhi's assassination, today Sriperumbudur is one of Apple’s main assembly hubs outside China. Most workers here are women with engineering degrees.

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Can Syria’s tiny Druze minority survive West Asia’s new storms? There’s little hope

Indians see West Asia as one uninterrupted wash of Islam, but the reality is more complex. For the Druze, support from Israel—where they are a recognised minority—is now critical.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.