Topic: Elon Musk
Time to go back to the moon & stay: Jeff Bezos unveils his Blue Origin’s lunar lander
Amazon's Jeff Bezos unveiled Blue Origin’s Blue Moon lander, and said he hoped moon missions can commence by 2024.
China is soaring ahead in the electric vehicle race
New energy vehicles accounted for just over 4% of all 28.1 million automobiles sold in China last year. That’s a higher rate than the US and Europe.
Elon Musk would ‘love’ to bring Tesla to India this year, or next
Musk said challenging government regulations have so far delayed Tesla's entry in India, the world’s fourth largest automobile market.
A key source of funding for India Inc. founders is drying up
NBFCs are no longer lending to founders who want to expand their empires by pledging stakes in their firms.
SpaceX launches historic test of craft meant to carry humans to space
The successful launch of the Crew Dragon craft is being seen as a milestone for Elon Musk's goal of enabling humans to live on other planets.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX launches second rocket of the year with three payloads
Musk's SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was launched Thursday from Florida with three payloads including an Indonesian satellite and an Israeli lunar lander.
Elon Musk protege Yusaku Maezawa takes break from Twitter to focus on ‘actual job’
In one of the highest profile stunts on Twitter this year, Maezawa said he would pay out 100 million yen to 100 people who shared one of his tweets.
Indian ex-employee of Tesla charged for stealing Rs 67 crore from company
Salil Parulekar allegedly stole Rs 67 crore from Tesla by falsifying financial documents to divert payments from one supplier to another.
Economics can fix global climate problem that fuel-efficient engines can’t
Setting aside escapist solutions, we should understand why corrective action has not followed better understanding of the climate problem.
Wan Gang will loom larger than Elon Musk when the history of electric cars is written
Gang has fomented a revolution by advocating use of government money, including subsidies, to help create a world champion industry of electric cars.
Wrong to raise alarm over slowdown in India’s consumption
Consumption cannot bail out an ailing economy. It is the consequence of a good or bad economic environment, no matter which way we calculate GDP.
Is AAP’s Arvind Kejriwal also guilty of treating Muslims as an unthinking votebank?
Days after Delhi voted in the Lok Sabha elections, AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal said the Muslim vote “shifted” to the Congress at the last minute.
Defence
Break-in at IAF’s Paris office handling Rafale procurement, cops probe espionage angle
The IAF's office in Paris houses the team that coordinates with Dassault Aviation on manufacture of Rafale jets and the weapons package onboard the aircraft.
Pracharak Modi: The mask you see, is the man you get
India has its first leader who is unapologetic about belonging to the social and political Right. This is how Shekhar Gupta foresaw Modi’s five years in this National Interest within three months of his victory in 2014.