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Sunday, August 10, 2025
TopicElon Musk

Topic: Elon Musk

Elon Musk exits DOGE, day after criticising Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ spending bill

The tech billionaire announced that his ‘scheduled time’ as a part of the govt will soon come to an end. As a special govt employee, Musk could work for only 130 days in a 365-day cycle.

Mama Musk in Mumbai? Elon sends her flowers as she celebrates 77th birthday

Maye Maye, a supermodel with a career spanning 5 decades, also shared an X post by PM Modi about his conversation with her son, reacting with an emoji depicting the Indian flag.

Looking forward to visiting India later this year, says Elon Musk, day after phone call with Modi

The tech billionaire and the Indian Prime Minister discussed the potential for collaboration in technology and innovation in a telephone conversation the previous day.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX, 2 partners are frontrunners to develop Trump’s Golden Dome missile shield

Musk’s rocket and satellite company is partnering with software maker Palantir and drone builder Anduril on a bid to build key parts of the Golden Dome.

Not just ‘trade war’, Trump tariffs have also fuelled a meme fest—’$112 MAGA hats’ to ‘penguin protest’

Although the tariffs have sparked strong criticism from economists across the globe, they have triggered a wave of internet memes, with even diplomats joining the online banter.

Nationwide protests start against Trump, Musk’s govt policies

Some 150 activist groups had signed up to participate, according to the event's website. Protests were planned in all 50 states plus Canada and Mexico.

SpaceX launches private astronauts in novel polar-orbiting mission

Maltese investor Chun Wang, a Chinese-born magnate who founded a bitcoin mining company, is the bankroller & commander of the SpaceX mission, named Fram2.

Govt asked X to take down Oppn posts on Amit Shah’s Ambedkar remark, ‘fabricated’ content on Jay Shah

A submission by the Centre before the Karnataka High Court in response to a challenge by 'X' against govt take-down orders details 66 notices sent over the past year.

Stalin’s struggle against ‘BJP’s drive to crush Tamil identity’ & Elon Musk’s tightrope walk in India

The Economist also reports on Nagpur riots, highlighting PM Modi’s silence, and again throws its weight behind Nitin Gadkari as a potential successor to PM.

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What is Skinimalism? It isn’t laziness, but skincare for those who want results without clutter

Think of skinimalism as the Marie Kondo of beauty trends: if a product doesn’t spark joy, or at least actually do something for your skin, it’s time to bid it a grateful goodbye.

Go Swadeshi—RSS affiliate SJM calls for boycott of US firms Amazon, Walmart after Trump’s tariff hike

New Delhi: The day after the US imposed a 50 percent trade tariff on India, RSS affiliate Swadeshi Jagran Manch (SJM) has made an...

Legacy of Air Chief Marshal LM Katre, the man who flew Spitfires & ushered IAF into a modern era

ACM Katre was 2nd IAF chief to die in harness. It was at a memorial lecture in his honour where IAF chief AP Singh revealed that India shot down 6 Pakistani aircraft in Op Sindoor.

Modi’s ready to risk it all for farmers. Farm reform can answer Trump with new Green Revolution

Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.