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Topic: gadgets

Phones, TVs, air purifiers & more—this is your ultimate gadget guide for Diwali shopping

From deals on Samsung flip 3, 5G Redmi Pro+, TV with QLED to Xiaomi purifier, gadget market is right on cue with the festive season.

India’s e-waste mountain growing. ‘Right to repair’ can lower it—tax breaks, skill partnerships

Manufacturers who plan a shorter life for gadgets are realising that public opinion is shifting on repairing rights. It’s time to let our devices, and planet earth, live longer.

New book lists ways to break out of ‘toxic relationship’ with gadgets

Published by Penguin India, ‘The Art of Bitfulness: Keeping Calm in the Digital World' by Nandan Nilekani and Tanuj Bhojwani will be released on 19 May on ThePrint’s Softcover.

How this after-sales service startup is helping gadget users

This company provides hassle-free after-sales service experience to consumers looking to get their home appliances and gadgets repaired.

We are now adulting without friends because social media algorithms have taken over

If adulting means remaining trapped in our silos with our gadgets all the time, then we need to perhaps redefine it — as an ability to be complete in oneself.

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Budget 2026: Push for India’s bond market needs the foundations fixed first

Corporate bonds are priced as a spread over the risk-free rate. In India, the reference risk-free rate is unreliable as large institutions are mandated to buy and hold government bonds.

‘Blind’ Budget: Congress says Centre ignored jobs, growth and Economic Survey

'If the government had read the Economic Survey, it appears to have chosen to ignore it and fall back on its favourite pastime of throwing words, usually acronyms, at people,” Chidambaram said.

10X Budget beef-up for Intelligence Bureau capex, after Pahalgam & Red Fort terror attacks

After lapses exposed by terror attacks at Pahalgam and Delhi's Red Fort, Centre has hiked Intelligence Bureau's expenditure for investments in long-term assets from Rs 257 cr to Rs 2,549 cr. 

Swiss report should now close Op Sindoor debate. Knowing when to stop the fight is key too

The key to fighting a war successfully, or even launching it, is a clear objective. That’s an entirely political call. It isn’t emotional or purely military.