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Topic: Mobile Phones

No mobile phones during duty hours for Haryana police constabulary. ‘Distraction, safety risk,’ says DGP

Phones will be collected, tracked during duty hours. Police personnel can communicate with family members only via the in-charge's phone, says directive issued by DGP Shatrujeet Kapur.

Police bust smuggling racket run by Delhi couple selling stolen phones in Nepal, four held

Couple among the four arrested, many stolen mobile phones recovered.

Those criticising mobile manufacturing in India don’t know what is manufacturing, says Vaishnaw

Inaugurating new smartphone manufacturing unit in Noida, Union Minister of Electronics & IT Ashwini Vaishnaw says govt’s PLI scheme led to incremental job creation of 5,00,000 in the industry.

Dixon Technologies partners with Xiaomi to make smartphones in India

Xiaomi India President Muralikrishnan B had told Reuters earlier that the company will open more stores & boost local procurement of mobile phone parts to reduce costs.

SubscriberWrites: Technology always has the potential of misuse. The solution is education, not removing access

For all its ills, mobile phones are proving to be indispensable in everyone’s lives, including that of children and their schooling, writes Reena Daruwalla.

‘Mobile phones will be among top 10 exports from India from 2024,’ says MoS Rajeev Chandrasekhar

Stating Modi has laid out clear vision of India becoming significant player in global electronics supply chain, he added country will do $300 billion of electronic manufacturing by 2026.

Why 5G phones are still priced too high for most Indians — ‘Democratisation yet to happen’

Unaffordable 5G phones are a product of macroeconomic conditions and poor marketing choices by phone makers, and the main losers are the economically weaker sections, say analysts.

‘Will improve user safety’: 9 in 10 Indians want uniform mobile chargers, finds survey

Through its national survey across 303 districts, LocalCircles found that the majority of Indian consumers were unhappy that there were different charging cables for different devices.

India, Bangladesh and Pakistan have new opportunities — exporting online labour to the West

Asia has the highest mobile phone users globally; around two-thirds of people use mobile services, and there is still room for further expansion.

Mobile phones boom puts India on course to beat 2019-20 electronic goods exports record by 30%

Latest commerce ministry data shows electronic goods exports touched Rs 83,000 cr in the first 3 quarters of FY22 — a 26% rise over FY20, when the country hit its previous high.

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Meghnad Desai was a man of many passions. Marxian economics, politics to Bollywood

Meghnad’s interest went much beyond economics and politics. This is reflected in his writing, particularly after his retirement as a full-time LSE professor in 2003.

Govt’s earlier FDI limit of 74% in insurance sector has remained underutilised, Parliament told

In the latest budget, the FDI limit was increased to 100 percent, but most foreign companies are not buying such large stakes in the Indian insurance sector.

India to get last of Spain-built C-295 next month, focus now on 1st India-made aircraft

New Delhi: The last of the C-295 transport aircraft that is replacing the ageing Avro fleet of the Indian Air Force (IAF) will be...

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.