Author: Rohan Dua

NEW DELHI: Separatist leader Yasin Malik, who has been advocating breaking Kashmir from India, has accepted all charges against him in a terror funding case in the Patiala House court. The former chief of the Jammu Kashmir Liberation Front,  the outfit that almost destroyed Kashmir and put its locals in an ugly face-off with India’s security […]

NEW DELHI: Unknown men fired at heavily-guarded Punjab Police intelligence headquarters in Mohali’s sector 77 on late Monday evening in a daring attack, stoking memories of a dreadful strike by pro-Khalistani outfits in 1995 leading to the killing of then Punjab CM Beant Singh. Sources in Punjab Police said that a Rocket Propelled Grenade (RPG)-like […]

  BENGALURU: India’s ongoing three-day mega conclave, Semicon 2022, in Bengaluru saw a major breakthrough as multinational chip manufacturer ISMC announced to set up its  65nm analog semiconductor fabrication plant in Karnataka’s Mysuru, making it country’s first such unit to manufacture and supply wafers for mobile and smart devices. ISMC is a venture between Israel-based […]

  BENGALURU: Indian oil and metal major Vedanta has said the company has been offered free land, up to 350-acres, by several states in the country as it bids to enter the semiconductor and display fabrication industry with Taiwan major Foxconn which will also make it India’s first chipmaker. Foxconn is the company behind the […]

BENGALURU: Consider this: You pick up any mobile phone or a smart wearable device and there’s a 90 per cent chance it contains at least one IIT Madras processor from India in the next five years. After producing the indigenous industrial-grade microprocessor Shakti in 2018, India is on course to roll out an n-core processor […]

  As India flagged off the country’s first Semicon, a three-day mega event in India’s Bengaluru to bring together heads of several semiconductor companies, The New Indian’s Executive Editor Rohan Dua caught up with All India Council For Technical Education (AICTE) chairman Prof Anil D Sahasrabudhe, who once served as Professor of Mechanical Engineering at […]

In the middle of frenzy over India’s first Semicon, a three-day mega event in India’s Bengaluru to bring together several semi-conductor companies and help them forge a network to tap into each other’s energy and harness talent in the growing chip industry, The New Indian’s Executive Editor caught up with Koo co-founder Aprameya Radhakrishna. While […]

  BENGALURU: In the flourishing settings of Bengaluru — home to influential companies of ambitious up-and-comers — to help push cutting-edge tech innovation, India on Friday kicked off its first-ever event to bring together semiconductor giants behind computers, mobile phones and everyday gadgets with three women honchos leading the first day. Union minister for electronics […]

NEW DELHI/KOLKATA: A detailed investigation by the Board for Cricket Control in India (BCCI), into the incident involving an interview demanded by a journalist, has lauded the wicketkeeper-cricketer Wrridhiman Saha for his exceptional handling of the episode that took the media fraternity by storm. To avoid any such instances with other players, the BCCI said […]

NEW DELHI: India’s ace cricket body has dealt a severe blow to cricket columnist Boria Majumdar in the ugly spat with wicket-keeper batsman Wriddihman Saha, while making stunning disclosures that he insisted on interviews at exclusion of other journalists, even as now the body has banned him for two years on getting any accreditation as […]