Lenovo-owned smartphone brand Motorola on Monday launched in India the Moto G 5G. Touted to be made in India, the smartphone is among the first to be powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 750G system-on-chip. Priced at Rs 20,999 for its sole 6GB RAM and 128GB model, the phone will be available exclusively on Flipkart from December 7. As a part of its launch offer, the phone gets Rs 1,000 instant discount on HDFC Bank cards.

In terms of specifications, the Moto G 5G sports a 6.7-inch screen of 20:9 aspect ratio with HDR10 support. It is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 750G SoC, paired with 6GB RAM and 128GB on-board storage.

The phone boots near-stock Android with no bloatware and ads. It is IP52 rated for protection from minor water spillages and dust. The phone is powered by a 5000 mAh battery, supported by TurboPower 20W fast-charging.

Imaging is covered by triple camera set-up on the back, and a punch-hole display camera on the front. The rear camera array features a 48-megapixel primary sensor of an f/1.7 aperture, an ultra-wide sensor of a 118-degree field-of-view (FoV), and a macro sensor for close-up shots.

As for the networks and 5G connectivity. the Moto G 5G comes with support for 11 Global 5G Network Bands, including Sub 6 5G Bands that may launch in India. The Moto G 5G is also compatible with most Sub 6 bands available globally. Moreover, the smartphone comes with 4×4 MIMO & Carrier Aggregation support for improved network performance.

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Lenovo-owned smartphone brand Motorola on Monday launched in India the Moto G 5G. Touted to be made in India, the smartphone is among the first to be powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 750G system-on-chip. Priced at Rs 20,999 for its sole 6GB RAM and 128GB model, the phone will be available exclusively on Flipkart from December 7. As a part of its launch offer, the phone gets Rs 1,000 instant discount on HDFC Bank cards.

In terms of specifications, the Moto G 5G sports a 6.7-inch screen of 20:9 aspect ratio with HDR10 support. It is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 750G SoC, paired with 6GB RAM and 128GB on-board storage.

The phone boots near-stock Android with no bloatware and ads. It is IP52 rated for protection from minor water spillages and dust. The phone is powered by a 5000 mAh battery, supported by TurboPower 20W fast-charging.

Imaging is covered by triple camera set-up on the back, and a punch-hole display camera on the front. The rear camera array features a 48-megapixel primary sensor of an f/1.7 aperture, an ultra-wide sensor of a 118-degree field-of-view (FoV), and a macro sensor for close-up shots.

As for the networks and 5G connectivity. the Moto G 5G comes with support for 11 Global 5G Network Bands, including Sub 6 5G Bands that may launch in India. The Moto G 5G is also compatible with most Sub 6 bands available globally. Moreover, the smartphone comes with 4×4 MIMO & Carrier Aggregation support for improved network performance.

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Samsung is reportedly working on new devices with a triple-folding screen and a rollable display.

The South Korean tech giant has currently only revealed the designs as concepts on its display blog, reports GSMArena.

The first drawing shows a tri-folding display Galaxy Fold. This new device would eliminate the Fold’s need for an external display, as it could fold down to a third of its unfolded footprint.

The other device that the company hinted at was a rollable display gadget. This product essentially has a long cylindrical body, which houses the flexible rolled up display.

A recent patent for the tri-folding device was re-imagined by LetsGoDigital in the form of a few mock-up renders.

This tri-folding device would feature a slide-out keyboard and could be used in different positions.

The company earlier introduced Galaxy Z Fold2 that sports a 6.2-inch cover screen and a 7.6-inch main screen when unfolded.

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In an emphatic statement of warship building capability in the private sector, Larsen & Toubro’s Hazira shipyard handed over the last vessel in an order of 54 fast interceptor craft to the Coast Guard on Sunday — ahead of time and within the budget.

With the four public sector shipyards — Mazagon Dock, Mumbai; Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers, Kolkata; Goa Shipyard; and Hindustan Shipyard, Visakhapatnam — invariably delivering warships years behind schedule and beyond budget, L&T has staked a powerful claim to be considered for future shipbuilding orders.

The FICs delivered to the Coast Guard are 90-tonne vessels that can patrol the coastline at a scorching speed of 45 knots (83 kilometres per hour). L&T has built the 54 vessels for just under Rs 1,500 crore.

L&T is now contending strongly for a number of naval contracts.

The biggest of these, which will indicate how serious the defence ministry is about bringing in the private sector into defence production, is for building six New Generation Missile Vessels (NGMVs) for an estimated Rs 13,600 crore. Multiple shipyards submitted bids in February in response to the navy’s Request for Proposals (RfP).

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Equity indices resumed their ascent on Thursday after a day’s breather, buoyed by banking and financial stocks, as the November series derivative contracts expired amid largely positive cues from global markets.

After a volatile session, the 30-share BSE Sensex ended 431.64 points or 0.98 per cent higher at 44,259.74.

Similarly, the broader NSE Nifty surged 128.60 points or 1 per cent to 12,987. Tata Steel was the top performer among the Sensex components, surging 5.16 per cent, followed by Bajaj Finance, Bajaj Auto, HDFC, HCL Tech, Axis Bank, HDFC Bank and Titan.

However, Maruti, ONGC, IndusInd Bank, Tech Mahindra and Infosys dipped up to 0.87 per cent.

Global markets perched near lifetime highs as optimism surrounding the Covid-19 vaccines progress was tempered by rising coronavirus cases in multiple countries.

Domestic equities witnessed sharp recovery led by sharp rebound in banking, financial services and insurance (BFSI) stocks and metals, said Binod Modi, Head- Strategy at Reliance Securities.

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia’s sovereign wealth fund and Indian pharmaceutical company Hetero have agreed to produce over 100 million doses per year in India of the Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19, according to a statement on the Sputnik V Twitter account on Friday.

Hetero and the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), which has been backing the vaccine and marketing it globally, plan to start production of Sputnik V in India at the beginning of 2021, the statement said.

Phase II-III trials are ongoing in India, the statement said. Drugmaker Dr Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd has said it expects late-stage trials to be completed by as early as March 2021.

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The first ODI between Australia and India on Friday suffered a brief disruption as a group of protesters invaded the pitch at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) holding placards saying ‘No $1B Adani Loan’.

Two people made their way into the centre fielding circle holding up cardboard signs before the start of the seventh over.

It took a while before the security guards reacted and escorted the protesters out of the field as players and umpires stood around wondering what was happening. The invaders were protesters against Adani Group and held ‘NO $1B ADANI LOAN’ sign.

The front of the protesters’ T-shirt read “#StopAdani”, while at the back, it said “Stop Coal. #StopAdani. Take Action.”

According to Fox Sports, a group named ‘Stop Adani’ on Friday issued a press release, urging the State Bank of India (SBI) not to approve a loan of $1 billion Australian dollars to Adani.

“Well that was possibly the oddest pitch invasion I’ve ever seen,” tweeted cricket journalist Melinda Farrell.

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Approximately once every minute and 40 seconds, a child or young person under the age of 20 was infected with HIV last year, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Wednesday.

Prevention efforts and treatment for children remain some of the lowest amongst key affected populations, and in 2019, a little less than half of children worldwide did not have access to life-saving treatment, UNICEF said in a new report.

Nearly 3,20,000 children and adolescents were newly infected with HIV and 1,10,000 children died of AIDS last year, the Xinhua news agency reported.

“Children are still getting infected at alarming rates, and they are still dying from AIDS. This was even before Covid-19 interrupted vital HIV treatment and prevention services putting countless more lives at risk,” said UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore.

According to UNICEF, the Covid-19 pandemic has worsened inequalities in access to life-saving HIV services for children, adolescents and pregnant mothers everywhere, and there are serious concerns that one-third of high HIV burden countries could face coronavirus-related disruptions.

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(Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc’s widely used cloud service, Amazon Web Services (AWS), is experiencing a large-scale outage, the company said on Wednesday, affecting users ranging from websites to software providers.

It has also affected the ability to post updates to its service health dashboard, the company said.

“Kinesis has been experiencing increased error rates this morning in our US-East-1 Region that’s impacted some other AWS services. We are working toward resolution,” an AWS spokesperson said in a statement.

Amazon Kinesis, a part of its cloud offerings, collects, processes and analyzes real-time data and offers insights.

Video-streaming device maker Roku Inc, Adobe’s Spark platform, video-hosting website Flickr and the Baltimore Sun newspaper were among those hit by the outage, according to their recent posts on Twitter.

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Chinese electronics maker Xiaomi has announced its Black Friday sale in India. The sale starts from November 26 and will continue till November 29 on Xiaomi web portal, Amazon, Flipkart and offline stores. In the sale, the company is offering discounts on wide range of Mi and Redmi branded products, including smartphones, audio products, health and fitness products, and lifestyle products. Here are the details:Smartphones

Xiaomi is offering discounts on its budget and midrange line-up of Redmi branded smartphones. The Redmi 8A and Redmi Note 8 (4GB + 64GB) are available at a discounted price of Rs 6,999 and Rs 11,499, respectively.

The Redmi 9i, Redmi 9 Prime and Redmi Note 9 Pro’s 4GB + 128GB variant are available at a discounted price of Rs 8,999, Rs 10,999 and Rs 14,999, respectively.

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