California, USA based tech giant, Apple launched its latest offerings in mobile phones on September 10. iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max make up the iPhone 11 series which grabbed attention for the relatively competitive (by Apple standards) pricing (especially for iPhone 11). The devices aren’t available in the market yet but preorders are to start soon.

India’s leading e-commerce platforms Amazon India and Flipkart will accept Apple iPhone 11-series preorders starting from September 20, before the sale commences on September 27. The series includes three smartphones; the iPhone 11, the iPhone 11 Pro and the iPhone 11 Pro Max. The iPhone 11 will be available in 64GB, 128GB and 256GB storage configuration in purple, green, yellow, black, white and PRODUCT(RED) colours starting at Rs 64,900. The iPhone 11 Pro and iPhone 11 Pro Max will be available in 64GB, 256GB and 512GB storage configurations in midnight green, space grey, silver and gold starting at Rs 99,900 and Rs 109,900, respectively. Read Complete Article

Tata Motors should look at selling its UK-based subsidiary, Jaguar Land Rover to German luxury car maker, BMW, which could fetch a valuation of 9 billion pounds to the Tata company, global brokerage firm, Bernstein has said.

In a report to its clients, Bernstein said BMW is over-capitalised and is awash with cash. “It (BMW) has run into the limits of growth for its product range and brand. Returns on capital from further expansion look questionable. By contrast, JLR could be acquired at a discount to book value. With BMW’s help it could be returned to profitability,” it said. The Range Rover has huge gross margins but is being swamped by fixed costs and problems on other product lines. BMW could quickly lower JLR’s investment costs and raise margins by leveraging its own platforms, powertrains, purchasing scale and quality control. The value creation would be substantial and could boost BMW earnings by 20 per cent, the report said.

For Tata group, the problems at JLR look daunting, the brokerage said. “It’s been an amazing 10 years, with many successes, but we believe the company needs to find a strategic solution for JLR. Proceeds of £9 billion would mean upside for Tata Motors share price, especially if Tata could articulate how the capital would then be redeployed,” the report said. Read Complete Article

US President Donald Trump has hinted that there could be some announcement by him at the mega Howdy Modi! event in Houston on Sunday, where he would join Prime Minister Narendra Modi in addressing the 50,000-strong Indian diaspora.

The White House on Monday announced that Trump would join Modi at the mega Houston rally on September 22 as a “special gesture” by the US President to underscore the special bond between the two countries.

It is for the first time that Trump and Modi would share a stage together. The event is the third meeting between the two leaders in three months, after the G-20 summit in Japan in June and the G-7 summit in France last month.

Could be. I have a very good relationship with Prime Minister Modi, Trump told reporters on Wednesday aboard Air Force One on his way back from California to Washington DC. He did not elaborate. Read Complete Article

Indian healthcare system will “struggle to keep pace” in 2030 when 140 million Indian households are expected to enter the middle-class, said a report by Bain & Company report on Tuesday.

The healthcare industry will face challenges due to a rapid increase in patient volume accompanied by pricing and margin pressures, said the India Life Sciences Report 2019, which was conducted among 325 doctors.

The report, done in collaboration with Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), said the demand from “developed rural” areas along with the increase in middle-class households will drive about two-times hike in healthcare consumption. PM Narendra Modi’s flagship scheme Ayushman Bharat, which was launched in September 2018 to provide 500,000 poor people annual health cover of Rs 500,000, is also likely to increase healthcare demand.

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Arjun Kapoor always leads from the front when it comes to social causes and to add some joy to the lives of kids battling cancer, the actor will light up the famous Bandra-Worli Sea Link red on this World Rose Day.

Observed on September 22 every year, the day comes as a gesture to bring happiness to the lives of cancer patients and to add to it, the ‘India’s Most Wanted’ actor will be lighting Mumbai’s most iconic landmark.

In collaboration with the Cancer Patients Aid Association, Arjun will illuminate the sea link along with small children who have been battling the life-threatening disease.

“It is a cause that is extremely close to me for very personal reasons,” Arjun said.

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The camera-backed midrange smartphone space had never been so interesting. On Realme has spiced up the game with the launch of the Realme XT (review), which has a whopping 64-megapixel camera, Vivo’s new offering in the Z-series, with a 48-megapixel camera, has only added to delight and confusion.

Business Standard reviewed the Vivo Z1x. Here is how the phone fared on key parameters:

Design

Gradients have become common these days, but the Z1x, thankfully, is an exception. It reflects various shades of the same colour. We had the Phantom Purple variant and the colour scheme looked fine. Its glossy finish made it shine but also attracted fingerprints and smudges. Read Complete Article

Chinese electronics maker BKK Electronics’ smartphone brand OnePlus on Monday announced the launch of ‘a few things’ in India on September 26. The company has been teasing features of the OnePlus 7T smartphone and OnePlus TV on its social media platforms, and chances are that both these products would be unveiled or launched in the country on September 26. The company is likely to also announce the T-variant of the OnePlus 7 Pro.

According to the company’s recent tweets, the OnePlus 7T would get an enhanced display with a faster refresh rate of 90Hz. In retrospect, OnePlus used a screen with higher refresh rate in the OnePlus 7 Pro, also the company’s first smartphone with QHD+ resolution curved screen. The OnePlus 7T is promised to get a 90Hz refresh rate screen, but it might not get the curved profile and higher resolution screen of the Pro model. These screen properties might stay exclusive to the OnePlus 7T Pro edition.

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Before you start your day, take a look at the major events in the country that are likely to make headlines today: From PM Modi’s arrival in Ahmedabad to NHPC board meet, here are some of the most important news events scheduled for today.

Indian delegation to visit the US ahead of PM’s address to UNGA

An Indian delegation of political leaders and foreign policy experts will visit the US on Tuesday ahead of PM Narendra Modi’s visit to address the United National General Assembly on September 27. Read more…

PM Modi arrives in Ahmedabad ahead of his birthday

Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Ahmedabad on Monday night, ahead of his 69th birth anniversary on Tuesday. Gujarat Governor Acharya Devvrat and state Chief Minister Vijay Rupani along with other dignitaries welcomed the Prime Minister at the airport. Read Complete Article

As mosquitoes mostly spread dengue virus while feeding on iron deficit blood, researchers suggest consuming iron-rich food if dealing with iron deficiency, anaemia or dengue fever. Dengue is most commonly acquired in urban environments, and the expansion of cities in the tropics has been accompanied by an expansion in dengue infections.

UConn Health immunologist Penghua Wang wanted to see if blood quality had an impact on the spread of the dengue virus. Blood levels of various substances can vary tremendously from person to person, even among healthy people

Wang and colleagues at Tsinghua University and State Key Laboratory of Infectious Disease Prevention and Control in Beijing, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang in Bangkok, and the 920 Hospital Joint Logistics Support Force in Kunming ran a series of experiments to explore the idea. Read Complete Article

Healthy sleep habits can make a big difference in one’s life but work week keeps us all a bit short on sleep, which can be severely harmful, says a study.

In the Journal of Lipid Research, researchers at Pennsylvania State University reported that just a few days of sleep deprivation can make participants feel less full after eating and metabolise the fat in food differently.

Sleep disruption has been known to be having harmful effects on metabolism for some time.

Orfeu Buxton, a professor at Penn State and one of the senior authors of the new study, contributed to a lot of the research demonstrating that long-term sleep restriction puts people at a higher risk of obesity and diabetes.

However, Buxton said, most of those studies have focused on glucose metabolism, which is important for diabetes, while relatively few have assessed digestion of lipids from food. Read Complete Article