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A global crisis in the supply of lithium and other components is hitting the Indian EV industry even harder than other major markets. Apart from the high costs of imports, the relative low size of the Indian market is also affecting the industry’s capacity to negotiate. Although the EV sector in India is growing quite fast, the low market size is turning out to be a limiting factor. All major players are reportedly concentrating on bigger markets such as the US, Europe and China. Nearly 90 percent of the cells used in India are imported from China.

The BJP in Karnataka is leaving no stone unturned in achieving the permanent marginalization of Muslims in this once cosmopolitan state. A determined march towards realizing (more legitimacy and respectably than in 2018) to the BJP in 2023 has begun. The Bajrang Dal, Jangjaruti Samiti, and the Sri Ram Sene, despite minor squabbles with the ruling party, are joined by ordinary Kannadigas to enable this rapid political, social and economic disenfranchise. An ever lengthening list of accusations against Muslims finds a credulous and receptive audience--- for allegedly depredation in the past (building mosques on the site of temples), for plans for the future (the community devious demographic designs) or for merely existing.

Mamallapuram (Chennai): Home favourite Koneru Humpy split point with lower rated Marisa Zuriel (Argentina) while favourites fumbled as the former world champion Mariya Muzychuk of Ukraine suffered defeat against Turkey's Ekaterina Atalik in the second round of the women's section at the 44th Chess Olympiad here on Saturday.

New Delhi: A confident India will open their campaign in the men's Hockey tournament at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games against Ghana on Sunday.

New Delhi: Indian women lost to Australia in cricket while girls in blue overpowered Ghana in hockey even as the Men’s and Women’s Table Tennis teams and boxer Shiva Thapa got off to positive starts, on one of competitions at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games (CWG).

New Delhi: Fancied India huffed and puffed before overpowering of lowly Ghana 5-0 in their opening match of the Women's hockey competition at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham on Friday.

Chennai: It turned out to be India's day as all the six teams fielded by the hosts began their campaigns on a winning note by registering easy victories on the opening day of the 44th Chess Olympiad in Mamallapuram, Chennai on Friday.

Within the ruling Trinamool Congress(TMC) in Bengal, the decision to strip Industries Minister Partha Chatterjee of his portfolios and party leadership six days after his arrest, is a major setback for Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s leadership. She had stood by him firmly from July 22 onwards despite his arrest in connection with massive corruption in the appointment of Government schoolteachers in the state.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: It was a totally unwarranted and unjustified rebuff from Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw to three Ministers from Kerala.

Myanmar’s military rulers on July 252 reported the execution of four pro-democracy activists — Phyo Zeya Thaw, Kyaw Min Yu, Hla Myo Aung, and Aung Thura Zaw. Ko Jimmy and Phyo Zeya Thaw were convicted under counter-terrorism laws in January while Hla Myo Aung and Aung Thura Zaw were convicted for allegedly killing a military informant in April. Ko Jimmy was a popular pro-democracy activist while Phyo Zeya was an opposition lawmaker and a close associate of former state counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi. The convictions were awarded by military courts in closed-door trials. The bodies of the executed activists were cremated by the military authorities without informing their families. These were the first capital punishments in over 30 years in Myanmar.