India's smartphone shipments hit record high in Q3 2020; Xiaomi, Samsung, Vivo top charts; Bank credit rises to Rs 103.44 lakh crore; The world's largest vaccine maker by volume, Serum Institute of India (SII), is readying one billion doses of five different COVID-19 vaccines worldwide before the end of 2021-22. Watch this and more news on News Blast.

Serum to launch 5 COVID-19 vaccines by 2021 end; floats new firmThe world's largest vaccine maker by volume, Serum Institute of India (SII), is readying one billion doses of five different COVID-19 vaccines worldwide before the end of 2021-22. Serum has floated a new company Serum Institute Life Sciences (SILS) that will exclusively focus on developing, producing and supplying pandemic vaccines. SILS is owned by the Pune-based billionaire Cyrus Poonawala and his son Adar Poonawala.Maharasht...

Serum to launch 5 COVID-19 vaccines by 2021 end; floats new firmThe world's largest vaccine maker by volume, Serum Institute of India (SII), is readying one billion doses of five different COVID-19 vaccines worldwide before the end of 2021-22. Serum has floated a new company Serum Institute Life Sciences (SILS) that will exclusively focus on developing, producing and supplying pandemic vaccines. SILS is owned by the Pune-based billionaire Cyrus Poonawala and his son Adar Poonawala.Maharashtra...

In a tweet on Thursday, state tourism and environment minister Aaditya Thackeray said he and industries minister Subhash Desai held a video call with Tesla executives earlier in the day

Elon Musk on Tesla's India entry: 'Next year for sure'; Unlock 5: Reopening of schools not compulsory on October 15, clarifies MHA; GIC, TPG to invest about $1 billion in Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Retail. Watch this and more news on News Blast.

GIC, TPG to invest about $1 billion in Mukesh Ambani's Reliance RetailReliance Industries announced that Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC and global private equity firm TPG Capital would invest nearly $1 billion in its retail arm, Reliance Retail Ventures. GIC will invest Rs 5,512.5 crore and TPG will invest Rs 1,837.5 crore in the retail arm. In a regulatory filing, Reliance said that the firms would pick 1.22 per cent equity stake and 0.41 per cent equity stake in RRVL respectively.Ind...

This is not first time Elon Musk has revealed Tesla's plans to enter Indian market. In 2019 too, replying to a Twitter query, Musk had said he \"would love to be there this year. If not, definitely next!\"

When Tesla CEO and billionaire Elon Musk said he does not plan to get a vaccine because he and his children are not at risk of contracting the infection

Twitter escalated its efforts into searching for an information security officer after it suffered a massive breach earlier this year.

Besides working in Fortune 500 companies such as IBM, Walmart.com, Palo Alto Networks, Intuit, eBay and Pacific Gas and Electric, the information security veteran was also associated with Rubrik

Alibaba co-founder Jack Ma is no longer China's richest man. The Chinese billionaire has been replaced by Zhong Shanshan. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, his net worth reached $58.7 billion on September 23, $2 billion more than Jack Ma's $56.7 billion. He is now Asia's second-richest person, only behind Reliance Industries Ltd's (RIL) CEO Mukesh Ambani. Watch the video for more.Also Read: PUBG Corp, Reliance Jio in talks to bring back PUBG Mobile to India

Vaccine tycoon and founder of China's largest bottled water company Nongfu Spring Zhong Shanshan is now Asia's second-richest person, only behind Reliance Industries Ltd's (RIL) CEO Mukesh Ambani

Musk acknowledged that Tesla does not have its ambitious new vehicle and battery designs and manufacturing processes fully complete. Tesla has frequently missed production targets

The Mi Store on Wheels, which looks like any regular food truck, is a moving van with a pop-up store set up on its back

Another meeting is expected to be held later this month in which the government officials are likely to present a proposal to Tesla

The SS Kalpana Chawla is tentatively scheduled to launch from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Wallop Flight Facility on September 29. It will deliver 3,639 kilos of cargo to the ISS

Tesla CEO Elon Musk met Volkswagen's Chief Executive Herbert Diess in Germany and test-drove VW's new electric car. Volkswagen shared the video of its chairman accompanying Musk on the test drive of the car, the ID.3. Musk can be seen driving the new electric in and around an airport hangar.

The world's wealthiest people have witnessed wild swings in their net worths of late due to market volatilities as retail traders hasten to buy and sell stocks

Trump's ranking dropped to No. 352 from 275 last year and his net worth fell to $2.5 billion from $3.1 billion, as office buildings, hotels and resorts, have suffered during the pandemic

The hacking of the Twitter handle associated with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's personal website was not related to the hacks of high profile accounts in July earlier this year