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New Delhi: Oracle Corp. -- a global technology company that reduced its workforce by around 21,000 employees over the past 12 months -- has acknowledged that the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies contributed to some of the job cuts. In its annual financial regulatory...

New Delhi: Google restored instant messaging app Telegram Tuesday morning as a temporary ban imposed by the government ended at midnight of June 22. The platform was accessible to some existing users before Google restored it. The app continued to remain delisted on Apple's Appstore...

New Delhi: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said Monday that CRED founder Kunal Shah will join Meta as WhatsApp’s next global CEO. Meta is also investing around $900 million (nearly Rs 8,550 crore) in the fintech company CRED. As part of the investment, Cred’s founder, Kunal...

New Delhi: The Central Drugs Laboratories found 46 drug samples manufactured by various firms to be "not of standard quality (NSQ)" in its monthly drug alert for May, health ministry officials said Monday. Further, the State Drugs Testing Laboratories have identified 113 drug samples as...

New Delhi: The Centre has prohibited the manufacture, sale and distribution of 16 fixed-dose combination (FDC) drugs, saying they lack "therapeutic justification" and their continued use was not considered beneficial in relation to the potential risks involved. The move, the Union Health Ministry said, was...

Jharsuguda: Union Coal and Mines Minister G Kishan Reddy Saturday said the beginning of the coal gasification project marks a historic step towards converting India's abundant coal resources into value-added products, which will strengthen the country's energy security and promote import substitution. Reddy said this...

New Delhi: US-based Indian-origin theoretical physicist Jainendra K Jain has received the prestigious Wolf Prize in Physics for his discovery of composite fermions, a breakthrough that transformed the understanding of the fractional quantum Hall effect and continues to shape modern quantum physics. Jain is the...

New Delhi: The Delhi High Court Thursday reserved its verdict on a plea by Telegram against the Centre's move to temporarily restrict access to the messaging app ahead of June 21 NEET-UG re-examination. A vacation bench headed by Justice Tejas Karia reserved the order after...

New Delhi: Messaging app Telegram CEO Pavel Durov has alleged that Reliance Group, in which Meta has a partial stake, may have lobbied, along with its competitor WhatsApp, to impose a ban on the company's app in India. He also accused Reliance of sabotaging access...

New Delhi: SpaceX continued its extraordinary stock market rally Tuesday, surpassing Microsoft to become the fourth-largest company in the United States by market capitalisation, while also unveiling a major $60 billion acquisition of artificial intelligence coding platform Cursor. The Elon Musk-led aerospace and technology company...