London: Britain's former prime minister Rishi Sunak has been cleared by a UK government watchdog to take on part-time paid advisory roles with tech giant Microsoft and AI firm Anthropic, both based in the US. Sunak, who is now a backbench Conservative Party MP for...
New Delhi: Google Wednesday announced a major update for its AI-powered Search experience in India, expanding AI Mode to seven new Indian languages -- Bengali, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu. With this rollout, millions more users across the country will now be able...
Stockholm: John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis won the Nobel Prize in Physics Tuesday for research into quantum mechanical tunnelling. The researchers will be formally awarded the prize at a ceremony December 10, the anniversary of prize founder Alfred Nobel's death. The...
New Delhi: Union Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari Monday said the prices of electric vehicles (EVs) in India are expected to be on par with those of petrol-powered vehicles within the next four to six months. The minister said India's dependence on fossil...
New Delhi: Researchers at Nagaland University have developed a flexible supercapacitor device capable of powering next-generation wearable electronics, electric vehicles (EVs), and renewable energy systems, a breakthrough that has the potential to transform energy storage technologies, according to officials. This is a first-of-its-kind study to...
Stockholm: Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell, and Dr Shimon Sakaguchi won the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance. Brunkow, 64, is a senior program manager at the Institute for Systems Biology in Seattle. Ramsdell, 64, is a scientific adviser...
New Delhi: The growth of India's services sector eased in September from the recent high in August, as new business and activity expanded at slower rates, according to a monthly survey released Monday. The seasonally adjusted HSBC India Services PMI Business Activity Index fell to...
Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi Sunday said that the approval for setting up 'NaMo Semiconductor Laboratory' at IIT, Bhubaneswar will boost research and enhance the state's role in the national and global semiconductor sector. CM Majhi also extended sincere gratitude to Prime Minister...
London: A research tie-up between Imperial College London and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay to harness quantum computing and biotechnology to help farmers grow stronger crops that are more resilient to climate change has emerged as a focus area ahead of British Prime...
New Delhi: Denying "contamination in cough syrups" that reportedly led to 11 child deaths in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, the government Friday issued an advisory to all states and union Territories, urging the rational use of such syrups in children. About nine children succumbed to...
On yet another 6 December, one feels obliged to write about the most seminal movement in modern India and one...
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Andhra Pradesh seems to have decided that the safest way to navigate the future is to stop time itself, at...
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Tensions between the US and Venezuela have reached a seemingly critical level over what the US administration ostensibly calls its...
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Despite the newfound bonhomie between China and India in the wake of US President Donald Trump’s tariff war, China is...
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