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New Delhi: India's annual defence production has hit a record high of approximately Rs 1.27 lakh crore in 2023-24, with the Make in India programme crossing new milestones, Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said Friday. The value of defence production in FY 2022-23 was Rs 1,08,684...

New Delhi: After Apple, Google is set to manufacture Pixel smartphones in India, with plans to export the devices to Europe and the US, media reports have said. According to reports, the tech giant will soon begin commercial production through partnerships with Foxconn and Dixon...

Bengaluru: India's fintech ecosystem achieved a significant milestone in the first half of this year by ranking among the top three funded globally, alongside the US and the UK, a report showed Friday. The domestic fintech sector received funding of $795 million in the first...

New Delhi: India needs multimodal AI models that consider diverse Indian cultures and sensitivities, moving away from western-centric models, NVIDIA executive Mohit Sewak said Wednesday. Sewak, AI Researcher and Developer Relations, South Asia, NVIDIA, said this will require large-scale, multilingual datasets and synthetic data generation....

New Delhi: Social media platform Koo, which had pitched itself as a rival and viable alternate to Twitter (now X), is shutting down with co-founders Wednesday penning a heartfelt note about tough decisions and little yellow bird bidding "final goodbye". In a post on LinkedIn,...

New Delhi: Aditya-L1 spacecraft, known as India's solar observatory, has completed its first halo orbit around the Sun-Earth Lagrange Point 1 (L1), announced mission officials at the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). The Aditya-L1 was launched to low earth orbit (LEO) September 2, last year...

New Delhi: Homegrown micro-blogging platform Koo Wednesday announced to discontinue its services to the public after partnership talks fell through. "We explored partnerships with multiple larger internet companies, conglomerates and media houses but these talks didn’t yield the outcome we wanted," Koo founders Aprameya Radhakrishna...

New Delhi: India's services sector growth quickened in June from May's five-month low, amid a stronger rise in new orders and an unprecedented expansion in international sales, a monthly survey said Wednesday. The seasonally adjusted HSBC India Services Business Activity Index rose from 60.2 in...

New Delhi: Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw Wednesday said nations and societies across the world are becoming increasingly aware of new threats and risks emerging from AI and asserted that an effective solution to such challenges can come only from collective global efforts. The Minister for...

Beijing: A powerful Chinese rocket crashed after an "accidental launch” during a ground test Sunday due to a structural failure, a private company responsible for the rocket said. Space Pioneer, also known as Beijing Tianbing Technology, said in a statement that the Tianlong-3 rocket was...