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New Delhi: India's industrial production (IIP) growth accelerated to a six-month high of 5.2 per cent year-on-year in November 2024, riding on the increased festive demand and pick up in manufacturing sector, according to the official data released Friday. The Index of Industrial Production (IIP)...

New Delhi: The government's artificial intelligence programme unit IndiaAI and Microsoft have partnered to train 5 lakh individuals, including students, educators, developers, government officials, and women entrepreneurs on AI by 2026, a senior company official said Wednesday. Microsoft India and South Asia President, Puneet Chandok...

New Delhi: Farm workers and drivers will figure among the fastest growing jobs over the next five years, while roles of cashiers and ticket clerks will see the largest decline, a new study showed Wednesday. In its Future of Jobs Report 2025, the World Economic...

New Delhi: V. Narayanan has been appointed as the next chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and  Secretary of the Department of Space, according to an official announcement made Tuesday. He is set to take over from the current ISRO chief, S. Somnath,...

New York: Facebook and Instagram owner Meta said Tuesday it's scrapping its third-party fact-checking programme and replacing it with a Community Notes programme written by users similar to the model used by Elon Musk's social media platform X. Starting in the US, Meta will end...

New Delhi: The Centre has advised states to step up surveillance for respiratory illnesses, including ILI and SARI, and spread awareness about the prevention of transmission of the human metapneumovirus (HMPV) after five cases were detected in India. Two suspected cases of the virus were...

Bengaluru: Microsoft will invest USD 3 billion (about Rs 25,700 crore) to expand its cloud computing and artificial intelligence capabilities in India, its chief executive officer Satya Nadella said on Tuesday. The tech giant will also train 10 million people in AI skills in India...

Bhubaneswar: Amid the detection of cases of human metapneumovirus (HMPV) infection in Karnataka, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu, the Odisha government Tuesday asked all medical facilities and laboratories in the state to remain prepared to tackle any exigency. After holding a high-level meeting here in...

New York: The man who drove a truck into a crowd of people in New Orleans on New Year’s Day, killing 14, had previously scouted the French Quarter and recorded video with his Meta smart glasses, the FBI said. On Oct. 31, Shamsud-Din Jabbar recorded video with the glasses...

Bengaluru: ISRO Monday said the docking experiment of SpaDeX satellites scheduled for January 7 is now postponed to January 9. In a post on X, the Bengaluru-based space agency said, "The SpaDeX Docking scheduled (January) 7th is now postponed to 9th. The docking process requires...