Sci-Tech

New Delhi: The Indian startup ecosystem raised nearly $176 million in funding across 16 deals in the first week of this month. In the biggest funding round, fashion e-commerce platform Purplle secured $120 million led by Abu Dhabi Investment Authority. Agri-tech startup Arya.ag also announced...

New Delhi: The government has responded to “misleading claims” regarding recent mobile services tariff hike, saying with three private and one public sector players, the current mobile services market operates through the market forces of demand and supply. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI)...

New Delhi: India's major ride-hailing company Ola has exited Google Maps and has shifted to its own Ola Maps for cab operations. Bhavish Aggarwal, co-founder and Chairman of the Ola group said that through this move, the company will save nearly Rs 100 crore per...

New Delhi: Hitting out at the government over three private firms increasing mobile service tariffs, the Congress Friday accused it of "fleecing" 109 crore cell phone users and asked how can the firms be permitted to unilaterally increase rates without any oversight and regulation. Congress...

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...