Delhi’s air quality has plunged to ‘severe’, triggering Stage III of the Graded Response NEW DELHI: With Delhi’s air quality slipping into the ‘severe’ category, the Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) has enforced Stage III restrictions of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) across the National Capital Region, bringing wide-ranging curbs on construction, vehicles…
TikTok has signed a joint venture agreement with major investors to keep its platform running in the United States and avoid a potential ban linked to its Chinese ownership, according to an internal memo seen by news agency AFP.TikTok chief executive Shou Zi Chew told employees that the company and its parent ByteDance have agreed…
Google is aggressively re-hiring former AI talent, with 20% of its AI software engineer hires in 2025 expected to be ‘boomerang workers.’ This strategy, fueled by substantial resources and infrastructure, aims to counter intense competition from rivals like OpenAI and Meta. Google has intensified its battle for AI talent by bringing back former employees, with…
BHOPAL: A 22-year-old law student was brutally stabbed to death by three unidentified miscreants, reportedly over a petty dispute of filling fuel first at a petrol pump near Gate No. 3 of Minal Residency Colony in Ayodhya Nagar on early Wednesday. In an entitled manner, the accused allegedly insisted on refuelling their scooter before the…
JAMMU: A suspected Pakistani drone hovering over a border village in Ramgarh sector of Jammu and Kashmir’s Samba district was noticed on Friday night, prompting security forces to launch a massive search operation.“Acting on the information, BSF and police rushed to the area and launched a combing operation to check whether narcotics or weapons had…
NEW DELHI: India strongly demanded that the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) undertake a comprehensive investigation and global review of all maritime incidents involving foreign-flagged container vessels operating in Indian waters. It said these incidents, caused by undeclared hazardous cargoes, and structural and stability issues, have raised serious safety concerns.Participating in the 134th session of the…
NEW DELHI: US trade representative Jamieson Greer has told the US Senate panel that the type of offers India has been talking about have “been the best-ever the US has “received as a country” as the negotiations between the two countries gathered momentum.Greer told the Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday that India has been “quite…
NEW DELHI: Ahead of the annual Kanwar Yatra, Uttarakhand chief ministerPushkar Singh Dhami on Thursday reviewed preparations in Haridwar and directed officials to prevent any repeat of incidents labelled as “spit jihad”, a term controversially used by BJP leaders to describe alleged instances of food tampering during previous yatras.“Efforts are on to ensure that the…
A powerful explosion occurred at a military explosives manufacturing facility in rural Tennessee on Friday morning, causing nearby homes to shake and prompting emergency services to respond, according to officials and local residents.The incident took place at Accurate Energetic Systems near Bucksnort, located approximately 60 miles (97 kilometers) southwest of Nashville, as reported by the…
Image generated using AI tool A recent post by cardiologist Dr Shailesh Singh has sparked a big discussion online. In a short note on X , he compared a simple 20-minute daily walk with a ₹10 lakh home gym, asking which one truly benefits the heart.His answer was simple: it is not the cost of…
