- India
After ‘misinterpreted’ comments over protest, PT Usha meets wrestlers
New Delhi: Facing criticism from all quarters for being insensitive towards the protesting wrestlers, IOA President PT Usha on Wednesday met them at the protest site and assured the grapplers of her…
- India
Bengal Ram Navami clashes: NIA seeks details from state police
Kolkata: National Investigation Agency (NIA) probing the Ram Navami violence in Howrah and Hooghly districts of West Bengal, on Wednesday, sought from the state police all the documents, including copies of the…
- World
US reports over 10,000 weekly child Covid cases
Washington: More than 10,000 child Covid-19 cases were reported in the US in the week ending on April 27, according to the latest report by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and…
- Health
Baidu’s AI tool enhances Covid mRNA vaccine response by 128x
Beijing: A team of researchers from Chinese Internet giant Baidu has developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithm that can rapidly design highly stable Covid-19 mRNA vaccine sequences that were previously unattainable. The…
- Technology
Microsoft launches Teams Payments app for small businesses
San Francisco: Microsoft has launched a new Payments app, which will allow small businesses to easily manage and collect payments from within Teams on their desktop or mobile device during a meeting.…
- Technology
Twitter API access free for emergency and transport agencies
New Delhi: Twitter on Wednesday backtracked on its decision to put its application programming interface (API) behind a paywall and will allow emergency and transportation service providers to access its APIs for…
- Technology
ChatGPT, Bard like AI tool to turn peoples’ thoughts into text
New York: US scientists have developed a new artificial intelligence (AI) system that can translate a person’s brain activity — while listening to a story or silently imagining telling a story —…
- Technology
Meta purges 43 mn bad content on FB, Insta in March in India
New Delhi: Meta said that it took down over 38.4 million pieces of content across 13 policies for Facebook and over 4.61 million pieces of content across 12 policies for Instagram in…
- Technology
Microsoft introduces 2 new initiatives to empower Indian SMBs
New Delhi: Microsoft India on Tuesday announced two new initiatives to support Indian SMBs and enable their digital transformation journey, namely an SMB-focused website and a dedicated helpline. According to the company,…
- Technology
Apple releases first rapid security fixes for iOS, iPadOS, macOS
San Francisco: Apple has released its first batch of publicly available “rapid security” patches, which are specifically designed to address security vulnerabilities that are currently being actively exploited or pose a significant…
- Bangalore
Karnataka: After comparison with PFI, ‘I am Bajrangi’ tweets emerge
Bengaluru: The Bajrang Dal ban assurance by the Congress party has triggered a huge row in Karnataka with posters claiming ‘I am Bajrangi’ coming up at many places challenging the authorities to…
- India
Delhi: Hit-and-run leaves one dead as car drives for 3 km with victim on roof
New Delhi: A youth was killed and his cousin seriously injured in a hit-and-run case in Delhi’s high-security VIP zone. The incident, which was captured on video by a witness, took place…
- India
Doha: No breakthrough in sight as India joins UN to resolve Afghan issue
New Delhi: India participated in a two-day closed-door conference on Afghanistan with 20 other countries led by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to discuss the Afghan crisis. The UN was spurred by the…
- India
‘Committee to address concerns of same-sex couples’: Centre to SC
New Delhi: The Centre on Wednesday told the Supreme Court that a committee headed by the cabinet secretary would be constituted to explore administrative steps for addressing some concerns of same-sex couples…
- India
Congress leader in Bihar lodges case against Amit Shah
Patna: Pratibha Singh, a Congress leader in Bihar’s Darbhanga district, has lodged a case against Union Home Minister Amit Shah saying that he was provoking communal tensions in the poll-bound Karnataka through…
