NEW DELHI: Bharat Electronics Limited on Monday approved signing a Joint Venture Agreement with Safran Electronics & Defence, France, for the HAMMER weapon system project, formalising a 50:50 equity partnership between the two firms.The approval was granted at BEL’s board meeting, the company said in a stock exchange filing. The operationalisation of the joint venture […]
NEW DELHI: A bomb threat was reported on an IndiGo flight operating from Dibrugarh to Kolkata on Saturday evening after a suspicious message was found inside the aircraft.The threat, reportedly written with lipstick inside the aircraft’s toilet, was discovered onboard IndiGo flight 6E6894 (Airbus A-320) bound for Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport. The aircraft […]
NEW DELHI: App-based transport workers across India observed an All-India Breakdown on February 7 after unions representing gig drivers and delivery workers called for a nationwide shutdown to protest falling incomes, rising costs and what they described as increasing exploitation by platform companies.The protest was called by the Telangana Gig and Platform Workers Union and […]
Cricket fans are buzzing on Anushka Sharma’s social media, curious about the sudden absence of Virat Kohli’s Instagram account. Theories of a possible break or temporary suspension are swirling, prompting many to express their worries and implore the actress to encourage her husband to rejoin the digital landscape. So far, neither Kohli nor Sharma has […]
Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis revealed Gemini 3’s launch caused OpenAI to declare a ‘Code Red,’ with ChatGPT losing millions of users. Hassabis credits Google’s pre-training team for its competitive edge. Despite significant growth in generative AI market share, he emphasizes the race for AGI is far from over, with focus now on Gemini 4. […]
Work from home, a concept that barely featured in corporate vocabulary before 2020, quickly became the backbone of the global economy when the Covid pandemic brought daily life to a standstill. Offices shut overnight, cities fell silent, but work could not stop. Across industries, companies improvised at speed, building digital systems and remote processes that […]
Engineers are becoming artists and artists are turning into engineers, all thanks to AI—at least according to Logan Kilpatrick, who leads product for Google AI Studio and the Gemini API. In a post on X that’s racked up over 627,000 views, Kilpatrick captured what he sees as a fundamental shift in how creative and technical […]
The five-day annual meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF) ended on Friday, January 23. As many as 64 heads of state or government attended the event at Davos, Switzerland. The 56th Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum convened nearly 3,000 leaders from government, business, civil society and academia under the theme “A Spirit […]
Bangladesh cricketers (Getty Images) NEW DELHI: While the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB) and the government continued to publicly cling to hopes of a last-minute miracle, the reality behind closed doors painted a far bleaker picture for the national team. According to reports, the ICC is expected to replace Bangladesh with Scotland for the ICC T20 […]
Russia President Vladimir Putin Russian President Vladimir Putin said he is prepared to allow the use of Russian assets frozen in the United States to help rebuild Ukrainian regions devastated by the war, once a peace treaty between Moscow and Kyiv is concluded.Putin also said Russia could contribute $1 billion from those US-based frozen assets […]
