NEW DELHI: The Gauhati high court has ordered Assam government to pay Rs 25 lakh compensation to the widow of a businessman allegedly abducted, tortured and killed in police custody.A Division Bench of Justice Kalyan Rai Surana and Justice Shamima Jahan ordered the State to pay an additional Rs 20 lakh apart from the Rs…
Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind recently issued one of the starkest AI warnings. According to a report by Axios, speaking at the company’s annual developer conference, Hassabis said that humanity is standing in the ‘foothills of the singularity’ and has only a few years left to prepare for artificial general intelligence (AGI). Speaking to…
Walmart has told its more than 2.1 million employees that AI is meant to improve their jobs, not replace them, reports Financial Times. Speaking at Walmart’s annual Associates Week gathering in Arkansas, company leaders said technology will play a bigger role in the future of work, but employees will remain at the center of the…
NEW DELHI: A Puducherry consumer commission has held a restaurant liable for serving contaminated food and directed it to compensate the customer along with providing 10 free plates of biriyani after a dead insect was found in a plate of biriyani.The District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Puducherry, comprising S. Mouttouvel (President), A.S. Suvitha (Member) and…
SpaceX is set to enter Wall Street, with an IPO valued at a whopping $1.75 trillion! The long-awaited listing has kicked off a rush among retail investors all chasing a slice of its rockets, satellites and AI empire, turning it into one of the most talked-about market moments in recent times. Demand is already so…
Uttar Pradesh’s Economic Survey for 2025–26 revealed that the state’s economy has grown at a CAGR of 10.8 per cent, with its GSDP rising from Rs. 13.30 lakh crore (at current price) in FY 2016–17 to Rs. 30.25 lakh crore in FY 2024–25. The state’s own tax revenue, an indicator of an economy generating activity,…
When Super Typhoon Sinlaku tore across the North Pacific in April 2026, it did something that most tropical cyclones never do it sent visible ripples not just across the ocean surface but through the sky itself, all the way into the upper layers of Earth’s atmosphere. The storm reached “violent typhoon” status, the highest category…
NEW DELHI: India’s estimated nuclear arsenal has increased from 180 warheads to 190 warheads, according to the latest assessment by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), reflecting New Delhi’s continued efforts to modernise its strategic deterrent amid a rapidly evolving security environment. The findings were released as part of SIPRI Yearbook 2026, which warns…
TimesofIndia.com in Mullanpur: India’s batting coach Sitanshu Kotak believes Rishabh Pant should continue playing his natural game and rejected suggestions that the wicketkeeper-batter alone needs to adjust his approach according to match situations.“I don’t think Rishabh alone has to play according to the situation. Every player has a different style. Sai Sudharsan plays differently, Shubman…
A person leaves and, on paper at least, the story should be simple.They move to another city. They settle in another country. A friendship becomes less frequent. A family member is no longer around. Time passes. Life changes.Yet that is rarely how human relationships work.Years after leaving school, people still remember a teacher who believed…