Kunvar Thaman has emerged as a notable name in machine learning circles after his solo-authored paper, Reward Hacking Benchmark: Measuring Exploits in LLM Agents with Tool Use, was accepted to ICML 2026. The paper’s arXiv listing shows Thaman as the only author and confirms its acceptance to the prestigious conference. The conference is scheduled to…
TVK chief Vijay meets Governor Rajendra Arlekar, stakes claim to form govt in Tamil Nadu NEW DELHI: Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) chief Vijay on Wednesday met Tamil Nadu governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar to stake claim to form the next government after his two-year-old party emerged as the single largest in the recent assembly elections. In…
Chennai Super Kings’ Sanju Samson (AP Photo/Manish Swarup) Sanju Samson delivered a fantastic knock under pressure, finishing unbeaten on 87 off 52 balls to guide Chennai Super Kings to a commanding eight-wicket win over Delhi Capitals in Match 48 of IPL 2026 at the Arun Jaitley Stadium in New Delhi. On a surface that offered…
India is often thought of as a land of ancient, native plants, but many of the crops and trees we now treat as “Indian” actually came from other parts of the world. Over centuries, trade routes, colonial rule, and scientific exchanges moved seeds and saplings across continents. Plants that started as a few exotic arrivals…
Have you ever wondered why rockets eventually tilt themselves after launch? Most people assume a rocket’s goal is to fly as high as possible, but ‘up’ is only the first step. If a rocket flew perfectly straight, it would eventually run out of fuel and fall directly back to Earth like a stone thrown into…
Husband poisons wife to death in Andhra’s Proddatur. TIRUPATI: A middle-aged man allegedly murdered his 31-year-old wife by poisoning her with a substance purchased through a YouTuber in a chilling crime reported from Proddatur town in Andhra Pradesh’s Kadapa district.According to Proddatur additional superintendent of police Vibhu Krishna, Bhadripalli Kiran had been leading a troubled…
NEW DELHI: Communist Party of India (Marxist), or CPM on Wednesday claimed the “goons” of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) attacked and broke communist icon Vladimir Lenin’s statue in Murshidabad district, where the saffron party’s Gouri Sankar Ghosh won by over 30,000 votes in assembly polls.The party said it registered a police complaint, leading to…
A woman and her former partner were killed in a powerful explosion after the man allegedly forced his way into her home carrying an explosive device in Bristol, police said, in a case now being treated as homicide.Officers were called to a domestic incident at a property on Sterncourt Road in Frenchay early Sunday morning….
A deadly outbreak of Hantavirus on a luxury cruise ship has raised global concern after three passengers died and several others fell ill. The ship, carrying around 150 people, remains stranded off the coast of West Africa as health authorities monitor the situation closely.So what exactly is hantavirus Hantavirus outbreak: 10 things to know It…
Markets regulator Sebi has introduced a new framework to classify stock market benchmarks as “significant indices” if mutual fund schemes tracking them have a daily average cumulative assets under management (AUM) of more than Rs 20,000 crore for each of the preceding six months, PTI reported.The move is aimed at strengthening transparency, governance and accountability…