MUMBAI: State Bank of India chairman Challa Sreenivasulu Setty has warned that the ongoing conflict in the Gulf region could weigh on growth and rekindle inflationary pressures, even as India’s macroeconomic fundamentals remain resilient.In his message to shareholders in the bank’s annual report, Setty said: “The financial year gone by unfolded against a backdrop of…
The promotional campaign for Nitesh Tiwari’s epic ‘Ramayana’ is officially underway!With the Bharat Mandapam event set to take place in New Delhi later today, the film’s star cast – Ranbir Kapoor, Sai Pallavi, Sunny Deol and Kunal Kapoor were spotted at the airport on Saturday, as they departed for the national capital.Videos of the actors…
A prominent Danish pension fund that previously made waves by dumping US Treasuries has reportedly announced that it will boycott the upcoming Initial Public Offering (IPO) of SpaceX, citing severe overvaluation and a deeply flawed corporate governance model. According to a report by Bloomberg, AkademikerPension, which manages $25 billion in assets, has blacklisted the aerospace…
Somewhere along the East African Rift Valley sits a chain of lakes holding more than a quarter of all the surface freshwater on the planet. Most people have never heard of them. The African Great Lakes span ten countries, keep over 50 million people fed and employed, and rarely get a mention alongside the world’s…
Cortical Labs founder and CEO Hon Weng Chong at the Cortical Cloud biological data centre at NUS (Image: The Straits Times).. Singapore has unveiled a world-first biological data centre prototype that brings living human neurons into a server-rack environment, marking an unusual new step in the race to build more efficient and adaptive computing systems….
BHOPAL: CBI officers reconstructed Monday the circumstances of former model-actor Twisha Sharma’s death by alleged suicide at her marital home in Bhopal on May 12, using a sand-filled dummy weighing around 80kg with iron dumbbells tied to its feet to replicate weight and body balance. The idea was to test whether ex-judge Giribala Singh and…
Representative Image. Credit: X (Twitter) Scientists at Loughborough University and an international research team have built a tiny “rainbow on a chip” that can generate multiple precisely spaced frequencies of light at the same time. The microchip-based system could eventually help future 6G networks carry more signals simultaneously by converting the optical frequencies into millimetre…
Ladakh residents will now have rights over barren lands or wastelands owned by govt SRINAGAR: Ladakh residents will now have rights over barren lands or wastelands owned by govt, with the administration Friday approving Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Councils (Nautor Regularisation) Rules, 2026.The Rules provide a comprehensive framework for granting proprietary rights on up to…
The latest front in the US-Canada trade war isn’t tariffs. It’s an army of Mountie bears playing bagpipes. A new AI-made music video, “Canadian Resistance Army — Trade War,” has become the latest online expression of Canadian defiance toward US tariffs —an unlikely patriotic anthem.Released this week by the YouTuber demonflyingfox, the video depicts a…
The country’s installed power generation capacity has crossed 530 GW and is expected to reach nearly 600 GW next year, driven by rapid additions in renewable energy, thermal power and battery storage, a senior Power Ministry official said on Wednesday.Aadhar Raj, Joint Secretary in the Ministry of Power, said the country’s electricity sector continues to…