Ahead of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s funeral, Iran is laying the groundwork to avoid a repeat of deadly crowd disasters that marred previous burials of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and Qasem Soleimani. Khamenei will be buried on July 9 after five days of ceremonies across Iran and Iraq. The body will lie in state for three days…

Engineering consultancy RITES has flagged issues with Bengaluru’s proposed double-decker flyover. BENGALURU: Chief minister DK Shivakumar’s plan to construct a 37km double-decker flyover along the proposed Orange Line Metro corridor has run into its strongest pushback yet with engineering consultancy and transport infrastructure company RITES Ltd raising red flags on several grounds.Expressing fears that the…

New Delhi: Extending major relief to commercial and industrial LPG consumers, govt on Thursday removed all sectoral restrictions on the supply of non-domestic packed liquefied petroleum gas and restored supplies to the levels prevailing before the West Asia conflict began.Govt has also relaxed the supply of bulk LPG, which had been suspended at the onset…

David Sacks, co-chair of the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, has accused AI giant Anthropic of attempting to stifle competition in the AI industry by seeking restrictions on open-source models. According to a report by Benzinga, speaking on the All-In Podcast, Sacks said that labelling Chinese-origin open-source AI models as tainted by…