The assembly line’s invention wasn’t a solitary “eureka” moment but an evolution driven by open-minded observation. Henry Ford’s team studied meatpacking plants, adapting their disassembly process to a car assembly flow. Image Credits: via Wikimedia Commons The invention of the assembly line is generally depicted in history as one of those “eureka” moments where the…
MUMBAI: A family of four, husband (40), wife (35), and two daughters aged 16 and 13, died on Sunday due to suspected food poisoning, police said on Monday.Police identified the deceased as Abdullla Abdul Kadar, his wife Nasreen and two daughters Aayesha (16) and Zainab (13). Kadar ran a mobile accessories shop. Police sources said…
NEW DELHI: Government plans to raise the issue of the US decision to impose a 100% duty on patented drug imports from India, seeking tariff parity to safeguard the interests of domestic manufacturers. The matter is expected to figure during the trade negotiations with Washington, with New Delhi seeking tariff concessions in line with the…
Villagers in Rouli, Rewa district, used drums to create a raft for a deceased person. BHOPAL: In a disturbing picture of how floods can strip even the dead of dignity, villagers in Rouli village of MP’s Rewa district had to tie drums together to make a makeshift raft and place a body on it to…
India-China ties have thawed since the border skirmish in 2020. Former foreign secretary Vijay Gokhale argues that China waits for a strategic opening, acts pre-emptively and then builds a narrative of self-defence. His new book, “China’s Wars: The Politics and Diplomacy Behind its Military Coercion”, examines past conflicts and China’s recent grey-zone tactics.In an interview…
A new development in the Ketan Agarwal (M) murder probe sees police questioning a youth from Beed, identified as Chetan Chaudhary’s (L) friend. Investigators believe Chaudhary and Siya Goyal (R) confided their alleged murder plan to him. PUNE: In a fresh twist in the probe into the murder of Pune realtor Ketan Agarwal, police have…
India’s cooking gas consumption saw a sharp decline in March, with LPG usage falling 13 per cent year-on-year due to supply disruptions linked to the ongoing Middle East conflict, according to official data.LPG consumption stood at 2.379 million tonnes in March, down from 2.729 million tonnes in the same month last year. The decline comes…
Two people were killed after a speeding Thar rammed into their motorcycle NEW DELHI: Two people were killed after a speeding Thar rammed into their motorcycle in Delhi Cantonment, officials said on Thursday.The victims, a man and a woman, were travelling on the motorcycle when the Thar hit them.The Thar driver was caught by local…
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang famously predicted that artificial intelligence would generate historic levels of wealth, creating more millionaires in five years than the internet did in twenty. From Gen Z to Gen Alpha, there is no one who has managed to escape the illuminating and attractive trenches of the AI boom, turning everyone into coders,…
Tejaswin Shankar competes in the men’s decathlon pole vault (left), long jump (centre), and 110m hurdles (right) at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland A week after walking away from the high jump arena in tears, Tejaswin Shankar returned to the same stadium to create history. Battling a long-standing knee injury, the national record holder…