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Not very long ago, a railway journey in India often began with a queue.Passengers would visit reservation counters, wait for printed tickets, check paper charts pasted outside coaches and rely on station inquiry windows for information about delays or platform changes.Today, much of that experience fits inside a smartphone. A passenger can book a ticket,…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron will jointly inaugurate Bharat Innovates 2026 in Nice on June 14, aimed at deepening India-France collaboration in deep technology, innovation and start-up ecosystems. Ahead of the event, education minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Friday released two strategic documents profiling the selected start-ups and research projects…
NEW DELHI: TMC national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee on Friday reacted to Lok Sabha MP Kalyan Banerjee’s “arrogant” remark, saying that the senior party leader had the “right to say a few harsh words” as the latter had seen him “grow up”.“Kalyan Banerjee has seen me grow up. He is a senior leader of the…
Equal AI founder and GVK Group scion Keshav Reddy Hyderabad: AI call assistant platform Equal AI, founded by the GVK Group scion Keshav Reddy, has raised US$30 million (Rs 287 crore) in a Series B funding round co-led by Prosus Ventures and Tomales Bay Capital, as the Indian consumer artificial intelligence company moves to expand…
How do you measure a trillion dollars? Start with the zeroes. A trillion is written as $1,000,000,000,000 — a one followed by 12 zeroes. Yet even that barely captures its scale. As SpaceX’s market debut pushes Elon Musk towards what could become the world’s first trillion-dollar personal fortune, the number is so large that it…
India’s Neeraj Chopra (PTI Photo) Indian javelin star Neeraj Chopra will not compete at the upcoming Doha Diamond League meeting on June 19 as he continues to recover from a back injury while training in Switzerland.The two-time Olympic medallist, who claimed gold at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 and silver at the Paris Olympics in…
JoSAA Counselling 2026 will release its first seat allotment list on June 13 through its official websites. The allocation will be done on the basis of JEE Main 2026 ranks and candidate preferences filled during choice submission. Students must log in with their credentials to view and download their allotment details for further admission steps….
Latha Rajinikanth has opened up about the comparisons often made between Rajinikanth and Vijay on social media. In a recent interview, she discussed the rumors and the perceptions that continue to prevail online. Both celebrities have had huge fan bases in past years, resulting in many arguments between their fans. Nevertheless, Latha believed it was…
Ralph Waldo Emerson was one of the most influential thinkers of the 19th century. Born in 1803 in Boston, Massachusetts, Emerson was an American essayist, philosopher, lecturer and poet who became a leading figure of the transcendentalist movement. His writings encouraged people to trust themselves, think independently and discover the power that lies within every…
An Indian-American technology executive has come into the spotlight after a drone boat developed by his company was used in what the US military described as its first rescue operation involving an autonomous surface vessel.Two crew members of a US Army Apache helicopter that went down near the Strait of Hormuz were rescued by the…
