- Thursday, May 01, 2025
A POST OFFICE littered with parcels of the dead and missing, a special police unit deployed to stop 'selfie tourists' and patrols to check thefts in abandoned houses is all that remains in the three Wayanad villages that were wiped off during the deadly landslides that occurred exactly a month…
WITH regulatory approvals in place, Air India chief Campbell Wilson on Friday said November 12 has been set as the date for the movement of aircraft and crew of Vistara to Air India. Vistara, a joint venture between Tata Group and Singapore Airlines, is getting merged with Air India. Post…
ANGELINA JOLIE made her return to the screen at the Venice Film Festival, portraying the renowned opera singer Maria Callas in Pablo Larrain's biopic "Maria." This film marks the conclusion of Larrain's trilogy about iconic women, following his previous works "Spencer" and "Jackie." Angelina Jolie, who has been absent from…
TWO women dominated Bangladeshi politics for decades. One was chased into exile. The other is newly free from custody and too sick to rule, but her heir looks set to take power. Autocratic ex-premier Sheikh Hasina, 76, fled the country by helicopter for neighbouring India this month as huge crowds…
THE SITUATION in rain-battered Gujarat improved slightly on Thursday as the rainfall activity subsided, but Vadodara continues to reel under a flood-like situation due to swollen rivers. Rain-related incidents have claimed the lives of 26 people in three days till Wednesday, the authorities said earlier. More than 18,000 people have…
WEST BENGAL chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday asserted that she did not threaten junior doctors at state-run hospitals, who have been continuing cease-work for 21 days now to protest against the alleged rape and murder of a woman medic. Banerjee said accusations that have come from certain quarters of…
RELIANCE is transforming itself into a deep tech company, Chairman Mukesh Ambani said on Thursday as he termed AI as a transformative event in the evolution of the human race that is opening up avenues to address complex problems facing mankind. Addressing the 47th AGM of RIL, Ambani said the…
INFOSYS on Thursday said it has expanded its partnership with American artificial intelligence chip-maker Nvidia to develop GenAI-powered solutions for telecom operators. The IT major has developed three generative AI solutions powered by its AI-offering Topaz, which make use of Nvidia NIM inference microservices, Nvidia NeMo Retriever embedding models, and…
One of India's top women wrestlers Sakshi Malik will come out with her memoir in October in which she gives an "honest account" of her life - the highs, lows, and everything in between. Published by Juggernaut Books, "Witness" is co-authored by Jonathan Selvaraj. In her fiery memoir, Malik tells…
A DANISH court said on Thursday it had rejected a request by India for the extradition of a Danish national wanted in a 1995 weapons smuggling case. India has for years sought to have Niels Holck extradited to stand trial on suspicion of air-dropping four tons of weapons in West…
