- Sunday, June 15, 2025
ELECTRIC vehicle maker Tesla may begin its long-awaited robotaxi service in Austin on June 12, reports Bloomberg News, and added that the date may be subject to change. Tesla CEO Elon Musk had earlier this month said that the test of its robotaxi service will take place in Austin, Texas,…
BILLIONAIRE Tesla CEO Elon Musk is leaving the Trump administration after leading a tumultuous efficiency drive as the chief of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The South Africa-born tech tycoon, who also owns the social media platform X, wrote in his post, "As my scheduled time as a Special…
A US trade court on Wednesday (28) blocked most of president Donald Trump's tariffs on imports from the 57 countries and observed that the president had overstepped his authority. The Court of International Trade said the US Constitution gives Congress exclusive authority to regulate commerce with other countries that is…
THE CONTROVERSY over how India and Pakistan arrived at a ceasefire after four days of fighting refuses to die down. The Trump administration has told a New York court that India and Pakistan reached a “tenuous ceasefire” only after president Donald Trump intervened and offered both nations trading access. Indian…
ELON MUSK has criticized president Donald Trump's signature spending bill as he feels it may undermine the spending cuts carried out by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). The Tesla CEO had recently stepped back from his role of slashing US government spending by firing tens of thousands of civil…
INDIAN-AMERICAN surgeon Dr Anitha Srinivasan has been appointed chief medical officer (CMO) of NYC Health + Hospitals/Metropolitan. Dr Srinivasan will be the first woman CMO of the 150-year-old hospital, which serves East Harlem and surrounding communities. There are only two women CMOs across the 11 NYC Health + Hospitals hospital…
TECH giant Microsoft and Yotta Data Services have joined hands to drive Artificial Intelligence (AI) adoption in India. The collaboration will bring together Microsoft's Azure AI services and Yotta's AI cloud platform Shakti Cloud, India’s first sovereign compute platform, to provide advanced capabilities to developers, startups, enterprises, and government-run organizations…
WORLD champion D Gukesh suffered an early setback as compatriot Arjun Erigaisi broke through his defenses in the second round to move into a joint lead in Norway Chess in Stavanger. Labelled as the favourite in the six-player double round-robin 'Open' category, Gukesh is scraping the bottom of the points…
IN A move to regulate smartphone use by children and teenagers, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has signed an online child safety bill requiring Apple and Alphabet's Google to verify the age of users of their app stores. Under the new law, users aged below 18 will need parental consent before…
WHILE Make America Great Again (MAGA) activists are deeply agitated with the recent sanctioning of over 120,000 H-1B visas by the Trump administration, the recent meeting of vice president JD Vance with an Indian-origin venture capitalist Asha Jadeja Motwani has further fuelled their anger. These visa are used by American…
