BENGALURU: Forty days after India embarked on a celestial odyssey, aiming to conquer Moon’s enigmatic embrace, Vikram, the Chandrayaan-3 soft-landed on Moon to propel India into an elite club of nations. It is now the first to land a probe in the polar region of the Moon and only the fourth country to land anywhere…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said India supports the expansion of Brics (Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa) to include new nations and is ready to move forward on the issue with consensus. “We must make our societies future-ready to make Brics future-ready,” PM Modi said at the five-nation summit.Speaking at the plenary session, PM Modi…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday showed respect to the tricolour during the Brics summit in South Africa’s Johannesburg.In a short clip from the summit, PM Modi can be seen ascending to a stage with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.To denote the standing position, each leader’s place was marked with the country’s flag.On…
NEW DELHI: Timely action by pilots of two Vistaraflights — one about to take off for Bagdogra and other which had just landed from Ahmedabad — at Delhi Airport on Wednesday morning prevented a potential collision and saved hundreds of lives of people on board both the planes. Delhi air traffic control (ATC) asked crew…
NEW DELHI: CBI The CBI on Friday said it has registered six FIRs and constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe whether there was a conspiracy behind the recent violent clashes in Manipur. The SIT will be led by a DIG-rank officer, said officials.The move comes a day after the Manipur government had recommended…
NEW DELHI: A war of words has erupted between the Congress and the BJP over the Karnataka government’s proposal to undo all changes made to school textbooks when the BJP was in power. The proposal includes removing a chapter on Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) founder Keshav Baliram Hedgewar. Karnataka primary and secondary education minister Madhu…
NEW DELHI: Embarrassed by the “arbitrary” and “irrational” cuts in NCERT textbooks, Suhas Palshikar and Yogendra Yadav, who were chief advisors for the original Political Science books for classes 9 to 12 — published in 2006-07, have written to NCERT saying the rationalisation exercise has “mutilated” the books and rendered them “academically dysfunctional”. The duo…
Artificial Intelligence Regulation NEW DELHI: The Centre’s approach to any regulation of Artificial Intelligence will be through the prism of “user harm or derived user harm through any technology”, said Union IT minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar on Friday. During a press briefing where the IT minister gave a presentation on how far India has travelled in…
NEW DELHI: The potential of Artificial Intelligence in enhancing India’s tech ecosystem is vast, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday after meeting OpenAI Chief Executive Officer Sam Altman. “Thank you for the insightful conversation @sama. The potential of AI in enhancing India’s tech ecosystem is indeed vast and that too among the youth in…
NEW DELHI: Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman‘s daughter Parakala Vangmayi tied the knot in a low-key ceremony at her home in Karnataka, on Wednesday. The intimate wedding took place at a serene resort on the outskirts of Bengaluru, where the couple exchanged marital vows in accordance with the Brahmin traditions.Later, the couple received blessings from…