NEW DELHI: External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar will lead the Indian delegation at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) Summit in Astana (Kazakhstan) to be held on 3-4 July, it was officially announced here on Friday. At a media briefing here, MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal also indicated that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Moscow for […]
NEW DELHI: Using artificial intelligence (AI), Google on Thursday announced to add 110 new languages to Google Translate, including Cantonese, NKo and Tamazight. These new languages represent more than 614 million speakers, opening up translations for around 8 per cent of the world’s population. “Some are major world languages with over 100 million speakers. Others […]
NEW DELHI: All 17,500 police stations in the country will hold a special event on July 1 involving women, youth, students, senior citizens and eminent personalities to apprise them the key features of the new criminal laws, which will come into force on that day, official sources said. The new laws — Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita […]
NEW DELHI: Asserting the INDIA bloc wants a constructive debate on the NEET issue, Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Friday said it is unfortunate that they were not allowed to raise it in the Parliament. In a video message shared from his ‘X’ handle, Gandhi urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to […]
Ranchi: Former Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren on Friday claimed that he was falsely implicated in a money laundering case and was forced to spend about five months in jail. In a veiled attack on the BJP, the executive president of Jharkhand’s ruling JMM said he was concerned about how the voice of political leaders, […]
MUMBAI: A case has been registered against a 38-year-old man after he smoked inside the lavatory of a Mumbai-bound flight from Delhi, police said on Friday. The incident took place on Wednesday evening on an IndiGo flight from the country’s national capital to the financial capital, the official said. The flight, carrying 176 passengers, took […]
NEW DELHI: The digital lending market in India grew at 33 per cent Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) from FY19 till FY23 — reaching Rs 2,905 thousand crore in FY23 from Rs 913 thousand crore in FY19, a report showed. In the same time period, digital transactions surged by 44 per cent (year-on-year) — from […]
MOKOPANE: Researchers in South Africa have injected radioactive material into the horns of 20 rhinos as part of a research project aimed at reducing poaching. The idea is that radiation detectors already in place at national borders would detect the horns and help authorities arrest poachers and traffickers. The research, which has included the participation […]
NEW DELHI: Team India showcased its dominance with a commanding performance to storm into the T20 World Cup final, crushing England by 68 runs in the semi-final on Thursday. India asserted their dominance from the outset in the match, which also saw rain-related interruptions. Skipper Rohit Sharma led the charge, whose aggressive 57 off 39 […]
NEW DELHI: India women’s team’s swashbuckling opening batter Shafali Verma starred on the first day of the one-off Test against South Africa in Chennai by slamming the fastest double century in the history of women’s Test cricket. The 20-year-old Shafali scored the double ton off just 194 balls, surpassing Australia’s Annabel Sutherland’s previous record of […]