PM Modi met Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla in New Delhi on Monday. (ANI) NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday met Group Captain Shubhanshu Shukla, who returned to Earth in July after completing NASA’s Axiom-4 mission, becoming the first Indian in four decades to travel to space. During their interaction, Shukla shared that people…
Marc Andreessen’s journey from UIUC to Netscape and the future of computing. (Getty Images) Marc Andreessen recently predicted that a revolutionary device will emerge to make smartphones feel “old and primitive,” signalling the next transformation in consumer technology. Speaking on the TBNP podcast, the venture capitalist suggested that eye-based, voice-operated, or environmental computing interfaces may…
new video loaded: War Shattered His Face. Technology Helped Reconstruct It. By Marc Santora, Nikolay Nikolov, Daria Mitiuk and Laetitia Vançon•August 6, 2025 Volodymyr is a Ukrainian marksman whose face was shattered by a Russian bomb in 2023. After multiple surgeries and titanium implants, he has returned to active duty near the closest point of…
Addressing critics of India’s Russian oil imports, Puri noted that certain commentators make unwarranted criticisms of Indian policies. (AI image) India’s ongoing crude oil imports from Russia have contributed to global energy price stability, according to Petroleum and Natural Gas Minister Hardeep Puri. He has said that discontinuing Russian oil trade would have caused crude…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said initiatives undertaken during the last 11 years of his tenure have increased the prosperity of farmers and ensured an overall transformation of the farm sector, and promised that his govt’s efforts towards farmer welfare will continue with “greater vigour” in the times to come.Ahead of 11th…
United States President Donald Trump on Thursday reiterated his claim that he helped broker a ceasefire between India and Pakistan, after he urged both the nuclear-armed neighbours to focus on trade instead of war. “I don’t want to say I did, but I surely helped settle the problem between India and Pakistan last week, which…
NEW DELHI: Fifteen local Kashmiri overground workers (OGWs) and terror aides have been identified, based on electronic surveillance, as the key suspects who may have facilitated the Pakistani assailants behind the Pahalgam carnage. They are believed to have arranged logistics and, possibly, also received arms consignments from Pakistan.Sources said the multi-agency probe has zeroed in…
The quest to create an A.I. therapist has not been without setbacks or, as researchers at Dartmouth thoughtfully describe them, “dramatic failures.” Their first chatbot therapist wallowed in despair and expressed its own suicidal thoughts. A second model seemed to amplify all the worst tropes of psychotherapy, invariably blaming the user’s problems on her parents….
SS chief Mohan Bhagwat (File Image/PTI) KANPUR: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat praised Ambedkar’s lifelong mission to eradicate social inequality, describing his efforts as a force that helped awaken Hindu society, reports Faiz Siddiqui. “If RSS is seen as a catalyst, then Ambedkar’s efforts were also catalytic. While RSS acted as an initiator that turned the…
Pete Marocco, who worked with Elon Musk’s team to oversee the gutting of foreign aid and the dismantling of the main U.S. aid agency, has left the State Department, administration officials said on Monday. The abrupt departure comes in the middle of the department’s efforts to merge the remnants of that aid group, the U.S….