Vaaree founders (L-R) Pranav Arora, Varun Vohra and Garima Luthra BENGALURU: Bengaluru-based home décor startup Vaaree has raised $4.6 million in a pre-Series A round led by PeerCapital, with participation from other existing investors Surge (Peak XV’s accelerator programme) and All In Capital. New investors Sattva Ventures and the Asian Paints family office also participated…
US President Donald Trump’s fight with elite American universities was only a few days old when federal immigration agents arrested the Palestinian student activist Mahmoud Khalil at his Columbia University apartment building in New York in March. Over the more than three months he was held at a jail for immigrants in rural Louisiana, the…
Mumbai: State Bank of India (SBI) is set to undergo a digital transformation in FY26, led by the launch of a revamped Yono platform. Dubbed ‘Only Yono’, the new app will feature hyper-personalised user journeys and have biometric logins and multilingual support. The bank is also expanding paperless account opening through video KYC for sole…
NEW DELHI: India on Monday strongly rejected “unwarranted and factually incorrect references” made about the country during the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Council of foreign ministers’ meeting.“These statements, driven by Pakistan, which has turned terrorism into statecraft, reflect the continued misuse of the OIC platform for narrow political ends,” the ministry of external affairs…
This is an AI-generated image, used for representational purposes only. In a concerted push to tackle the rising wave of digital payment frauds, major public and private sector banks are collaborating with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to develop a Digital Payment Intelligence Platform (DPIP), a new Digital Public Infrastructure aimed at enhancing fraud…
Indian fashion e-commerce giant Myntra has set its sights on international expansion, beginning with Singapore, where it launched its Myntra Global platform last month to cater to the growing Indian diaspora.Nandita Sinha, CEO of the Bengaluru-based company, said the move marks the beginning of a long-term global ambition. “With the launch of Myntra Global in…
NEW DELHI: MakeMyTrip on Wednesday said it reported a decline in travel demand to both Turkey and Azerbaijan, amid rising calls on social media to boycott the two nations. The platform revealed that bookings have plunged by 60% over the past week, while cancellations have soared by 250%. “Indian travellers have expressed strong sentiments over…
Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) successfully carried out the maiden flight of its Stratospheric Airship Platform from its trial site in Sheopur, Madhya Pradesh on Saturday. This marks a notable moment in India’s aerial surveillance technology. The platform developed by the Aerial Delivery Research and Development Establishment (ADRDE), based in Agra, carried a payload…
NEET UG 2025: The National Testing Agency (NTA) has launched a platform to report suspicious activities related to the upcoming NEET UG 2025 exam. The move comes as part of the agency’s efforts to combat unfair practices such as unauthorized access to exam papers, impersonation, and misleading claims made by fraudulent individuals and websites. This…
Elon Musk said on Friday that his xAI has acquired X, the social media app formerly known as Twitter, in an all-stock transaction for USD 45 billion, including USD 12 billion debt. “xAI and X’s futures are intertwined. Today, we officially take the step to combine the data, models, compute, distribution and talent,” Musk said…