For the first time, The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has said that it transmited a hip-hop song to deep space. As per NASA, on July 12, an inspirational message from Missy Elliott along with lyrics from āThe Rain (Supa Dupa Fly),” a single on her platinum-record debut album, traveled about 158 million miles…
For years now, the Union budget has focused on making India a developed nationāviksit Bharat. However, it’s time to add yet another angle to this exercise: a concerted effort to help build a class of viksit investors. To achieve this, the budget needs to adopt a carrot-and-stick approach. The carrot: Encouraging long-term investments Letās start…
As of 2022-23, India had 324,000 hectares under turmeric cultivation, producing 1.16 million tonnes, which accounted for over 75% of its global production.Ā While in the past turmeric was primarily used in food, dyes and traditional medicine, and for religious purposes, with the development of newer avenues like its use in nutraceutical industries, demand for…
Brian Lara has named a former cricket player who, he thinks, was more talented than Sachin Tendulkar and even himself. Itās his former captain: Carl Hooper. āCarl was easily one of the best players I’ve ever seen. I would say that not even Tendulkar and myself would come close to that talent,ā Lara wrote in…
Both the US Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission have initiated a number of high profile antitrust lawsuits against Big Tech companies. Europe has already enacted two significant legislationsāthe Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Actāand has, if anything, further ramped up its enforcement actions against Big Tech. While India is undoubtedly late…
The most peculiar wedding I’ve attended (obviously for work) was of a male movie star, with multiple generations in Mumbai showbiz, which explained his Bollywood guests. He was, however, getting married into a family of bureaucrats (if I’m not mistaken). Upon entering the five-star venue then, I was hit by a surreal pandemonium among the bride’s…
CUET UG 2024: The National Testing Agency (NTA) has released the admit card for the CUET UG 2024 re-exam scheduled to be held on July 19. Candidates can download the admit card by visiting exams.nta.ac.in/CUET-UG/. On July 15, the NTA announced that it would conduct a re-test for over 1,000 candidates on July 19. The…
Relations between India and Nepal have dipped severely since 2015 when Narendra Modi and Khadga Prasad Oli were both Prime Ministers. There is now opportunity to upgrade the relationship to āpositiveā and āstableā with Mr. Modi having reclaimed the top post a third time and as Mr. Oli too comes out on top, in a…
The Manpada police in Dombivli have arrested three persons in a cyber fraud case to the tune of Rs 72 lakh. Two were held in Delhi while the other was held in Goa. The three were traced through the bank accounts that two of them were using to make fraudulent transactions. In this instance, a…
As India has largest amount of data and largest IT services industry in the world, the country can do to artificial intelligence (AI) what China did to manufacturing, said Ola founder and chief executive officer (CEO) Bhavish Aggarwal on Sunday. In a post on social media platform X (formerly twitter), Bhavish Aggarwal said: āIndia has:…
