Saudi Arabia has rolled out fresh travel curbs, halting certain visas for folks from 14 countries, including India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, as part of a push to manage crowds during the Hajj pilgrimage. According to various news outlets, the restriction, aimed at easing congestion tied to the massive religious event, will stick around until mid-June, […]
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The insiders have revealed that Japan is entering India’s semiconductor dream with full vigour, second only to none. It has possibly left behind the South Koreans and Taiwanese as India begins to build the entire edifice of chip-making from scratch. Long-time players in India, Japanese companies quickly recognised the potential of sending in equipment of
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Deeptech is set to be a game-changer for India, especially in fields like artificial intelligence (AI), mobility, battery storage, and green hydrogen, according to Amitabh Kant, ex-CEO of NITI Aayog, the government’s think tank. He believes Indian startups have a golden shot at leading the charge in these areas. “Years from now, when people look
At first peek, it looked like Indianis Dentris, a dazzling new flower species, with folks at Mumbai’s famous Botanical Garden and Zoo oohing and aahing over crisp macro shots. But squint again, and nope, it wasn’t a bloom. It was a super close-up of a worn-out toothbrush. So, what’s the trick? Colgate cooked up this
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This year, the engineering arena buzzed earlier when DeepSeek, a Chinese startup, released its thrifty R1 language model. Built with chips that are not so flashy and fancy, it can still make good against the expensive monsters thrown up by US firms. And people wonder: why wouldn’t a country like India, so full of tech
New Delhi: On Thursday, India rallied the BRICS countries, now a group of 11 nations, to back the ‘Baku to Belem Roadmap,’ a plan to drum up $1.3 trillion yearly by 2035 to tackle climate goals. What started with Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa has grown into a bigger crew, working together on
As the world braces for US President Donald Trump’s “Liberation Day” reciprocal tariffs announcement on April 2, Samir Arora, the brains behind Helios Capital, is waving a different warning flag for Indian markets. He’s not sweating the direct US tariffs on India as much as what a wobbly US economy could mean for us. Arora’s
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NASA’s newest eye in the sky is officially up and running, and it’s already wowing us with its first peeks at the universe. The SPHEREx observatory, which blasted off on March 11, has snapped its initial images from space, proving it’s ready to tackle the big questions. This telescope is gearing up to map hundreds
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In the first three months of 2025, Private Equity and Venture Capital (PE-VC) firms poured about $1,108 million into 14 Tamil Nadu-based companies—a massive leap from last year’s stretch. Venture Intelligence, a research group tracking private company finances and deals, shared the numbers. In early 2024, Tamil Nadu snagged just $53 million across nine deals.
ISRO recently shared stunning images from its CARTOSAT-3 satellite, revealing the aftermath of a powerful earthquake that rocked Myanmar on March 28. These earth-mapping shots snapped on March 29 over Mandalay and Sagaing paint a vivid picture of the destruction left behind. Myanmar Quake: Satellite Pics Unveil Widespread Ruin Source : ISRO For a before-and-after
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