AI generated image NEW DELHI: The Central Consumer Protection Authority (CCPA) has imposed a Rs 50,000 penalty on tea cafe chain Chaayos for automatically adding a service charge to customers’ bills, ruling that restaurants cannot force consumers to pay what is meant to be a voluntary tip.In an order dated July 14, the consumer watchdog...
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Elon Musk orders Tesla shift to xAI’s Grok; engineers asked to email feedback
Elon Musk’s memo to Tesla staff came after the EV maker set a $200 weekly limit on employee’s AI spending Elon Musk told Tesla staff to start using Grok, the AI model from SpaceXAI. According to a report by The Information, Musk sent a memo to employees on July 10 telling them to switch to...
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Trisha joins fans in Chennai to watch Vijay’s final film Jana Nayagan, watch
4 min readHyderabadJul 23, 2026 04:09 PM IST Trisha Krishnan watched the first day first show of Jana Nayagan at a Chennai theatre on Thursday, joining regular audiences for what is the final screen appearance of Vijay, who is now the sitting Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu. Her presence at the screening, 21 years after...
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‘Talk without condition such as resignation’: Govt to oppn leaders over NEET debate
NEW DELHI: The government is reaching out to the opposition leaders to break the deadlock in Parliament over the NEET paper leak issue, government sources told news agency ANI on Thursday. This is a fresh effort from the government’s side to end the repeated disruptions that have stalled proceedings through the first week of the...
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‘Virtual magnet’ claims reveal why EVs need their rare-earth magnets
There have been a number of news reports recently about a startup in Bengaluru called Vimag Labs that has reportedly replaced rare-earth magnets in motors with so-called “virtual” magnets. One such report quoted Manish Seth, the start-up’s CEO, as saying: “We remove permanent magnets, replace them with copper coils, and then through software, we generate...
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Water cannon, tug of war and a stolen gate: Patna NEET protest goes viral
Protest visuals from Patna NEW DELHI: Students protesting the NEET paper leak in Patna turned a tense demonstration into a viral moment, when they asked police to use water cannons because of the heat, and then danced as officers sprayed them.The protest, organised by the All India Students’ Association, an affiliate of CPI(ML) Liberation, demanded...
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Meet Evan Budz: Canadian teen builds AI turtle to detect environmental threats
At just 16 years old, Canadian student Evan Budz has developed an autonomous AI-powered robot turtle that could help scientists tackle one of the world’s fastest-growing environmental problems: microplastic pollution. Inspired by the graceful swimming of a snapping turtle he encountered during a family camping trip, Budz spent nearly 4,000 hours designing and refining a...
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Indian judoka Arun Kumar withdrawn from 2026 CWG after failing dope test
Arun Kumar India’s Commonwealth Games contingent has suffered a setback on the day of the Glasgow 2026 opening ceremony, with judoka Arun Kumar withdrawn from the competition after failing a dope test.The rising 73kg judoka was declared ineligible following an adverse analytical finding in an out-of-competition test conducted by the National Anti-Doping Agency (NADA). His...
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‘Sent 4 formal proposals’: MoS Jitendra Singh invites protesters for talks at JP Nadda’s place
Centre invites CJP for talks NEW DELHI: Union minister Jitendra Singh on Thursday invited the protesters against NEET paper leak for talks at JP Nadda’s place on the central government’s behalf. This comes after the talk on Monday with the Cockroach Janta Party’s spokespersons failed to bear any results.“The govt has sent four formal proposals...
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Jana Nayagan first day-first show review: Vijay’s farewell film is more than a blockbuster
Tamil superstar films have never really been about plots. They are carefully orchestrated public festivals where cinema merely provides the excuse. The screenplay is often only the rope holding together fireworks, punchy dialogues, songs, nostalgia and collective emotion. Jana Nayagan understands that better than most. The audience inside a packed Chennai theatre on Friday morning...
