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The RBI has recently floated a tender to procure material for polymer banknotes. Soon you may be using plastic or polymer currency notes! The government has authorised the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to print an initial batch of 2 billion polymer banknotes for field trials, the government informed Parliament on Monday.The RBI has recently...

Delhi police wrote to X seeking removal of ‘abusive’ posts about Constitutional hads NEW DELHI: Delhi Police on Wednesday wrote to social media platform X, formerly Twitter, seeking the removal of content allegedly containing “derogatory, malicious and defamatory content” targeting constitutional authorities.In its notice, the police asked the platform to “immediately delete/remove” the alleged post...

Yash Thakur (BCCI Photo) NEW DELHI: Zimbabwe has become India’s preferred destination to bring in young talent. Just like in 2024, when Abhishek Sharma, Dhruv Jurel, Riyan Parag, Sai Sudharsan and Tushar Deshpande received their maiden India caps, this year’s tour also saw Ashok Sharma and Yash Thakur make their T20I debuts. The series also...

Right-wing commentator TG Mohandas booked over ‘girls enjoy being raped’ remarks in YouTube video THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala Police’s cyber Crime wing on Wednesday registered a case against right-wing political commentator TG Mohandas over remarks he allegedly made in a YouTube video about the students’ protest in Delhi over the alleged NEET paper leak.According to the First...

With a market valuation of nearly $5 trillion, chipmaker Nvidia sits at the centre of global trade. The company that sells GPUs to hyperscalers like Microsoft and Amazon, who then rent the Nvidia-powered compute to startups like OpenAI and Anthropic. Nvidia has also made direct investments in many of those startups giving it exposure to...

Former India men’s team masseur Rajeev Kumar with Virat Kohli and Rohit Sharma after India won the 2024 T20 World Cup. (Special Arrangement) New Delhi: In 2002, when Rajeev Kumar arrived in Delhi, his only goal was to earn a stable income. Armed with a diploma in massage therapy from Jodhpur University, he took up...

US-Saudi hit Iran-linked entities in Iraq; Tehran hits US bases, ships in Hormuz The war in the Middle East escalated once again after couple of days of fragile peace as the United States and Saudi Arabia launched joint strikes on Iran-backed armed groups in Iraq on Wednesday. Meanwhile, Iran claimed to have intercepted oil tankers...

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi (AFP Photo) Former India spinner Ravichandran Ashwin has cleared the air over his “serve drinks” remark about young batter Vaibhav Sooryavanshi. Ashwin said the comment was not made in a negative way and his intention was to highlight the importance of learning for the 15-year-old by spending time around the team. Ashwin clears...

India could face 100% if Russia Sanctions Bill becomes a law The US Senate on Tuesday overwhelmingly advanced a bipartisan bill that would give President Donald Trump sweeping powers to impose new sanctions on Russia and penalise major buyers of its energy exports, including India and China.The legislation would allow the president to impose a...

Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman Microsoft’s AI chief, Mustafa Suleyman, has dubbed a recent cyber incident involving a ‘runaway’ OpenAI agent as a major “warning shot” for the tech industry, emphasising the growing risks posed by autonomous artificial intelligence (AI). The Microsoft executive’s comments follow OpenAI’s recent admission that one of its autonomous AI agents...