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NEW DELHI: For a decade, Prashant Kishor has been India’s undisputed master craftsman of elections, the strategist who could bend narratives, stitch coalitions and turn sentiment into seats to deliver wins for major politicians. The 2025 Bihar assembly polls, however, delivered a jolt: Kishor, despite months of padyatras, booth-level outreach and the full weight of...

Disney has secured a licensing partnership with OpenAI, which includes a $1 billion investment and access to Disney’s iconic characters. Company CEO Bob Iger stated the deal is designed to help the 102-year-old entertainment giant into new media and harness AI to attract younger audiences for engagement. However, this is in contrast to Disney’s legal...

NEW DELHI: Amid the ongoing concerns over the exponential rise in airfares due to the IndiGo crisis, aviation minister Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu on Friday said that the prices of flight tickets are on par with the rest of the world and that the government has taken steps to bring down prices during extraordinary times.While...

Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman reveals his working-class London upbringing shaped his tech vision. The DeepMind co-founder, whose Syrian taxi driver father and nurse mother urged him to learn a trade, lived independently from age 16 before dropping out of Oxford to help Muslim youth post-9/11. Now he champions AI for social good and universal...

NEW DELHI: Karnataka Congress MLA Iqbal Hussain on Friday claimed that deputy chief minister D K Shivakumar will become chief minister after the ongoing winter session of the state legislature, adding fuel to speculation over a possible leadership change within the ruling party.Speaking to reporters, the Ramanagara MLA confirmed that he attended a late-night dinner...

Free chess reaches rural India (Special arrangements) NEW DELHI: The queen was not always the strongest piece in chess. From the inception of “Chaturanga” in India in the 6th century, and through its long journey across the Middle East before reaching Europe in the 15th century, the piece we now call the queen served only...

File photo Rivaba Jadeja, wife of Indian men’s cricket team all-rounder Ravindra Jadeja, has triggered debate by claiming that some cricketers take part in various vices during overseas tours, while stating that her husband has never been involved in such activities.Rivaba, while speaking in Gujarati in an event, referred to what she called the lesser-known...

Google unveils Disco, an experimental browser that transforms browsing activity into custom web applications using its Gemini 3 AI. This approach, powered by GenTabs, directly challenges AI browsers like OpenAI’s Atlas by building apps rather than just adding chatbots. Disco aims to redefine browser functionality with AI at its core, offering a glimpse into the...

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday observed, “there is something wrong going on in the high court,” as it rejected the Tamil Nadu government’s plea to modify its earlier order suspending a one-man inquiry commission and the SIT probe into the Karur stampede, which claimed 41 lives. The bench of Justices JK Maheswari and...