Spread the love The Obaid Siddiqi Lectures, a series of annual lectures delivered by the Obaid Siddiqi Chair in the History and Culture of Science at the Archives at NCBS, will be held in the city this week. The lectures will be delivered by Dr. Samira Sheikh, a historian of South Asia and Associate Professor of History at Vanderbilt University,...
‘Username feature facilitates cybercrime’: Centre on IT notices to WhatsApp, Telegram & Signal
Spread the love Centre gives statement over notices to WhatsApp, Signal and Telegram NEW DELHI: The government has sought an explanation from WhatsApp over its username feature, with the IT Secretary warning it could facilitate cybercrime by enabling impersonation and identity spoofing.“We have taken up the issue of using usernames because there is a serious possibility of impersonations and there...
‘Ireland hangover’: Karthik on Shreyas Iyer’s toss decision vs England
Spread the love Harry Brook and Shreyas Iyer (BCCI Photo) NEW DELHI: India’s decision to bat first in the opening T20I against England surprised many. With overcast skies and rain around, most teams would have preferred to bowl first after winning the toss at the Riverside Ground in Chester-le-Street on Wednesday.However, India captain Shreyas Iyer chose to bat, and former...
Can Europe survive without the US? Inside its $900 billion-military overhaul, defence reset
Spread the love This image is used for reperesentation purpose only (AI-generated) For decades after the Cold War, much of Europe relied on the United States as the cornerstone of its security while steadily reducing military spending.That era is now ending.The continent is embarking on its biggest military build-up in generations, with Nato allies committing to raise defence spending to...
102 missed alerts, failed anti-drone system: US report on 2024 Trump shooting
Spread the love File photo of Donald Trump injured while campaigning for US elections The US Secret Service failed to receive 102 local police radio transmissions about the gunman who attempted to assassinate US President Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July 2024. It did not establish a joint communications room with local law enforcement, according...
After Dell’s $6.25 bn Trump Accounts donation, chip giant Micron gifts millions
Spread the love Micron Technology is putting $250 million into Trump Accounts, the government’s new savings scheme for American children, days before the program opens for contributions on July 4. President Donald Trump called it the “biggest corporate investment of its kind,” praising CEO Sanjay Mehrotra on Truth Social for a move he says will make “millions of children extremely...
Six sluggish months later, ISRO looks to reset with satellite launches
Spread the love There is nothing to write home about the Indian Space Research Organisation’s (ISRO) performance in the first half of 2026, with just one launch in January, the PSLV-C62 mission/EOS-N1 mission that ended in a failure. However, on the positive side, the anomaly in the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) seems to have been resolved with the space agency...
IRGC heavyweight resurfaces as Iran prepares days of mourning for Khamenei
Spread the love Iranian media releases image of Gen Ahmad Vahidi sitting alongside Khamenei’s casket in a mourning hall (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP) General Ahmad Vahidi, a senior commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), has reappeared in public in Tehran ahead of the state funeral for former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, marking his...
Why OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon & now Microsoft is sending employees to customers’ offices
Spread the love Big Tech has found a new obsession, and it isn’t another chatbot. Over the past few months, five of the world’s most powerful technology companies have quietly reached the same conclusion: selling AI software isn’t enough anymore. Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic have all announced plans to physically send thousands of their own engineers into client...
Vikram-1 launch will be great boost for India’s private space sector: Skyroot Aerospace co-founder & CEO Pawan Kumar Chandana
Spread the love Pawan Kumar Chandana, co-founder & CEO of Skyroot Aerospace, spoke to The Hindu after the Hyderabad-based private space launch company announced the launch window for Vikram-1’s first test flight named Mission Aagaman from July 12 to August 4, 2026. The Vikram-1 launch vehicle is India’s first privately developed orbital-class rocket designed to carry small satellites weighing up to...
