DEHRADUN: A historic chapter was added to the rich legacy of the Indian Military Academy (IMA) as the 93-year-old military institute witnessed the first batch of nine women officer cadets (OC) getting commissioned as Army officers at the Passing out Parade (POP) of the 158th regular course and the 141st technical graduate course in the…
Aldon Smith Dead at 36 (Getty Images) The NFL lost one of its most electrifying defensive players on Saturday night. The San Francisco 49ers confirmed the death of former outside linebacker Aldon Smith, who was just 36 years old. No cause of death has been released. Smith burst onto the scene in 2011 as one…
NEW DELHI: Two days after a fire tore through a five-storey residential building in southeast Delhi’s Tughlakabad Extension, killing three people and injuring eight others, police said that the blaze was a deliberate act of arson and have nabbed four persons, including a 17-year-old girl.The fire broke out around 2.24am on June 12 at a…
The controversy around MBBS student Sejal Pawar and comedian Pranit More’s crowd-work show doesn’t seem to be dying down anytime soon.What started as a viral clip from a comedy show has now sparked conversations across medical circles, social media and even student organisations. And now, the president of the All India Medical Students’ Association (AIMSA)…
Meta’s Chief AI Officer Alexandr Wang has admitted that the company’s open-source AI playbook no longer fits its frontier models, with Muse Spark kept proprietary after early training flagged bio risk and other safety concerns. Wang says rival AI labs are seeing the same risks scale up. Meanwhile, Meta is testing subscriptions on Instagram, Facebook,…
BENGALURU: Actor and activist Prakash Raj is set to participate in a protest organised by the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) at Bengaluru’s Freedom Park on Sunday as part of a nationwide campaign demanding the resignation of Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan over alleged failures in the education sector.The protest comes amid allegations of multiple examination…
Mamata Banerjee (L), Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar (C), Dr Baidyanath Ghosh Dastidar (R) KOLKATA: Amid the ongoing split in the Trinamool Congress (TMC), Dr Baidyanath Ghosh Dastidar, son of rebel TMC MP Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar, has issued a legal notice to former West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and several party leaders. He has denied allegations…
A 21-year-old woman died in Limeira, Brazil, after being launched from a height of approximately 40 meters during a bungee jump activity without being connected to the safety rope, according to military police and witness accounts.Maria Eduarda Rodrigues de Freitas, a physical education and sports management graduate, died at the scene at the so-called “Ponte…
Ayodhya Ram Temple donations under SIT investigation now LUCKNOW: Acting on the direction of chief minister Yogi Adityanath, the Uttar Pradesh govt on Saturday constituted a three-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the allegations of embezzlement of donations at the Ram Temple in Ayodhya.The move follows a formal request by the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi…
Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu has reacted to the US government’s decision to restrict access to Anthropic’s advanced AI models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5, saying Indian organizations should focus on open-source alternatives instead of relying on foreign companies. Sharing a post on X (formerly Twitter), Sridhar Vembu said the move shows how technology has become…