PUNE: The Congress has withdrawn its candidate from the Baramati by-election, just hours before the deadline for withdrawal of nominations, in a move that could reshape the contest in the constituency. Despite the Congress exit, more than 30 Independent candidates remain in the fray, prompting efforts by the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) to persuade them…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has defended its strategy of backing competing artificial intelligence firms, with CEO Matt Garman saying the cloud giant is well-versed in managing such conflicts as it deepens investments in both OpenAI and Anthropic. Speaking at the HumanX conference in San Francisco, Garman said Amazon’s recent $50 billion investment in OpenAI —…
Driving the newsBillionaire investor Ray Dalio says the world has already slipped into a sprawling, multi-front war – one that resembles the early stages of past global conflicts but lacks a formal start date.Writing in his Principled Perspectives Substack, Dalio argues the ongoing US-Israel-Iran conflict is not an isolated crisis but part of a much…
Less than 24 hours after a ceasefire between the United States and Iran was announced, confusion and conflicting claims over its scope have cast doubt on the agreement, with Pakistan’s role as mediator emerging at the centre of the controversy. While Washington has maintained that the truce is limited to Iran and does not extend…
Nine-judge constitution bench hears review pleas. (PTI photo) NEW DELHI: The Centre on Thursday supported restrictions on the entry of women of menstruating age into Kerala’s Sabarimala temple, arguing before the Supreme Court that the 2018 verdict lifting the ban was based on an assumption of men being superor to women.A nine-judge Constitution bench, led…
Meta launched its first AI model from Meta Superintelligence Labs under Alexandr Wang. Called the Muse Spark, the AI model powers the Meta AI assistant in the Meta AI app and meta.ai. Hours after the launch, some users criticized the new Meta AI model. One such user François Chollet @fchollet shared a post on X…
Ranveer Singh’s adventurous sequel, ‘Dhurandhar: The Revenge,’ has taken the Indian box office by storm, grossing an astonishing ₹1041 crore! For those who want to enjoy the thrill from the comfort of their homes, mark your calendars for its OTT debut on JioHotstar, set to launch soon after IPL 2026 wraps up, around late May…
State elections 2026 top developments: BJP eyes third term in Assam, NDA-INDIA face-off in Puducherry and a three-way contest in Kerala NEW DELHI: Voting began across Kerala, Assam and Puducherry on Thursday, with early turnout figures till 9 am indicating steady participation. According to the Election Commission of India, Kerala recorded 16.23% turnout, Assam 17.87%,…
As US President Donald Trump edged closer to his self-imposed 48-hour deadline for possible military action against Iran, an unusual social media post by Pakistan prime minister Shehbaz Sharif, briefly uploaded as a “draft”, raised questions over whether Washington used Islamabad to signal an off-ramp before announcing a ceasefire. According to The New York Times,…
Disney is preparing to cut as many as 1,000 jobs in the coming weeks, marking one of the first significant actions under the new CEO Josh D’Amaro, according to a Wall Street Journal report. The layoffs will mainly affect the company’s marketing department, which was recently consolidated as part of a broader cost-cutting effort. As…