NEW DELHI: After a year marked by an early and sharp rise in flu cases in several countries, India is set to update its seasonal influenza vaccine to deal with a fast-spreading new strain, reports Anuja Jaiswal.The WHO has issued its annual recommendations for the 2026–27 northern hemisphere flu season, based on global surveillance data…
The Government of West Bengal recently signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with German federal enterprise GIZ, and the State Mission for Clean Ganga (SMCG), to undertake the development of the Ichhamati and Jalangi river basins. Located in the upper Ganga delta within the state, both river basins are currently threatened due to several reasons. The river systems are vital transboundary waterways in the state of West…
Construction laborers work on a high rise building in Kolkata on July 23, 2024. Dibyangshu Sarkar | Afp | Getty Images India’s economy grew at a faster pace than expected of 7.8% in the quarter ending December. A Reuters poll of economists had pegged the October-December gross domestic product to grow at 7.2%. The latest…
President Donald Trump walks past Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, Associate Justice Elena Kagan, Associate Justice Brent Kavanaugh and Associate Justice Mary Coney Barrett as he arrives for the State of the Union address during a Joint Session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 24, 2026, in Washington, D.C. Win Mcnamee |…
Digital News Publishers Association (DNPA) chairperson and Manorama Online CEO Mariam Mammen Mathew on Thursday opened the DNPA conclave and said that artificial intelligence and rapid shifts in the digital ecosystem are fundamentally reshaping how news is created, distributed, discovered and monetised.Speaking at the Third Annual Storyboard18 DNPA Conclave 2025 on the theme, “Transformation of…
Big picture – Eye on India’s batters One bad day is more than enough to send you home, if it’s bad enough. India and Zimbabwe have begun their Super Eight campaigns at this T20 World Cup with days of acute badness. Look at their net run rates and weep. The players and coaching staff won’t…
NEW DELHI: Delhi Police have arrested Indian Youth Congress (IYC) National President Uday Bhanu Chib in connection with a protest staged at Bharat Mandapam on Feb 20.Sources said Chib was questioned on Monday before being formally arrested. With his arrest, the total number of people held in the case has risen to eight.On Monday, three…
Yoshua Bengio, like many participants of India’s AI impact Summit, was running late. By 6 p.m., the New Delhi roads were too gridlocked for the deep learning pioneer, known as one of the “godfathers” of AI, to successfully make it to an event discussing the International AI Safety report he chaired. Instead, he delivered his…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman on Friday defended the resource demands of artificial intelligence, calling concerns about data centers’ water use “fake” and comparing the energy used by AI systems to that of humans. Altman was speaking on the sidelines of the India AI Impact summit in an interview with The Indian Express when he was…
Global betwork concept using maps from NASA. Fotograzia | Moment | Getty Images As competition with China intensifies, Washington is turning to a cornerstone of American soft power and diplomacy to expand its global influence in artificial intelligence: the Peace Corps. The White House on Friday announced the “Tech Corps” initiative within the Peace Corps aimed…