Lucknow: The promise of basic sanitation and hygiene at Lucknow University remains unfulfilled, with essential amenities neglected across the campus, particularly in washrooms. Coincidentally, the World Toilet Day was observed on Nov 19. A reality check by TOI across several departments revealed that women’s washrooms have deteriorated to what students describe as ‘unusable.’ Filthy floors,…
Lucknow: Children suffering from serious bone cancers will now receive complete treatment — from chemotherapy to complex limb-saving surgeries — at the paediatric orthopaedics department of King George’s Medical University. Until now the department only handled benign (non-cancerous) bone tumours in children below 18 years, and those diagnosed with life-threatening malignant tumours were referred to…
BENGALURU: Luma AI has raised $900 million in Series C funding led by HUMAIN, the Public Investment Fund-backed AI company developing one of the world’s largest compute clusters, as the Palo Alto startup accelerates its effort to build multimodal artificial general intelligence capable of understanding and simulating the physical world.The round, also backed by AMD…
Lucknow: UP minister Baby Rani Maurya inaugurated the Parent–Anganwadi Conference (ECCE Day) at the Ramchaura Anganwadi Centre in Sarojini Nagar Block. Anganwadi workers and parents of enrolled children participated in the event.In her address, she highlighted the crucial role Anganwadi centres play in ensuring nutrition, growth monitoring, and activity-based pre-school education for women and children….
MUMBAI: Strong gains in index heavyweights Reliance Industries and HDFC Bank on Thursday propelled sensex to within half a percentage point of its all-time high peak of 85,978 points, recorded nearly 14 months ago. Sensex closed the session 446 points up at 85,633 points, its fourth consecutive day of gains. At Thursday’s close, while sensex…
Lucknow: Are you fond of chrysanthemum blooms and want to add new, unseen, colourful, easy-to-grow and highly floriferous chrysanthemums to your garden? A visit to CSIR National Botanical Research Institute’s Chrysanthemum and Coleus Flower Show to be held on Dec 20 and 21 will help meet that gardening goal.Four new varieties will be on display…
Indian and Nasa space scientists have captured fresh images of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS and confirmed that it has all the characteristics of a “comet” while dismissing some astronomers’ theory that it could be an “alien ship”.The scientists from Ahmedabad-based Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) under the Department of Space have captured interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, which is…
NEW DELHI: Reliance Industries (RIL) has stopped accepting Russian crude for the export-oriented unit at its Jamnagar refining complex in Gujarat from Thursday, a day before the deadline for accepting pre-ordered shipments under the latest round of US sanctions and a month before EU curbs on products made from barrels from Kremlin-backed exporters.From Dec, all…
Lucknow: Singapore’s Jia Heng Jason and Chinese Taipei’s Sung Shuo Yun have received the top billing for the Syed Modi International Badminton Championships, set to commence at the UP Badminton Academy from Nov 25. Many top players from around the world will be seen in action as they vie for the prestigious trophy, but the…
BENGALURU: TCS has set its data centre plan in motion. It has secured $1 billion (Rs 8,820 crore) from private equity giant TPG to power its AI data centre strategy in India. The funding aligns with its goal of emerging as the largest AI-led technology services firm. As part of this plan, TCS will work…
