Lucknow: The moderate winter is likely to get colder from next week in the city. The weather office said the advent of cool westerly winds is expected to drop the day and night temperatures, giving people the colder feel. It will also break the ongoing ‘warm’ spell in Nov. According to meteorological forecasts, temperatures will…
BENAGALURU: As TCS begins executing its multi-billion-dollar AI data centre blueprint, the company is positioning HyperVault at the heart of its ambition to become the largest AI-led technology services provider. In an interview to TOI, TCS CEO K Krithivasan and its chief strategy officer Mangesh Sathe outline India’s rising digital footprint makes AI compute capacity…
Lucknow: A 24-year-old loan recovery agent was found dead under suspicious circumstances in Indiranagar in the wee-hours of Thursday. His family alleged he was assaulted before death.The victim, identified as Shashi Prakash Upadhyay, lived with his parents and siblings in a rented house in Sector-8, Raghurajnagar, Indiranagar and worked with a finance company as a…
NEW DELHI: RBI governor Sanjay Malhotra said on Thursday that the central bank does not aim for any particular level for the rupee, and depreciation of rupee is driven purely by market demand, with recent depreciation linked to tariffs. “We do not target any level for the rupee,” Malhotra said at an event at the…
Lucknow: The Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS), in coordination with central intelligence agencies, significantly expanded its probe into the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) module based in Faridabad, which allegedly played a key role in the Delhi blast conspiracy. The widening investigation now spans multiple sectors in UP—including medical supply chains, pharma distributors, and second-hand car networks—and has…
TEL AVIV/ NEW DELHI: India and Israel on Thursday inked terms of reference (ToR) to formally launch negotiations for a free trade agreement, commerce & industry minister Piyush Goyal said.The ToR, which will be the basis for talks, includes market access for goods by eliminating tariff and non-tariff barriers, investment facilitation, simplification of customs procedures,…
Lucknow: UP Power Corporation Ltd is fast-tracking rollout of 3.98 crore smart prepaid meters across UP to deliver reliable, transparent electricity services.The IS 16444-standard smart meters record consumption digitally, send readings automatically and enable online billing — ending manual errors and estimated bills forever. Officials say the technology is revolutionising power distribution by curbing theft,…
MUMBAI: Tata Trusts trustee Darius Khambata, in a letter to trustees including chairman Noel Tata, has expressed disappointment over the Trusts’ failure to correct what he described as a “doctored media narrative” suggesting a “coup or takeover” by some trustees.“What has been disappointing to me has been the failure of the Trusts to correct this…
Lucknow: Caught between the Centre’s 2019-20 directive to ensure smart prepaid meter (SPM) for new connections and UPERC’s November 13 notice, that SPMs procured under revamped distribution sector scheme (RDSS) are limited to replacing existing consumer’s non-smart meters and does not cover new electricity connections, the UPPCL has charged over 2,000 new consumers for SPMs,…
Lucknow: In a crackdown on international cyber fraud networks, Ambedkarnagar police on Thursday night arrested two alleged operatives of a trafficking syndicate that pushed Indian youths into “cyber slavery” in the Laos-Thailand region. The gang is believed to be part of the Golden Triangle cyber-fraud ecosystem, notorious for detaining foreign nationals and forcing them to…
