DEHRADUN: It has been five days since 25-year-old Deepak Rana has been missing. The last time anyone saw him was in the apple orchards of Dharali on Tuesday — moments before raging flash floods tore through the valley, swallowing homes and lives. Now, his family fearfully assumes he lies somewhere beneath the heap of mud…
BENGALURU: A clutch of India-origin AI startups secured significant early-stage funding, attracting marquee global investors. With a global-first approach, these homegrown startups demonstrated early monetisation potential and commanded premium valuations, reflecting growing confidence in their scalability and global relevance. These AI-native startup deals that TOI learnt about include GigaML, which offers secure on-premise deployment of…
BHUBANESWAR: A 17-year-old teenager killed his 12-year-old younger brother and buried the body close to their house one-and-a-half months back without giving the slightest hint until police arrested him at Titilagarh in Balangir on Saturday. The accused told police that he committed the crime because he constantly felt sidelined and neglected because his parents paid…
KOCHI: Brother of the Yemeni man for whose murder Kerala nurse Nimisha Priya has been sentenced to death has made a fresh plea for her execution.In a Facebook post on Saturday, victim Talal Abdo Mahdi’s sibling Abdul Fattah said he had met Yemen’s deputy attorney-general (AG) for the third time to demand immediate implementation of…
NEW DELHI: After giving back-to-back extension to two water disputes tribunals, Centre has extended the tenure of a third one, the Mahadayi Water Disputes Tribunal, as well for a period of one year with effect from Aug 16.Constituted in Nov 2010 for adjudicating the dispute over river water sharing among Goa, Maharashtra and Karnataka, the…
KOLKATA: Police in Kolkata have opened a suo motu probe into allegations that the RG Kar medical college rape-murder victim’s mother was wounded during Saturday’s march to Bengal secretariat Nabanna, setting off a political slugfest between TMC and BJP over who was to blame.The parents have not filed a formal complaint, but BJP said the…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday inaugurated Namma Metro’s long-awaited Yellow Line, marking the completion of an Rs 7,610-crore project that had been in the works for eight years.PM Modi travelled by Metro from Ragigudda station to Infosys Foundation–Konappana Agrahara station, interacting with dignitaries and officials onboard. Modi was joined by Karnataka chief…
JAIPUR: A queen past her prime chuffed somewhere beyond the lantana. A young suitor followed. The scrub and dust of Ranthambore’s Zone 6 bore witness Saturday evening to a spectacle even veteran trackers blinked at – the national park’s oldest living tigress T-39, aka Noor, mating at an age when most big cats have long…
NEW DELHI: IAF has strongly pitched for a government-to-government deal with France to procure more Rafale fighters under its long-pending project to acquire 114 multi-role fighter aircraft (MRFA), in which the bulk of the jets are supposed to be manufactured domestically with foreign collaboration.IAF will move the MRFA case for initial acceptance of necessity (AoN),…
UK F-35 jet makes emergency landing in Japan (Picture credit: X) A British F-35B stealth fighter jet was forced to make an emergency landing on Sunday at Kagoshima Airport in south-western Japan due to a malfunction, airport officials told Kyodo News. As per news agency ANI, the incident occurred at around 11:30 am (local time),…
