New Delhi, Sept. 21 -- The government is testing an artificial intelligence system that can identify potholes, cracks and other defects on rural roads from videos recorded on mobile phones, with a nat... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 16 -- Ride-booking apps that prompt users to pay more -- with messages such as "Captains aren't accepting at Rs.x. Try adding +10, +20, +30" appearing while the app is still searching... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 14 -- In a rare move, the government has flagged 262,000 of its own employees in ongoing checks of public distribution system (PDS) records for possible wrongful benefits in terms of ... Read More
New Delhi, Sept. 10 -- India has the largest cultivated area among the BRICS nations, but its farms continue to produce far less grain per hectare than China, the bloc's biggest cereal producer, an an... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 31 -- Bihar and Jharkhand on Monday will sign an agreement formalising the sharing of Sone river waters, resolving the dispute that has persisted since Jharkhand was carved out of Biha... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 31 -- Bihar and Jharkhand on Monday will sign an agreement formalising the sharing of Sone river waters, resolving the dispute that has persisted since Jharkhand was carved out of Biha... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 27 -- Retail sugar prices fell for the first time on Thursday after surging to a record Rs.65.06 a kg a day earlier, with the Centre's decision to allow duty-free imports of 1 million ... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 19 -- The Union government will deploy its entire onion buffer stock through retail sales this year after procuring only about 120,000 tonnes - well short of its 200,000-tonne target -... Read More
New Delhi, Aug. 5 -- Employment generation under the Centre's flagship rural jobs programme has slowed sharply during what is typically its busiest period of the year, with official data tabled in Par... Read More
New Delhi, July 31 -- The Union government has increased the onion procurement price for the sixth time this season as purchases for its buffer stock continue to fall short of the revised target, even... Read More