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Pune police book several BJP workers for alleged stone-pelting at Congress Bhavan

Pune, Feb. 16 -- Pune City Police registered a case against nearly 50 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers, including city president Dhiraj Ghate and BJYM Pune chief Dushyant Mohol, for alleged stone-... Read More


AI Summit 2026: Vinod Khosla warns of job market shake-up, says IT and BPO roles will vanish in 5 years

New Delhi, Feb. 16 -- Tech billionaire and venture capitalist Vinod Khosla has warned that IT services and BPOs will "almost completely disappear" within five years as artificial intelligence (AI) too... Read More


AI Summit 2026: 'Training on copyrighted data amounts to stealing', says Pleias founder Stasenko

New Delhi, Feb. 16 -- Anastasia Stasenko, founder of European AI lab Pleias, has bluntly characterised the way large AI companies train their models on copyrighted data as "stealing". Speaking to HT a... Read More


Announcing UpNext: Meet 9 Startups Shaping India's Farm Economy

India, Feb. 16 -- India's $9 Bn farm economy is at a decisive point as it grows to reach $28 Bn by 2030. Long defined by fragmented supply chains, price opacity and working capital stress, agriculture... Read More


Bihar government proposes road corridor connecting Pashupatinath and Baidhyanath Dham

Kathmandu, Feb. 16 -- The Bihar government has proposed a new high-speed expressway connecting Pashupatinath Temple in Kathmandu with Baidyanath Dham in Deoghar and has forwarded the proposal to the c... Read More


Iran's Revolutionary Guards launch military drills in Strait of Hormuz amid US naval deployment

New Delhi, Feb. 16 -- Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) initiated a sequence of military drills in the Strait of Hormuz on Monday, according to state media, just ahead of scheduled negot... Read More


UNFPA's Andrea Wojnar warns of AI accountability gap and its impact on trust and the digital economy

New Delhi, Feb. 16 -- Andrea Wojnar Resident Representative for United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) India has raised concerns about what she described as a widening "accountability gap" in the age ... Read More


AI in the Global South's Decade

India, Feb. 16 -- As the India AI Impact Summit 2026 begins in New Delhi, it does so at a pivotal moment. For the first time, a global AI summit of this scale is being hosted in the Global South. This... Read More


Two killed as truck overturns on highway in Ambala Cantt

India, Feb. 16 -- Two men were killed after a truck trailer overturned and crushed a motorcycle and an auto-rickshaw on the Panipat-Jalandhar National Highway-44 near Shahpur village in Ambala Cantonm... Read More


Anthropic Opens First India Office In Bengaluru

India, Feb. 16 -- Amid its bid to double down on its India presence, US-based AI giant Anthropic has inaugurated its first office in the country in Bengaluru. The company said India is now the second... Read More