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Vulcan understands the language of money: Harshil Mathur on Razorpay's AI push

India, Aug. 18 -- Even as India's digital payments infrastructure handles close to 23 billion UPI transactions and around 590 million credit card payments every month, Indian payments company Razorpay... Read More


How a private non-profit is fueling India's sports medal tally

New Delhi, Aug. 18 -- During his Independence Day address, Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed India's desire to host the 2036 Olympics in Ahmedabad, for which the country has already submitted a l... Read More


Amazon, Flipkart & Meesho's AI Focus Shifts To Seller-Side Stacks

India, Aug. 18 -- For much of the past two years, the AI race in Indian ecommerce revolved around the consumer. That meant the likes of Amazon, Meesho, Flipkart invested heavily in AI-powered search,... Read More


A physics graduate, a soccer player, a teen who couldn't swim: They died in the Ceuta migrant surge

New Delhi, Aug. 18 -- Ayoub Akbili needed money for his mother's surgery. Hamza Haibouri wanted a shot at a professional soccer career. Abdelouahed Iken was chasing the glossy life a friend posted abo... Read More


Mental wellbeing: When a parent goes abroad for work, children can feel a loss that has no end

Kathmandu, Aug. 18 -- When a parent migrates for work, they leave behind fragments of their presence, which, for a child, are never quite enough to make up a whole person. As parents' migration for w... Read More


Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath attends PRD conference, launches healthcare scheme

Gorakhpur, Aug. 18 -- Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath attended an event on Tuesday held in Gorakhpur district for the conference of Prantiya Rakshak Dal (PRD) personnel and the launch of ... Read More


Israel launches eight strikes on Syrian airbasePublished on: August 18, 2026 6:28 PM

Pakistan, Aug. 18 -- Israel carried out eight airstrikes on Syria's Abu al-Duhur military airbase on Tuesday. The strikes targeted the runway and storage facilities, according to foreign media reports... Read More


Liberia Set to Cross US$1 Billion in Domestic Revenue for First Time

MONROVIA, Aug. 18 -- Liberia is on course to collect more than one billion United States dollars in domestic revenue in a single year for the first time in its history, with the milestone expected to ... Read More


Highway Infrastructure receives Palayam Fee Plaza toll collection contract worth Rs 80 cr

Mumbai, Aug. 18 -- Highway Infrastructure has received a Letter of Acceptance (LOA) from the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) for a toll collection contract at Palayam Fee Plaza in Tamil N... Read More


Indore man fails JEE twice, learns product designing on YouTube. Now earns rRs.r2 lakh monthly

India, Aug. 18 -- In a social media post, Ankur Warikoo criticised the country's reliance on elite college degrees to measure potential, stating that India suffers from a label problem rather than a t... Read More