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New Delhi: Microsoft plans to invest USD 17.5 billion (around Rs 1.58 lakh crore) in India to help build infrastructure, skills, and sovereign capabilities needed for the country's AI future, CEO Satya Nadella said social media platform X. "To support the country's ambitions, Microsoft is...

Mumbai: The civil aviation ministry Tuesday said it has ordered Indigo to reduce its flight schedule by 10 per cent as it would help the crisis-ridden airline to stabilise operations, which have been disrupted massively due to the transition to the second phase of the...

New Delhi: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) has made the eighth arrest in connection with last month's car blast near the Red Fort, officials said Tuesday. An NIA spokesperson said a team from Delhi has arrested key accused Dr Bilal Naseer Malla of Baramulla in...

Bengaluru: India's first solar observatory Aditya-L1, played a key role in helping scientists decode why the strongest solar storm in more than two decades that struck Earth in May 2024 behaved so unusually, ISRO said Tuesday. Aditya-L1, which joined forces with six US satellites, including...

Panaji: The Goa Tourism Department, Tuesday demolished `Romeo Lane', a beach shack illegally constructed at Vagator by the fugitive owners of the fire-ravaged nightclub at Arpora. Saurabh and Gaurav Luthra, who are on the run following the fire tragedy at Birch by Romeo Lane club...

New Delhi: IndiGo's chaotic cancellations left people missing appointments, exams, even weddings, but not their humour, as memes and jokes on the airline took off and landed right on time, unlike its flights. Whether on Instagram, Facebook or X, the humour was in the air....

New Delhi: The Lok Sabha witnessed a stormy debate as Congress MP Rahul Gandhi launched a fierce attack on the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), accusing it of “systematically seeking to dominate India’s institutions”, and said that there is "no bigger anti-national act than vote chori.”...

New Delhi: There is no conclusive data available in the country to establish a direct correlation of death/disease exclusively due to air pollution, Minister of State for Health, Prataprao Jadhav, told the Rajya Sabha Tuesday. Air pollution is one of the triggering factors for respiratory...

Mumbai: IndiGo cancelled 422 flights from six metro airports Tuesday, as the disruption in the crisis-hit airline prolonged for the eighth consecutive day, according to sources. Of the 422 flights cancelled, Delhi Airport witnessed 152 flight cancellations and 121 at Bengaluru Airport, they said. The...

New Delhi: In lieu of strengthening the India-Brazil Strategic partnership, Indian Navy Chief Admiral Dinesh K Tripathi has proceeded on an official visit to Brazil from December 9-12. According to officials, the visit aims to consolidate the robust and growing maritime partnership between the Indian...