NEW DELHI: Trusted, timely and interoperable data is key to evidence-based policymaking and data-driven governance, principal secretary to PM Shaktikanta Das said Tuesday in a workshop organised by statistics ministry on strengthening the national data system . MoSPI secretary Saurabh Garg also underscored the need to move from siloed departmental data systems towards an integrated,…
Reliance Industries is planning to raise as much as Rs 12,500 crore via bonds as early as next week. (AI generated image) Reliance Industries is planning to raise as much as Rs 12,500 crore via bonds as early as next week, according to people familiar with the matter, which would make it the largest listed…
MUMBAI: The unicorn tag is no longer easy to come by for India’s startups. Blame it on the AI boom triggering the flight of substantial foreign capital to the US or investors rejigging their approach in line with the current business landscape: the startup space is undergoing a valuation reset.Data sourced from Tracxn showed that…
US President Donald Trump with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney The US and Canada trade dispute escalated on Tuesday (local time) with Washington announcing fresh restrictions on Canadian goods, after Ottawa introduced new tariffs on American products.The latest US measures will hit Canadian alcohol, dairy products, motorcycles and mopeds, while Canadian goods will also face…
Indian parents came to the US for five months. An officer at the port of entry asked why they needed 5 months in the US while the father has a job in India. (Photo: AI) An NRI individual shared the questions their parents faced while entering the US, which also reduced their stay to only…
There was no electricity. No running water. No telephone. No road leading to the property. Deep in New York’s Adirondack wilderness, Anne LaBastille chose to build a life that most people would have considered impossibly difficult. In 1964, she built a tiny 12-by-12-foot log cabin on the shore of Twitchell Lake, creating a home where…
Robin Williams’ Napa Valley estate, known as Villa Sorriso, was an extraordinary private retreat that combined a vast mountain property with a mansion of nearly 20,000 square feet. Williams commissioned the estate in the early 2000s, creating a secluded compound spread across about 640 acres in the Mayacamas Mountains between Napa and Sonoma valleys. The…
Tourists look at the Mont-Blanc massif mountains and the ‘Mer de Glace’ glacier at the Montenvers station in Chamonix, France (Photo: AP). Climate change is increasingly becoming a threat to the snow-clad European Alps, amid initial investigations associating the August 26 Nepal tragedy with rising temperatures.Average temperatures in July, on the Aiguille du Midi peak,…
An AI-generated image of coral restoration workers growing staghorn coral fragments on underwater “coral trees” in a nursery in the Florida Keys. Credits – Google Gemini Both the deterioration of the Florida Keys reef and the response to it took time. Staghorn and elkhorn corals grew so numerous throughout the Florida Reef Tract for decades…
NEW DELHI: India’s electric-vehicle retail sales rose 53% year-on-year in Aug, powered by strong gains in electric two-wheelers and passenger vehicles, although a sequential decline pointed to uneven momentum across manufacturers.Retail sales across electric two-wheelers, three-wheelers, passenger vehicles and commercial vehicles totalled 2,98,448 units, compared with 1,95,250 units in Aug 2025, according to Federation of…
