J-K cops detain youths over stir against hiring blacklisted firm for exams

Several job aspirants, protesting against hiring of a previously black-listed company by the Jammu and Kashmir Services Selection Board for conducting written examinations, were detained by the......

Indian-origin MIT professor Hari Balakrishnan bags Marconi prize

Hari Balakrishnan, an Indian-origin MIT professor, has received the prestigious Marconi Prize for his fundamental discoveries in wired and wireless networking, mobile sensing, and distributed......

Chinese incursions into India strategically planned: Study

Chinese infringements into the Aksai Chin region are not random, independent events but are part of a strategically planned and coordinated “expansionist strategy” to gain permanent......

Techie gets lifer for conspiring to attack children at Mumbai school

A special court in Mumbai on Friday sentenced a computer engineer to life imprisonment for conspiring to attack children at the American School in Mumbai and said the proved offence against the......

Google to axe 12,000 workers; CEO Pichai says 'sorry'

Google will lay off 12,000 jobs across the globe, its CEO Sundar Pichai announced on Friday, becoming the latest tech giant after Microsoft, Facebook and Amazon to retrench staff en mass amid the......

Indian Techies Write Code For Driverless Cars!

Engineers based in India are estimated to be writing roughly 35 per cent of the 100 million lines of codes required to develop one fully driverless car for global vehicle makers. *IMAGE: A Fetch......

AWS to invest $4.4 bn in India by 2030 through new Hyderabad region service

Amazon Web Services (AWS) will invest nearly $4.4 billion (Rs 36,000 crore) in India by 2030 and support more than 48,000 jobs externally through a new regional service launched on Tuesday, said......

Jet Air to cut salaries, send many staff on leave without pay

Jet Airways, which is yet to resume operations under its new owner, will reduce salaries for various staff and send many employees on leave without pay, amid uncertainty over resumption of its......

'I am embarrassed about all my films'

'Chup is the work that I'm most satisfied with; it won't bore me or make me cringe later.' IMAGE: Saiyami Kher and Abhishek Bachchan in R Balki's next film Ghoomar. Photograph: Kind courtesy......

Panchayat 2 Review

If at all the series can be criticised, it would be for its all-Brahmin characters and keeping out the caste problems, the misogyny and the backwardness and ugliness of rural India, points out......

The BEST Indian Films of 2021

Aseem Chhabra lists his favourite Indian films of 2021. Aseem's Best International Films of 2021 In the second year of the pandemic when movie theatres remained closed for an extended period of......

Bunty Aur Babli 2 Review

The cons are dull, the chemistry is off, the zingers are in short supply and a kitschy display of brand logos and hammy accents takes centre stage, sighs Sukanya Verma. Yeh world hai na, world?......

Are Computers Destroying Chess?

Cheating poses an existential challenge to chess.It's hard to know how it will be mitigated, but it must be, if chess is to continue being a legitimate sport, asserts Devangshu Datta. IMAGE: World......

Paralympics: Suhas wins badminton silver, Dhillon loses bronze

IMAGE: India's Suhas Lalinakere Yathiraj in action against France's Lucas Mazur during the men's singles badminton SL4 class final at the Tokyo Paralympics. Photograph: Kiyoshi Ota/Getty Images......

Tokyo Paralympics: Bhagat wins badminton gold

IMAGE: Gold medalist Pramod Bhagat of Team India poses on the podium at the medal ceremony for the Men's Singles SL3 at Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. Photograph: Kiyoshi Ota/Getty Images Reigning......