Employees of Yotta Data Services unload recently acquired Nvidia H100 chips from a vehicle at the company’s data center in Navi Mumbai, India, on Thursday, March 14, 2024. Credit – Dhiraj Singh—Bloomberg/Getty Images AWhile addressing shareholders in a much-anticipated annual speech on Thursday, Asia’s richest man Mukesh Ambani also unveiled “JioBrain,” a suite of artificial … Read more
HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — In April 2016, Elon Musk invited Indians to pre-order the upcoming Tesla Model 3. Vishal Gondal was among the first to sign up, putting down a $1,000 deposit for a car that never arrived. Gondal, founder and CEO of a health-tech startup called GOQii in India’s financial capital, Mumbai, wasn’t sure … Read more
New Delhi — Scientists say the Indian farmers’ eager use of painkillers on their livestock in the 1990s led to the unintended deaths of half a million people and huge economic losses — not from harming livestock, but from the loss of millions of vultures, scavengers that traditionally ate the remains of animals before they … Read more
SYDNEY — At major events around the world, scenes of extreme heat stress are starting to look familiar. Older men, their shirts loosened, lying with their eyes closed. Aid tents full of unconscious people. And lines of believers – whether seeking religion, music, ballot boxes or sports – sweat under patches of shade. The consequences … Read more
BENGALURU, India (AP) — Every year from June to September, a heavy rainstorm makes its way from India’s southwest coast to its northeastern borders, quenching farmers’ thirsty fields. India’s monsoon season is perhaps the most important weather phenomenon for the country, and a good monsoon can noticeably boost the country’s economy and the livelihoods of … Read more
BENGALURU, India (AP) — Every year from June to September, a heavy rainstorm makes its way from India’s southwest coast to its northeastern borders, quenching farmers’ thirsty fields. India’s monsoon season is perhaps the most important weather phenomenon for the country, and a good monsoon can noticeably boost the country’s economy and the livelihoods of … Read more
Watch: ‘I’m on a gap year at 31 – it’s never too late to travel’ A woman taking a solo gap year at the age of 31 hopes to help ‘break’ the stigma that travel is only for the young. India Jolly, from Plymouth, Devon, had always wanted to travel around South East Asia, but … Read more
Jofra Archer will play for England on his home island of Barbados for the first time since his teenage years – Getty Images/Gareth Copley The official motto for the tournament is ‘out of this world’, but it should be ‘this really matters’, because a World Cup tests character far more than the homogenous franchise competitions … Read more
Claim: Authentic photos show wild cannabis growing naturally and abundantly in the Himalayas. Judgement: Rating: true Social media users on platforms like Reddit and Instagram have widely spread the claim that wild cannabis grows naturally and abundantly in the Himalayas. Users in communities such as r/pics and r/trees have shown images of cannabis plants blooming … Read more
In the summer of 2010, Anuvab Pal wrote an article about the opening of the Comedy Store in Mumbai, impresario Don Ward’s attempt to introduce British-style stand-up to India. Pal, then working mainly as a screenwriter, went to interview Ward, whose legendary London venue was a cradle of alternative comedy in the 1980s. He told … Read more