India

Alibaba has launched a new version of its AI model, Qwen2.5 Max, claiming it performed better than DeepSeek’s AI, OpenAI’s GPT-4o and Meta’s Llama. The Chinese tech company’s cloud division claimed in a statement that “Qwen 2.5-Max outperforms … almost across the board GPT-4o, DeepSeek-V3 and Llama-3.1-405B,” referring to the advanced open-source AI models from […]

A 97-year-old woman, who has been a witness to nearly all the Kumbh Melas since Independence, is making her way through the vast crowds at the ongoing religious gathering in Prayagraj. The event has drawn millions of devotees seeking spiritual purification by bathing in the sacred Triveni Sangam – the confluence of Ganga, Yamuna, and […]

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday directed the Election Commission of India to ensure political parties and their candidates did not use any “vilifying” material during election campaigns. A bench of Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao Gedela passed the direction on a PIL alleging spam calls and voice messages were made to […]

S Jonathan Prasad lived a nightmare 11 years back after his 23-year-old daughter Esther Anuhya’s rotten body was found on a Mumbai road. A software engineer with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Esther had just returned from holidays in her hometown Vijayawada when she was brutally raped and murdered. Mr Prasad, crushed by the tragedy, found […]

In a touching turn of events, a dog in Thailand that became famous for its loyalty to its dead owner has been adopted by a princess, the Independent reported.  Princess Siribha Chudabhorn, niece of Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn, has adopted Moo Daeng, the dog who gained fame after his homeless owner died outside a 7-Eleven […]

As Coldplay fever swept across India in the last couple of weeks, it wasn’t just the fans who enjoyed the British band’s concerts in Mumbai and Ahmedabad. Amid a sea of videos and pictures posted from five shows, a heartwarming clip of an autorickshaw driver enjoying Coldplay music on the streets of Ahmedabad has gone […]

Junta-led countries Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso officially left West Africa’s main political and trade group ECOWAS on Wednesday after more than a year of diplomatic tensions. The withdrawal has shaken the Economic Community of West African States that many consider to be the continent’s most important regional group and which this year marks its […]

The Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2024 is a nationwide rural household survey that reached 649,491 children in 17,997 villages across 605 rural districts in India. Facilitated by Pratham, in each surveyed district, a local organisation or institution conducted the survey. Key findings of the ASER 2024 survey are presented below:  Among children aged […]

AFCAT Admit Card 2025: The Indian Air Force is scheduled to release the admit card for the Air Force Common Admission Test (AFCAT-01/2025) on February 7, 2025. Candidates who have registered for the exam can download the admit card by visiting the official website, afcat.cdac.in, once it is released.   According to the official notice […]

Piles of clothes, shoes, bags and other discarded belongings were seen on the ground after a stampede broke out at Prayagraj’s Maha Kumbh, the world’s largest religious gathering, this morning. Several people were feared dead and more than 30 others were injured in the crush that took place around 1 am when millions of devotees […]

Two Maoists including a woman were killed in a gunfight with security forces in Jharkhand’s West Singhbhum district on Wednesday (January 29, 2025), police said. Watch | Assimilating Maoists into mainstream: How can the State ensure justice? The incident took place in a forest area under Sonua police station limit, around 80 km from West […]

Two girls and two women from Belagavi were injured in the stampede at the Maha Kumbh in Prayagraj on January 29. Sarojini Dharihalli and Kanchan Koparde, BJP workers from Wadagaon, and their relatives Megha and Jyoti were injured. They went to a doctor and got treatment, family sources said. Their relatives have received information that […]