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Social media: Struggling for funds, Koo, India’s homegrown challenger to X, shuts shop

July 3, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: As India’s answer to X, formerly Twitter, it had great potential. But, on Wednesday, Koo had to shut shop as it failed to garner enough resources to keep going. Founded in November 2019 as a multilingual, microblogging social media platform in Bengaluru by co-founders Aprameya Radhakrishna and Mayank Bidawatka, its services […]

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From Books to Bytes: Mental Health and Technology

July 1, 2024 Vinayak Barot

Prachi Vyas The evolution of learning has seen dramatic shifts from traditional methods to modern, technology-driven approaches. One of the critical areas where this transformation has had a significant impact is mental health. Understanding the interplay between mental health and technology in the context of learning provides insights into how education can […]

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Space: NASA to deorbit, and dismantle the aging ISS with SpaceX’s help

June 27, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Launched in November 1998, the International Space Station (ISS) is aging and the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has initiated the process to dismantle it after deorbiting with help from Elon Musk’s SpaceX which has been entrusted with designing the deorbiting vehicle by 2030. By then, commercial space […]

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More than FDI: Indian diaspora remitted $107 billion in FY24

June 26, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Breaking their record of remitting USD 100 billion in 2022-23, the Indian diaspora remitted an unprecedented USD 107 billion to their families back home in FY24, the media reported. This is nearly double the combined total of USD 54 billion from foreign direct investments (FDI) and portfolio investments during the same […]

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America: “Admit more Chinese students for the humanities and Indians for sciences!”

June 25, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: A top American diplomat said the US should welcome more students from China to study the humanities, and Indian students for sciences, noting that American universities are limiting Chinese students’ access to sensitive technology given security concerns. Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell said on Monday not enough Americans were studying […]

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Space: Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams ‘stuck’ on the ISS for 2 weeks

June 25, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: With NASA conducting additional reviews of the spacecraft’s technical issues, Indian-American astronaut Sunita Williams’ return to Earth has been delayed by about two weeks, the media reported on Tuesday. Sunita Williams and her co-astronaut Butch Wilmore’s return to this planet has been postponed due to multiple technical issues. NASA will permit […]

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Roving Periscope: “They return to India, and China, become billionaires,” says Trump

June 22, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: After threatening to deport illegal immigrants en masse, former US President Donald John Trump, whose grandfather migrated from Germany to America over a century ago, has softened his stand on immigration, promising to give automatic Green Cards to foreign students who graduate from US colleges to prevent them from returning to […]

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NASSCOM: India’s DeepTech startups face fund crunch

June 22, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: Although the number of India’s DeepTech startups surged significantly in 2023, funding dropped by 77 percent, according to the National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM). The report, “India’s DeepTech Dawn: Forging Ahead”, drawn up by NASSCOM and global consulting firm Zinnov, highlighted the worrying trend of a funding winter, […]

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Roving Periscope: Now, Tajikistan bans women’s hijab, and ‘alien garments’

June 21, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: The “Arab Spring”, which commenced in Tunisia in 2010 and quickly spread to many Islamic countries against fundamentalism and their monarchies, and forced some Muslim countries to introduce a whiff of freedoms, may now be flowering in the third season. Drawing lessons from Saudi Arabia introducing liberties, and Iranian women fighting […]

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AI’s risks: An ordinary downturn can spiral into a severe economic crisis, says Gopinath

June 11, 2024 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit New Delhi: As the positive and negative impacts of Artificial Intelligence (AI) unfold worldwide, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) second in command has warned that it (AI) also has the potential to turn an ordinary downturn into a severe economic crisis worldwide. The disruptive effects of AI on the economy and financial markets […]