Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his wife Lauren Sánchez have announced $34 million in grants to support research into new, more sustainable materials for the fashion industry, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal. The funding, made through the Bezos Earth Fund, will go to universities and institutions working on alternatives to widely…
KOLKATA: When domestic help-turned-BJP MLA Kalita Majhi returned home late Monday, she wasn’t greeted with any major celebration or a grand feast. “I received my winning certificate well past 10.30pm. I had barely eaten and was hungry after a day of high tension. I had ‘alu-potoler jhol’ (pointed gourd and potato curry) that my mother-in-law…
Actor Anupam Kher has responded to a viral remark about his bald head made by West Bengal BJP chief Samik Bhattacharya during a recent press interaction. The comment, which came in the aftermath of the BJP’s victory in the 2026 West Bengal Assembly elections, quickly gained traction online—thanks in part to Kher’s witty comeback.The actor…
Anthropic’s Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code, says software engineering is already dead inside his own company—no one writes code by hand anymore, and Claude AI instances autonomously communicate over Slack to resolve problems across teams. As Google, Meta, Amazon and Snap race to set aggressive AI coding targets, Cherny believes IDE tools like VS…
US President Donald Trump; Iran President Masoud Pezeshkian The United States believes it is close to reaching an agreement with Iran on a one-page memorandum of understanding aimed at ending the war and establishing a framework for more detailed nuclear negotiations, Axios reported on Wednesday.Washington is expecting Tehran’s response on several key issues within the…
New Delhi: There were over 68 lakh malicious hits, both from within India and overseas, on the Election Commission’s online platforms, including the results portal, on counting day for the just-concluded assembly polls. However, EC officials on Wednesday said all such hits were successfully countered with robust cybersecurity protocols.EC further informed that the ECINET platform…
(Disclaimer: This is image is generated using AI) Two days before opening arguments, Elon Musk pulled out his phone and threatened OpenAI’s president by text. Greg Brockman had floated the idea of a peace deal—both sides drop everything, walk away. Musk’s reply, now sitting in the trial record: “By the end of this week, you…
Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday said the party has ended its association with the Indian Political Action Committee (I-PAC), citing financial constraints rather than political reasons.Speaking at a press conference, Yadav clarified that the party had briefly engaged I-PAC as part of its early preparations for the 2027 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, but…
On two blasts that occurred at different locations in Punjab, National Conference President Farooq Abdullah says, “In India, blasts keep happening; it is not something new…” NEW DELHI: Amid rising concern over the twin blasts in Punjab, political reactions sharpened on Wednesday, with former Jammu-Kashmir chief minister Farooq Abdullah seeking to play down the incidents…
TVK chief Vijay meets Governor Rajendra Arlekar, stakes claim to form govt in Tamil Nadu NEW DELHI: Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) chief Vijay on Wednesday met Tamil Nadu governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar to stake claim to form the next government after his two-year-old party emerged as the single largest in the recent assembly elections. In…