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From Emoscape to nSEPIA: Nihilent takes emotion AI personal

India, Aug. 29 -- "A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance." - Ecclesiastes 3:4 The Bhagavad Gita speaks of sthita-prajña - steadiness of mind amid fear, anger,... Read More


Enterprise AI reality check: Why the hard part begins at scale

India, Aug. 29 -- The first phase of enterprise AI was relatively easy to understand. Pick a model. Identify a use case. Build a pilot. Demonstrate that generative AI can summarise a document, assist ... Read More


Daily weather tracker: Bay of Bengal low-pressure system triggers heavy rain alert across several states

India, Aug. 29 -- Summary Low pressure over Bay of Bengal may bring heavy rain to Odisha, West Bengal, Jharkhand and neighbouring states during next 48 hours. Odisha receives orange alert as very he... Read More


UPI At 10: From 1.78 Crore To 24,162 Crore Transactions

New Delhi, Aug. 29 -- A decade ago, UPI was a new way to move money between bank accounts. Today, the scale is difficult to ignore: annual UPI transactions have risen from 1.78 crore in FY2016-17 to m... Read More


OpenAI Appoints Meta Veteran Sandhya Devanathan as VP for Southeast Asia and Australia

New Delhi, Aug. 29 -- OpenAI has appointed Sandhya Devanathan, Meta's Vice President for India and Southeast Asia, as Vice President for Southeast Asia and Australia, strengthening its regional leader... Read More


When the mountain breaks: Nepal's disaster and the failure to act together

India, Aug. 29 -- We are living through another great crisis in the Himalaya. On August 26, a mass of rock and ice collapsed high above the Nepal-Tibet border and became a devastating debris flow alon... Read More


Western Uttar Pradesh is now as much a leopard landscape as it is an agricultural one

India, Aug. 29 -- On August 3, 2026, an adult woman entered a sugarcane field in Lalapur Pipalsana village of Thakurdwara tehsil in Moradabad district to collect fodder for her livestock. The village ... Read More


Himachal Pradesh is introducing Australian Merino sheep in its hills to 'enhance' its wool economy. But at what cost?

India, Aug. 29 -- In Himachal Pradesh, a wool development programme has been underway since 2021, with a target of achieving 3,000 tonnes of wool production by 2027. Initiated under the National Livel... Read More


Tied to Tree, Set Ablaze: Chandigarh's Woman Influencer Dies After 54 Days, Raising Questions

India, Aug. 29 -- Punjabi social media influencer Manjeet Kaur, who was allegedly abducted from Chandigarh and set on fire near Morinda on the intervening night of July 3 and 4, died at PGIMER, Chandi... Read More


India adds 5.5 million mobile users, M2M nears 138 million

India, Aug. 29 -- India added 5.54 million mobile subscribers in July 2026, taking the country's wireless mobile base to 1.288 billion, while machine-to-machine (M2M) cellular connections rose by near... Read More