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Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (July 9, 2026)

India, July 10 -- Banaras Hindu University fined for illegal felling of trees The Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board (UPPCB) has imposed a fine of over Rs 2 crore on Banaras Hindu University for i... Read More


OpenAI Brings GPT-5.6 to Microsoft 365 Copilot, Launches ChatGPT Work

New Delhi, July 10 -- OpenAI has expanded its enterprise AI strategy with the launch of GPT-5.6 and ChatGPT Work, while announcing that its latest flagship model will become the default AI model power... Read More


Gradium Expands to Silicon Valley After Extending Funding to $100 Million

New Delhi, July 10 -- Paris-based voice AI startup Gradium has extended its total funding to $100 million, adding new investors including NVIDIA just seven months after emerging from stealth. The comp... Read More


Sea of plastic: India cannot rely only on western studies to understand marine litter, says A Biju Kumar

India, July 10 -- India's marine debris database remains scattered, making it difficult to identify true hotspots and frame effective policy, says KUFOS Vice Chancellor A Biju Kumar. Kumar says India... Read More


Daily weather tracker: Monsoon sweeps across the country; Uttarakhand under red alert, heavy rainfall warning issued for UP and several other states

India, July 10 -- Uttarakhand remains on highest alert as IMD forecasts extremely heavy rainfall, raising concerns over landslides, flash floods and travel disruptions. Several states including Uttar... Read More


Sparsh CCTV launches Securi-Tech AI layer for surveillance

India, July 10 -- Sparsh CCTV has announced the launch of Securi-Tech, which the company describes as India's first unified AI intelligence layer for surveillance. The platform aims to shift surveilla... Read More


Phone specification that matters most is no longer the processor

India, July 10 -- Broken smartphone screens are influencing replacement cycles in India, with more than half of users reporting that damage to display glass prompted them to buy a new device earlier t... Read More


Gamers Bet High on GTA 6 Commercial Failure to Rescue Gaming Industry from Crisis

India, July 10 -- GTA 6 pre orders were highly successful despite a digital-only launch. Gamers were disappointed to get a digital code in a GTA 6 box instead of a physical copy of the game, but Rocks... Read More


Drawing Room: Vinu VV's wooden sculptures showcase the trauma of casteism

India, July 10 -- Imagine a coconut tree. Now, imagine rows upon rows of human figures, painstakingly carved from wood and pinned onto the tree with long, sharp nails. Their bland expressions normalis... Read More


Spectator by Seema Goswami: Enjoy these monsoon reads

India, July 10 -- Over the past few years, I have always devoted two columns annually to books, compiling a list of summer and winter reads to share with all of you. This year, I decided to do somethi... Read More