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Zoho founder Sridhar Vembu has sparked a new conversation on the future of technology by advocating for a more sustainable and energy-efficient approach to artificial intelligence. Speaking on the heels of impressive breakthroughs by Bengaluru-based startup Sarvam AI, Vembu noted that the era of "brute-force" computing—relying on massive, energy-hungry data centers—must give way to smarter, leaner architectures. He pointed to Sarvam AI's ability to outperform global giants like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini with a significantly smaller compute footprint as evidence that "world-class AI" can be achieved without environmental devastation. Vembu expressed a growing conviction that software code generation, in particular, is an area ripe for these high-efficiency techniques, suggesting...

Heavy monsoon rains have caused severe flooding across northern Bangladesh, affecting over 300,000 people and submerging large areas of Kurigram, Gaibandha, and Jamalpur districts. The rising water levels in the Brahmaputra and Jamuna rivers have destroyed homes, crops, and roads. The Bangladesh Meteorological Department has warned that the situation may worsen if rains continue in upstream India and Nepal. Local authorities and the army have set up temporary shelters and are distributing food and medicine to the displaced. Environmental experts attribute the increasing frequency of such floods to climate change and poor river management. They warn that without stronger flood-control infrastructure, the damage will worsen in coming years. For readers in India’s northeast, especia...

US President Donald Trump declared that TikTok would be permitted to continue functioning in China after an agreement was made with the government. "The United States of America's and China's major trade meeting in Europe has gone VERY WELL!. Additionally, an agreement was reached on a "certain" enterprise that our nation's youth fervently desired to preserve. "They'll be overjoyed!" he wrote. Trump also stated that the "relationship remains a very strong one!!!" To resolve bilateral trade difficulties, senior US and Chinese teams met in Madrid for two days. Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng and leading trade negotiator Li Chenggang oversaw the negotiations on the Chinese side, while US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Trade Representative Jamieson Greer headed the American side. Bess...

According to officials, 1,411 people have died as a result of the strong earthquake that slammed eastern Afghanistan on Sunday night, Al Jazeera reported. Teams are still searching for survivors after the magnitude 6.0 earthquake that injured over 3,000 people, with the majority of those killed in Kunar province. Reaching isolated, mountainous regions that are cut off from roads and cell networks presents significant hurdles for aid personnel. India has responded to the tragedy by providing immediate humanitarian aid to aid relief efforts in the impacted area. "India extends humanitarian assistance to Afghanistan in the wake of the earthquake," the Ministry of External Affairs wrote in a post on X. Images of trucks carrying sacks of rice and other food supplies were included in the twe...

President Donald Trump and his economic team are working on a potentially record-breaking stock sale of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac—the government-backed mortgage firms that support the stability and affordability of the U.S. housing market. While the plan hasn’t been finalized, a senior official says the White House is considering an initial public offering (IPO) of up to 15% of the companies’ shares, which could generate around $30 billion, potentially the largest IPO ever. Trump has long considered taking the two firms public. His first administration attempted but failed to end their federal conservatorship, imposed during the 2008 financial crisis. Now, in his second term, Trump is revisiting the idea and has discussed it with top banking executives, including leaders at JPMorgan, ...

On Saturday Prime Minister Narendra Modi departed for his five-day visit to Nigeria, Brazil and Guyana. Actually he will be on three-nation tour from November 16 to 21, where he will be attending the G20 Summit in Brazil. In fact PM Modi’s trip to Guyana will be the first visit by an Indian Prime Minister in 50 years. This is very important news and from it we can know many things about India in global stage as today India is moving in high pace. Actually G20 Summit is very important and all countries take it very seriously. As we know today India is very powerful country and all other nation respect India very much. In fact Prime Minister Narendra Modi is very active in this things and he takes a lots of interest in global politics. If you see participating in G20 Summit is very c...

Recently Australia will limit the enrolment number of international students to 2, 70,000 for 2025. “There are 10% more international students in our university today than before the pandemic and about 50% more in our private vocational and training providers,” Australia’s Education Minister Jason Clare actually said. In fact Australia is working to bring down record migration blamed for surging home rental prices. This is actually very important news and we need to take it very seriously if we are thinking about abroad studies. Today in India many students actually want to study in foreign countries and they can do anything for this. But sometimes it can be very critical and we need to understand many things related with it. Actually India is very big country and has huge population. ...

A senior official with the UN Mine Action Service told on Friday (April 26) that there are around 37 million tonnes of debris to clear away in the war-ravaged Gaza once the Israeli offensive is over and it could take over 14 years to get done. Pehr Lodhammar of the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) said that it was impossible to clearly state how much of the ammunition fired in Gaza remained live. Lodhammar, who has run mine programmes in countries such as Iraq, further noted that unexploded ordnance buried in the rubble would increase the difficulty in the work of clearing the cities. While speaking to journalists in Geneva during the launch of the 2023 annual report Friday, Lodhammar said, "We know that typically there is a failure rate of at least 10% of land service amm...