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The study examined voter registration systems followed by 87 Election Management Bodies (EMBs) across North America, Latin America and the Caribbean, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania

From curd rice in Telugu homes to dal-rice platters in Assam, these regional mango pairings celebrate the fruit beyond desserts and milkshakes

Google is expanding the shopping features in its AI chatbot by teaming up with Walmart, Shopify, Wayfair and other big retailers

Early use cases were task-specific like reducing payment failures, improving fraud detection, accelerating customer service. The future is agentic AI, Mr. Jagannath said. Not one agent, but a multitude of agents with human-like reasoning, working together to complete processes end-to-end

The patrol ended after China inspected 198 passing vessels and rectified violations involving three ships

A key driver behind the shift to agents is not only tapping into the frenzy triggered by the launch of OpenClaw in China, but also the potential to make money from it

Sarangani reported 20 dead from the quake, the highest toll from the affected provinces, mostly due to a landslide that buried houses in the coastal town of Glan

Major retail chains and tech companies are offering new or updated artificial intelligence tools in time for the holiday shopping season

A striking feature of Modis journey has been the balance between welfare and development, says the A.P. CM

Freediving Association of India at World Apnea 2026, Budapest

The events took place in midtown Manhattan, a few blocks from the famous sports arena hosting the National Basketball Association Finals, which was sealed off for the game by a large police presence

Information on colleges, admissions, scholarships, events, MoUs, and more

FIFA is using dynamic pricing and has repeatedly raised the prices since tickets first went on sale last fall

Justices G.R. Swaminathan and V. Lakshminarayanan dissent with a view taken by Justice Vikram Nath of Supreme Court during his stint as a judge of Allahabad High Court

The salaries of all employees, including support staff, cannot be disbursed, including for the 19 days of work in December, a joint statement said

The long-awaited sequel to the hit buddy-cop comedy franchise is moving forward, with original stars and producers reportedly reuniting more than a decade after 22 Jump Street

Unabated foreign fund outflows and a spike in U.S. inflation also dented markets sentiment, according to market analysts

Heavy FII outflows, weak domestic equity market and a marginally stronger greenback further weighed on the local unit

OpenAI said it caught one set of Chinese-speaking users using ChatGPT to come up with slogans and cartoons critiquing Trumps trade and tech policy that were later posted to X

NFHS-6 records gains in child nutrition, maternal care, institutional births and womens internet use, while also introducing new questions on digital literacy and direct benefit transfers; but the surveys preliminary fact sheet is thinner than the last round, dropping key indicators such as anaemia, mortality, sex ratio at birth

Officials said samples have been sent to National Institute of Virology in Pune for confirmation, and results are expected shortly

Slow, error-prone calculations by hand were unavoidable in the early 19th century, yet even small mistakes could ruin the designs for buildings and the journeys of ships; Charles Babbages ingenious machines were much more accurate, faster, and revolutionary

Elon Musk, the worlds richest person, established xAI in 2023 as what he said would be a safer alternative to OpenAI, which he had helped found more than a decade ago

U.S. President Donald Trump has sparked controversy after appearing to embrace rising inflation, telling reporters, I love the inflation, while responding to fresh economic data showing consumer prices increased at their fastest pace in three years.

Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler will receive the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award as the Academy celebrates five influential figures whose work has shaped modern cinema

No injury was reported, police said, adding that forensic teams are examining the crime scene. CCTV footage from the area is also being scanned

The suspected elephant attacks occurred a day after a 65-year-old man was killed in a wild elephant attack in Wayanad district

According to South Western Railway (SWR), the 32 ROBs and RUBs are at various stages of execution

Sonys follow-up to The Social Network shifts focus from Facebooks rise to the whistleblower revelations that exposed the platforms impact on users around the world

After global recognition at the National Geographic Societys 2026 Slingshot Challenge, Snake Speek plans to expand its snake conservation and awareness efforts

A growing board game community in Visakhapatnam is creating spaces for friendship, conversation and screen-free fun

Parvathaneni said India is firmly opposed to attacks on merchant shipping, as many of its nationals are prominent in its global workforce

The companies had sought a new trial in a lawsuit filed by a woman who said she became addicted to Googles YouTube and Metas Instagram at a young age

Both San Francisco companies, makers of ChatGPT and Claude, are focused on the same scenario: so-called recursive self-improvement

In her Womens Prize-longlisted work, author Lucy Apps delivers an affecting portrait of female agency and vulnerability

Davids interrogates the everyday mechanisms that sustain colonial inequality and control

Most returns were to six countries: the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Syria, Afghanistan, Ukraine and Myanmar

The 13 websites purported to be affiliated with consulting companies that advertised job openings for current and former holders of security clearances. But the companies were all fakes and the job postings were a sham, officials said

One year on, the AI-171 investigation demands answers, accountability, and closure

In other words, petrol blended with ethanol, at 22%, 25%, 27% and 30% would be exempt from central excise duties

Oil prices jumped as much as 2% on Thursday (June 11, 2026), extending similar gains the day before

Infantino spoke with reporters during a rare question-and-answer session on the eve of the opening match of an expanded 48-nation, 104-game World Cup tournament

Minister Ananda Wijepala said Major General Suresh Sallay, who was arrested in February on accusations of aiding and abetting the attack, had identified a Catholic church to be bombed

The U.S. military denied Iran's claim that the Strait of Hormuz had been fully closed in response to the latest U.S. strikes

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