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Meta Ray-Ban Gen 2 AI glasses launch in India

The Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 2) AI glasses will be available nationwide at Ray-Ban India and leading optical and eyewear retailers, starting at 39,900

4 Dec 2025 12:23 pm
Watch:Modi and Putin to meet in Delhi today; trade and defence deals likely on the table

Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi on December 4, marking his first visit in four years and the revival of IndiaRussia summits. Talks will focus on trade, defence, energy, and investment, with key outcomes expected in Indian exports.

4 Dec 2025 12:20 pm
Watch: Delhi launches special task force as air pollution crisis worsens

Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta has announced a new high-level committee with special powers to tackle the capitals worsening air quality, calling pollution an emergency mission.

4 Dec 2025 12:19 pm
National Board of Review 2025: One Battle After Another leads with five major honours full list of winners

The revolutionary epic collected five major prizes Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor for Leonardo DiCaprio, Best Supporting Actor for Benicio Del Toro and Breakthrough Performance for Chase Infiniti

4 Dec 2025 12:17 pm
OpenAI pushes to release new AI model codenamed Garlic as Googles Gemini gains users: Report

As per a new report, OpenAI plans to release a version of the new large language model by early next year

4 Dec 2025 12:12 pm
AVM Saravanan passes away: The genteel Tamil producer everyone loved

A soft-spoken giant of the film industry, Saravanan nurtured talent and built trust with both superstars and distributors. He passed away a day after his 86th birthday.

4 Dec 2025 12:11 pm
Two schoolboys from Chennai document Plaintive cuckoo at Odiyur lake

In the north-eastern parts of the country, this bird is anything but rare; and in South India, it is not seen except as an occasional vagrant; records here are as scare as a hens teeth. Against this backdrop, recently Amoggh Vjay Chatty, a Grade X student of PSBB Millennium in Semmanchery and Aaditya S Rajesh, a Grade XI student of Maharishi Vidya Mandir in Chetpet, spotted and photographed a Plaintive cuckoo at Odiyur lake

4 Dec 2025 12:10 pm
Effective strategy is needed for fly management in A.P., says expert

No Thermal Power Plant in the State has a dry ash collection system, commensurating with 100% of the demand, says INSWAREB secretary in a letter to the Chief Miniter

4 Dec 2025 11:54 am
Central package for VSP not used properly, association tells Union Steel Minister

Visakhapatnam Steel Executives Association seeks appointment of a full-fledged Chairman for the plant

4 Dec 2025 11:50 am
Hong Kong races to remove scaffolding nets blamed for fuelling deadly fire

The move comes as authorities investigate the cause of the city's deadliest fire in decades, having pointed to the mesh for fuelling an inferno that engulfed seven high-rise apartment blocks

4 Dec 2025 11:50 am
Why Tamil needed a movement to reclaim its musical legacy?

Despite centuries of association with music, historic shifts sidelined Tamil in Carnatic concerts until visionaries revived it.

4 Dec 2025 11:44 am
Customs foils alleged bid to smuggle 11 endangered birds at Kochi airport in Kerala

According to Customs, the birds were seized from baggage of a Malappuram family who arrived from Thailand. The family was intercepted based on suspicion

4 Dec 2025 11:44 am
Mumbai to witness 4.96m high tide; people advised to stay away from seashore

High tides exceeding 4 metres have been forecast between December 4 and 7

4 Dec 2025 11:41 am
IND vs SA 2nd ODI: You dream of moments like these, says centurion Gaikwad on big stand with Kohli

Its a privilege to have that kind of confidence from the management trusting an opener to bat in the middle order, said Gaikwad

4 Dec 2025 11:27 am
Order Coimbatores Van Dough pizzas at Alliance Francaise Madrass new cafe space

With experimental pizzas, double-fried oysters and caf culture to spare, Coimbatores Van Dough reinvents Alliance Francaise of Madras legendary canteen

4 Dec 2025 11:26 am
MoU signed to expand services for children with developmental disabilities

The organisations will collaborate on early identification and intervention, capacity building for professionals and caregivers, joint research activities and initiatives aimed at improving community awareness and inclusion

4 Dec 2025 11:22 am
AVM Saravanan passes away: CM Stalin, Rajinikanth, Vishal and more pay tribute

Saravanan, a veteran film producer and owner of the iconic AVM Studios, passed away due to age-related illness

4 Dec 2025 11:22 am
Wikipedia seeks more AI licensing deals similar to Google tie-up, co-founder says

While the content of Wikipedia remains free for individuals under its license, the high-volume, automated access by for-profit entities is a different matter, Wales said

4 Dec 2025 11:12 am
Singer-songwriter Naalayak new album Marammat' is a journey from despair to healing

The albums eight heartfelt songs depict different emotions from heartbreak and reckoning to quiet repair

4 Dec 2025 11:09 am
Singer-songwriter Sahil Samuel, aka Naalayaks new album Marammat' is a journey from despair to healing

The albums eight heartfelt songs depict different emotions from heartbreak and reckoning to quiet repair

4 Dec 2025 11:09 am
Salesforce CEO vies to overcome investors AI skepticism while touting companys quarterly numbers

Salesforce has been pummeled by a wave of investor skepticism thats intensified the pressure on its persuasive CEO Marc Benioff

4 Dec 2025 11:09 am
Microsoft lowers AI software sales quota as customers resist new products: Report

It is rare for Microsoft to lower quotas for specific products, the report said, citing two salespeople in the Azure cloud unit

4 Dec 2025 11:04 am
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang visits Republicans as debate over intensifying AI race rages

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang met separately with U.S. President Donald Trump and Republican senators Wednesday

4 Dec 2025 11:04 am
Hyderabad: December calendar abuzz with debut cultural events

Dance, theatre, and an art and wellness soiree will debut in Hyderabad this month

4 Dec 2025 11:00 am
Russia blocks access to U.S. children's gaming platform Roblox

Roskomnadzor said Roblox was rife with inappropriate content that can negatively impact the spiritual and moral development of children.

4 Dec 2025 10:59 am
4 Dec 2025 10:59 am
Rupee slumps 28 paise to 90.43 against U.S. dollar in early trade

Forex traders said that restrained RBI intervention ahead of the crucial Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) decision and significant dollar demand from importers have exerted downward pressure on the rupee

4 Dec 2025 10:57 am
Indian data center operator Sify Infinit Spaces bets on AI boom but wary of bubble

The surge in artificial intelligence technologies, which require massive computing power, has spurred unprecedented growth in data centers worldwide, including India

4 Dec 2025 10:52 am
Stock markets bounce back after falling in early deals

Sensex and Nifty slipped in early trade, but later bounced back to trade in positive territory, amid value buying at lower levels

4 Dec 2025 10:51 am
Nvidia servers speed up AI models from China's Moonshoot AI and others tenfold

The data comes as the AI world has shifted its focus from training AI models, where Nvidia dominates the market, to putting them to use for millions of users, where Nvidia faces far more competition from rivals such as Advanced Micro Devices and Cerebras

4 Dec 2025 10:44 am
Travelling to South Korea? Here is our guide to hanboks, nature trails and temple cuisine

We journey to South Jeolla and North Jeolla in South Korea to transform into hanbok heroines at the Jeonju Hanok Village, attempt forest bathing, savour temple cuisine, and meet Buddhist nun-Chef Jeong Kwan

4 Dec 2025 10:39 am
SC hearing on SIR LIVE updates: SC to continue hearing pleas challenging ECI revision of voter rolls in Bengal, Tamil Nadu

Supreme Court hears arguments that the Special Intensive Revision allows mass scrutiny of citizenship based on mere suspicion, posing threats of disenfranchisement and statelessness

4 Dec 2025 10:22 am
India, Russia Defence Ministers to Co-Chair 22nd Commission Meet in Delhi

The two leaders will review the entire range of multi-faceted relations between the two countries in the field of defence, including Military and Military Technical Cooperation

4 Dec 2025 10:12 am
AI companies' safety practices fail to meet global standards, study shows

The AI race shows no signs of slowing, with major tech companies committing hundreds of billions of dollars to upgrading and expanding their machine learning efforts

4 Dec 2025 10:04 am
KSRTC disburses 4.38 crore compensation to dependants of employees, launches new commercial management software e-Vaneejya

Under the Saarige Suraksha Accident Insurance Scheme, cheques of 1 crore each were handed over to the families of three employees who died due to off-duty accidents and electrocution

4 Dec 2025 9:55 am
Apple's longtime design executive Alan Dye to join Meta

Alan Dyes departure adds to a string of senior exits at Apple in recent months, including longtime Chief Operating Officer Jeff Williams and AI chief John Giannandrea

4 Dec 2025 9:53 am
Putin's India visit LIVE: Russian President to meet PM Modi today

The Russian President is likely to arrive in New Delhi at around 4:30 p.m. on Thursday (December 4, 2025) on his first visit to India in 4 years.

4 Dec 2025 9:46 am
Parliament Winter session Day 4 LIVE: Opposition to protest on air pollution outside Parliament

FM Sitharaman to move Health Security se National Security Cess Bill in Lok Sabha

4 Dec 2025 9:44 am
OpenAI agrees to acquire AI startup Neptune to boost model training capabilities

The Sam Altman-led firm is already a Neptune customer, using Neptunes tracker to monitor and debug training of its GPT large language models

4 Dec 2025 9:34 am
4.1-magnitude earthquake hits Bangladesh; no casualties reported

The quake hit at 6.14 a.m. local time, with the epicentre located at a depth of 30 km in Narsingdi

4 Dec 2025 9:20 am
OpenAI loses fight to keep ChatGPT logs secret in copyright case

The case, originally brought by the Times in 2023, is one of many brought by copyright owners against tech companies including OpenAI, Microsoft and Meta Platforms for using their material without permission to train their AI systems

4 Dec 2025 9:18 am
Micron to exit consumer memory business amid global supply shortage

Micron Technology said on Wednesday it will exit its consumer business, as it doubles down on advanced memory chips used in artificial intelligence data centres

4 Dec 2025 9:06 am
Monkey games

A folk tale from Tanzania about a monkey who was clever enough to not be deceived

4 Dec 2025 9:03 am
After pounding north Tamil Nadu, remnant of Cyclone Ditwah drifts inland; city to get light rain today

Water discharge from Red Hills reservoir, a key drinking water source of Chennai, increased on Wednesday evening as its storage touched 96% of its capacity

4 Dec 2025 8:50 am
Meta starts removing under-16s from social media in Australia

Companies face fines of Aus$49.5 million (US$32 million) if they fail to take easonable steps to comply

4 Dec 2025 8:49 am
Putins India visit: A tense tightrope walk for Modi government

Everything from the optics of the visit, to agreements on oil, trade, defence, nuclear cooperation, and labour mobility have consequences for Indias ties with the U,S, and E.U.

4 Dec 2025 8:47 am