May 2025

Russia-India ties deepen: Putin to visit India for annual bilateral summit

Russian President Vladimir Putin has accepted Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s invitation to visit India for the upcoming annual bilateral summit, the Kremlin confirmed on Monday. | Photo Credit: Russian President Vladimir Putin has accepted Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s invitation to visit India for the annual high-level meeting as the two leaders held a telephone conversation,

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Upcoming Tata & Mahindra SUVs You Must Wait For In 2025

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India’s two major car manufacturers, Tata Motors and Mahindra & Mahindra have a major focus on electric vehicle (EV) market, with commitments to introduce 10 new EVs and 7 new BEVs by 2030, respectively. In fact, the year 2025 will also be action-packed for both carmakers as several new ICE and electric models are ready

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GPT-4o update gone wrong: What OpenAI’s post-mortem reveals about sycophantic AI | Technology News

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OpenAI’s GPT-4o update was intended to improve the “default personality” of one of the AI models behind ChatGPT so that user interactions with the chatbot felt more intuitive and effective across various tasks. The problem was it, instead, led to ChatGPT providing responses that were “overly flattering or agreeable – often described as sycophantic”. Five

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Ancient Indian skeleton still waits for permanent address

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Cherylann Mollan BBC News, Mumbai Roxy Gagdekar Chhara BBC Gujarati, Vadnagar Kushal Batunge/BBC The skeleton has been placed inside a makeshift tent for now A 1,000 year-old human skeleton buried sitting cross-legged in India is still without a museum to house it because of bureaucratic wrangling, six years after it was unearthed. Archaeologist Abhijit Ambekar

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Spain’s blackout highlights renewables’ grid challenge

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The cause of last week’s massive power outage in Spain and Portugal remains unclear but it has shone a spotlight on solar and wind energy, which critics accuse of straining electricity grids. The rise of renewables presents a challenge for power grids, which must evolve to adapt as countries move away from fossil fuels. Maintaining

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The Rise of Middle-Class Hindi Magazines: A Study of “Everyday Reading” and the Transformation of Popular Print Cultures

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When a beguiling, vintage photograph of a lost-in-a-book Meena Kumari features on a book cover, one expects pleasure, even from an academic study investigating reading for pleasure. Everyday Reading by Aakriti Mandhwani sparked magazine-reading memories of my younger days. Print culture was the big game changer of the 1920s, much like AI today. By the 1940s, cheaply

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Why Dilip Kumar Never Sang In Mughal-e-Azam

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‘K Asifsaab was very definite that ‘woh Hindustan ka honewala Badshah hai — woh gana nahin gayega.’ Dinesh Raheja recalls a memorable encounter with Naushad on the legendary composer’s 19th death anniversary on May 5. IMAGE: Madhubala and Dilip Kumar in Mughal-e-Azam. When I visited Naushad at his green-fringed Bandra bungalow in northwest Mumbai, circa

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Greg Abel’s biggest challenge — is Berkshire Hathaway stock worth the ‘Buffett’ premium without Warren Buffett?

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When beloved billionaire investor Warren Buffett announced his retirement at Berkshire Hathaway’s 60th shareholder meeting on May 3, it caught many by surprise, including his designated-successor Greg Abel. The 94-year-old, along with his longtime friend, late Charlie Munger, grew the company into a $1.2 trillion conglomerate, and over time his acument has bought the company

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Feeling Bloated After Meals? Add These Kitchen Ingredients To Ease Digestion

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Picture this – you skipped the takeout and had home-cooked dal-chawal expecting to feel great. But what happens instead? You end up feeling heavy and bloated. We have all been there. Consultant nutritionist Rupali Datta states, “Even homemade meals can sometimes cause discomfort due to specific ingredients, portion sizes, and eating habits.” Hence, consider adding

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Rishabh Pant’s Punjab Mockery Backfires As Shreyas Iyer’s PBKS Crush LSG Again, Pushing Them To Brink Of IPL 2025 Elimination | Cricket News

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Rishabh Pant’s cheeky comment about Punjab Kings after the IPL 2025 auction has come back to haunt him in dramatic fashion. The Lucknow Super Giants skipper, who had mocked PBKS for their mega auction strategy, now finds himself under fire as his side slumps near the bottom of the IPL table. Pant, who was signed

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