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BENGALURU: India’s next-generation Fastag system may not require a physical tag at all. Vehicles could be identified through roadside cameras, their type and number detected in real time, and tolls deducted automatically without a windshield sticker, Pramod Varma, a key architect of India’s digital public infrastructure (DPI), said on Tuesday.Speaking at the ConvoZen Conversational AI…
Saina Nehwal (Image credit: X) Saina Nehwal’s retirement, announced in a podcast, was generally received with a sense of ennui. Out of circuit for almost two years, the badminton world accepted the former world No.1’s absence as a receding hairline. The inevitable that happens with an athlete as years and injuries pile on. Reassessment and…
Muhammad Binghatti Dubai’s ‘Rockstar Architect’/ Image: Forbes Middle East In Dubai’s crowded skyline, where glass towers rise and vanish with dizzying speed, a handful of buildings announce themselves before you read the name on the deed. The stacked balconies. The sculpted voids. The aggressive geometry. You do not need a billboard to know who built…
Long before Donald Trump, there was an American political figure ubiquitously reviled on late-night shows: Dick Cheney. He was often seen as evil incarnate, the epitome of late-stage capitalism, and in time would be compared to Darth Vader: Darth Sidious’ over-glorified apprentice whose claim to fame was murdering unarmed children. Disturbingly, or perhaps with a…
Dick Cheney (AP file photo) Former US vice president and businessman Dick Cheney on Tuesday died at the age of 84. He was a key advocate for the invasion of Iraq and a major force behind America’s “war on terror.”Cheney served under two US presidents, first as defence secretary during the Persian Gulf War under…
