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India’s food delivery market is set to see its next phase of growth driven by customer experience, faster deliveries and value-conscious consumption, according to leading aggregators Swiggy and magicpin.Anshoo Sharma, founder and chief executive of magicpin, said growth in 2026 will come from deeper merchant inclusion and catering to users who are increasingly focused on…
The Wordle word of the day on December 26 was speed, a word so familiar that it has stopped feeling like a choice. Speed is no longer something we pursue occasionally. It is something we live inside. It decides how quickly we expect replies, how intolerable silence feels, how cities are designed, how work is…
Representative image (AI-generated) WASHINGTON: The Trump administration has directed the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to expand efforts to revoke US citizenship from foreign-born naturalized Americans, setting internal targets of referring 100 to 200 denaturalization cases per month to the Justice Department in fiscal 2026, according to internal guidance reported this week. The directive…
India’s hiring story is less about speed and more about skills India’s job market closed 2025 on a note of confidence. Hiring expanded across sectors. Employers returned to the market with intent. Yet this was not a year of excess. It was a year of measured growth.According to the Foundit insights tracker (fit), hiring activity…
India’s power distribution companies need to move faster towards intelligent, reliable and consumer-focused networks, with technology adoption paired with greater consumer engagement, Power Minister Manohar Lal Khattar said on Sunday.Addressing a two-day National Conference on the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning in the power distribution sector at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, Khattar…
A Parliamentary panel has called for sweeping improvements to India’s insolvency framework, including a new advance ruling mechanism that would give stakeholders clarity even before a case is admitted under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC). The proposal is aimed at reducing avoidable litigation and safeguarding the time-bound nature of the resolution process, according to…
NEW DELHI: Airline operations across parts of the country may face disruptions after volcanic ash from Ethiopia’s Hayli Gubbi eruption began drifting toward western and northern regions, prompting the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Monday The ash plume, travelling at high altitudes and significant speed, is expected to enter Gujarat and move eastward…
NASA has revealed the discovery of a mysterious red celestial object speeding through the Milky Way at an extraordinary velocity. Named CWISE J1249, this enigmatic sphere is challenging astronomers’ understanding of stars, planets, and cosmic dynamics. It behaves like a rogue planet, resembles a failed star, moves faster than almost any object ever recorded, and…
GURGAON: A seven-year-old boy playing outside his house with his father was crushed to death by a car being driven by a teenager in Maruti Kunj on Friday evening.Witnesses recalled the sudden roar of a Maruti SX4 as it sped down the narrow lane and crashed into Yohan, a Class II student. The boy was…
BENGALURU: Luma AI has raised $900 million in Series C funding led by HUMAIN, the Public Investment Fund-backed AI company developing one of the world’s largest compute clusters, as the Palo Alto startup accelerates its effort to build multimodal artificial general intelligence capable of understanding and simulating the physical world.The round, also backed by AMD…
