Ashish Arora, CEO of Nxtra by Airtel. Image: Amit Verma Fifty km from Chennai’s city centre, SIPCOT IT Park is home to a hyperscale data centre with a 38-megawatt capacity and 3,000 racks. A brief tour showcased Nxtra’s new artificial intelligence deployment in predictive maintenance, energy efficiency, and optimised capital expenditure—a first for India. Telecom … Read more
Washington: Donald Trump is expected to take a slew of executive actions on his first day as president to ramp up immigration enforcement and roll back signature Biden legal entry programs, a sweeping effort that will be led by incoming “border czar” Tom Homan and other Republican immigration hardliners, three sources familiar with the matter … Read more
Amit Chadha, CEO & Managing Director of L&T Technology Services. Image: Hemant Mishra for Forbes India LTTS to acquire Intelliswift Software in $110 million deal L&T Technology Services has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Intelliswift Software to strengthen its services in software product development, platform engineering, digital integration, data and AI, the Larsen & … Read more
New Delhi: The Congress on Thursday paid rich tributes to India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru on his birth anniversary, with Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi saying his democratic, progressive and inclusive values are the cornerstone of India and will always remain so.Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge hailed Nehru as the architect … Read more
Pickleball players during practice at Prabodhankar Thackeray Krida Sankul Vile Parle, Mumbai. Image: Swapnil Sakhare for Forbes India Arvind Prabhoo cannot conceal his excitement as India hosts the World Pickleball Championship Series for the first time. “It’s a great honour… we are extremely proud that the All India Pickleball Association (AIPA) has got such a … Read more
Hyderabad: Bumble, the women-first dating app, has today released its latest predictions to help singles take their connection from DM to IRL. Research from more than 40,000 Gen Z and millennial Bumble members around the world, including more than 2,000 singles in India, has revealed that dating is evolving with people feeling positive about the … Read more
Plastics are widespread in packaging, helping perishable goods stay fresh and safe to consume while reducing overall food waste and illness from contamination. Image credit: Shutterstock Before it threatened biodiversity, the oceans and the global food chain, plastics saved lives and transformed societies as a durable, malleable and cheap material. From the 1950s, plastics enjoyed … Read more
Drug trafficking is also often connected with other forms of crime, such as money laundering or corruption. Trafficking routes are used by criminal networks to transport other illicit products including firearms, human trafficking and wildlife trafficking. Drug trafficking affects every country as either source, transit or destination regions. Criminal networks traffic a range of drugs … Read more
Image: Shutterstock 1. Aliena Country: Singapore Category: Space Technology Year founded: 2018 CEO: Mark Lim Jian Wei Aliena’s flagship engine, called Music (which stands for Multi-Stage Ignition Compact), provides electric propulsion that enables small satellites to operate in very low earth orbits—those at approximately 250 and 350 kilometers in altitude. In March, Aliena raised $5.6 … Read more
New Delhi’s air quality hit a ‘severe’ level for the first time this season, with the Air Quality Index (AQI) reaching 418 on Wednesday. A worker walks across a railway track amid fog, in New Delhi, Wednesday, November 13, 2024. (PTI Photo) As the pollution worsens in New Delhi, experts at the COP29 climate summit … Read more