United Spirits signals intent to sell RCB BENGALURU: IPL and WPL franchise Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) is up for grabs, with owners United Spirits Ltd (USL), the Diageo-controlled liquor company, expressing its intent to sell the sporting brand.USL said it had already initiated the sale process and was confident of completing the formalities by March…
Bengaluru: As artificial intelligence takes over more human tasks, industry veterans say the next generation must unlearn old ways of working and prepare for an era where “machines will take most decisions humans were once hired for.“Speaking at a fireside chat on “From Trends to Transformation: Building Tomorrow’s Skills” organised as part of the Bengaluru…
Bengaluru: With Karnataka legislative council elections for four seats—two each from the graduates’ and teachers’ constituencies—due early next year, Congress, BJP and JD(S) have begun preparations, including mobilising their networks among teachers and graduates.Local party functionaries and ticket aspirants have started motivating eligible teachers and graduates to register their names in the voter list. Nov…
Las Vegas: One way young engineers can stay relevant in a tech landscape that is rapidly evolving is to learn more about the foundational infrastructure that keeps many of the world’s technologies running. That’s what Sharat Chander, senior director of Java SE product management at Oracle, told TOI during the Oracle AI World Event in…
Bengaluru: Just when households thought the worst of inflation was behind them, here comes yet another shocker with yet another kitchen staple — ghee.Karnataka Milk Federation (KMF) has come up with a scorcher, raising the price of popular Nandini ghee by ₹90 per litre. With this rise, which takes effect immediately, a litre of Nandini…
Bengaluru: Srinivas Narayanan, CTO of B2B applications at OpenAI, says India is already the second-largest market for ChatGPT globally. An IIT Madras alumnus and former VP of engineering who led the applied engineering team, he recalls starting out in a 40-member team that grew rapidly, building products that captured global imagination and scaled across users,…
Bengaluru: Desperately in need of money, a mason and his wife killed their owner, a 65-year-old woman, at her residence on the ground floor of a two-storey building in Uttarahalli, south Bengaluru, on Tuesday. The duo tried to sell her 30gm mangalasutra to overcome financial difficulties, police said.The couple — Prasad Srisaila Makai, 26, and…
Bengaluru: Chief minister Siddaramaiah said Wednesday that Karnataka’s higher GST collections were driven by increased public spending on welfare guarantee schemes. In a speech read out at the Fiscal Policy Institute, he said, “These schemes have neither burdened the exchequer nor fueled inflation. In fact, by increasing consumption at the bottom of the pyramid, they…
Bengaluru: A police constable was assaulted and humiliated by her neighbours after she asked them to stop bursting firecrackers on the night of Nov 2. The noise from the crackers terrified her 11-month-old child, who was unwell for two days, she said.The constable’s neighbours, identified as Tejas Gowda and his family, were bursting crackers at…
Bengaluru: Amid the tunnel project controversy, a solution to reduce traffic congestion is up there, literally: A study commissioned by Bangalore Metro Rail Corporation (BMRCL) has found an overwhelming support for the proposed 37km double-decker flyover — while the existing surface roads remain untouched, the next two levels on the same stretch are built for…
