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Sparks AI Sovereignty Concerns NEW DELHI: Just over a day after Anthropic hailed India as its “second-largest market” and unveiled a major partnership with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Indian developers, enterprises and researchers found themselves locked out of the company’s most powerful artificial-intelligence tier — Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 — following a…

Principal secretary to PM PK Mishra NEW DELHI: India must increasingly build an “antifragile system” that emerges stronger through uncertainties and disruptions, principal secretary to PM, PK Mishra said on Saturday while highlighting that the nature of risks and vulnerability is changing. He also stressed on the need to “introspect and analyse” why all ideas…

NEW DELHI: India and the US remained locked in a tense stand-off over attacks on vessels in Gulf of Oman, with US signalling no relief for Indian mariners caught in the crossfire of the US-Iran conflict.After having twice summoned the American envoy over US military strikes on foreign-flagged ships carrying Indian mariners, India further escalated…

LONDON: An Indian man living in the UK has been jailed for 34 years for kidnapping, raping, torturing and beating up a woman after she refused to carry a suitcase of “unknown items” from Thailand to the UK.Gagandeep Singh (34), an Indian citizen living in Wandsworth, southwest London, was on Friday jailed on two counts…

Rajnath says growing presence of Nari Shakti will strengthen air force NEW DELHI: The first batch of five women National Defence Academy (NDA) entrants were among 231 flight cadets who were commissioned as officers in the Indian Air Force (IAF) following their graduation from Dundigal-based Air Force Academy in Telangana’s Hyderabad on Saturday.The 231 cadets…

India joins elite group of nations with BMD capability NEW DELHI: India has successfully conducted three consecutive flight-tests on June 10 and 11 (Wednesday and Thursday) to demonstrate its multi-layered ballistic missile defence system (BMD) capability to intercept long and medium-range missiles.The tests have put the country in the elite group of nations having BMD…

Flight Cadet Minakshi Kumari with family NEW DELHI: The story of Flight Cadet Minakshi Kumari, one of the five National Defence Academy (NDA) entrants of the first women batch that passed out as IAF officers from the Dundigal-based Air Force Academy on Saturday, began in Haryana’s Charkhi Dadri. Born in a family with a defence…

7 Indians held in crackdown on illegal work at UK parcel depots LONDON: Seven Indian nationals working for international parcel delivery company DPD in the UK are among nine suspected illegal workers arrested by immigration enforcement officers at multiple parcel delivery depots.Immigration enforcement officers raided DPD depots in Basingstoke, Hampshire and Newbury, Berkshire early Thursday…

SRINAGAR: A 19-year-old man from Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) was apprehended in Karnah sector of Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Friday soon after he crossed the heavily guarded LoC.“Acting on specific intelligence inputs, a joint team of Army and J&K police intercepted the individual near Simri village in Kupwara and prevented any potential security breach,” Army said.Police…

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney used a visit to Ireland on Saturday to reinforce his push for closer ties with Europe, arguing that medium-sized nations should work together rather than compete for favour with the United States ahead of next week’s G7 summit.Speaking at Trinity College in Dublin, Carney said Canada and the European Union…