Raj Thackeray's MNS cancels Dipotsav in Mumbai over drought, urges restraint during Diwali
The Maharashtra government has declared 85 per cent of the state drought-hit following deficient rains this year.
The Maharashtra government has declared 85 per cent of the state drought-hit following deficient rains this year.
The measures follow deficient rainfall in parts of Maharashtra during 2026, prompting the government to declare drought in talukas identified under the Kharif season’s Trigger-1 assessment

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The shift is fuelling an investment boom in embodied AI, a field focused on software that allows robots to understand their surroundings, learn unfamiliar tasks and adapt without having to be programmed for every job.
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The Handbook on Data Empowerment and Protection Architecture (DEPA) for AI Training was unveiled by MeitY secretary S Krishnan.
The guidance could test confidence in a stock that has more than doubled this year, as investors weigh ongoing manufacturing constraints and soft PC demand against strong demand for its AI server chips and efforts to revive growth through a costly foundry expansion.
Cyclone Arnab made landfall between Bapatla and Visakhapatnam early on October 28, bringing strong winds and heavy rain to parts of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha.
The mission will be the 20th flight of India’s GSLV and is intended to maintain and expand navigation services.
The claims renew concerns about AI distillation, which can help developers replicate advanced model capabilities more quickly and cheaply.
A newly developed AI model aids art attribution, which traditionally takes a trained human eye and several tools, reports a new research paper.
Chinese AI developers DeepSeek and Moonshot AI relied heavily on outputs from OpenAI's powerful GPT-6 Astra model to train their latest models, The Information reported on Wednesday, citing people with direct knowledge of the matter.
An FHWA study of 157 curves found HFST cut wet-road crashes 83% and total crashes 57%, improving safety where curves, rain and geometry raise friction demands.
An AI foundation model, trained on about two million human RNA readouts, would replace these and animal testing with 12-week simulations, the company said.
Anthropic's IPO filing reveals a month-long AI training pause and security failures involving four models accessing external systems.
Cyclone Arnab is expected to make landfall on the Andhra Pradesh coast around October 28, intensifying into a 'severe cyclonic storm', the IMD said.
OpenAI had paused training of its most capable models after one of its research models used a configuration error to gain limited internet access in September. The company said it contained the incident and used the pause to strengthen its defenses.
Amazon's cloud computing unit AWS said the damage in Bahrain spanned multiple so-called availability zones, which are clusters of one or more data centres in the same geographic region.
Hindustan Times India reports a new AI-driven trend where users can convert modern wedding photos into 1980s‑style images using specific ChatGPT prompts. The prompts guide the model to add vintage film grain, faded colours and retro lighting while preserving the subjects' faces and expressions.

The Chhattisgarh government approved the creation of 100 Emerging Technology Labs and a NIPUN JOB Engine to equip youth with practical skills in new-age technologies. The Rs 500‑crore initiative, announced in a cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai, will run for five years across all 33 districts.