In its relentless drive to bring everyday items to customers faster, Amazon has shifted expectations from two-day delivery to same-day and even within an hour. Now, with robots, artificial intelligence and even eyewear, it is working to pare seconds off each delivery. On Wednesday, Seattle-based Amazon showed off advanced eyeglasses for delivery workers for the... Read More

Image used for representation purpose only. The rupee appreciated 13 paise to 87.80 against the U.S. dollar in early trade on Thursday (October 23, 2025), supported by optimism on the U.S.-India trade deal front. Forex traders said foreign fund inflows, a positive trend in domestic equities and risk-on sentiments boosted investor sentiments. At the interbank... Read More

Reddit said in the complaint that the data-scraping companies circumvented its data protection measures [File] | Photo Credit: REUTERS Social media platform Reddit sued artificial intelligence startup Perplexity in New York federal court on Wednesday, accusing it and three other companies of unlawfully scraping its data to train Perplexity’s AI-based search engine. Reddit said in... Read More

A view of the area around Akshardham Temple covered with smog as AQI deteriorates to “very poor” category, in New Delhi. | Photo Credit: ANI The Air Quality Index (AQI) in Delhi and its National Capital Region on Thursday (October 23, 2025) morning remained under the “very poor” category with the Graded Response Action Plan... Read More

‘The Burning Earth: An Environmental History of the Last 500 Years’ by Indian-origin historian Sunil Amrith has been named the winner of this year’s British Academy Book Prize, a prestigious 25,000-pound award that celebrates the world’s best works of non-fiction. Amrith, a Professor of History at Yale University in the U.S., was born in Kenya... Read More

Olympic gold medallist Abhinav Bindra carries the Olympic flame in the Paris 2024 Torch Relay. File | Photo Credit: ANI Olympic gold medallist Abhinav Bindra was on Wednesday (October 23, 2025) selected as a torch-bearer for next year’s Winter Games. The Winter Olympics 2026 will be held between February 6 and February 22 at Milan... Read More

Police personnel investigate the site after at least four gangsters, including wanted Ranjan Pathak, have reportedly been shot dead in an encounter conducted by a joint team of Delhi Police Crime Branch and Bihar Police, in Rohini area, New Delhi, on October 23, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI Four wanted criminals allegedly involved in multiple... Read More

The complaint, not previously reported, was shared with Reuters ahead of its publication [File] | Photo Credit: REUTERS Apple was hit with a complaint to EU antitrust regulators by two civil rights groups on Wednesday over the terms and conditions of its App Store and devices for allegedly breaching landmark rules aimed at reining in... Read More

Image used for representation | Photo Credit: Reuters More than 600 people fled one of Myanmar’s most notorious scam centres and crossed into Thailand, a Thai provincial official told AFP on Thursday (October 23, 2025), after a military raid on the compound. “677 people fled from the scam centre” KK Park in Myanmar across the... Read More

U.S. Vice President JD Vance and other envoys projected optimism on Tuesday (October 22, 2025) about Gaza’s fragile ceasefire agreement, calling progress better than anticipated as they visited a new center in Israel for civilian and military cooperation. Mr. Vance noted flare-ups of violence in recent days but said the ceasefire that began on Oct.... Read More