Chinmoy Krishna Das was arrested in November 2024 on sedition charges for allegedly disrespecting the national flag.
September 11, 2026 10:46 UTC
Chinmoy Krishna Das was arrested in November 2024 on sedition charges for allegedly disrespecting the national flag.
He failed JEE and turned down an IIT seat; years later, Arjun Jain became an IIT Bombay professor. It did not, however, end his interest in computer science or research. Years later, Jain returned to IIT Bombay, this time as a professor working in computer vision.After his first unsuccessful attempt, Jain could not afford another year of coaching in Kota. He enrolled in Computer Science and Engineering at RV College of Engineering in Bengaluru.The decision turned out to be important for his academic career. Instead, he completed his engineering degree and continued towards research.Jain later pursued a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Saarland.
UPI now dominates Indian merchant payments, significantly reducing card usage (AI image)How big has UPI actually gottenWhere cards actually stand todayWhy debit cards got hit the hardestCredit cards are shrinking as a share — but not disappearingA market that's actually still shallowCards are quietly becoming part of UPISo does UPI make cards less useful? Of that, UPI's person-to-merchant (P2M) share hit a record 77.3%, up from 74.9% a year earlier.Credit cards, meanwhile, slipped to 17.7% of merchant payments, down from 19.8% the year before.Debit cards also fell, from 3.9% to 3.2%.That shift isn't new; it's just been building for years. Worldline's 2025 data shows debit card usage at physical stores fell nearly 8% year-on-year, even though more than a billion debit cards are still in circulation.The report describes it plainly. As a plastic object you carry in your wallet and swipe at a machine, UPI has already made cards close to unnecessary for daily spending in India. Debit cards especially now look like a product mostly kept alive by ATM withdrawals rather than shopping.Credit, as a financial product, is a different story.
Chinese soldiers alongside a short-range ballistic missile during an exercise. (image credit: Chinese military)Anthropic has revealed how state-linked actors have been attempting to misuse its Claude AI models to develop weapons systems and run intelligence operations, a disclosure that carries particular weight for India given the geography involved. The actors effectively used Claude Code in place of human software engineers, tasking different AI instances with writing code, conducting research, and reviewing each other's work. Anthropic noted a live field test conducted in Yemen was brought back to Claude for failure analysis within hours, underlining just how operationally embedded these tools had become. The report also highlights how AI can be leveraged by certain organisations to give them ca=apabilities that are associated with mainstream organisations.
The gift comes at a time when New Delhi and Moscow are looking to broaden their longstanding strategic partnership beyond traditional areas of cooperation.
Putin, who landed in India on Friday for the BRICS, is accompanied by foreign minister Sergey Lavrov and first deputy prime minister Denis Manturov.
Red mangroves have spread across wetlands and estuaries, forming dense thickets that block waterways, alter water flow and crowd out native plants. Their shade protects the soil beneath them, but also reduces sunlight available to native wetland plants. Management efforts may include cutting, uprooting, treating regrowth and restoring native wetland plants. The red mangroves introduced in 1902 were planted as a tool to protect shorelines. Today, Hawaii faces the task of protecting its native wetlands from that same introduction.
A scientist searching a San Mateo County creek for signs of habitat conditions for threatened California red-legged frogs spotted an oddly shaped object that initially appeared to be an ordinary rock. Instead, it turned out to be a remarkably well-preserved tooth belonging to an extinct Pacific mastodon. Although mastodons are often associated with the better-known American mastodon, scientists recognise the Pacific mastodon as a distinct species. The species was formally recognised in 2019 following research on mastodon remains from Southern California. They ranged across parts of western North America, with Pacific mastodon remains identified in California, Idaho, Oregon and, more recently, parts of Mexico.
“You try to keep things as sacred as you can”: How LeBron James and Savannah James quietly protected daughter Zhuri James’ childhood from the spotlight before introducing her to the world
Union road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari addresses a session at the Global Fintech Fest 2026, in MumbaiHow will it work? FASTag penetration crosses 98%One Tag to let users switch banks
The Delhi Police has sought two days' custody of Shubham and Sudhanshu, saying both accused need to be confronted with each other.
Former Nagaon DC Devasish Sharma, who recently resigned from the IAS, will contest the Oct 6 Lok Sabha bypoll for the BJP amid Congress demands for an EC probe
Mukeshkumar Somabhai Chaudhari was charged by a federal grand jury in Minnesota. What does the indictment allege? What are the charges against Chaudhari? Who is Mukeshkumar Somabhai Chaudhari? Any sentence would be decided by a federal district judge after considering the US Sentencing Guidelines and other statutory factors.The DOJ identifies Chaudhari as an Indian national.
