New Delhi News. केंद्रीय सड़क परिवहन एवं राष्ट्रीय राजमार्ग मंत्री नितिन गडकरी ने गुरुवार को कहा कि सरकार बिल्ड-ऑपरेट-ट्रांसफर (बीओटी) मॉडल के पुनर्गठन के लिए तैयार है, जिसके तहत दो लाख करोड़ की परियोजनाओं को लिए जल्द ही टेंडर जारी किए जाएंगे। यहां राष्ट्रीय राजधानी में ‘बिल्ड इंडिया इंफ्रा अवार्ड्स-2026’ के तीसरे एडिशन को संबोधित करते हुए गडकरी ने यह घोषणा की।गडकरी ने बीओटी के नए मॉडल पर जोर देते हुए कहा कि रिस्ट्रक्चर्ड, ट्रांसपेरेंट और इन्वेस्टर-फ्रेंडली फ्रेमवर्क के तहत 57,000 करोड़ के प्रोजेक्ट्स पहले ही दिए जा चुके हैं। उन्होंने कहा कि मजबूत बीओटी अप्रोच भारत के आर्थिक लक्ष्यों के साथ सस्टेनेबल इंफ्रास्ट्रक्चर ग्रोथ को बढ़ावा देगा। केंद्रीय मंत्री ने कहा कि बड़े एक्सप्रेस वे का विस्तार, लॉजिस्टिक कॉस्ट में 6 प्रतिशत की कमी, मजबूत स्ट्रेटेजिक बॉर्डर कनेक्टिविटी, और बायो-बिटुमेन और हाइड्रोजन मोबिलिटी जैसे ग्रीन रोड इनोवेशन, वर्ल्ड-क्लास इंफ्रास्ट्रक्चर की ओर भारत की यात्रा के मुख्य पिलर हैं। भारत का हाईवे नेटवर्क अगले कुछ सालों में ग्लोबल बेंचमार्क के बराबर पहुंचने के लिए तैयार है।उल्लेखनीय है कि ‘बिल्ड इंडिया इंफ्रा अवार्ड्स-2026’ का तीसरा एडिशन सभी सेक्टर में भारत के सबसे ज्यादा बदलाव लाने वाले इंफ्रास्ट्रक्चर प्रोजेक्ट्स को सम्मानित करता है। इसके तहत एचसीसी के चेयरमैन अजीत गुलाबचंद को बिल्ड इंडिया इंफ्रा आइकन अवार्ड दिया गया। विजेताओं के लिए गठित ज्यूरी में नीति आयोग के पूर्व सीईओ अमिताभ कांत, मुंबई पोर्ट ट्रस्ट व इंडियन पोर्टस एसोसिएशन के पूर्व चेयरमैन संजय भाटिया और पब्लिक पॉलिसी एक्सपर्ट ऑन इंफ्रास्ट्रक्चर वैभव डांगे समेत कुल 26 सदस्य शामिल थे।

Meta Platforms has signed a multi-billion dollar deal to rent artificial intelligence chips from Google to develop new AI models, The Information reported on Thursday, citing a person involved in the talks. The ‌report of ⁠the ⁠multi-year deal comes as companies pour billions into chips and AI infrastructure to meet demand for artificial intelligence.Meta and Google declined Reuters' request for comment. Earlier this week, Advanced Micro Devices said it would sell up to $60 billion in AI chips to Meta. ⁠The Facebook ‌owner earlier this month also signed a deal with Nvidia to buy its current and ⁠future AI chips. Reuters reported in December that Google was pushing to make its Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) a viable alternative to Nvidia's market-leading GPUs.

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Salt Lake’s resident son-in-law is the youngest-ever director of Indian Museum, the oldest in the nation. It has been a month since Sayan Bhattacharya, married to Sharmistha Chatterjee of Karunamoyee G Block, has taken charge at the 212-year-old institution. ADVERTISEMENTLast year, from being the curator, education, he was promoted to the post of deputy director. “There are good collections even in rural homes.”Sayan’s Indian Museum link has helped his local puja. “The governor described me as a man of ideas in a speech in Kerala, where I was on a tour with him,” said Sayan.

The bedrock of this solidarity between New Delhi and Jerusalem, Mr Modi reminded his audience, is based on a mutual acknowledgement of the threat posed by terrorism to both countries. On Thursday, India and Israel thus elevated their relationship to a ‘special strategic partnership’. The warmth between and the shared vision of Mr Modi and Mr Netanyahu have proved to be ballast to India’s ties with Israel. The impact of India’s approach to Israel is not limited to ties among India, Israel and Palestine. Mr Modi’s government cannot afford to alienate its other partners even as it embraces, rather tightly, Israel.

Holi, today, is as much about colours as it is about how the colours look on our clothes — and on camera. Men in the group are encouraged to wear white panjabis. When Bhawna Shah was a child, her elders insisted on wearing old clothes for Holi and donating them afterwards. Her choices range from white chikankari kurtas and multicoloured dupattas to white T-shirt and jeans. For our committee members, we suggest the colour white and particularly, a white safa pagdi-like headgear.

Rashmika Mandanna is now married to Vijay Deverakonda. February 26 has left Vijay, Rashmika's families, and their fans overwhelmed. Before getting married, Rashmika and Vijay had been dating for years. Also read: Rashmika Mandanna, Vijay Deverakonda announce their 'wedding of VIROSH': A look at their relationship timeline, they first met at...Meet Rashmika Mandanna's ex-fiance? Before getting involved with Vijay, Rashmika Mandanna was in realtionship with Kannada actor Rakshit Shetty.

They muscled their way past the Zimbabwean challenge in the must-win Super Eight game here on Thursday, registering a 72-run win. ADVERTISEMENTAfter being asked to bat, the Indian batsmen dealt in boundaries to put up a towering total of 256/4 — their highest in T20 World Cups. With South Africa winning the day’s first match, against the West Indies, the equation now is pretty simple for India. Sanju Samson and Axar Patel were the two changes in the Indian team, replacing Rinku Singh and Washington Sundar. When Surya was dismissed in the 15th over, the team score was 172/4.

Bollywood star Deepika Padukone has reportedly decided not to join Season 4 of The White Lotus. The White Lotus producers maintain their strict audition process, which requires all actors, including established stars, to perform auditions. A globally popular show:The White Lotus streams on HBO and is known worldwide for its unique storytelling and strong performances. Deepika's participation in the series would have brought her another important international project for her professional portfolio. Fans of The White Lotus feel disappointment about the show, but they remain optimistic about seeing her perform in exciting new roles soon.

A hoax bomb threat sent via email to the regional passport office in Calcutta on Thursday triggered a security sweep and mass evacuations. The disruption affected the head office, Passport Seva Kendras (PSKs), and post office PSKs, halting operations for several hours. ADVERTISEMENTSources said an email that was sent to the regional passport office email id mentioned a bomb threat, mentioning that “10 cyanide gas-infused RDX IEDs have been planted in the office that would blast at 1.15pm.”Passport officials alerted Kolkata Police. Many who had appointments scheduled at the Kasba PSK office on Thursday were evacuated. We understand that many people were inconvenienced, but adherence to protocol was necessary,” said a senior officer from the regional passport office in Calcutta.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on Wednesday that markets have miscalculated the AI threat to software companies, hours after the chip behemoth issued an upbeat sales forecast on strong AI demand. “I think the markets got it wrong,” Huang told CNBC, pushing back on fears that AI agents will cannibalise the enterprise software industry. ADVERTISEMENTInstead, he expects a broad swath of software firms to use agentic AI to develop their software and boost efficiency. In what he described as “counterintuitive”, Huang said that AI agents won’t replace these software tools, but will use them instead. He cited the internet browser and Microsoft’s Excel as examples of tools that AI agents will use.

The presidential order in the United States of America facilitating medical and investigational use of psychoactive plant cannabis would have gratified Sir W.B. Countries got together, often led by the US, and built international collaborative legal frameworks to control narcotic and psychoactive substances of which cannabis provides the largest share. Already Canada, the European Union, and some American states have legalised medical marijuana. Arguing that personal substance usages are not crime but preventable health problems, they have also decriminalised substance use. ADVERTISEMENTPortugal decriminalised the use of narcotic substances in 2001 and has reported positive results in many metrics, including spending less on policing and more on health.

A genetic study on mosquitoes from northeastern India and Southeast Asia has traced the evolution of human-biting preferences in certain species to around 1.8 million years ago. Scientists have found that the malaria-transmitting Anopheles species developed a taste for humans around 2 million years ago, a period overlapping with the arrival of Homo erectus, an extinct ancestral hominin species, into southeast Asia 1.8 million years ago. The mosquitoes’ shift away from feeding on tree-dwelling monkeys to feeding on humans, the study suggests, involved a two-stage process. Then, evolutionary changes leading to a preference for human body odour occurred after Homo erectus arrived in the region 1.8 million years ago. Scientists have known from evidence based on prehistoric stone tools that Homo erectus lived in southeast Asia around 1.8 million years ago.

He met his Indian counterpart commerce minister Piyush Goyal, days after the US Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariff, slowing down progress on bilateral trade agreement. Engaged in very fruitful discussions to expand our trade and economic partnership,” Goyal said in a social media post. Chief negotiators of both sides were scheduled to meet this week in Washington to finalise the legal text for the pact, but it was postponed after Supreme Court order. After the court order, Trump has warned countries to honour the deals agreed so far and has threatened higher tariffs on goods from nations that “play games”. The Supreme Court order was a major setback to Trump’s pivotal economic agenda in his second term.