UNITED NATIONS MISSION
On A(I) Mission, Centre may go with Indian intel GPUs are currently a precious resource for the AI industry and are manufactured only by a handful of American companies like Nvidia, Intel, and AMD. Sources said Indian data firms can procure GPU units and then provide them to local firms, startups,...
05 Jul, 2024, 11.07 AM ISTTelangana in talks with CDAC to set up 20 petaflops compute capacity in Hyderabad Telangana has requested the IT ministry to establish compute capacity in the proposed AI city in Hyderabad under the National Supercomuting Mission, saying that the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) has shown interest for the same....
05 Jul, 2024, 09.03 AM ISTFinally, a Russian scientist puts an American conspiracy theory to rest A persistent conspiracy theory in the US claims the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing was faked, suggesting NASA staged photos and videos. Russian scientist Yury Borisov, head of Roscosmos, confirmed the authenticity of lunar soil samples provided by the ...
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Only comprehensive reform can enable UNSC to effectively manage global conflicts: India India has urged for urgent reforms to the UN Security Council as the United Nations approaches its 80th anniversary next year, emphasizing the need to expand both its permanent and non-permanent categories to manage current global conflicts more eff...
26 Jun, 2024, 11.55 AM ISTIndia slams Pakistan for 'baseless & deceitful narratives' on Kashmir at UNGA During the recent UN General Assembly debate, India's representative reiterated the nation's firm stance on the integral status of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh within the country, emphasizing sovereignty and rejecting baseless narratives.
26 Jun, 2024, 09.01 AM ISTNew Zealand will increase its military contribution to N. Korea sanctions monitoring New Zealand will enhance its contribution to North Korea sanctions monitoring based in Japan, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon announced on Tuesday. The government will deploy New Zealand Defence Force ships for the first time and increase aircraft ...
18 Jun, 2024, 11.23 AM ISTAnand Mahindra enjoys tug-of-war between India & China! A video posted by the news agency ANI depicted troops from India and China participating in a tug-of-war game. According to the agency, Army officials confirmed the authenticity of the viral video, which allegedly captures a friendly league match he...
01 Jun, 2024, 08.35 PM ISTMeet Major Radhika Sen: The Indian peacekeeper championing gender equality in UN Missions Major Radhika Sen of the Indian Army, deployed to MONUSCO in the Democratic Republic of Congo, is set to receive the UN Military Gender Advocate of the Year Award. This prestigious award recognizes her outstanding contributions to promoting gender e...
31 May, 2024, 12.36 PM ISTIndian peacekeeper is UN Military Gender Advocate of the Year Major Radhika Sen served in eastern DRC with the UN peacekeeping mission, MONUSCO, from March 2023 to April 2024 as the Commander of the Engagement Platoon for the Indian Rapid Deployment Battalion.
29 May, 2024, 07.32 AM ISTRules eased for Green H2 producers in SEZs India Tuesday exempted solar and wind energy plants located in a special economic zone, or export-oriented units for production of green hydrogen and its derivatives that are also in the same zone, from buying modules and turbines from the approved ...
29 May, 2024, 12.44 AM ISTIndian peacekeeper to be honoured posthumously with prestigious UN medal for sacrifice in line of duty Indian peacekeeper Naik Dhananjay Kumar Singh, who served with the UN in the Democratic Republic of Congo, will be honored posthumously with the Dag Hammarskjold medal on May 30, alongside over 60 others. The UN commemorates International Day of Uni...
28 May, 2024, 05.25 PM ISTIndian fertilizer industry on track to reach Rs 1.38 lakh cr by 2032 amidst robust growth and strategic innovations In 2023, the Indian fertilizer market size stood at Rs 94,210 crore, driven by increased agricultural demands and strategic governmental interventions.
28 May, 2024, 02.42 PM ISTMajor Radhika Sen of India to receive prestigious 2023 UN Military Gender Advocate of the Year Award Indian woman peacekeeper, Major Radhika Sen, to be honored with prestigious military gender advocate award from United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
28 May, 2024, 10.43 AM ISTGAIL's 10 MW green hydrogen plant in Madhya Pradesh inaugurated India's largest natural gas transmission and distribution firm, GAIL (India) Ltd, has commissioned its maiden green hydrogen plant in Vijaipur, Madhya Pradesh. The 10-megawatt proton exchange membrane electrolyser for the green-hydrogen producing un...
26 May, 2024, 01.36 PM ISTGovt ready to fund 50% cost of creating 10,000 GPU capacity in India: Meity secy S Krishnan The Centre is willing to spend up to half of the cost of creating computing capacity of up to 10,000 graphic processing units (GPUs) in a push to the National Artificial Intelligence (AI) mission, funding can be done either through viability gap fun...
17 May, 2024, 06.31 PM ISTUN starts probe into Indian staff killed by unidentified strike in Rafah The United Nations is investigating an unidentified strike on a UN car in Rafah that killed its first international staff member in Gaza since October 7, 2023. Retired Indian Army officer Waibhav Anil Kale, who was working with the UN Department of ...
15 May, 2024, 03.06 PM ISTUnited World Wrestling suspends Bajrang Punia; Sports Authority of India approves training abroad but wrestler cancels trip United World Wrestling (UWW) suspended Bajrang Punia till the end of the year for refusing National Anti Doping Agency's (NADA's) dope test. The wrestler contested whereabouts failure notice from NADA and denied refusal to test. Mission Olympic Cell...
09 May, 2024, 03.43 PM ISTUkraine examines North Korean missile debris amid fears of Moscow-Pyongyang axis In previously unreported details of an investigation under way into the missiles, the office of Ukraine's top prosecutor, Andriy Kostin, also told Reuters that the failure rate of the North Korean weaponry appeared to be high.
07 May, 2024, 05.13 PM ISTIndia's nominee Jagjit Pavadia re-elected to International Narcotics Control Board In a post on X, Jaishankar stated, "Today, India's nominee Ms Jagjit Pavadia has been re-elected to the International Narcotics Control Board at elections held in New York, for the term 2025-2030. India secured the highest number of votes amongst al...
10 Apr, 2024, 08.47 AM ISTThree UN observers and a translator wounded in south Lebanon, peacekeeping mission says The U.N. peacekeeping mission known as UNIFIL, as well as unarmed technical observers known as UNTSO, are stationed in southern Lebanon to monitor hostilities along the demarcation line between Lebanon and Israel, known as the Blue Line.
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