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October 10, 2025 9:23 PM

Google faces stricter regulation in UK over search dominance

Google could be forced to change its search operations in the UK after it became the first company subject to new powers from Britain's competition regulator to tackle the dominance of Big Tech. Competition regulators have long had Alphabet-owned Go...

October 10, 2025 3:00 PM

CCRAS launches SPARK 4.0 to foster research among young ayurveda students

The Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences (CCRAS), under the Ministry of Ayush, on Friday announced the fourth edition of its flagship Studentship Program for Ayurveda Research Ken (SPARK) for 2025–26. The initiative aims to promote sc...

October 10, 2025 2:57 PM

How India’s biomedical research programme is boosting its research ecosystem and transforming public health

India has taken a significant leap forward in strengthening its biomedical research ecosystem with the approval by the Union Cabinet of Phase-III of the Biomedical Research Career Programme. The programme, launched in 2008–09, is a flagship Indo-U...

October 9, 2025 5:02 PM

Hollywood talent agency CAA says OpenAI’s Sora poses risk to creators’ rights

Hollywood's premier talent agency, Creative Artists Agency, said on Thursday OpenAI is exposing artists to "significant risk" through its new AI video-generating tool Sora. The Los Angeles-based CAA, founded in 1975, represents thousands of actors, ...

October 9, 2025 4:32 PM

Chile’s Atacama desert flower could hold key to drought tolerant crops

In Chile's arid Atacama, the driest desert in the world, scientists are studying a small, resilient flower that could hold genetic clues to help crops withstand worsening drought conditions driven by climate change. The Cistanthe longiscapa, known l...

October 9, 2025 4:13 PM

Astronomers spot young rogue planet gobbling up its surroundings

Just as Earth orbits the sun, most planets discovered beyond our solar system orbit a host star. But some are out there all by themselves, called rogue planets. While their origins are poorly understood, astronomers have now spotted a voracious one i...

October 8, 2025 9:54 PM

Jyotiraditya Scindia inaugurates SATCOM Summit at IMC 2025, unveils vision for global leadership in satellite communication

Union Minister for Communications Jyotiraditya M. Scindia on Wednesday inaugurated the Satcom Summit on “Space Networks for Universal Connectivity” at the India Mobile Congress 2025 (IMC 2025), calling it the beginning of a new revolution in digi...

October 8, 2025 9:18 PM

NITI Aayog unveils AI roadmap to empower 490 million informal workers

NITI Aayog on Wednesday launched a pioneering roadmap titled AI for Inclusive Societal Development, a first-of-its-kind national effort to harness the power of artificial intelligence (AI) and frontier technologies to transform the lives and liveliho...

October 8, 2025 9:02 PM

India’s space economy set to touch $44 billion by 2033: Jitendra Singh at India Mobile Congress 2025

Union Minister of State for Science and Technology Jitendra Singh on Wednesday said that India’s space economy will grow to around $44 billion by 2033, underscoring the role of landmark reforms and private sector participation in driving the countr...

October 8, 2025 3:41 PM

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi win 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for developing metal–organic frameworks

Scientists Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for the development of metal–organic frameworks", the award-giving body said on Wednesday. The more than a century-old prize is awarded by the Royal S...

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