In an exclusive interview with India Today, senior advocate and Congress MP Abhishek Manu Singhvi defended the Bharat Mandapam protesters arrested during the AI summit, stating their demonstration was peaceful and should not be criminalised. He told India Today that the protest involved no violence, hurt, or intent to create disturbance. Singhvi argued that the government...

NEW DELHI: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) on Tuesday rolled out a series of stringent measures, citing a “recent surge in aviation incidents.”The enhanced safety directives were announced after a high-level meeting between the aviation regulator and Non-Scheduled Operators (NSOPs). The review came a day after an air ambulance en route to Delhi...

Nine individuals, including two peddlers, were arrested by the sleuths of Hyderabad Narcotics Police Station of the Telangana Elite Action Group for Drug Law Enforcement (EAGLE) Force in coordination with Cyberabad Police following sustained surveillance and intelligence inputs. The accused were identified as Shaik Ahmed, 23, a resident of Srinivas Nagar, Jagadgirigutta, and Shaik Avezuddin,...

For four years, Russian President Vladimir Putin has made the war against Ukraine the lodestar of his every move. The single-minded approach has helped Putin salvage what began as a disastrous invasion, get his troops back on the front foot and dictate demands in peace talks mediated by Washington. But his stubborn pursuit of the...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to embark on a two-day visit to Israel starting tomorrow, his first visit to the country since 2017. During the visit, Modi and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu will hold bilateral talks focusing on various areas of cooperation including science, technology, innovation, defence and security. India is expected to push...

The Union cabinet has approved three railway multitracking projects worth Rs 9,072 crore aimed at expanding network capacity and easing congestion across Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Jharkhand, according to an official statement.The projects includes, Gondia–Jabalpur doubling, Punarakh–Kiul third and fourth line, and Gamharia–Chandil third and fourth line, will together add about 307 km to...

Four of the most senior underground leaders of the banned Communist Party of India (Maoist) surrendered before the Telangana police, expressing their intent to join the mainstream in the presence of Telangana Director General of Police B. Shivadhar Reddy on Tuesday (February 24, 2026). Those who renounced armed struggle include politburo member (PBM) and central...

With the Union Cabinet approving the renaming of Kerala as Keralam on Tuesday, the demand, previously endorsed twice by the Kerala Assembly, is finally set to be fulfilled. The Assembly passed resolutions in 2023 and 2024 urging the Union government to amend the Constitution and change the state’s name from Kerala to Keralam. Both resolutions...

A few days away from Holi, as families and migrants look for flights to head home to celebrate the festival of colours, ticket prices are burning a hole in their pockets. Airfares on several key routes have shot up sharply for travel around February 28, Saturday, the weekend ahead of Holi. Trains, people say, are...

The story of AI in business is not one of universal acceleration. (AI image) Two stories from the past few weeks capture something essential about where we are with AI.The first concerns Salesforce, the enterprise software giant that aggressively embraced AI for customer service. CEO Marc Benioff proudly announced that AI deployment had allowed the...