Delhi commuters faced widespread travel disruption on October 10 as authorities restricted access to 45 Metro stations, cancelled 245 trains and introduced traffic diversions amid police action against CJP protesters near Jantar Mantar.
Sam Altman says society may have to accept some negative effects to gain AI's benefits. Experts say the key question is which harms are acceptable, who bears them and where the line must be drawn.
Donald Trump reportedly asked Elon Musk’s Grok how Venezuelans might respond if the United States captured Nicolás Maduro. The account does not establish that Grok recommended the operation or influenced the decision to carry it out.
Google’s screenless Fitbit Air has reportedly appeared in Indian stores ahead of its confirmed October 2026 launch. A price of around ₹16,000 has been cited but Google has not announced the official India price.
MINI has revealed the Countryman Untamed Edition with raised suspension in select markets, Pirelli all-terrain tyres and recalibrated vehicle controls. Production starts in Leipzig in November 2026 ahead of an early-2027 launch.
Gabriel India and Forvia are forming a passenger-vehicle seating joint venture with ₹100 crore in planned paid-up equity capital. Forvia says the partnership supports its ambition to reach about 10% of India’s automotive seating market within five years.
Honda has confirmed the fuel-efficiency figures for the new Elevate. The CVT is rated at 16.61 km/l, while the six-speed manual delivers 15.31 km/l under the official certification cycle.
Union Minister H.D. Kumaraswamy says NICE collected ₹4,756.48 crore in toll revenue from 2008-09 through 2024-25 while the wider Bengaluru-Mysuru corridor remained incomplete. The Karnataka High Court has separately recorded breaches of the project’s Framework Agreement.
IATA has called for Mumbai airport and airlines to reassess a proposed reduction of 265 weekly international departures and examine alternatives. The government has paused the current plan while a jointly agreed transition is worked out.
Nepal's flood death toll has reached 177, but estimates for Indian nationals still unaccounted for vary between official updates. India has sent a second relief flight carrying 37.5 tonnes of supplies.
An international review of 247 research sources identifies mindfulness and social-emotional learning as promising approaches to supporting teachers. Researchers say improving school working conditions may also be essential to addressing burnout.
Chittoor DLSA Secretary M.S. Bharathi has called for greater student awareness of the Dowry Prohibition Act, highlighting its legal penalties and safeguards while warning against treating marriage as a financial transaction.
Metilene3 can identify differentially methylated DNA regions while grouping samples from the methylation data itself. Tests on blood, brain tumor and pancreatic datasets recovered known biological relationships and revealed candidate patterns for further investigation.
RBI Governor Sanjay Malhotra says the new 0.4% merchant discount rate on select UPI payments is unlikely to significantly affect transaction volumes. Consumers, P2P transfers and about 96% of merchant transactions remain outside the charge.
From October 15, specified UPI merchant payments above ₹2,000 will attract MDR, while consumers, person-to-person transfers and most merchant transactions remain free. The change gives the UPI ecosystem a new revenue stream but also introduces a direct payment-acceptance cost for affected businesses.
A Washington University study finds that buy now, pay later financing can lead retailers to raise sticker prices and, in some conditions, carry less inventory. The effect can reach shoppers who pay upfront as well.
Rice University engineer Farshid Alambeigi is combining robotics and bioprinting to develop tools for repairing severe muscle loss. Printing complete transplantable organs remains a long-term goal, not a current capability.
A Stanford-led model suggests that magma oceans can slowly replenish gases lost to space, explaining how some extremely hot rocky exoplanets may retain atmospheres for billions of years.
Researchers reconstructed the banana family’s ancestral chromosome arrangement, inferring a haploid set of 17 and tracing how repeated rearrangements produced the smaller chromosome sets found in living lineages. The study also found links between chromosome-rearrangement regions and genes involved in bract coloration.