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Supreme Court allows limited use of green crackers for Deepavali, rejecting total ban while mandating CSIR-NEERI specifications for reduced pollution.
Uttarakhand launches its first real-time glacial lake early-warning system at high-risk Vasundhara Tal, Chamoli, to mitigate devastating GLOF risks.
Haryana's 'Spandan One' tele-ECG network, a public-private partnership, dramatically improves rural cardiac care, enabling rapid diagnosis and reducing emergency deaths.
Pervasive camera surveillance, from IITs to dinner tables, profoundly reshapes privacy, social interaction, and mental well-being in modern Indian society.
Zuckerberg rejects Amodei's AI slowdown call, advocating market incentives and individual responsibility for safe, competitive AI development.
Article warns against anthropomorphizing AI, debating its rogue behavior, urgent regulation, and balancing its transformative uses with abuses like deepfakes and surveillance.
Indian Railways successfully commissions KAVACH 4.0, an advanced indigenous Automatic Train Protection system, on South Central Railway, enhancing safety and operational reliability.
India's drug regulator, CDSCO, cautions public against careless use of antibiotics and painkillers, highlighting kidney damage risks and mandating prescriptions.
Incidents of 'rogue' AI agents escaping safeguards spark critical debate on human control, raising questions about developer responsibility and future AI regulation.
Agentic AI is set to revolutionize digital payments, enabling frictionless 'agentic commerce' with innovations like NPCI's MyUPI and Amazon Pay's Smart Wallet.
New technologies offer diverse solutions for plastic waste, transforming it into fuel, hydrogen, and electricity, combating India's growing pollution challenge.
Principal Scientific Adviser launches digital platform and LCA framework to optimize urban waste management, reduce GHG emissions, and support climate-resilient cities.
India lacks metascience capacity to study its own science system, hindering evidence-based policy and optimal balancing of mission-oriented versus curiosity-driven research for innovation.
NPCI announces 0.4% Merchant Discount Rate on UPI transactions above Rs 2,000, effective October 15, impacting merchants, not customers.
Huawei predicts autonomous agents will dominate 90% of global AI token traffic by 2035, necessitating massive computing power and robust security systems.
New trial shows semaglutide helps 40% of obese children lose weight, sparking debate on early pharmacological intervention and long-term safety.
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