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AI has seen remarkable growth in recent years: Compared with 2018, when a 340 million-parameter model was considered "big", ChatGPT today has 1.8 trillion parameters, Gemini 1.5 trillion

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Sukumar's Pushpa 2: The Rule, a blockbuster that hit over Rs 1,400 crore at the domestic BO, is a Telugu film, also released in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam, and Kannada

Cinema hall, Kashmir, South Kashmir

New Delhi [India], January 9: VoltUp, India's leading Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS) startup, has announced its plan to deploy 40,000 e-2wheelers in partnership with Revamp Moto.  Over the next two years, VoltUp will be investing over Rs. 750 crores to deploy cutting-edge infrastructure and network expansion that will enhance VoltUp's MaaS offering for last-mile mobility.

VoltUp and Revamp Moto Partner to transform last-mile mobility; to deploy 40,000 e-2wheelers

Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], January 9: Hettich, a leading manufacturer of innovative furniture fittings, built-in appliances, and door hardware solutions, has achieved outstanding results through a recent advertising campaign on Quora. The campaign aimed to enhance brand awareness and engagement among homeowners, interior designers/architects, and OEMs/builders, by showcasing Hettich's cutting-edge products in a unique and compelling way.

Hettich Achieves Remarkable Success with Innovative Quora Ads Campaign

Gurugram (Haryana) [India], January 9: BMW Group India is all set to showcase its pioneering mobility products at the upcoming Auto Expo 2025 (Bharat Mobility Global Expo 2025). BMW Group India pavilion will be located at Hall No. 6, Bharat Mandapam at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi from 17 - 22 January 2025.

BMW Group India gears up for a powerful showcase at Auto Expo 2025

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Revenue for the company grew 5.6 per cent to Rs 63,973 crore in Q3 FY25. Sequentially, the firm's revenue declined by 0.4 per cent

Subrahmanyan's '90-hour workweek' formula is one step ahead of Infosys founder Narayan Murthy's suggestion of working 70-hours a week

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Veteran writer, poet and filmmaker Pritish Nandy breathed his last on Wednesday at the age of 73

Pritish Nandy

The company will utilise the raised funds to scale its two-wheeler energy solution to over 1 lakh vehicles over the next two years while advancing the deployment of 1 GWh of energy storage

EMO Energy

At a median level, users earn dividends about ten times annually. Banking activity includes 116 P2P banking transactions against 318 outgoing payments, Cred Money data shows

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A joint session of the US Congress presided over by Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday formally certified the November 5 presidential elections, paving the way for the swearing-in of Donald Trump as the 47th president of the United States on January 20.
Harris, 60, presided over the ceremonial function of the joint session during which votes from each of the states were tallied and certified during the ceremony that lasted for about 45 minutes. Harris, who was the Democratic presidential candidate, lost to Trump in the November 5 general elections. She presided over the joint session in her capacity as the vice president of the United States.
The state of the vote for the president of the United States as delivered to the President of the Senate is as follows. The whole number of the electors appointed to vote for President of the United States is 538. Within that whole number the majority is 270. The votes for president of the United States are as follows: Donald J Trump of the 

Donald Trump, Trump

US Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday presided over the certification of her defeat to Donald Trump four years after he tried to stop the very process that will now return him to the White House.
Her task was ceremonial and her remarks perfunctory. Standing on the dais, Harris passed copies of each state's election results to lawmakers, and she stood silently with her hands clasped in front of her while they were read out loud.
When the process was finished, Harris announced Trump's victory. She smiled tightly as Republicans gave the next president standing ovation.
The chair declares this joint session resolved, Harris said at the end. "Thank you."
She shook a few hands and kissed a few lawmakers on the cheek before departing. The entire session lasted less than a half hour.
In a video message released in the morning, Harris described her role as a sacred obligation to ensure the peaceful transfer of power.
As we have seen, our democracy can be fragile," she said. And it is 

Kamala Harris, Kamala, Harris

Challenging the decision of the Biden Administration to investigate the activities of Indian billionaire Gautam Adani and his companies, an influential Republican lawmaker on Tuesday said such selective actions risk damaging critical alliance partners.
In a strongly worded letter to US Attorney General Merrick B Garland, Congressman Lance Gooden, member of the House Judiciary Committee, demanded answers on the Justice Department's selective prosecution of foreign entities and the potential harm such actions pose to US's global alliances and economic growth and that if there is any Geroge Soros connection to it.
The Department of Justice's selective actions risk damaging critical alliances with key partners like India, one of America's strongest allies in the Asia-Pacific region, Gooden said in his letter dated January 7.
Instead of pursuing cases with tenuous jurisdiction and limited relevance to US interests, the DOJ should focus on punishing bad actors at home, rather than chasing

Gautam Adani, Adani

The temporary work permits are the only real way to employ Indian immigrants in the US, since national caps make it nearly impossible for them to get a green card

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IT major Microsoft will invest USD 3 billion in India for the expansion of cloud and AI infrastructure in the country, the company's chairman and CEO Satya Nadella said on Tuesday.
There is a fantastic momentum in India where people are pushing for a multi-agent kind of deployment.
"I am really really excited to announce the single largest expansion we have ever done in India by putting USD 3 billion additional dollars to expand our Azure capacity," Nadella said.
He said that the company is doing a lot of regional expansions in India.
Nadella said that Microsoft's mission to empower every person and organisation in India drives the company.
"To that end it is about being able to ensure that the human capital of this country is able to continue to scale, take advantage of immense opportunity and potential the technology has. That's why we are very excited to announce today our commitment, which we have always had, to train 10 million people around AI skills by 2030," Nadella said.

Satya Nadella,Satya,Nadella

At least five cases of HMPV have been reported in India, all of them among children

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An earthquake of magnitude 7.1 shook Tibet, with strong tremors felt in neighbouring Nepal, India, Bhutan, and parts of China

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