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Indian startup AI Farm is Call of Code's Asia Pacific regional winner

Global initiative Call for Code on Friday announced that India-based agri-tech startup AI Farm has been chosen as the Asia Pacific Regional Winner for developing an intelligent system that evaluates climate and soil conditions to provide farmers with information to adapt their crop strategies

India asks for record access to FB users' data in 2020 1st half

The requests by the Indian government to seek access to Facebook users' data further increased in the first six months of this year, second only to the US government, the social networking giant has revealed

India's reforms can raise medium-term growth rate: Fitch Ratings

Global ratings agency Fitch expects the Indian government's reform agenda in response to the coronavirus pandemic shock has the potential to raise the country's medium-term growth rate

Digital India has become way of life, says Modi

Lauding the Indian IT industry for providing services and products to the world, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said his government's flagship programme Digital India became a way of life, especially for the poor and marginalised

India records 50% rise in daily corona cases over two days

With 45,576 more coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours on Thursday, India witnessed a jump of over 50 per cent in such cases reported on Tuesday, pushing its cumulative tally to 89,58,483

Apollo, TataMD to offer COVID-19 testing across India

Apollo Hospitals and Tata Medical and Diagnostics (TataMD), a healthcare venture of the Tata group, on Thursday announced a partnership to introduce TataMD CHECK, the world's first CRISPR Cas-9 based diagnostic test, to help increase testing for COVID-19 across the country

Delhi accounts for 22.39% of India's corona deaths in 24 hours

In an alarming development, Delhi has accounted for 22.39 per cent of COVID deaths reported across India in the last 24-hour cycle: 131 of the 585 fatalities

Malabar naval exercise: US, Indian aircraft show coordinated manoeuvres

The ongoing Malabar naval exercise in the Indian Ocean Region witnessed coordinated operations involving fighter jets and other aircraft of the Indian Navy and its US counterpart from the decks of INS Vikramaditya and USS Nimitz respectively

India, NDB sign $500M agreement for NCR public transport project

The New Development Bank (NDB) on Thursday inked an agreement to extend $500 million in loan to India for the Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut Regional Rapid Transit System Project

77% Indians optimistic about economic recovery: Report

About 77 per cent of Indians are optimistic of an economic recovery and business revival, and 27 per cent believe the turnaround could happen in the next three months, said a new survey on Thursday

India shows jump of 30% in new Covid cases since Diwali

After the Diwali weekend and Bhai Dooj celebrations came to an end, India recorded more than 30 per cent jump in new cases of COVID-19 with 38,617 new cases reported in past 24 hours pushing the cumulative the tally to 89,12,907, data from the Union Health Ministry showed on Wednesday

House to house Covid survey in Delhi likely from this weekend

To track the COVID-19 virus amid rising cases in the national capital, India's Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) in coordination with Delhi government has planned to conduct house to house surveys beginning this weekend

India needs to limit carbon emissions: G20 climate report

As the world's leading economies are directing trillions of dollars towards COVID-19 recovery packages, a significant proportion is going to fossil fuel industries without climate-related conditions, risking clean energy opportunities in the coming decade, a G20 climate performance report said on Wednesday

Number of COVID-19 deaths far higher than what Nepal government claims, officials say

As of Tuesday, the number of deaths from COVID-19 in the country stands at 1,247. So far, 211,475 have been infected

Biden to strengthen India ties alongside Harris

Joe Biden, who will take over as United States President in January, has told Prime Minister Narendra Modi that alongside Kamala Harris he wants to strengthen and expand relations between their countries