Brazil’s Supreme Court has authorized the social media platform X to resume operations in the country after being banned for over a month due to non-compliance with court rulings.
Judge Alexandre de Moraes lifted the ban on Tuesday, October 8, after X paid approximately 28.6 million reals (around $5.17 million) in fines to the Brazilian government, Xinhua news agency reported, citing local media.
Tech billionaire Elon Musk on Sunday expressed gratitude towards Indian-origin engineer Ashok Elluswamy, who was the first recruit of Tesla’s Autopilot team, saying that without him, the company wouldn’t be where it is today.
“Thanks Ashok! Ashok was the first person to join the Tesla AI/Autopilot team and ultimately rose to lead all AI/Autopilot software. Without him and our awesome team, we would just be another car company looking for an autonomy supplier that doesn’t exist,” the Tesla CEO posted on X.
French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday, June5, congratulated “dear friend” Narendra Modi as the Bhartiya Janata Party-led NDA gets ready to form a government for the third consecutive time in India.
An Air India passenger on a flight bound for San Francisco said that several people experienced fainting spells inside the aircraft due to a lack of air conditioning after a delay of more than eight hours.
Ahead of the UN Summit of the Future, India’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ruchira Kamboj, has underscored India’s unwavering commitment to multilateralism.
Billionaire Elon Musk on Wednesday, May 29, attacked Microsoft-owned professional network LinkedIn, saying that the platform is “so cringe it will make your toenails curl”, as the Tesla CEO aims to bring job search on his X platform.
Oscar-winning sound engineer Resul Pookutty has launched a campaign for the Film & Television Institute of India (FTII) to withdraw its cases against the students. His campaign includes Cannes 2024 Grand Prix winner Payal Kapadia, who had led the historic 131-day protest in 2015 against the appointment of Gajendra Singh Chauhan as the FTII chairman.
The year 2015 saw one of the longest student protests in the history of Pune’s premier institute FTII for 139 days, between June and October, against the purely “political” appointment of Gajendra Chauhan as the institute’s head. Payal was among those who led the protests.
India needs economic engines at every district level for balanced regional development, cloud software major Zoho’s CEO Sridhar Vembu said on Saturday.
iNDICA NEWS BUREAU- The Consulate General of India in New York has said that an Indian student died in a bike accident in the US on Wednesday evening, May 22. Shri Belem Atchyuth was a student at the State University of New York. Offering condolences to the family of the deceased student, the Consulate General […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Friday, May 24, said that his X social media platform (Formerly Twitter) has reached 600 million monthly active users (MAUs).
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday, May 22, emphasized again that the government is committed to providing a conducive environment for startups to flourish.
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Sunday met Sri Lankan President Ranil Wickremesinghe in Indonesia during the 10th World Water Forum, Sri Lankan President’s Media Division (PMD) said.
Indian-American entrepreneur and author Vivek Wadhwa in a social media post questioned billionaire Elon Musk’s decision to choose China over India for Tesla’s manufacturing operations. Taking to X (formerly Twitter), Wadhwa wrote that “Elon is going to be the biggest loser” by picking China over India.
Indian tech industry leaders have come out in support of Ola Founder and CEO, Bhavish Aggarwal, after his tirade against Microsoft-owned LinkedIn for deleting his posts and “bullying Indians” into agreeing with the Big Tech platforms or canceling them out.
Five Indian sailors on board an Israeli-linked vessel seized by Tehran were released on Thursday and have departed from Iran, the Indian embassy announcing the a major diplomatic win for India said in Iran.
A student from Telangana, pursuing a master’s from a university in the US, has been reported missing in Chicago for a week, as per his family.
The Consulate General of India in Chicago said, in a post on X, that it was deeply concerned to learn that Rupesh Chandra Chintakindi has been incommunicado since May 2.
Veteran Congressman Sam Pitroda, facing fire over a string of controversial statements in the recent past, stepped down as the Chairman of the Indian Overseas Congress (IOC) on Wednesday.
The G20 sherpa and former NITI Aayog CEO, Amitabh Kant has said that India needs at least one million fast chargers to adopt electric vehicles (EVs) by 2030.
In a post on X, he said that instead of importing, the country needs to push localization content in manufacturing, with megawatt-hour charging for buses and commercial vehicles.
US Ambassador to India Eric Garcetti said on Wednesday that the US-India aviation partnership is about creating jobs and ensuring a free and open Indo-Pacific as he met Minister for Civil Aviation, Jyotiraditya Scindia, and had a ‘fruitful discussion’ with him. Minister Scindia and Ambassador Garcetti discussed the seventh US-India Aviation Summit, scheduled to be held in Washington, from June 24-26 this year.
US Ambassador to India, Eric Garcetti, on Monday extended Holi wishes to the people of India. In a video message shared on X, the US envoy Garcetti expressed warm wishes to all celebrating the festival of Holi. “I want to wish everybody a very happy Holi. We have this amazing gujiyas, which has a little bit of an American twist with some pistachios in here, beautiful rose water. There’s no better way than to celebrate Holi across the Indo-Pacific together,” Garcetti said in a video message while showcasing special Gujiyas adorned with an American twist.
US Ambassador Eric Garcetti said India and America are paving the way for a free, open, and prosperous Indo-Pacific as he hailed the ongoing joint exercise between the two nations, on Tuesday. A bilateral tri-service Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) exercise between India and the US — ‘Tiger Triumph-24’ — commenced on Monday and will continue on India’s Eastern Seaboard till March 31.
India’s Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Tuesday that the Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet train will be launched in 2026. “India’s first bullet train will be ready in 2026, and will run in one section from Surat,” the minister said.
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and venture capitalist Vinod Khosla got engaged in a public spat on X as the billionaire sued OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman over an alleged breach of original contractual agreements around AI.
US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) Chairman John Chambers and USISPF President and CEO Mukesh Aghi held a meeting with Tata Sons Chairman Natarajan Chandrasekaran at the company’s headquarters Bombay House in Mumbai. During the meeting, Mukesh Aghi and John Chambers presented Natarajan Chandrasekaran with USISPF’s coffee table book, “We The People,” which captures and commemorates 75 years of relations between India and US.
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