Technology

Amitabh Bachchan will soon be on Alexa. Amazon has announced a partnership with the 77-year-old Bollywood star who will bring his voice to Amazon’s digital assistant, making him the first voice of an Indian celebrity on Alexa. Bachchan Alexa skill will offer pranks, weather, advice, shayaris (Urdu poetry), motivational quotes …

As geopolitical tensions on the Ladakh border between India and China continue to simmer, the conflict hardly appears to be restricted at our physical borders. In more than two months, the Indian government has banned more than 200 apps that had some kind of link to China. Government officials, through …

India is betting that many global brands will be willing to reduce their dependence on China. Apple Inc.’s top iPhone assemblers are among the companies expected to gain approval to participate in a $ 6.6 billion stimulus program to bring manufacturing to India, according to people familiar with the matter, …

By: Express Web Desk | New Delhi | Updated: September 14, 2020 11:05:40 am Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison. (Proceedings) A Chinese company that has been monitoring 10,000 Indian individuals and organizations, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has also accumulated the personal data of more …

China seems to have something big on its mind, and its recent disputes with various nations, including the current border standoff, are perhaps only a small part of an overall big game, explosive findings from an investigation by the Indian Express revealed. More than 10,000 organizations and individuals in India …

Written by P Vaidyanathan Iyer | New Delhi | Updated: September 14, 2020 7:13:41 am On the list: Families of key politicians: Gandhis to Pawars, Scindias to Sangmas and Badals; at least 70 mayors; legislators from J&K and the Northeast. In the overseas key information database (OKIDB) developed by the …

NEW YORK: The owner of Tik Tok has chosen Oracle over Microsoft as its preferred suitor to buy the popular video-sharing app, according to a source familiar with the deal who was not authorized to speak publicly about it. Microsoft announced on Sunday that its offer for TikTok was rejected, …

AstraZeneca has resumed British clinical trials of its Covid-19 vaccine, one of the most advanced in development, after receiving the green light from safety watchdogs, the company said on Saturday. Late-stage trials of the experimental vaccine, developed with researchers at the University of Oxford, were suspended this week after illness …

Dehradun’s Bashar Ahmed with a 99,993 percentile emerged as the state leader in Uttarakhand, in the 2020 Joint Primary Entrance Exam (JEE), the results of which were declared Friday night. Despite being the first in the state, the 18-year-old was not celebrating his achievement the next morning; preferred to re-prepare …

Last week, Reliance Industries (RIL) achieved the coveted milestone of crossing $ 200 billion in market capitalization. There are less than 50 companies around the world that are valued at more than $ 200 billion. Morgan Stanley analyzed how the Mukesh Ambani-led firm compared to eight global firms when they …