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startup Kombai has raised $4.5 million in a seed round led by Stellaris Venture Partners and Foundation Capital, the Pune-based company said on Tuesday. The funding also saw participation from some chief technology officers and software startup executives as angel investors. Kombai, founded by two former Mindtickle senior executives, said it will use the capital to continue investing in research and development, accelerate improvements to its base models, build compatibility with a range of libraries and frameworks used by developer teams and elevate the developer experience around the product. The company builds new artificial intelligence models that can understand and code user interface (UI) designs like humans. It is also set to launch its public research preview on Wednesday. With a mission to make frontend development more efficient for the 5 million frontend and 15 million fullstack developers around the world, Kombai lets developers with design files get production-quality UI code with just one click per component. The UI code can then be downloaded or copied into integrated development environments, modified and incorporated in codebases. User experience (UX) has become increasingly important for businesses, because of which user interfaces have become more and more sophisticated, leading to increased demand and complexity of frontend development, Kombai cofounder and CEO Dipanjan Dey said. “Developers still spend a significant amount of their working time, ranging from 25% to 75%, on procedural code such as styles (CSS), DOM (HTML), and framework-specific boilerplate,” Dey said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has taken multiple shots at the West on the opening day of an economic summit in South Africa

John Warnock, who helped invent the PDF and co-founded Adobe Systems, has died

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo will meet with Chinese officials and American business leaders in Beijing and Shanghai next week amid efforts to stabilize relations that have sunk to historic lows

Russian President Vladimir Putin will be notably absent when Chinese President Xi Jinping and other leaders from the BRICS group of emerging economies begin a three-day summit in South Africa on Tuesday

Anusuiya Uikey, has summoned the monsoon session of the state assembly on August 29 where burning issues plaguing the state like the ongoing ethnic violence and related issues are likely to be discussed. This is the second time that the state cabinet had recommended to the governor to convene the assembly, the first one being on August 4, when it had recommended the governor to convene the assembly on August 21. However, the governor did not summon the session. The chief minister's office on Tuesday posted on X: «The state cabinet, chaired by Hon'ble CM N Biren Singh on Monday, August 21, 2023, took a decision to convene the 4th session of the 12th Manipur Legislative Assembly (monsoon session) on August 29, 2023.» The Congress legislature party, led by former chief minister Okram Ibobi Singh, had, on July 26, met the Governor and demanded that a special assembly session be convened under Article 174 (1) of the Constitution. Ten tribal MLAs, including seven MLAs from the ruling BJP, along with other tribal organisations, have since May 12 been demanding a separate administration for the tribals. The tribal legislators also said that they would not be able to attend the assembly session due to «security reasons» as Imphal is Meitei-dominated. Ibobi Singh, a three-term former chief minister, on Sunday said that there would be a constitutional crisis in Manipur if the assembly session is not held in six months.

coal stock with thermal power plants and Coal India Ltd, coal minister Pralhad Joshi said on Tuesday. Almost 80 million tonnes of coal are available at plants and with the state-owned miner, he wrote on microblogging site X. The minister's comments come in the wake of rising electricity demand because of the humid weather and higher irrigation due to dry spells in some regions.

Fyre Festival is making a comeback with tickets for its second attempt currently up for grabs at a price of $499 (£391). Organized by Billy McFarland, the original festival, which was slated for the Bahamas in 2017, turned into a catastrophic failure causing over $26 million (£20 million) in losses due to substandard accommodations, inadequate food, and water supply issues.

Future Group companies on Tuesday moved the Delhi High Court against a debt recovery tribunal's July 31 order that restrained them from alienating their assets in recovery proceedings initiated by lenders. A bench led by Chief Justice Satish Chandra Sharma, while seeking response from the government, Future Group founder Kishore Biyani, Rattan India Finance, RBL Bank, Yes Bank and others refused to stay the DRT order.

Pakistan's cash-strapped national carrier has grounded 11 aircraft, including three of its Boeing 777s, due to unavailability of funds to carry out replacement of parts. An official in the Pakis-tan International Airlines (PIA) said the top management has grounded 11 planes in the last three years as there was a financial crisis prevailing in the airline and the increase in dollar rates and petroleum products had not helped the situation. The official, who didn't want to disclose his name, said that 11 out of 31 aircraft operated by the PIA on international and domestic routes were grounded at the Karachi and Islamabad airports. «The financial crisis has meant the airlines are not in a position to purchase spare parts since last year leading to the grounding of these aircraft gradually,» he disclosed. The previous government led by Shahbaz Sharif had appointed a new MD in PIA and unveiled its plans to privatise the national airline, an announcement which has been met with fierce resistance from the various unions in the airline. Some of the unions have gone on a strike and the official said this had not helped matters as well. Two of the three wide-body Boeing 777 aircraft were grounded in 2020 and one in 2021.

Narendra Modi, Chairman of several corporate groups like Anand Mahindra of Mahindra Group, Rishad Premji of Wipro, Nithin and Nikhil Kamath from Zerodha, sports personalities like Sachin Tendulkar, politicians and several social workers in the country. During his trip to India, the Microsoft co-founder also met several social workers of whom he talked and shared extensively while sharing his visit to India as well.

sting operation at a London hotel helped authorities recover a 15th-century Chinese vase worth about 2 million pounds ($2.5 million) and break up the criminal ring believed to have stolen the artifact from a Swiss museum, British police said Saturday. The vase, which dates to the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, was one of three items stolen from the Museum of Far Eastern Art in Geneva in 2019. The Metropolitan Police Service made the announcement after a London court on Friday found two men guilty of charges related to the gang's effort to sell the vase. A third man pleaded guilty to similar charges earlier this year, and two other men who were arrested in London are awaiting trial in Switzerland for their alleged role in the burglary.

In the ever-evolving landscape of cryptocurrency, the price of Bitcoin price currently hovers at $26,051, experiencing a marginal decrease of 0.25% on Tuesday.

Narendra Modi is expected to hold a bilateral meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sideline of the BRICS summit. Giving a hint of the meeting, PM Modi, on Tuesday, said that he looks forward to holding bilateral meetings with "some of the leaders present in Johannesburg". Shedding light upon PM Modi's schedule in Johannesberg during the BRICS summit, Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra in a special briefing, said that the schedule for bilateral meetings with leader is still being developed.

airport, he addressed the controversy surrounding his act of touching Yogi Adityanath's feet. "It is my habit to touch the feet of Yogis or Sanyasis and take their blessings, even if they are younger than me. I have done that only," he said.

Yogi Adityanath at his official residence in Lucknow. Before the meeting, Rajinikanth touched Yogi Adityanath’s feet. Soon after the video of Tamil superstar’s exchange with Yogi Adityanath went viral, it has caused a furore amongst Tamil movie fans.

Narendra Modi will be in Johannesburg for the Brics leaders’ summit, starting today. The five-nation grouping will meet amid disagreements on expansion and a common currency. Questions persist over the bloc’s relevance, too.

Siddaramaiah on Monday said the government would form a committee to formulate a state education policy within a year while continuing the existing system for now. A week ago, he had announced that the state would scrap the National Education Policy (NEP), provoking dire warnings from the BJP about the move «taking the state backwards by several decades.» Addressing a Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) meeting, the CM said that as education was a state subject, the centre could not legally formulate country-wide laws about it. «The NEP has been created without consulting the states,» he added.

Supreme Court on Monday reserved its order on the bail plea of former Mumbai Police officer Pradeep Sharma, who was arrested in connection with the Antilia bomb scare case and the killing of businessman Mansukh Hiran. On February 25, 2021, an explosives-laden SUV was found near industrialist Mukesh Ambani's residence 'Antilia' in south Mumbai. Businessman Hiran, who was in possession of the SUV, was found dead in a creek in neighbouring Thane on March 5, 2021.

Narendra Modi on the sidelines of the 15th BRICS Summit in South Africa, Foreign Secretary Vinay Kwatra has said that the Prime Minister's schedule is still being developed. Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to South Africa and Greece, Kwatra, in a special press briefing said, "As I mentioned in my remarks, the host country South Africa has invited a large number of guest countries, besides of course the BRICS members who would be present there." "The Prime Minister's schedule in terms of bilateral meetings with those leaders who would be present in South Africa is still being developed," Kwatra said.

On a warm Friday afternoon on Aug. 17, 1923, a determined mother of two boys — one five, the other four — left her home in Toronto’s Cabbagetown and headed to the bank. Mrs. Hill was fretting about the coming winter, paying for coal and winter clothes for the boys she still called her “babies.” Her husband worked “odd jobs” and had “nearly starved himself” to save the $40 Mrs. Hill had tucked away in her purse. Last winter it was her parents that came through with money for coal and clothes. This winter her family would pay their way, she thought.