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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. In 1998, a young consultant from Tata Consultancy Services was dispatched to the authorities overseeing India’s census, an immense effort carried out once a decade. The company was propelled by the concern that once computer dates ticked from 1999 to 2000, all the IBM mid-range computers it had used to stop the banking system from collapsing and planes falling out of the sky would have no work worth their capabilities.

Suresh Narayanan, chairman and managing director of Nestle India. When the 64-year-old is not looking at volume growth and operating margins, the uptick of Maggi and the prices of cocoa, he sets his sights on rocky trails and mountain peaks. An avid trekker and mountaineer, he went on a weeklong arduous trek with a band of friends to Tosamaidan, at a height of 13,000 ft, in Kashmir, a couple of months ago. It is not just Narayanan. A growing tribe of corporate chieftains, in their 50s and 60s, take a break from their corner office for the arduous outdoors. They swap one set of challenges for another as they travel to tough terrains. Some climb Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania and Machu Picchu in Peru. Others make their way to the Everest base camp or Kang Yatse in Ladakh. Nearer home, Uttarakhand, Kashmir and Himachal Pradesh are their playgrounds. These executives dare themselves at every stage. The discipline required to push through challenging conditions is something they often bring back to the boardroom.

snowstorm in Italy’s Dolomite mountains and her companion was being treated for severe hypothermia, Italy’s Alpine Rescue Corps said Friday.The two climbers, exhausted and suffering hypothermia, called for help Thursday evening after being hit by the snowstorm about two kilometers (more than a mile) from a mountain refuge. The hikers were not identified by name or hometown.Rescuers reached them, but bad weather scuttled two attempts to evacuate the woman, whose condition was worsening, by helicopter.

light tank, Zorawar, a highly versatile platform being developed to boost the Army's combat capabilities along the frontier with China. The tank demonstrated «exceptional» performance, efficiently meeting all the intended objectives during the field trials conducted in desert terrain, the defence ministry said. The Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) and the L&T Defence are developing the air-transportable 25-tonne tank that has been designed for rapid deployment largely along the frontier with China. Defence Minister Rajnath Singh described the successful trials of the Indian light tank as a «significant milestone» towards India's goal of self-reliance in critical defence systems and technologies.

Piles of mine waste that loom above the historic Colorado mountain town of Leadville are a reminder of the city’s boom days

published on Sept. 6 in the journal Science, explains how researchers at Stanford University in California used a common food dye called Yellow No.

Gov. Jim Justice says a coal miner was killed on the job in West Virginia on Friday night

MARATHON, Greece — In the blackened remains of his workshop, sculptor Vangelis Ilias stacks what little is left of years of his efforts.

Helicopter crews ferried down scores of tourists stranded atop of one of Switzerland’s most popular mountain resorts on Friday after a mudslide a day earlier cut off road access until next week

Manipur police have approached the Army on the use of 7.62mm MMG to train its personnel. Due to the deteriorating law and order situation in Manipur, the Manipur police Department has purchased these arms from Ordnance Factory Jabalpur. Unidentified miscreants torched the house of a retired police officer in Jiribam in Manipur. Assistant Director (Administration) in Manipur Police Training College, Pangei in a letter to the Colonel GS(Operation), 57th Mountain Division, Manipur, “Due to the deteriorating law and order situation in Manipur, the Manipur police Department has purchased a few 7.62mm MMG MK 2A1 from Ordnance Factory Jabalpur.The MMG's have already been collected and have reached the State. However, as Manipur Police does not have any trained manpower on the above-mentioned weapon, it is requested that a training team consisting of an MMG Det may please be provided to Manipur Police Training College, Pangei from your esteemed Troops of 57h Mountain Division”. The letter added, “A Training Schedule of 21(twenty-one) days has been proposed starting from 9th September 2024. Accommodation for the Training Team has been arranged at MPTC, Pangei. It is requested that the Training Team may please be made available before 7 th September 2024 at MPTC, Pangei.”

Far East, Russia's Emergencies Ministry announced. None of those on board survived, CNN reported, citing Russian state media TASS. Seventeen bodies of those on board had been found by Sunday evening local time, the ministry said. The helicopter, which had 19 passengers and three crew members on board, took off near the Vachkazhets volcano on Saturday and was headed to the village of Nikolaevka when it went down, the governor of the Kamchatka region, Vladimir Solodov, said Saturday on Telegram after the search began.

Iran's final investigation into the May helicopter crash that killed president Ebrahim Raisi has found it was caused by bad weather, the body investigating the case said Sunday. The helicopter carrying 63-year-old Raisi and his entourage came down on a fog-shrouded mountainside in northern Iran, killing the president and seven others, and triggering snap elections. The main cause of the helicopter crash was the «complex climatic and atmospheric conditions of the region in the spring», the special board investigating the dimensions and causes of the helicopter accident said, according to state broadcaster IRIB.

collaborations with the Government of Tamil Nadu, on manufacturing of its Pixel 8 range of phones, skill development, building an industrial ecosystem enabling MSMEs to create scalable AI solutions. Google, earlier in the day signed a memorandum of understanding with the visiting Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu M K Stalin at its Mountain View office in California in the presence of senior company officials including Google Cloud Vice-President and Head of Platform Amit Zavery, Minister for Industries TRB Rajaa among others. Under the MoU, Google would work with Guidance (the state government backed nodal agency to promote investments) to support the development of a robust AI ecosystem in the state. This includes providing access to advanced technologies and resources, with an emphasis on empowering individuals, businesses and government entities to leverage AI for inclusive growth and progress, a company statement said on Saturday.

A French oil giant is paying $100 million to keep American trees standing. TotalEnergies is purchasing carbon credits that cover timberland in 10 states ranging from the Louisiana lowlands to the Lake States, the Adirondack Mountains in New York and the Appalachian Mountains in West Virginia and Kentucky. The outlay is likely the largest ever in the opaque market designed to forestall tree harvesting in the U.S.

office retreats with their co-workers, but the experience turned into a nightmare for one man who was left behind on a Colorado hiking trip and forced to survive a night alone in the wilderness last week.The team bonding experience went awry on Aug. 23 when officials said they received a report of an overdue hiker who became separated from his co-workers while trekking Mount Shavano.Chaffee County Search and Rescue officials said the man, who has not been named publicly, was hiking with 15 other office workers when he was left behind after summiting.Rescuers joked the incident, which saw the man stranded alone overnight on the mountain without phone signal during a freezing rainstorm, “might cause some awkward encounters at the office.”The man reached the summit of Mount Shavano alone around 11:30 a.m.

The U.S. Postal Service is abandoning a plan to reroute Reno-area mail processing to Sacramento

The son of a worker who died in a tire explosion at a Delta Air Lines maintenance facility near the Atlanta airport says his father's body was unrecognizable

Wildlife agencies are trying to capture and relocate the first pack of wolves that formed under Colorado’s ambitious wolf reintroduction program

Barzakh — which means the land of limbo — is an otherworldly series about how closely those who have left us behind might still be listening. The conversations dangle on. Barzakh is streaming on Zee5, and — for free and in 4k resolution — on Zee Zindagi’s YouTube channel.

Let's start with the elephant in the room — artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML). These powerful tools are no longer limited to science fiction; they're definite reality, and savvy investors are scrambling to get in on the action. A recent survey revealed that a staggering 71% of young investment professionals are actively seeking expertise in AI and ML, recognizing their potential to refine portfolio allocation, generate alpha, and uncover insights buried deep within mountains of data.