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Beckn-ONIX (Open Network in a Box), an open-source stack that enables rapid deployment and configuration of Beckn-enabled networks through a virtual appliance, can now allow anyone to build an open network in minutes, ensuring faster rollouts of networks, be it in agriculture, energy, healthcare or ecommerce, said a company executive. Created by the Bengaluru-based non-profit Foundation for Interoperability in Digital Economy, the Beckn protocol powers e-commerce networks like the Open Network for Digital Commerce (ONDC). Launching a basic open network involves setting up a registry, gateway, consumer app, and provider app, and can typically take a month to a few weeks.

Zyod has raised $18 million in a mix of equity and debt funding. The funding was led by venture firm RTP Global, while the debt capital was raised from Stride Ventures, Trifecta Capital and Alteria Capital. The “majority” of the funding was in primary equity, cofounder Ankit Jaipuria told ET. Existing investors Lightspeed Venture also participated in the funding round.

Cloudphysician, an online healthcare and technology solutions provider, has raised $10.5 million (about Rs 87.7 crore) in a funding round led by Peak XV Partners. The round also saw participation from Elevar Equity and venture debt firm Panthera Peak.

Amy Graf is a data engineer at UBS’s London office. She joined the firm’s internal finance team in 2006 and is currently part of the global development of a new platform for regulatory reporting, within the Group Operations and Technology Office.

release date for the final chapter of My Hero Academia is revealed. The popular manga will conclude its story soon. Fans can expect the last chapter to arrive in less than two months.

Being stressed about finances should be a trigger for open dialogue between couples, but new research has found that the opposite is frequently the case.

Adani group capitalize on upcoming opportunities, especially with its expertise in executing complex, large-scale projects, chairman Gautam Adani said. The core infrastructure group which has businesses ranging across ports, green energy, cement, airports, power and transmission will be setting up the largest energy installation, redeveloping the largest slum and making the largest single location copper smelter of the world in the country over the next few years.

Uttar Pradesh Special Task Force (STF) arrested six individuals in connection with the paper leak of the Review Officer/Assistant Review Officer (Preliminary) Examination-2024. These arrests, made in Prayagraj, follow the discovery that the exam papers were leaked from a printing press in Bhopal. The examination, conducted by the Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission (UPPSC) on February 11, was subsequently canceled on March 2 after reports of the leak surfaced. Prior to this, ten individuals had already been arrested in connection with the case. The accused face charges under various sections of the Indian Penal Code, including cheating, forgery, and criminal conspiracy, as well as the Uttar Pradesh Public Examination Act, 1998, and the Information Technology Act. During interrogation, it was revealed that the question paper was leaked in two ways. The arrested individuals include Sunil Raghuvanshi, a mechanical engineer at the printing press, and others identified as Subhash Prakash, Vishal Dubey, Sandeep Pandey, Amarjeet Sharma, and Vivek Upadhyay, all his former classmates. Initial intelligence had suggested that the leak originated from a school in Prayagraj, where Arpit Vineet Yashwant, responsible for the exam at the center, was previously arrested along with four gang members in April. Investigations are also looking into the involvement of the school's management and principal.

MK Dhanuka, MD, Dhanuka Agritech, says that in order to make the pesticide available at reasonable prices for the farmers, the government should definitely think of reducing the GST on agrochemicals from 18% to either 5% or at least up to 12% immediately. The industry tried very hard this time for GST reduction but it was not taken up. What is your expectation? Will it be taken up going forward and if it is taken up, how much improvement do you expect in the industry because of that?

Pranav Chawda, head of commercial banking for India, will expand his current responsibilities to become the head of India Corporate Banking and can confirm that PD Singh is leaving the firm, a JPMorgan representative said by email in response to queries from Bloomberg News.

Indonesia's national data centre and asked for an $8 million ransom, the country's communications minister was quoted by state news agency Antara as saying on Monday. The attack disrupted some government services, most notably at airports last week, though automated machines were now functional, the communications ministry said on Monday.

NEET-UG paper leak have found out how “handlers” operate in a tech savvy, shady realm of a nationwide exam racket, rooted in Bihar and Jharkhand. «The nine handlers arrested in the NEET-UG case so far six in Jharkhand and three in Bihar — are tech-savvy individuals who played a crucial role in orchestrating the leak of question papers, training examinees who paid for these to memorise the answers, and even escorting them to their respective centres,» a senior police officer said to TOI. The six arrested in Jharkhand were masquerading as labourers and were residing in a rented accommodation. The aim was to make sure the leaked papers reached the target while maintaining high secrecy and anonymity.

When Steve Bannon is unhappy with Donald Trump, you know the former President has taken a good turn. Mr. Trump did so last week in saying he’d like to give a green card for residence in the U.S.

Ajay Bagga, Market Expert, says the size of the order flow has started coming down in IT because companies are not willing to give very long-term orders or very large orders given the way AI is disrupting the entire industry. But within the next one year, we will start seeing the first case studies coming out where Indian IT companies will start enabling the hardware gains to come into actual industries via some software and that is where Indian IT will start scoring. Probably, we can wait it out for three months more. Do private banks and the underperforming ones seem to be the only value zone in the market right now?

Godrej and Smita V Crishna are setting up a family council following the business realignment in April, said people with knowledge of the matter. In addition to this, the Crishna branch will set up a family office comprising Smita Crishna and her daughters Freyan and Nyrika. Nyrika, who is executive director at Godrej & Boyce, will head this family office. Her sister is a non-executive director of Godrej & Boyce.

High housing costs on Martha’s Vineyard are forcing many regular workers to leave and threatening public safety

AI chip juggernaut Nvidia sat on the throne as the world's biggest company, but behind the its staggering success are questions on whether new entrants can stake a claim to the artificial intelligence bonanza. Nvidia, which makes the processors that are the only option to train generative AI's large language models, is now Big Tech's newest member and its stock market takeoff has lifted the whole sector.

AI will replace people with people, contrary to the common narrative, Deloitte's AI Executive Rohit Tandon said, emphasising that the future belongs to AI-human collaboration, not replacement, as he envisions a revolutionary era where technology empowers, rather than replaces, the workforce. In an interview with PTI, Tandon, Managing Director, AI and Insights Practice Leader, Deloitte LLP, said AI will not snatch jobs, but will simply do away with some of the easier jobs, and create new roles. «AI will, with people, replace people… It's not just AI replacing people. You still need humans in the loop,» he said. Tandon said the same kind of fear of job roles getting wiped out existed when IT, technology, and computers came into the scenario.

Exit polls is a loss-making business and the only profit a pollster earns is visibility, Axis My India chief Pradeep Gupta has said. Gupta was considered to be the poster boy of exit polls till June 4, when the Lok Sabha poll results dealt a hammer blow to the reputation of pollsters after their predictions proved to be wide off the mark. «Exit polls are a loss-making venture because no media house will pay as much money as that invested on the ground… the only profit that we make in exit polls is that we get visibility which we do not get while doing market research for corporate clients,» he said. In an interaction with PTI editors at the agency's headquarters, Gupta said 70 per cent of his clientele is corporate clients and that is where the main revenue comes from.

Meta Platforms has discussed integrating Meta's generative AI model into Apple Inc's recently announced AI system for iPhones, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. Apart from Google and Meta, AI startups Anthropic and Perplexity have also been in discussions with Apple to bring their generative AI to Apple Intelligence, the Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter.