New Delhi, May 29 (IANS) Tesla on Friday announced the launch of the Model Y Premium Rear-Wheel Drive in India, expanding its electric vehicle portfolio in the country with a new premium variant of the segment.The new model has a starting price of Rs 50.89 lakh, and deliveries will commence in India from July 2026, according to the company.The newly launched variant introduces a range of hardware and design upgrades aimed at improving performance, comfort and interior experience. It boasts an al…
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New Delhi, May 29 (IANS) US-based artificial intelligence firm OpenAI on Friday said adoption of its AI coding and productivity tool Codex is accelerating rapidly in India, with weekly active users growing 27-fold since the beginning of 2026 so far as developers, founders and professionals increasingly adopt AI tools to build and execute tasks faster.Sharing new data on the sidelines of Mumbai Tech Week, the company said India continues to remain among the top five countries globally for Codex a…
New Delhi, May 29 (IANS) Domestic air passenger traffic in India fell 2 per cent year-on-year (YoY) in April 2026 to 140.8 lakh passengers, amid geopolitical disruptions, a report said on Friday.The domestic air traffic stood at 143.1 lakh passengers in the same month last year, according to ICRA’s latest monthly report on the aviation sector.On a sequential basis, traffic was also lower by 2 per cent from 143.7 lakh passengers recorded in March 2026, the report said.The report noted that airl…
New Delhi, May 29 (IANS) India has crossed a historic milestone by connecting 40 lakh homes to rooftop solar under the ‘PM Surya Ghar Muft Bijli Yojana’, Union Petroleum and Gas Minister Hardeep Singh Puri said on Friday.Under the guidance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, this initiative is not only freeing the country’s common citizens from electricity bills and making them ‘Atmanirbhar’ but also saving the environment. Puri posted on X.“India becomes superpower of solar power — A ma…
New Delhi, May 29 (IANS) India has climbed to fifth place in global digital economy rankings and ranked fourth on the CHIPS‑AI index, marking accelerating digital momentum in an increasingly competitive environment, a report said on Friday.The report from the ICRIER‑Prosus Centre for Internet and Digital Economy (IPCIDE) said that the study among 71 countries, covering 96 per cent of global GDP, revealed that “India outpaced major developed economies, including Germany, France, Japan and Can…
New Delhi, May 29 (IANS) Among a slew of measures to improve energy security in the country and decarbonise the road and highways sector, India is likely to bring a mandate on blending isobutanol with diesel as early as this year, Roads Transport and Highways Secretary V. Umashankar said on Friday.In his remarks at the CII Multimodal Transportation and Logistics Summit here, Umashankar said: “Blending of diesel has been looked into with great seriousness. Bharat Petroleum is already undertaking …
New Delhi, May 29 (IANS) Union Minister for Agriculture & Farmers Welfare and Rural Development Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Friday urged states to remove unnecessary procedural complexities and focus on farmer‑centric governance as he highlighted record food‑grain production.As per advance estimates, India’s total food grain production has reached approximately 376.563 million tonnes, the highest ever, Shivraj Singh Chouhan said, according to the statement from the Ministry of Agriculture…
New Delhi, May 29 (IANS) Cumulative investments of nearly $360 billion in infrastructure development over the last decade have translated into estimated annual savings of $123–133 billion for the Indian economy, a joint report said on Friday.The joint report from CII and Knight Frank India said the India’s logistics cost have been slashed to about 10–10.7 per cent of GDP in FY 2026, from 13–14 per cent of GDP a decade ago due to infrastructure investments.The firm said that the country’s…
New Delhi, May 29 (IANS) India on Friday expressed hope that it will receive a prompt response from Bangladesh regarding the verification of more than 2,680 cases of illegal Bangladeshi immigrants residing in India. Addressing the weekly media briefing in New Delhi, the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said that the process could facilitate deportation under existing bilateral arrangements between the two countries once nationality is confirmed.“All illegal natio…
Hyderabad, May 29 (IANS) Telangana tops among all the states in India in paddy procurement during Rabi season, Minister for Irrigation and Civil Supplies, N. Uttam Kumar Reddy, said on Friday. The minister said Telangana has already procured 60 lakh tonnes of paddy, compared to about 24 lakh tonnes in Andhra Pradesh, 11-12 lakh tonnes in Tamil Nadu, 3 lakh tonnes in Maharashtra, and nearly 2 lakh tonnes in Kerala.He told a press conference that Telangana is conducting what is arguably the most s…