India 'stands firmly' with Israel, Modi tells Knesset

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his address to the Knesset on Wednesday, extended a firm hand of friendship to Israel and condemned the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023 as a "barbaric terrorist attack".

Speaking at the Israeli parliament, the Prime Minister supported the Gaza Peace Initiative saying it was necessary to "sustain" the process of peace building in the region. 

Balancing faith, dignity and constitutional rights

The Sabarimala review's final arguments will also centre on the broader architecture of India's religious freedom jurisprudence. 

Modi's Israel visit: Balancing ties amid West Bank tensions

Prime Minister Narendra Modi landed in Israel on Wednesday to discuss with his counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu a range of issues aimed at boosting bilateral ties, and key developments in the region. His earlier visit to Israel in 2017 was the first by any Indian Prime Minister.

India and Israel established full diplomatic relations in 1992. The relationship has deepened signifi-cantly over the past decade across defence, trade, technology and la-bour mobility. 

How are Indian firms training LLMS?

LLMs are trained and operated on clusters of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). The combined cost of the GPUs and the electricity needed to run them long enough to train a model, run into millions of dollars.

The IndiaAl Mission has subsidised efforts to conduct training in India, by commissioning over 36,000 GPUs in data centres operated by Indian firms like Yotta.

What are carbon capture and utilisation technologies?

Carbon Capture and Utilisation (CCU) refers to a set of technologies that capture carbon dioxide emissions from industrial sources or directly from the air and convert them into useful products. This process removes carbon from the atmosphere and puts it into the economy as inputs for fuels, chemicals, building materials, or polymers. Unlike carbon capture and storage, where captured CO2 is permanently stored underground rather than reused, CCU uses up the captured carbon. 

Loose connection made satellite miss orbit: panel

After nearly a year's delay, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) made public the report of a committee constituted to analyse why the NVS-02 satellite, which was launched aboard a GSLV rocket on January 29 last year, could not be placed in its intended orbit.

The apex committee, as it is called, concluded that the main reason for what happened was that the signal meant to activate a key valve in the engine's oxidiser line never reached it. This valve is crucial for firing the engine to raise the spacecraft's orbit. 

U.S. slaps 126% levy on Indian solar imports

The Trump administration slapped 126% levy on solar cell imports from India following a 'preliminary' determination that subsidised exports from Indian firms were hurting the competitiveness of U.S. solar firms and contravened World Trade Organization agreements on subsidies.