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Lava International Limited, India's leading homegrown smartphone brand, announced that the Bold N4 Lite will go on sale on Amazon starting September 3, 2026, at 12:00 PM. Bringing together dependable performance, all-day battery life and reliable everyday durability, the Bold N4 Lite features a 5000mAh battery, 3GB RAM with up to 3GB Virtual RAM, 32GB ROM and an 8MP AI rear camera. The smartphone is powered by the UNISOC 9863A chipset, offering smooth and reliable performance for everyday tasks and multitasking. It features a 6.56-inch display, offering a large viewing experience for entertainment, social media, and everyday content consumption. Running on Android 16 Go with a bloatware-free UI, the device is backed by 2 years of security updates and a MIL-STD-810H rating for drop and shock resistance.

HCLTech, a leading global technology company and Transport for NSW (TfNSW)’s Sydney Coordinated Adaptive Traffic System (SCATS) have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to explore the advancement of AI-powered analytics capabilities for SCATS. The current SCATS tool enables users to interact with traffic, congestion and geospatial data using natural language queries and compare insights across selected time periods. Developed by the NSW Government in 1975, SCATS is now installed in over 200 cities, across more than 30 countries. HCLTech will explore integrating Sarvam’s multilingual foundation models with SCATS, enabling traffic operators, planners and engineers to query and analyze SCATS data in local Indian languages. The collaboration will also explore ways to address local data sovereignty requirements for smart city infrastructure, including enabling cities to operate SCATS AI infrastructure on premises using private cloud environments. “SCATS is a great example...

CREW, the premium concierge platform from the Swiggy ecosystem, announced its entry into the travel space as a dedicated personal travel concierge offering. Built for avid travellers, CREW is a destination expert that plans, books and curates every moment of a journey, from the first spark of inspiration to the last memory shared, with on-site assistance through trips big and small. This builds on a year of learnings since CREW's debut as a broader personal concierge service. Those learnings consistently pointed to travel as the category with the strongest demand for seamless, end to end convenience, making it the natural next step in CREW's evolution. CREW continues where most online travel platforms stop - once a booking is confirmed, travellers are often on their own. Available around the clock and across time zones, it offers real-time need-solving, itinerary changes, local recommendations and everyday assistance while travellers are away from home, with human concierge...

JioHotstar announced its international launch across the UK, Canada and Singapore marking the next chapter in its vision of Infinite Possibilities and its journey towards becoming a global entertainment platform. The launch goes beyond taking JioHotstar’s extensive entertainment catalogue to new markets. It brings audiences a new way to discover, watch and engage with entertainment combining 160K+ hours of content across 12+ languages and multiple genres with personalized recommendations, interactive features, flexible subscription options and a delightful product experience. For audiences in the UK, Canada and Singapore, JioHotstar brings together premium Indian entertainment in a single destination, spanning television, films, regional programming, non-fiction, kids and anime. Designed to resonate deeply with the South Asian diaspora while appealing to a broader global audience seeking diverse stories, languages, and cultures, the platform will continuously expand with over 30,000 ...

Lava International Limited, India’s leading homegrown smartphone brand, announced the launch of a new 128GB storage variant of the Lava Virat V1 5G. Following the success of the online-first Virat Series, launched in partnership with Flipkart last month, the brand has introduced this new variant to offer consumers greater storage flexibility while retaining the smartphone’s core proposition of dependable performance, clean stock Android and durable design. Built ground-up for online-first buyers, the Lava Virat series represents the company’s focus on India’s growing digital-first consumer base. The series brings together Lava’s Made-in-India product expertise with Flipkart’s digital and on-ground reach, making dependable performance, clean Android and durable design more accessible to India’s online-first consumers. The smartphone is priced at INR 14,499 and will go on sale starting 2nd September, 2026, 12PM on Flipkart and Lava website. Design and Display The smartphone comes...

UPES’ strategic collaboration with Google Cloud reached a new milestone with the celebration of Google Gemini Day on campus and the rollout of 10,100 Gemini Enterprise for Education for students and faculty. The initiative is designed to deepen the integration of AI across learning, teaching, research, collaboration and innovation. The event brought together representatives from Google India, its technology deployment partner ParadigmIT, and the UPES community. Among those present were Vaibhav Kumar Srivastava, India Head – EdTechs & Education, Google Cloud (India and SAARC); Aanchal Chopra, Google India; and Manoj Bhutani, Google India and Sridhar Gadhi, CEO and MD, ParadigmIT. The program began with a welcome and interaction with the visiting delegation, followed by engagements with UPES leadership, students and faculty members. The discussions explored the growing role of generative AI in education and how access to enterprise-grade AI tools can enable students and educators...