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Google’s market value plummeted by $100 billion after OpenAI’s launch of its new AI-powered browser, intensifying the rivalry in artificial intelligence innovation and product dominance. #ChatGPT #Google #OpenAI

The @ChatGPTapp effect underscores a major tech market shift, as AI driven products continue to reshape user behavior and redefine competitive dynamics in the digital space. #TechNews #MarketUpdate #ArtificialIntelligence #Innovation #Technology #StockMarket #AI @Google @GeminiApp

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₹2,000 is free. ₹2,001 isn't. From 15 Oct 2026, UPI's new 0.4% merchant fee kicks in above ₹2,000 — and it applies to the whole amount, so a ₹2,001 payment costs the merchant ~₹8. It's merchant-side, capped at ₹300, and can't be passed to you, per NPCI. P2P stays free, small vendors exempt, 96% of payments untouched. But cliffs change behaviour — watch prices cluster near ₹2,000.

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Two Indians started a sneaker brand three years ago, and it's now growing fast enough to worry Nike and Adidas. On 4 Sep 2026, homegrown label Comet raised Rs 100 crore in Series B led by Verlinvest. Founders Utkarsh Gupta and Dishant Daryani started it in 2023 and grew revenue ~9x since Series A, with 500,000+ followers. They design their own sole moulds in-house, the hard part most skip.

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There is no such thing as a "digital arrest" in Indian law, yet it's one of India's costliest crimes. Scammers posing as CBI or police hold you on a video call in fake custody and make you empty your own account. Indians lost ~Rs 22,495 crore to cyber fraud in 2025. One Bengaluru engineer was held 6 months and made 187 transfers, losing ~Rs 32 crore. UPI makes it instant and final; ~51% never report it.

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Source: https://t.co/tXyMkdXdxj
The stroke atlas (C-STROKE): https://t.co/oMiYl7q4MU

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A stroke patient's MRI shows the damage. It can't show which brain cells are still savable.

Today IIT Madras launched a mission to map 100+ human brains cell by cell, foetus to old age, and released a stroke atlas of 1,000+ annotated sections for scientists worldwide.

Built in Chennai. Used everywhere.

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What India puts in its cart this Diwali says more about the real economy than any official report. Between Navratri (Oct 11) and Diwali (Nov 8), India runs a ~Rs 7 lakh crore spending window, its clearest national signal. But whether a family buys the new car or repairs the old one is a real-time verdict on how safe it feels, amid an uneven monsoon and a nervous world. The shopping is the survey.

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Source (The Hindu, 10 Oct 2026): https://t.co/Qvp1VGjhds

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Disowned by family. Turned away by hospitals. Nearly 2 years in court for a PG seat.

Today Dr. Ruth John Paul cleared her MD and became India's first transgender postgraduate doctor.

Next: a trans category in PG medical admissions, so no one needs a court.

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Source: The Sentinel Assam, 9 Oct 2026 (Nameri CA|TS accreditation; WII-validated census): https://t.co/n8Vm1MZdNN

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Nameri had 3 tigers in 2022. By end-2025, it had 12.

Now all four of Assam's tiger reserves are globally accredited for how they protect tigers. Kaziranga went from 104 to 148.

Credit India's frontline forest guards. Comebacks are built on patrols.

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Source: Hindustan Times, 8 Oct 2026 (IIT Roorkee JIC report): https://t.co/mHM4efgBNF

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10,107 women cleared JEE Advanced 2026. Highest in six years. In 2016 it was 4,570.

IITs added seats for women instead of taking any away. Now one in four women who registered qualified.

Every girl who walks into an IIT makes the next one believe she belongs there.

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Over 20 lakh Indian homes now get a ₹0 electricity bill.

The power plant is their own roof.

PM Surya Ghar just crossed 60 lakh homes. The first 1 lakh took 118 days; now 1 lakh takes 6.

India's energy future is being built one terrace at a time.

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Sealed this week in Hanoi at the astronomy Olympiad (IOAA): gold for Pranjal Dixit, Sumant Gupta, Akshat Srivastava, Arnav Sehrawat; silver for Harshil Patel. Source (HBCSE data): https://t.co/aB2L3by7zC

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24 Indian students. 5 international science Olympiads. All 24 won gold or silver: 16 gold, 8 silver.

First time since India started competing in 1989.

Now put that coaching within reach of every small-town school. The next 24 are already out there.

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A made-in-India shield against cervical cancer is now cleared to reach girls far beyond India.

Cervavac, Serum Institute's homegrown HPV vaccine for girls and boys aged 9–26, just got WHO prequalification. That lets UN agencies buy it.

Prevention shouldn't depend on your passport.

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A password made of light just crossed 5.56 km of open air — BISAG-N to IIT Gandhinagar, gear from Bengaluru's QNu Labs. India's first free-space quantum key link: intercept the photons and the physics notices. Quiet step toward satellite links you can't silently wiretap. #FullyOpinionated