Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas, who once offered $34.5 billion for Google Chrome, now defaults Google search on his company’s Comet iOS browser. He acknowledges Google’s superiority for everyday navigational queries, while Comet aims to enhance answer quality and multimodal capabilities. This pragmatic approach positions Comet as a complementary tool, not a direct competitor, to Google….

NEW DELHI: The expected surrender of CPI(Maoist) de-facto general secretary Thippiri Tirupahii alias Devji, alongside another central committee member Malla Raji Reddy alias Sangram, is like “the proverbial last nail in CPI(Maoist) coffin”, according to sources in the counter-Naxal establishment.Devji is likely to be joined by other cadres working closely with him as he comes…

NEW DELHI: The Centre has increased gas allocation to states and Union Territories to 50 per cent of pre-crisis levels, with an additional 20 per cent supply to be implemented from March 23, according to a communication from the ministry of petroleum and natural gas.In a letter to all State and UT Chief Secretaries, Petroleum…