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Amit Zavery, president, ServiceNow (File photo) New Delhi: Nearly 50% of ServiceNow’s global R&D is based in India, making the country central to its innovation strategy, according to president and chief product officer Amit Zavery. Speaking to TOI on the sidelines of the India AI Impact Summit 2026, he said the Hyderabad and Bengaluru centres form the company’s largest footprint outside the US. ServiceNow employs around 6,000 people in India-roughly one in five engineers globally-and its India Technology & Business Center has grown at a 25% CAGR over the past three years. India plays a pivotal role, driving core development…

Last Updated:February 18, 2026, 12:59 ISTGoogle I/O 2026 is confirmed for this year and the company is likely to talk more about Android 17, its deal with Apple and more.Google is bringing the i/O 2026 this year around the same time.Google I/O 2026 dates have been confirmed by company’s chief Sundar Pichai this week. Google has been running a special puzzle quiz which people had to solve to get the I/O 2026 conference dates for this year and we finally have the details confirmed by Pichai via this post on X which also gives us some big clues on what…

BofA maintained its buy recommendation on Infosys with the target price at Rs 1,840. Analysts said there were several positives on positioning and net opportunity could be bigger but the path is still evolving. They also said that enterprise AI isn’t plug and play. Currently revenue from AI-first offerings stands at 5.5%, which is not too different from others that have disclosed the metric. Analysts also warned that the key risk with AI, as per the company, is less about opportunity and more about strategy and execution. They also believe the Anthropic partnerships signify the role of a services company…

A JetBlue flight heading to West Palm Beach returned to Newark Liberty International Airport shortly after takeoff on Wednesday after an engine problem led to smoke in the cockpit, officials said.The incident prompted a temporary suspension of flights and an emergency evacuation of the aircraft.The Port Authority said JetBlue Flight 543 took off from Newark Liberty International Airport at 5.43 pm (local time) on Wednesday but returned shortly afterward due to an engine failure.”The aircraft landed safely, and customers and crewmembers evacuated using the aircraft’s slides,” JetBlue said, as cited by Fox News.”Safety is JetBlue’s top priority. We are focused…

Mumbai: The Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Wednesday arrested senior inspector Sanjeev Tawde and sub-inspector Dyaneshwar Jutre of Kurar police station while allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 1 lakh from an advocate.According to the 35-year-old complainant, an applicant had filed a financial fraud complaint against him, while his transgender brother had lodged a complaint alleging sexual exploitation.The complainant claimed that Tawde summoned him to the police station and demanded Rs 3 lakh bribe to avoid legal action, and he paid him Rs 2 lakh. Later, on February 2, Jutre allegedly demanded the remaining Rs 1 lakh through the complainant’s representative…

New Delhi: Taking strong exception to a delay of two and a half years in filling vacancies at Delhi Commission for Protection of Child Rights (DCPCR), the high court on Wednesday warned of consequences if the posts were not filled by mid-April. “Keep progressing at a snail’s pace and scrap the (DCPCR) Act,” a bench of Chief Justice DK Upadhyaya and justice Tejas Karia said as it reprimanded Delhi govt for “attempting to justify” the delay. “From July 2023 to Feb 2026, you took time and then justified that it was essential for maintaining transparency in the selection process… More…

66-year-old man allegedly murdered his wife in their Bengaluru home, suspecting infidelity. BENGALURU: A 66-year-old mason allegedly murdered his 58-year-old wife at their west Bengaluru home around Tuesday midnight, suspecting her fidelity. He later attempted to end his life, police said.Devi, a contract sweeper at the Krantivira Sangolli Rayanna railway station in Majestic, lived with her husband Kumar at Sanjeevininagar in Moodalapalya. Their two daughters are married and live separately, while the son stays with his wife in the same locality. Bengaluru: Fatal Crashes & Killings, Daring Theft, Political Buzz & MoreKumar allegedly attacked Devi while she was asleep and…

Hyderabad: A three-month pregnant woman was hacked to death inside her house in Vanasthalipuram on Wednesday, allegedly by her ex-husband who was unhappy with her remarriage.The two software professionals, who had lived briefly in Canada, divorced in 2024.The woman had earlier filed a domestic violence complaint against the accused, following which a Look Out Circular (LOC) was issued against him.Vanasthalipuram police said Devarakonda Mahesh barged into the fourth-floor apartment of Sunitha (29) at Green City Colony around noon on Wednesday, went straight to the room where she was and locked it from inside. He was carrying a bag with two…

Chennai: Satrac Engineering, a leading trailer and truck body manufacturer and a wholly owned subsidiary of Japan’s Kyokuto Kaihatsu Kogyo Co, is planning a $100 million investment over the next seven years to set up four new truck body manufacturing facilities across India, even as it ramps up its newly commissioned flagship plant near Chennai. The company inaugurated its new Rs 250-crore greenfield factory near Chennai. With this, Satrac now operates two manufacturing facilities in Chennai and Bengaluru, with a combined peak production capacity of over 1,500 units per month. M C Bantwal, managing director of the company, said it…

Ahmedabad: The Gujarat high court directed the National Institute of Design (NID) to issue marksheets and related documents to a student who completed a master’s course in New Media Design after being granted admission in 2021 under court orders.The case dates back to 2021, when two students, Anjal Thottan and Suyash Tiwari, were not admitted in the general category. With four seats remaining vacant across reserved quotas — two in EWS and one each in SC and ST— they approached the high court seeking conversion of the unfilled reserved seats to accommodate them. The court had then ordered NID to…