New Delhi, Aug 18: Veteran dancer and choreographer Shashidharan Nair was conferred the prestigious Sangeet Natak Akademi Award (Akademi Puraskar) for 2024 for Creative and Experimental Dance by Hon’ble President of India Smt. Droupadi Murmu at a special investiture ceremony on Thursday, 13 August 2026, at 11:30 a.m. at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi. The ceremony conferred the Sangeet Natak Akademi...

ReFiber, powered by OterRi, brings together Tisser Artisan Trust, CMAI, UNIDO and Lions International for an Independence Day textile circularity initiative MUMBAI, India, Aug. 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- As India marks 80 years of Independence, ReFiber, powered by OterRi , launched its nationwide 'Freedom from Unused Garments' post-consumer textile collection drive at an online stakeholder meet, with Ms. Vrunda Desai,...

MUMBAI, India, Aug. 18, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Fractal Analytics Ltd. (BSE: 544700) (NSE: FRACTAL), a globally recognized enterprise AI company serving Fortune 500® organizations, announced that it has secured a US$17M+ multi-year agreement with a leading U.S. healthcare enterprise to modernize its Data and AI foundation on Databricks platform and support its journey toward becoming an AI-ready organization. The engagement...

Business Wire India Minfy Technologies, an applied AI and technology services company helping enterprises and public-sector organizations move from cloud and data foundations to production-scale AI, has expanded its presence in the U.S.  with the  opening of a second office in Virginia. The move is aimed at working more closely with enterprise customers and accelerating the deployment of Data and...

New Delhi, August 18: The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has completed more than 2 crore Mandatory Biometric Updates (MBU) for school children as part of its nationwide mission-mode drive, covering around 1.56 lakh schools across the country. The special drive, launched in September 2025, has been undertaken in coordination with State and Union Territory education departments to make...

New Delhi, Aug 18: Indian Railways is strengthening its drinking-water systems across the country after an audit raised concerns about water quality and gaps in basic passenger amenities at several stations. Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has directed officials to introduce a “Tank to Tap” filtration and monitoring system at around 20,000 locations, covering water coolers and other drinking-water points used...

Aug 18: ZeusIP Advocates LLP, an intellectual property law firm specialising in IP matters in India and abroad, in association with Native AI, a platform for building Small Language Models  optimised for specific business use cases, today announced the launch of Real-time Intelligence Agent, an AI-powered Intellectual Property Platform designed to streamline trademark and patent workflows by automating repetitive and...

Aug 18: The latest collection brings together Tees, Cargos, Pants, shorts and Jackets that balance outdoor functionality with everyday urban design. Inspired by the spaces between city and trail, work and weekend, the collection is designed to move with the wearer rather than sit inside a traditional outdoor wardrobe.  The design language is functional, clean and versatile. Practical details are...