Indian Tech & Infra

🚨 Perceptron has released Perceptron Mk1, its most capable model to date, featuring video understanding, temporal grounding, and embodied reasoning. The model returns structured outputs including timecodes, clips, points, and bounding boxes that are parseable at scale, targeting robotics, manufacturing QC, sports media, and physical-world AI deployments. Perceptron Mk1 is available now at lower cost than Gemini Flash Lite: $0.15/M input and $1.50/M output.

🚨 Leopard was spotted inside the Mercedes-Benz manufacturing plant in Pune, Maharashtra.

🚨 Internet-first companies are beating legacy IT firms in employer preference, and it has very little to do with salary bands. Flipkart leading that charge with 20% of preference responses reflects how strongly product culture, career ownership, and brand credibility resonate with today’s talent. Legacy models built India's global IT reputation, a real and lasting achievement. But new models are building its talent future, and that race is already well underway.

🚨 State-wise inflation in India in April 2026. Telangana - 5.81% Andhra Pradesh - 4.20% Tamil Nadu - 4.18% Sikkim - 4.16% Karnataka - 4.00% Rajasthan - 3.77% Himachal Pradesh - 3.67% Madhya Pradesh - 3.67% Uttar Pradesh - 3.59% Haryana - 3.50% Odisha - 3.44% Kerala - 3.42% Assam - 3.22% Andaman & Nicobar Islands - 3.24% Maharashtra - 3.13% Punjab - 2.96% West Bengal - 2.95% Jharkhand - 2.88% Gujarat - 2.85% Bihar - 2.74% Jammu & Kashmir - 2.67% Nagaland - 2.33% Goa - 2.20% Arunachal Pradesh - 2.07% Ladakh - 2.02% Chhattisgarh - 1.77% All India - 3.48%

Hyundai's massive manufacturing plant in Chennai.

🚨 Caste-based insults made inside a private house and not in public view do not fall under the SC/ST Act. - Supreme Court of India.

🚨 All women across West Bengal would be able to travel free on government buses from June 1.

🚨 The Uttar Pradesh govt. approves a 2.4 GW thermal power project with an investment of ₹33,000 crore.

🚨 Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah will lay foundation stone for the construction of an international cricket stadium with a capacity of 80,000 in Suryanagar near Bengaluru on May 23.

🚨 #BREAKING - NEET UG exam held on May 3 “cancelled” after Rajasthan paper leak.

This is Huawei's Shanghai R&D campus in China which is so big that it has its own metro line. 🙏🏼

A State Bank of India ATM turns into a hair salon in Patna. 🙏

🚨 #BREAKING - BMC announces 10% water cut across Mumbai from May 15.

🚨 State-wise literacy rate in India.

🚨 Tamil Nadu CM C. Joseph Vijay has ordered the closure of 717 govt-run TASMAC liquor retail outlets located within a 500m radius of places of worship, educational institutions, and bus stations, within two weeks.

🚨 "Investors betting on aviation growth in sectors such as Mumbai-Pune, Hyderabad-Bengaluru, and Bengaluru-Chennai should take note of how high-speed rail transformed travel patterns in Japan, China, and South Korea. Nobody will fly on these routes." - Railway minister Ashwini Vaishnaw. 🤯

🚨 ISRO to help upgrade Hope habitat in Ladakh for training Gaganyaan astronauts.

🚨 State Bank of India (SBI) plans to hire up to 4,000 employees to build a dedicated loan collection team.

🚨 #BREAKING - NITES urges Indian government to mandate work from home for IT sector amid fuel crisis.

🚨 Anthropic and OpenAI executives met Hindu and Sikh religious leaders in New York to instill moral values in AI.