EPFO will introduce instant provident fund withdrawals via UPI apps and dedicated ATM cards by June 2026 under its EPFO 3.0 modernization, serving 7.5 crore active subscribers and nearly 30 crore total account holders while maintaining a 25% mandatory retirement reserve.
India’s tech job openings fell to a 28‑month low of 93,000 in June 2026, even as more than 56,000 professionals seek roles after global layoffs, Xpheno reports.
Telegram CEO Pavel Durov accuses Indian telecom giant Reliance of BGP hijacking to sabotage global access amid an India ban, a claim challenged by experts.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico elevate India-Slovakia ties to a Comprehensive Partnership, signing 11 agreements spanning defence, digital technologies, labour mobility, higher education, and trade, as bilateral commerce reaches €1,281.9 million and both sides align with the India-European Union Free Trade Agreement.
A US-Iran peace deal ignites a global market rally, sending Brent crude and WTI oil prices tumbling. Asian equities surge, but geopolitical uncertainties persist.
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Zomato co-founder Deepinder Goyal’s health-tech startup Temple introduces Entropy, a temple-worn metabolic biomarker device, drawing both interest and skepticism from medical experts.
India’s IVCA and South Korea’s KVCA have signed an MoU to deepen cooperation in venture capital, private equity, and alternative investments, aiming to boost cross-border startup funding, policy engagement, and research collaboration as bilateral trade moves toward a $50 billion target by 2030.
Pramaana Labs raised $27 million in seed funding led by Khosla Ventures to build an AI verification layer for regulated sectors like law, finance, healthcare, and taxation, targeting hallucination-free, rule-checked responses as investor interest in India’s AI infrastructure startups, including Sarvam, continues to rise.
Perplexity launches Brain, a self-improving work memory system that builds a living context graph for its Computer agents, boosting accuracy, recall and cost efficiency for Max and Enterprise Max users.
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Perplexity launches Brain, a self-improving work memory system that builds a living context graph for its Computer agents, boosting accuracy, recall and cost efficiency for Max and Enterprise Max users.
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Tim Cook confirms “unavoidable” price hikes for iPhones, MacBooks, and iPads as a severe AI-driven global memory chip shortage sends component costs soaring and shifts supply toward high-bandwidth memory for AI servers.
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