Indian-American Pichai was awarded the Padma Bhushan for 2022 in the Trade and Industry category. The Madurai-born Pichai was named one of the 17 awardees earlier this year. He received India's third-highest civilian award in the presence of his close family members in San Francisco on Friday.

Days after an employees was seen resting in a therm-a-rest+sleeping bag, Elon Musk's Twitter has now converted several rooms at the San Francisco office into bedrooms.

India wants to house a $1.8 billion drone industry by 2026. That's where its Rs 120 crore rupee Production-Linked Incentive Scheme (PLI) comes in. A little over a year since the scheme was first notified, operational guidelines have been finalised. That's good news for the 12 drone manufacturers and 11 component manufacturers who have been shortlisted over two rounds of applications.

The company has laid off 100 employees, which is less than 5 percent of the workforce, according to multiple people familiar with the development. Most employees laid off were in non-tech roles and the tech workers were absorbed by ShareChat and Moj.