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In a shocking instance of the wastage of taxpayers’ money, four hundred Mahindra Bolero SUVs are rotting unused on the campus of the third battalion of Chhattisgarh Security Force in the state’s Durg district. The vehicles were bought last year for the state’s emergency Dial-112 service across 22 cities. They were to respond to SOS calls, […]

Over the past five years, India has seen a significant rise in women’s participation in the labour force, with rural areas leading the way, new research has revealed. The study, titled ‘Female Labour Force Participation Rate: An Observational Analysis of the Periodic Labour Force Survey’, was conducted by Dr Shamika Ravi (EAC-PM) and Dr Mudit […]

Syrians may be celebrating the fall of Assad, but the country’s future is uncertain In the end the Assad regime was so hollow, corrupt and decayed that it collapsed in less than a fortnight. No one I have spoken to has been anything other than astonished by the speed with which the regime turned to […]

Luigi Mangione charged with murdering healthcare CEO in New York A 26-year-old man has been charged with murder over last week’s fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York City. Luigi Mangione was taken into custody at a McDonald’s in the town of Altoona, Pennsylvania, on Monday after a customer at the fast-food […]

Ministers have been told to stop spending that does not contribute to the government’s priorities, as Chancellor Rachel Reeves promises to take “an iron fist against waste”. Reeves will ask departments to identify efficiency savings worth 5% of their current budgets, under a review of their spending plans for the coming years. Budgets will also […]

Luigi Mangione, a 26-year-old Ivy League alumnus and former software engineer, faces charges on five counts following the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. These include forgery, carrying a gun without a license and showing law enforcement false identification, according to a criminal complaint released by the state court system.The six-day manhunt after the murder […]

Tulsi Gabbard, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to be the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), has met key Senators at Capitol Hill and supported the Republican leader’s view on Syria amid the sudden fall of the country’s Assad rule. Hindu-American Ms. Gabbard, 43, who represented Hawaii in the House for eight years as a Democrat, met […]

Every sixth internet user in China is using a GenAI product. It’s the world’s largest internet market, so the number is mindbogglingly high. According to a recent South China Morning Post report, quoting the China Internet Network Information Centre report, the number of generative AI users in the country has reached 230 million. The Chinese […]

In the tiny kingdom of Bhutan, dozens of data experts perfect artificial intelligence models from offices framed by majestic Himalayan peaks. The employees at iMerit aren’t there to train AI in rudimentary tasks like recognizing “brown cat on a windowsill” in an image. Instead, they’re teaching algorithms the anatomy of the human eye or how […]

The Common University Entrance Test (CUET) for admission to undergraduate and postgraduate courses will undergo several changes in the 2025 edition. As per news agency PTI, students taking the CUET UG in the upcoming year will be able to appear for maximum of five subjects as against six previously. The decision was announced by UGC […]

The remarks of a High Court judge about the majority community’s rule prevailing in a country have sparked a massive row, with many demanding action against him. The Supreme Court has also said that it has taken note of the comments Justice Shekhar Kumar Yadav, a sitting judge of the High Court, a sitting judge […]

Arvind Kejriwal addresses a press conference on Monday NEW DELHI: Facing a tough challenge from BJP and Congress, AAP is working on a three-pronged strategy to score a hat-trick in the Delhi assembly polls – focus on subsidies through ‘revdi pe charcha’, attack BJP-led central govt, and change the sitting legislators to beat the anti-incumbency […]