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Fire, mass arrests as France student protests turn violent France’s student protests turned violent on Friday, with fires burning across cities, clashes between protesters and riot police and hundreds of schools disrupted as a movement over education conditions spread nationwide. The ministry of national education said 564 schools were affected on Friday, while nearly 400...

AI-generated image for representation ​China has expanded overseas travel restrictions for senior professionals working in its artificial intelligence and semiconductor sectors. The new measures are also affecting the families of some key executives. According to a Bloomberg report, families of CEOs, CTOs, and other top executives at strategically important private AI companies are now being...

Policemen at the spot tried to revive him with CPR, but their efforts failed. MUMBAI: A 75-year-old man from Kerala died after suffering a heart attack while attending the CJP protest at Shivaji Park in Mumbai on Friday evening.The deceased was identified as Gopalakrishna Subbaiya Pillai, a resident of Dosti West County, B Wing, Thane....

Anthropic brings Indian monk into debate over AI consciousness and ethics TOI correspondent from Washington: When Silicon Valley runs into a problem it cannot solve with computing power, it usually hires more engineers and programmers, usually from India. Anthropic went one better: it convened a gathering of religious scholars, philosophers, and theologians, including a monk...

The Hindu Succession Act, 1956, does not distinguish between married and unmarried Hindu daughters when determining inheritance rights. (Image for representative purpose only) You are allotted land by the state government under Nautor rules, but what happens after your death? Can your married daughter inherit it? In one such case, the court has ruled in...

(Source: Realtor.com) An unfinished waterfront mansion inspired by the Taj Mahal is back on the market in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, with a new asking price of $2.5 million. The 4,402-square-foot property sits on nearly an acre along the Gulf Coast. It was first listed for $2 million in 2016. Ten years after that first listing,...

In October 2024, Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife and philanthropist MacKenzie Scott, through her Yield Giving fund, donated $30 million to Housing Trust Silicon Valley, providing the largest individual gift in the nonprofit’s history. The unrestricted donation was aimed at helping the organisation expand affordable housing opportunities across the 14-county Bay Area, one of the most expensive...

Rahul Gandhi hits out at Centre amid protests against CEC, invokes Mahatma Gandhi NEW DELHI: Leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Friday demanded the resignation of chief election commissioner Gyanesh Kumar as opposition parties, student groups and civil society organisations held protests in Delhi and Mumbai over alleged irregularities in the...

Kharge appointed Pargat Singh as the President of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee Former Olympian and Jalandhar Cantt MLA Pargat Singh has been appointed as the new president of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC), replacing Amarinder Singh Raja Warring.Announcing the appointment on X, the Congress wrote, “Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge has appointed Pargat Singh...

A woman was allegedly stripped and assaulted in a nightclub located in Khanapara, Guwahati (Photo credit: X) GUWAHATI: A woman was allegedly stripped and assaulted at a nightclub in Guwahati’s Khanapara area late on Thursday night.The manager of the club has been detained for questioning in connection with the case.People present at the venue claimed...