NEW DELHI: IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw has pushed back on IMF’s comment of the country being a secondary AI power, positioning itself as a front-rank AI nation by focusing less on headline-grabbing large models and more on large-scale deployment.At a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Vaishnaw challenged the view...
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Activist in jail for 7 years sans trial, SC steps in to hasten proceedings
NEW DELHI: Supreme Court Wednesday said it would pass an order to expedite proceedings against lawyer-activist Surendra Gadling in the 2016 Surajgarh arson case after he pressed for bail on the ground that he has been in jail for seven years without trial and there is also no judge in the special court to hear...
SC to set up expert panel on Aravalis, tells states to stop illegal mining ‘at all costs’
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Wednesday said illegal mining continues in the Aravali hills and ranges despite its ban, causing irreversible ecological damage, and ordered Delhi, Haryana and Rajasthan to take all measures to stop it.“There are people who are incorrigibly engaged in illegal mining, which has devastating consequences for Aravalis. Illicit mining has...
5 traffic offences in a year could bar you from driving
NEW DELHI: Five or more traffic offences in a year and you could be barred from driving for 3 months. This provision – disqualification or revocation of driving licence (DL) – has been added by the road transport ministry through a fresh amendment to the Motor Vehicles Rules to rein in habitual errant drivers, reports...
65 student suicides at IITs in 5 yrs, alumni group calls for accountability
MUMBAI: The death of a student by suicide at IIT-Kanpur on Tuesday again swivelled the spotlight on a mental health crisis on the campuses of India’s premier technical institutions: over a dozen young lives lost every year on average over the past five years.At least 65 students have taken their own lives across the Indian...
‘Very productive meeting’: Trump backs off on Greenland tariff threat; claims deal ‘framework’ in place
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday waived tariffs scheduled to hit European allies after claiming that he had reached a framework for a deal over Greenland. In a social media post on Truth Social, Trump said the tariffs that had been scheduled to take effect on February 1 would no longer go ahead. “Based upon...
J&K: Op Trashi-I enters Day 4; hunt for ultras intensified
JAMMU: Operation Trashi-I entered its fourth day on Wednesday, as security forces continued to comb the dense forests of Sonnar, Mandral-Singhpora, and adjoining areas in Chatroo belt in J&K’s Kishtwar district to track and kill fleeing terrorists. Searches were intensified in the target area, even as additional forces were rushed to the operation site to...
Travis Kelce reacts to Joe Burrow’s X post amid Bills officiating controversy
Image via IMAGN The Buffalo Bills’ playoff exit against the Denver Broncos did not end quietly. It sparked a fresh debate over officiating, rule interpretation, and what really counts as a catch in the modern NFL. At the centre of the storm was a late interception ruling that many Bills fans felt cost them the...
Protest held outside UK parliament demanding Labour take action on Hindu persecution in Bangladesh
TOI correspondent from London: Hundreds of PIOs and Bangladeshi-origin Hindus held a protest in the cold pouring rain outside the Houses of Parliament in London on Wednesday calling for UK PM Keir Starmer to do more to condemn the genocide of Hindus taking place in Bangladesh.Labour Basingstoke MP Luke Murphy was among those present. He...
AI war: Meta resolves issue that enraged Zuckerberg; sparked $15 bn talent hunt push
Mark Zuckerberg (File Image) Meta engineers have reportedly corrected the issue that reportedly plagued company’s AI effort. According to a report by news agency Reuters, quoting the company’s chief technology officer (CTO) Andrew Bosworth, Meta Platforms’ new artificial intelligence lab has delivered its first high-profile AI models internally this month. At a press briefing on...
