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‘Recipe for disaster’: Why Delhi nightclubs are on knife’s edge

NEW DELHI: The Goa nightclub blaze that killed at least 25 people on Sunday has renewed scrutiny of fire safety measures at entertainment venues across the country, including Delhi, where officials say lax compliance, crowded interiors and neglected safety systems continue to leave thousands at risk.A senior additional divisional officer of Delhi Fire Services said...

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Future of Coding: ‘Godfather of AI’s’ valuable message to engineers and students

Geoffrey Hinton, widely known as the ‘Godfather of AI’ has once again shared an advice for engineers and students. Hinton has asked the students and engineers to not give up computer science degrees, despite the rapid advancements in artificial intelligence which is reshaping the coding industry. Speaking to Business Insider in an interview Hinton stressed...

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‘It’s time …’: Wedding cancelled! What Mandhana and Palash said in their statements

Smriti Mandhana and Palash Muchhal Indian women’s cricket team vice-captain Smriti Mandhana has officially addressed the end of her engagement with music composer Palash Muchhal, ending weeks of social media speculation.Mandhana shared her statement on Instagram, marking her first public response to the situation.“I need to clarify that the wedding is called off. I would...

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Dessert storm: Mithai marauders strike sweet shop 10 times in 9 years

Representative image In repeated burglary cakewalks, thieves have been raiding a Nadiad confectionery, Krishna Dairy Products, and have had criminally sweet success 10 times in nine years. The shop’s owner, Mukesh Pandit, 44, said the burglars seem to treat money only as a light dessert. “Most of the time, thieves took some cash but loads...

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CJI Surya Kant bats for tech-enabled jail reforms, UK-style monitoring

File photo: Chief Justice of India Surya Kant CHANDIGARH: In a significant push for modernising the country’s prison ecosystem, CJI Surya Kant has advocated bold, tech-integrated reforms, ranging from digital-skills training to UK-style inmate-monitoring systems, aimed at transforming prisons from punitive spaces into “engines of reintegration”.Highlighting the need to align prison training with the “economy...

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Did IndiGo ‘waste time’? Govt probe to cover why airline delayed preps for new norms

IndiGo fiasco NEW DELHI: Did IndiGo “waste time” till late October lobbying DGCA to either get exemption from certain rules in the new flight duty time limitation (FDTL) norms or getting its implementation deferred beyond the November 1 deadline, instead of preparing for it?The four-member government panel probing the IndiGo’s flight crisis will examine this,...

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