Spread the love NEW DELHI: Ordering routine curbs on postings and transfers ahead of assembly polls in four states and a UT, Election Commission on Tuesday asked their chief secretaries to shift all poll-related officers posted in their home districts or completing three out of four years in their present district on or before May 31 (In case of Puducherry,...
ED summons Anil, Tina in Rs 40,000cr bank fraud case
Spread the love NEW DELHI: The ED has issued fresh summonses to Anil Ambani of Reliance group and his wife Tina for next week to appear at its headquarters in Delhi for questioning in connection with its ongoing probe of alleged laundering of Rs 40,000 crore by the industrialist and his entities.The ED has already attached Rs 12,000 crore worth...
Understand & respect India’s UNSC ‘membership aspirations’: China
Spread the love NEW DELHI: India and China underscored the importance of peace and tranquility in border areas for overall progress in ties, while reiterating their commitment to implement the guidance provided by their leaders, including on the need to proceed from a “political and strategic direction” on issues and concerns related to bilateral trade.According to an Indian readout, at...
Sam Altman, Bill gates and others in Delhi for AI Summit – price of hotel suites at Rs 30L a night
Spread the love NEW DELHI: Call it the AI impact. Hotel room tariffs have soared to as high as Rs 5.5 lakh a night, with suites going for Rs 30 lakh in the Capital’s top hotels as global IT leaders, French President Emmanuel Macron and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva converge for the AI Summit.NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang,...
Any copies in circulation amount to copyright infringement, says Penguin
Spread the love NEW DELHI : After the publisher’s post late Monday that Gen M M Naravane’s memoirs, ‘Four Stars of Destiny’, had not yet been published, the former Army chief tagged Penguin’s post Tuesday and said, “This is the status of the book.“Leader of the opposition Rahul Gandhi has justified his insistence on citing purported extracts from Naravane’s memoir...
Love, but no passage: What a killing changed for Meitei-Kuki couples
Spread the love For months, Meitei-Kuki couples across Manipur believed they had reached the safest point they were likely to get, fragile but predictable, after the violence that erupted in 2023. On Jan 21, that calm broke.Mayanglambam Rishikanta Singh, a 31-year-old Meitei man who had been working in Nepal, was abducted and shot dead in Churachandpur. Singh had quietly entered...
3-hr takedown, AI labels: Govt cracks down on deepfakes
Spread the love NEW DELHI: Cracking down on deepfakes, the Centre has tightened India’s digital rules by mandating compulsory labelling, traceability and user declarations for AI-generated content. It has also sharply cut timelines to take down unlawful content to as little as three hours from 36 hours and placed direct compliance responsibility on social media platforms and their senior officers.For...
Days ahead of elections, another Hindu man is killed in Bangladesh
Spread the love DHAKA: Amid growing fear among minority communities ahead of the Feb-12 twin elections, a 62-year-old rice trader, Susen Chandra Sarkar, was brutally hacked to death inside his shop in Trishal upazila of Mymensingh.Police said unidentified assailants attacked Sarkar with a sharp weapon, killing him before locking the shop from outside and fleeing the scene. Family members later...
SC’s gender handbook is too ‘Harvard-oriented’: CJI
Spread the love NEW DELHI: CJI Surya Kant on Tuesday virtually discarded the ‘Handbook on Combating Gender Stereotypes’, published by Supreme Court in 2023 under the initiative of Harvard-educated CJI D Y Chandrachud to sensitise and assist judges and lawyers about gender-unjust terms, as too technical and Harvard-oriented to be of any assistance to rape survivors and commoners.During the proceedings...
T20 World Cup: Abhishek Sharma hospitalised ahead of clash vs Namibia
Spread the love Abhishek Sharma got out for a golden duck vs the USA and missed the side’s first training session in Delhi on Tuesday. NEW DELHI: Opener Abhishek Sharma has been hospitalised due to a stomach infection and remains doubtful for India’s next match against Namibia in New Delhi. It has been reliably learnt that he was unwell even...
