Spread the love NIA raids Hazaribag home of suspected ISIS operative Shahnawaz Alam; HAZARIBAG: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday carried out an early morning raid in Hazaribag in connection with the recent bomb blast near Red Fort in Delhi. A six-member NIA team, accompanied by CRPF and police personnel, reached Ansar Nagar under the jurisdiction of Pelawal police...
‘Pressure will pile’: Gill’s form under scrutiny; ex-cricketer asks Samson to ‘be ready’
Spread the love South Africa’s players celebrate the wicket of India’s Shubman Gill during the second T20 International cricket match of series between India and South Africa, at Maharaja Yadavindra Singh International Cricket Stadium, in New Chandigarh. (PTI Photo) Former India cricketer Irfan Pathan said Shubman Gill is under pressure because of his recent poor form in T20Is. Pathan said...
‘Publication retractions from India have skyrocketed since 2022’
Spread the love Achal Agrawal founded the India Research Watch (IRW) after his observations of grave academic misconduct in India. Dr. Agrawal, now a freelance data scientist in Raipur, told scientific journal Nature how shocked he was when a student spoke casually of using software to publish his work. This amounts to plagiarism, Dr. Agrawal said, but the student insisted...
From Top Gun to Marvel: How Hollywood mastered the art of propaganda
Spread the love Oscar Wilde led a famously colourful life that included a controversial trial in which he accused the Marquess of Queensberry – who came up with the rules of amateur boxing – of defamation. The Marquess, a Scottish nobleman enraged that Wilde was shacking up with his son, left a card calling Wilde a ‘sodomite’.A furious Wilde –...
Zubeen Garg death: 4 charged with murder; singer’s cousin accused of culpable homicide
Spread the love NEW DELHI: Four people have been charged with murder in the Zubeen Garg death case, Special Investigation Team (SIT) probe revealed on Friday. The singer’s cousin and suspended Assam Police officer Sandipan Garg, has been booked for culpable homicide not amounting to murder in the chargesheet.Shyamkanu Mahanta, Siddhartha Sharma, Shekhar Jyoti Goswami and Amritprava Mahanta are the...
Election 2.0: There’s a new political guru in town, and it doesn’t eat, sleep or blink
Spread the love NEW DELHI: For a decade, Prashant Kishor has been India’s undisputed master craftsman of elections, the strategist who could bend narratives, stitch coalitions and turn sentiment into seats to deliver wins for major politicians. The 2025 Bihar assembly polls, however, delivered a jolt: Kishor, despite months of padyatras, booth-level outreach and the full weight of Jan Suraaj,...
Disney-OpenAI deal: Company embraces AI through ChatGPT; targets Google
Spread the love Disney has secured a licensing partnership with OpenAI, which includes a $1 billion investment and access to Disney’s iconic characters. Company CEO Bob Iger stated the deal is designed to help the 102-year-old entertainment giant into new media and harness AI to attract younger audiences for engagement. However, this is in contrast to Disney’s legal action against...
IndiGo crisis: Govt clarifies on capping air fares; what aviation minister said in LS
Spread the love NEW DELHI: Amid the ongoing concerns over the exponential rise in airfares due to the IndiGo crisis, aviation minister Kinjarapu Ram Mohan Naidu on Friday said that the prices of flight tickets are on par with the rest of the world and that the government has taken steps to bring down prices during extraordinary times.While speaking in...
Microsoft AI CEO opens up: ‘Told to quit school at 16’ – Suleyman on working-class life
Spread the love Microsoft AI chief Mustafa Suleyman reveals his working-class London upbringing shaped his tech vision. The DeepMind co-founder, whose Syrian taxi driver father and nurse mother urged him to learn a trade, lived independently from age 16 before dropping out of Oxford to help Muslim youth post-9/11. Now he champions AI for social good and universal basic income....
‘DKS will be CM …’: Cong MLA reignites rumours; confirms dy CM hosted dinner
Spread the love NEW DELHI: Karnataka Congress MLA Iqbal Hussain on Friday claimed that deputy chief minister D K Shivakumar will become chief minister after the ongoing winter session of the state legislature, adding fuel to speculation over a possible leadership change within the ruling party.Speaking to reporters, the Ramanagara MLA confirmed that he attended a late-night dinner with Shivakumar...
