TMC lurches from crisis to crisis: Mamata’s party battles for survival as rebel MPs move to stake claim

Spread the love       TMC chief Mamata Banerjee NEW DELHI: From the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC shifting its Delhi operations from the residence of Partha Bowmick – a Lok Sabha MP whose name has surfaced among the 19 rebel MPs –to its earlier address on South Avenue — the home of another MP Mohammed Nadimul Haque – about a week back to...

US ban on Anthropic models sparks AI sovereignty concerns

Spread the love       Sparks AI Sovereignty Concerns NEW DELHI: Just over a day after Anthropic hailed India as its “second-largest market” and unveiled a major partnership with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Indian developers, enterprises and researchers found themselves locked out of the company’s most powerful artificial-intelligence tier — Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 — following a US govt...

India remains number 2 Russian oil buyer in May

Spread the love       Generative AI NEW DELHI: India continued to remain second largest buyer of Russian crude in May, with purchases worth nearly 4.8 billion euros (about $5.6 billion), up by nearly 7% from 4.5 billion euros ($5.2 billion) in April, said Centre for Research in Energy and Clean Air (CREA), an independent think tank based in Finland, in a...

Seafarers are rarely aware of sanctioned, ‘dark ship’ status

Spread the love       NEW DELHI: The recent deaths of three Indians on a US-sanctioned ship after a US navy strike and attacks on two more vessels that had Indian sailors on board have brought to light how seafarers are rarely aware about the status of such sanctioned or “dark ships”.A veteran sailor said that in the current dynamic geo-political situation,...

Need for ‘antifragile system’: PM Modi’s principal secretary PK Mishra

Spread the love       Principal secretary to PM PK Mishra NEW DELHI: India must increasingly build an “antifragile system” that emerges stronger through uncertainties and disruptions, principal secretary to PM, PK Mishra said on Saturday while highlighting that the nature of risks and vulnerability is changing. He also stressed on the need to “introspect and analyse” why all ideas and insights...

CPM asks Congress to stop being ‘facilitator for ED, Modi govt’

Spread the love       MA Baby and Rahul Gandhi NEW DELHI: Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary MA Baby on Saturday raised strong objections over Congress MP Rahul Gandhi’s remarks at the recent INDIA bloc meeting of opposition parties on June 8, saying that “nobody is asking Rahul Gandhi to hug Pinarayi Vijayan” and all that the Left party was...

After Mumbai birthday cake ordeal, pins & wires in food banned

Spread the love       Representative image NEW DELHI: A bowling-themed birthday cake that had delighted three-year-old Reyaansh from Thane during a family celebration May 31 turned into a nightmare when the toddler unknowingly swallowed two metal wires hidden inside decorative cake toppers. The following day, which was his actual birthday, the family found itself in hospital instead of celebrating after scans...

Demographic panel to visit metros, industrial & border areas to study population changes

Spread the love       NEW DELHI: A high-level committee on demographic changes, constituted recently under Justice (retd) Prakash Prabhakar Naolekar, will visit metropolitan areas and industrial towns, apart from border areas, as part of its assignment to examine the nature, causes and impact of demographic changes across the country, including due to illegal immigration. It will recommend policy, administrative and legal...

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