NEW DELHI: As India sets the global discourse on democratising artificial intelligence (AI), former Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar is scheduled to deliver a keynote address at the ‘Future of Britain Conference’ next week. The BJP leader will speak on the central theme titled ‘Governing in the Age of AI — Reimagined State,’ hosted by the […]
NEW DELHI: The recent classification of talc as “probably carcinogenic to humans” by the World Health Organization’s cancer agency, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), is a significant development in the ongoing debate about the safety of talcum powder, Dr Salil Patkar, Consultant-Medical Oncology, Fortis Hiranandani Hospital, Vashi (Navi Mumbai), said on Sunday. […]
NEW DELHI: In a fresh attack on the Central government on the issue of Chinese incursion into Indian Territory, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday accused the Narendra Modi Government of failure to maintain the status quo ante at the Line of Actual Control (LAC). In a post on X, Kharge, who is also the […]
NEW DELHI: Delhi Police on Sunday registered an FIR against Trinamool Congress (TMC) parliamentarian Mahua Moitra for her ‘derogatory’ social media post on National Commission for Women (NCW) chairperson Rekha Sharma. Moitra has been booked under Section 79 (word, gesture or act intended to insult modesty of woman) under the newly-enacted Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), […]
NEW DELHI: Self-styled godman Bhole Baba’s lawyer AP Singh alleged on Sunday that witnesses told him some people opened cans containing a poisonous substance in the crowd during the July 2 Hathras ‘satsang’, triggering the stampede. Addressing a press conference in Delhi, Singh also alleged a conspiracy, which he attributed to Bhole Baba’s “rising popularity”, […]
KOLKATA: Unabated rains in several places of the sub-Himalayan districts of West Bengal led to a flood-like situation in some low-lying areas and affected road communications, with the Met Department on Sunday forecasting more downpours. Several areas in Jalpaiguri town have been submerged in rainwater, leading to at least 300 families moving to community halls […]
NEW DELHI: A novel monoclonal antibody against the Nipah virus is set to undergo human clinical trials in India, and Bangladesh — two countries that suffer Nipah outbreaks almost every year — in 2025, according to a report on Thursday. Nipah virus, a zoonotic disease of the Paramyxovirus family, kills up to 75 per cent […]
AHMEDABAD: Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said here on Saturday that his party will defeat the BJP in Gujarat in the next election the same way it did in Ayodhya in the recent Lok Sabha polls. The Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha made the remark while addressing a party workers’ convention in Ahmedabad. […]
Police say he was recently contacted by pol parties NOIDA: Devprakash Madhukar, the main accused in the July 2 Hathras stampede that killed 121 people, was arrested from Delhi’s Najafgarh area by a Special Operations Group of Hathras police, officials said on Saturday. Madhukar, who was arrested late night on Friday, was contacted by some […]
LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav has questioned the way actions were being taken against innocent people and demanded a judicial probe on the way arrests were being made in the Hathras stampede incident. He said that these arrests are a conspiracy in themselves and there should be an immediate judicial inquiry into how these […]