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Following the NEET paper leak, the focus has been on China’s National College Entrance Exam called Gaokao, with many in India lauding it as leak-proof after amendments made to criminalise cheating and enhance punishment for those involved in cheating. However, data released by China’s Supreme People’s Court (SPC) in June 2024 showed that it has…

By Anmol Saxena The concept of ‘God’ is deeply complex, spanning religion, philosophy, psychology, and language. Different traditions interpret it differently, making a single definition impossible. A grihast sant , Shyam Lal Saxena (Babuji Maharaj, Ghaziabad), once said, “Prem hi puja hai, prem hi Ishwar hai” – love is worship, love is God. If love…

Husbands should not be permitted to sit at home – it creates a crisis worse than war. Kamala was livid, because I had decided to follow the austerity measures suggested for all patriotic Indians. I was going to sit at home behind closed doors, until Hormuz Strait was open again. The bitter half just wanted…

GOI is pushing to ramp up its biofuels mission. Not a day too soon, yet not hard enough. Biofuels, yes, are a strategic national priority. The speed with which it will be adopted, by car makers and consumers, is also dependent on GOI’s roping in private players to join the mission – farm to biorefinery…

India uses roughly 20mn tonnes of petroleum products in a month. Diesel, petrol, and LPG, in that order, make up about 75% of the total. What if we could replace some of it with electricity?… Source link

In the shadow of algorithms that can now fabricate faces, voices, and entire events with chilling precision, humanity confronts a fundamental rupture, as the very fabric of reality has now become editable. No longer confined to science fiction, synthetic media, deepfakes, voice clones, AI-generated spectacles, this project now weaponises trust itself, eroding the foundations of…

Sujit John Sujit is the business editor, Bangalore, in The Times of India. He has been with TOI for 17 years, starting as an Assistant Editor on the Edit Page. He has been tracking technology for over a decade, and intensively tracking it for the past four years. He writes regularly for The Times of…

Smaller EVs, battery-as-service model for cars. Govt campaign for e-cooking India uses a huge amount of petrol, diesel and cooking gas every month. Most of it is imported from other countries. But what if we… Source link

The shift to ethanol blends must include a shift from crop-based to agri residue-based options India wants to use more biofuels like ethanol to reduce pollution and depend less on imported oil. Right now, ethanol is mostly made from crops like sugarcane and corn. But that can create another problem because farmers need imported chemical…

By The XIV Dalai Lama Among the Buddha’s profound teachings, few are as thought-provoking or as often misunderstood as the teaching of rebirth. For those raised in a materialist worldview, the idea that life continues after death may seem implausible. Yet, for those who reflect deeply on consciousness, rebirth appears not only possible, but as…