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SC tells cops to think before acting – good advice  Supreme Court has once again read police the arrest act. Ask, it said in as many words, why arrest before making the arrest: “The police officer shall ask himself the question as to whether an arrest is a necessity or not, before undertaking said exercise.”…

Why cars need real door handles and fewer touchscreens Back in 2012, Tesla made a fancy new kind of car door handle for its Model S. These handles stayed hidden inside the door and popped out only when needed. They looked cool, and Tesla said they also helped the car move more smoothly through the…

Give us real door handles, and limit touchscreens in cars In 2012, Tesla pioneered automatic door handles on its Model S. Goal was to look cool, aerodynamics the justification. Since then, others, including at least one Indian carmaker, have flattered it with imitation. But looks like 2026 is the year this handle dies. China, the…

Time-LLM is a framework that repurposes pre-trained large language models (such as Mistral and LLaMA) for time-series forecasting tasks without requiring LLM-specific training data. It treats time-series data as a different language that needs to be translated into a format LLMs can understand. Core architecture & components First, the input embedding layer takes raw time-series…

James Anderson Much is said these days about the need for self-love. How can we love others unless we love ourselves first? It shapes our well-being, and today’s culture sustains it. Self-love is a popular concept in self-development circles. It is considered a necessity for life. The problem is, the love we hold is warped,…

In Kannur, CPM’s Red Bastion, dissent is rare and perilous, bound by an omertà-like code. V Kunhikrishnan, a party loyalist for five decades, broke ranks by alleging fund diversion by leaders. Now expelled and branded a traitor, he explains why he spoke out. Excerpts from an interview:   CPM is known for its rigid internal…

India begin the defence of their men’s T20 World Cup title today carrying numbers that tell a story of excess. Since Oct 2023, they enjoy a dominant 48-8 win-loss record, the highest number of 200-plus totals, and have turned six-hitting into muscle memory, one every 10.99 balls. This is not a side tiptoeing into a…

As a young author, slightly well-known, I was invited to many parties. This was twenty years ago, when people still read novels and novelists were not yet nearing, as Pankaj Mishra once put it, ‘cultural irrelevance’. These invitations were loaded . I wanted to attend. But I was single, and barely leaving the solitude from which…

Even if Mary’s creature is now Guillermo’s An adaptation of Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is a Best Picture nominee for the Oscars, for the first time ever. But in the two centuries since Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley wrote her magnum opus, countless plays, poems, novels, comics, PhDs, parodies, alongside many, many films, have been inspired…

The Supreme Court has given an important reminder to the police: think before making an arrest. The court said that before arresting someone, a police officer should first ask a simple question: Is this arrest really necessary? Just because the law allows arrests does not mean police should arrest people casually or just to ask…