A Tangled Problem at Sea

The Indian government needs to do more to help sailors stuck near the Strait of Hormuz and work with other countries to keep shipping routes safe. The fighting between the United States and Iran has made one of the world’s busiest sea routes very dangerous. Recently, three Indian sailors died when a cargo ship was…

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Profound difference between AI and consciousness

By Reuben Ray We live in an age defined by remarkable advances in artificial intelligence and space exploration. Machines are learning to perform tasks once considered uniquely human. Spacecraft are venturing farther into the cosmos than ever before, while scientists and entrepreneurs envision a future in which we may one day live on other planets.The…

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Outraging modesty? That’s outrageously illogical

One ‘crime against women’ in India is the category ‘outraging modesty of women’. To be sure, behaviour and actions two IPC/BNS sections cover are criminal, have a high incidence (over 70% in crimes reported against women), and demand a distinct place in law. Read full story on TOI+ Facebook Twitter Linkedin Email Disclaimer Views expressed…

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Can Bihar’s universities rediscover their purpose?

In the age of artificial intelligence and the global knowledge economy, Bihar’s universities are sitting on one of the most consequential opportunities in the state’s modern history. The question is whether they choose to seize it. Sometime in the twelfth century, one of the world’s greatest centres of learning fell silent. Nalanda University — which…

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Global warning: World Cup’s begun

2026 marks the 30th anniversary of a major change in European football. From July 1, 1996, football clubs belonging to EU were able to sign players from other EU countries and register them in competitions not as foreign players, but as nationals. For example, until then, Spain’s La Liga  allowed its teams to have four…

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Our Boys, At Sea 

US, Iran don’t care about fate of Indian seafarers stranded in Hormuz. India must speak for them even more  With hostilities between US and Iran flaring once more, commercial shipping in  Hormuz is again trapped… Source link

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AI: Appraised Individual

Who’s the last human standing? Not the manager In a glass cabin sits Mr Rao, a manager who has survived 20 appraisal cycles by the simple expedient of never deciding anything. Before him sit this year’s contestants for one remaining seat: Sharma, carbon-based, and SH4RM4, cloud-based. Each has been invited to demonstrate why the other…

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Pump, Baby, Pump

Amazingly, Trump now says he loves inflation. Does that mean Iran war will go on, and on…?  On June 11, Trump tweeted, “The United States has VERY LOW INFLATION, a beautiful thing!” But that was 2019, when X was still Twitter. Now, exactly seven years later, he has a different take: “I love the inflation.”…

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Pump, Baby, Pump

Trump Used To Hate Inflation. Now He Says He Loves It. What Changed? Back in 2019, Donald Trump called low inflation “a beautiful thing.” Inflation means prices going up. Most people don’t like high inflation because it makes things like food, petrol, and clothes more expensive. But now Trump is saying something very different: “I…

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