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CJI Surya Kant (Source: ANI) NEW DELHI: CJI Surya Kant on Friday said though Artificial Intelligence tools are reshaping exercise of sovereign and judicial powers, the international community must quickly devise a legal framework to deal with a concerning flipside of AI-driven activities, which when carried out it one country, can cause significant territorial consequences…

NEW DELHI: India on early Saturday rebuked Pakistan at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), accusing it of misusing UN platforms to advance its political agenda and reiterating that Jammu and Kashmir “was, is, and will always remain” an integral part of India.Speaking during the General Assembly’s plenary meeting on the Annual Report of the…

NEW DELHI: CBSE on Friday extended the last date for submission of applications for verification and re-evaluation of Class 12 answer sheets after several students flagged issues in accessing the board’s post-result services portal.According to the board, students can now submit their applications till June 7.“In the interest of students, the CBSE has decided to…

KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress was jolted Friday by speculation of an impending split in its parliamentary wing as several of the party’s 28 Lok Sabha MPs converged on Delhi, prompting party chief Mamata Banerjee to clip her nephew and national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee’s wings in a last-ditch attempt to stall a repeat of what the…

NEW DELHI: On the eve of its much-touted NEET protest, newly minted online outfit Cockroach Janta Party is learnt to have approached Indian Youth Congress for coordination, even though the overture was not reciprocated by the latter.Sources said a key CJP figure met IYC president Uday Bhanu Chib at the latter’s office. While the details…

NEW DELHI: Scientists have identified warning signals in the blood that can predict lung cancer more than five years before the disease is diagnosed, a breakthrough that could help tackle one of India’s deadliest cancers, where most patients are detected only at an advanced stage.The findings are particularly relevant for India, where lung cancer cases…

SRINAGAR: The women’s wing of Ladakh Buddhist Association (LBA), one of the region’s largest religious organisations with a strong grassroots presence, has criticised the Union territory’s move to allow liquor sales, arguing it could aggravate social problems and warning of demonstrations if it is not reconsidered.LBA’s women’s wing called for strengthening efforts against drug trafficking…

NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi on Friday visited the Armed Systems Complex of Larsen & Toubro (L&T) in Surat where he reviewed the manufacturing of advanced defence equipment and indigenously developed armoured vehicles.During the visit to the state-of-the-art facility in Hazira, PM Modi was updated by senior L&T officials about various indigenous defence systems being…

JAMMU: A cloudburst triggered flashfloods in J&K’s Reasi district that damaged at least half a dozen houses and blocked roads due to mudslides on Thursday. No injury or casualty was reported in the incident that occurred in Gulabgarh’s Bathoi village. This is the fifth cloudburst in Jammu region in the past three days.Lt Governor Manoj…

A tree-based agriculture model promoted by Save Soil–Cauvery Calling has raised farm incomes in the Cauvery basin from about Rs 30,000 to as much as Rs 2.5–3 lakh per acre, the movement said on World Environment Day.“Tree-based agriculture is an economic solution to an ecological problem,” said Anand Ethirajalu, project director of Save Soil–Cauvery Calling,…