New Delhi: After hosting French President Emmanuel Macron in Mumbai, PM Modi held bilateral meetings on Wednesday with leaders of Spain, Finland, Estonia, Croatia and Serbia, looking to further deepen cooperation in technology, innovation, security and defence with Europe, which is participating in strength in the ongoing AI Impact Summit. With 26 countries officially represented,…
Visitors explore cutting-edge AI gizmos at the summit on Wednesday New Delhi: Current frontier models of AI are developed by a handful of companies and in countries such as the US and China, while most other countries are “passive victims of things they built”, Yoshua Bengio, professor of computer science at University of Montreal, said…
In this image received on Feb. 18, 2026, Prime Minister Narendra Modi with President of Estonia Alar Karis during a meeting, in New Delhi. (PMO via PTI Photo) Estonia is widely using AI in edu and wants to collaborate with India. In an interview with TOI’s Surojit Gupta, Estonia’s President Alar Karis talks about how…
New Delhi: Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is fast becoming part of children’s learning routines in India, but a deep misconception about what the technology actually does is spreading just as quickly. Bharat Survey for EdTech 2025, released by Central Square Foundation on Wednesday, showed 35% of children who already use edtech are using GenAI tools…
New Delhi, Feb 18 (ANI): Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw speaks on artificial intelligence (AI) safety at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi on Wednesday. (ANI Video Grab) New Delhi: Union IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw on Wednesday underlined the need to strike a balance between development of artificial intelligence and…
Indore: A video of a woman being beaten in Indore has exposed a disturbing surge in mob violence fuelled by rumours of child-lifting, with innocent people being attacked in multiple districts of Madhya Pradesh without any evidence. The woman in the video, who was assaulted in Bhanwarkuan area here, was identified as Rekha Devi, a…
Kolkata: A 14-year-old case involving a sacked Bengal govt staffer seeking reinstatement turned on its head this week when Calcutta HC gave the current govt the freedom to investigate what the judge termed “unexplainable favouritism” towards the petitioner by a former Left Front minister in 2010. “What can be a greater example of lawlessness?” Justice…
NAGPUR: In a ruling clarifying the legal status of electronic communication in criminal proceedings, the Nagpur bench of Bombay high court last week held that summons issued through WhatsApp is legally valid under Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023, and set aside an order imposing costs on a police personnel for effecting such service,.Justice Urmila…
Mumbai: The Bombay HC recently transferred to the CBI a probe into a 2010 accidental death case of a 13-year-old schoolgirl, saying police did not consider the autopsy report that said in the last 24 hours before her death, she was subjected to sexual intercourse. Police relied on an incomplete video recording and statement of…
MUMBAI: A child raised exclusively by her mother cannot be compelled to carry her father’s surname and caste merely because the format once demanded it, Bombay HC said recently. The order was in response to a petition filed by a 12-year-old girl seeking correction of her name in school records and also of the caste…