NEW DELHI: Ahead of the India-AI Impact Summit scheduled next month, the office of the principal scientific adviser (PSA) to the central govt has released a white paper — Strengthening AI Governance Through Techno-Legal Framework — outlining the country’s approach to building a trusted, accountable and innovation-aligned AI ecosystem.Enabling “safe and trusted AI” across the…
NEW DELHI: The Telangana State Election Commission on Tuesday announced a single-phase schedule for municipal elections across the state, with polling set to be held on February 11 for seven municipal corporations and 116 municipalities.State Election Commissioner I Rani Kumudini told reporters that the election notification will be issued on January 28, with the nomination…
NEW DELHI: India advised Pakistan to “introspect” on some of its recent moves, including the 27th Amendment that gave “life-time immunity to its chief of defence forces” Asim Munir.“It could start by asking itself how it has let its armed forces engineer a constitutional coup through the 27th amendment and giving life-time immunity to its…
Rajeev Gowda and Amitabh Dubey (File photo) NEW DELHI: Accusing the Modi govt of fudging data to present a rosy picture, Congress on Tuesday expressed concern over the state of the Indian economy in the wake of what it called is questionable growth and production coupled with rising inequality and dimming welfare.Ahead of the President’s…
BENGALURU: India was to ring in its 2026 space calendar with a launch that quietly captured the direction the sector is now taking. The PSLV-C62, carrying a clear private sector imprint, however, failed on Jan 12. Notwithstanding that setback, 2026 is still shaping up as the year when India’s private sector can show results in…
NEW DELHI: The Border Roads Organisation (BRO) on Tuesday rescued 60 people, including 40 soldiers of a Rashtriya Rifles unit, after they were stranded in a snowbound area of Jammu and Kashmir’s Doda district following heavy snowfall.The high-altitude rescue and road restoration operation was carried out under Project Sampark at Chatergala Pass on the Bhaderwah–Chatergala…
NEW DELHI: Even as hospital deliveries resumed after Covid, India recorded a sharp rise in babies dying just before birth in the post-pandemic period, according to a major national study analysing births between 2019 and 2022. The findings point to serious gaps in pregnancy care—losses that often go unnoticed and are grieved in private.The rise…
Representative image (AI) NEW DELHI: Even as hospital deliveries resumed after Covid, India recorded a sharp rise in babies dying just before birth in the post-pandemic period, according to a major national study analysing births between 2019 and 2022. The findings point to serious gaps in pregnancy care—losses that often go unnoticed and are grieved…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi pitched a “double engine” growth model after India and the EU signed a historic free trade agreement, positioning the pact as a stabilising force amid global economic turmoil. India and the European Union finalised their largest-ever free trade agreement, promising cheaper imports, wider market access and new opportunities for exporters, services…
NEW DELHI: When Prashant Kishor entered Bihar’s electoral arena with Jan Suraaj, he set out to challenge the state’s entrenched caste politics with a different pitch — one centred on governance failures, migration and the promise of jobs. The message found an audience. The votes, however, did not follow.Kishor’s transition from celebrated strategist to politician…