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Telangana, Sexual assault, Tribal Girl, Communal Tension

Panihati woman alleges abduction, assault

A 23-year-old woman from Panihati in North 24-Parganas, has accused a man of abducting and subjecting her to severe physical and psychological abuse under the false promise of employment in an event management company.

AI Skills, India, HDI Ranking

AI and the contest of the century

The arrival of Artificial Intelligence (AI), robotics and new technology has been heralded as a game-changer. But how will it unfold, and who will be able to take advantage of AI to win the Contest of the Century, US, China or some other country? Writing in Foreign Affairs (November 2023), James Manyika and Nobel Laureate economist Michael Spence argued that “by the beginning of the next decade, the shift to AI could become a leading driver of global prosperity.”

Cultivating peace

It was in 1965 that the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize amidst much brouhaha that did not escape even a class V student that I then was.

Justice on Trial

The impeachment motion against a sitting High Court judge, Justice Yashwant Varma, is more than a test of an individual’s integrity — it is a test of the Indian judiciary’s moral spine and the political class’s will to act above partisan instincts.