A video showed the victim lying in a pool of blood outside the court. A bureaucrat was shot dead inside a court in Chandigarh this afternoon allegedly by his father-in-law, a suspended assistant inspector general of the Punjab police. The victim, Harpreet Singh, was an IRS officer (Indian Revenue Service) …...Read More
Ex-Cop Shoots Dead IRS Son-In-Law Inside Chandigarh Court
Rahul Gandhi In Landslide-Hit Wayanad
Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra visited landslides-hit Wayanad in Kerala. Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday visited Kerala's Wayanad - Mr Gandhi's Lok Sabha constituency - and offered messages of support to people there struggling to recover from devastating landslides that have killed …...Read More
India Has Aced The Software Game. Can It Now Focus On Hardware?
In 2000, as I started my tech journalism career, everyone asked, "When will India have its own Google or Microsoft?" At the time, India's IT industry, then a robust but unglamorous sector worth $5 billion, was just beginning to emerge as the world's back office. Zoho and Tally stood out …...Read More
As India, Vietnam Strengthen Ties, PM Modi Speaks Against "Expansionism"
PM Modi and Vietnamese PM Pham Minh Chinh held a joint press statement in New Delhi today. India and Vietnam today adopted an action plan to expand their strategic ties with Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowing to work jointly for a rules-based Indo-Pacific and asserting that New Delhi supports development …...Read More
"Investigating": Aviation Body After Bomb Threats To 10 Flights In Under 48 Hours
An IndiGo flight from Damman in Saudi Arabia to Lucknow made an emergency landing in Jaipur. After ten planes received bomb threats in less than 48 hours, causing one of them to be diverted to a remote airport in Canada, the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security has said that it …...Read More
Alarming Rise In Tiger Deaths in Madhya Pradesh Reserve: Report
The report uncovered shocking details of negligence and procedural lapses Alarming cases of tiger deaths and hunting incidents in Madhya Pradesh's Bandhavgarh Tiger Reserve and its surrounding forest divisions have been reported by a top official. A report by the forest department based on an order by in-charge Principal Conservator …...Read More
"Young Country With Old Politicians": Raghav Chadha Makes Minimum Age Pitch
Mr Chadha said youth should be incentivised to join mainstream politics. Making a strong pitch for reducing the minimum age for contesting elections, which is currently 25, AAP MP Raghav Chadha said in Parliament on Thursday that India is one of the youngest countries in the world in terms of …...Read More
We Want To Go Home, Manipur's Displaced People Protest, Cops Take Action
Children take shelter after smoke from tear gas enters their classroom in Imphal The Manipur Police today fired tear gas shells, rubber bullets and lathi-charged hundreds of internally displaced people who held protests in Imphal valley over the government's alleged inaction on working out a plan to send them back …...Read More
Is OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Wrong About India's AI Capabilities? Yes, And No
On June 7 last year, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, was asked this question when he was in India: Can Indian entrepreneurs compete with OpenAI, or should they even try? His answer, a blunt and definitive "No", was jarring to most of us. Altman followed with an even more …...Read More
Sheikh Hasina's Fall Leads To Slump In India-Bangladesh Border Trade
Sheikh Hasina's shocking exit has impacted the trade between India and Bangladesh Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina quit this week and fled the country after violent protests demanding her resignation. Ms Hasina, who started her fifth term as Prime Minister earlier this year, left the capital Dhaka in a military …...Read More
