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Prime Minister Narendra Modi heaped praise on wrestler Vinesh Phogat for her scintillating show at the Paris Olympics and becoming the first Indian woman grappler to reach the final. Prime Minister Narendra Modi met and greeted the Indian athletes and medal winners of the recently concluded Paris Olympics at his residence 7, Lok…
Members of the minority Hindu community hold a protest against violence on minority community in the country, outside Jamuna State Guest House, where Bangladesh interim govt chief Muhammad Yunus is residing, in Dhaka. | Photo Credit: ANI Bangladesh’s newly-appointed Home Affairs Ministry adviser has vowed to take swift legal action against those who attack or…
The Resident Doctors’ Associations across Delhi will hold a joint protest march New Delhi: In solidarity with the rape and murder of a trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College in Kolkata, doctors and representatives of various medical organisations have announced protests at various locations in the country. The Resident Doctors Association, Government Medical College…
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On the campaign trail in rural Thailand last year, Paetongtarn Shinawatra reminded voters of her influential billionaire family’s legacy of populism in what was her electoral debut. The 37-year-old, who spent weeks at the hustings while visibly pregnant, delivered mixed results. Her Pheu Thai party came only in second in 2023’s election but cobbled together…
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Earlier this week, the owner of CrowdTangle, Meta, shut the tool down. Sydney: For more than a decade, researchers and journalists have relied on a digital tool called CrowdTangle to track and fight the spread of viral falsehoods online. But earlier this week, the owner of CrowdTangle, Meta, shut the tool down. The tech giant…
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Protests continue across the country against the rape-murder of a doctor. Kolkata: Kolkata’s RG Kar Medical College and Hospital, where a trainee doctor was raped and murdered last week, is echoing slogans for justice – day and night. The fallout has now taken a political turn with both BJP and Trinamool announcing rallies today. Here…
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Indian Institute of Technology Madras(IIT,M) in Chennai on Thursday. | Photo Credit: Velankanni Raj B/The Hindu Questions: 1. In the early 1900s, this chemist published a famous work called ‘A History of Hindu Chemistry’ in two volumes. He was noted for his work on the synthesis of various nitrites and as an industrialist, philanthropist, and…
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People bury the body of a Palestinian killed in an Israeli raid, on a cemetery where displaced Palestinians shelter as Gaza health ministry announced that death toll has surpassed 40,000, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip, August 15, 2024. | Photo Credit: Reuters Tiers of graves are stacked deep…
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File picture of BCCI Secretary Jay Shah | Photo Credit: Shashi Shekhar Kashyap India has turned down an offer from the International Cricket Council to replace Bangladesh as host of the Twenty20 World Cup for women in October. The ICC is contemplating a change of venue following political turmoil in Bangladesh. More than 300 have…
The Hindu was able to generate political deepfakes while using the enhanced Grok model [File] | Photo Credit: REUTERS The AI chatbot Grok on Elon Musk-owned social media platform X is being used to generate graphic, explicit, fake, or illegal media soon after its image-generation capabilities were announced, claimed general users and journalists. Just by…
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