The controversy surrounding Galgotias University over displaying a China-made robotic dog as its now-removed stall during the AI Impact Summit in Delhi has reached the Uttar Pradesh Assembly. Galgotias University is a private university in Greater Noida, part of the Gautam Buddha Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh. The opposition camp, led by Samajwadi Party (SP)…
Karnataka Minister Priyank Kharge and Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders engaged in a spat on Monday over the former’s remarks against the RSS, with both sides trading barbs over ideology and development issues. The BJP leaders were reacting to Kharge’s comments in Bengaluru on Sunday, in which he accused the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the…
Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Member of Parliament (MP) Raghav Chadha on Wednesday called for introducing a ‘Right to Recall’ mechanism. Chadha, speaking in the Rajya Sabha, argued that voters should have the power to remove elected representatives before the completion of their five-year term if they fail to perform. Raising the issue during the Zero…
Under questioning by Democrats on Tuesday, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick admitted that he met Jeffrey Epstein twice after the financier’s 2008 conviction for soliciting prostitution from a minor—contradicting his earlier assertion that he had severed ties with Epstein in 2005, as reported by Associated Press. Lutnick once again played down the extent of his relationship…
Both Houses of Parliament are scheduled to continue the discussion on the motion of ‘Thanks to the President’s address’ on Tuesday, a day after a major political row erupted as Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi sought to read in the Lok Sabha from an unpublished ‘memoir’ of former Army chief MM Naravane on the 2020…
Social media was flooded with videos of common voters, politicians and mediapersons using Acetone to wipe off the ‘indelible’ ink on their fingers after voting for the high-stakes Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections got underway on Thursday,15 January. The BMC, however, rejected reports claiming that the ink marks on voters’ fingers were being wiped off…
In a sudden change of heart, Peter Mandelson issued an apology to the victims of Jeffrey Epstein over his connections to the disgraced financier, after previously refusing to do so, during his first TV interview since being fired as Britain’s ambassador to the US, The Guardian reported. Earlier, the former Labor grandee said he wasn’t…
