The Congress party on Thursday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his address to the Israeli Parliament, calling it an ‘unabassed defence’ of his host, Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel. The opposition party also recalled India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, and his July 1947 reply to the German-born theoretical physicist…
A fresh political row has erupted in Maharashtra after RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat reportedly described insistence on language and periodic agitations over it as a ‘kind of disease’ at an event in Mumbai on February 8. The remarks triggered a sharp response from the Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) president Raj Thackeray, who accused Bhagwat of…
(Bloomberg Opinion) — For a while last year, scientists offered a glimmer of hope that artificial intelligence would make a positive contribution to democracy. They showed that chatbots could address conspiracy theories racing across social media, challenging misinformation around beliefs in issues such as chemtrails and the flat Earth with a stream of reasonable facts…
