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New Delhi: An analysis of five chatbots’ responses to health and medicine questions has revealed that a substantial amount of medical information is inaccurate and incomplete.The findings, published in The British Medical Journal (BMJ) Open, also show that nearly half of the responses were problematic in aspects such as presenting a false balance between science and non-science-based claims.A problematic response was defined as one that could plausibly direct lay users to potentially ineffective treatment or come to harm if followed without professional guidance.Researchers, including those from The Lundquist Institute for Biomedical Innovation at Harbor-University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Medical…

On the occasion of India’s 80th Independence Day, Saif Ali Khan visited Uri in Jammu and Kashmir as a part of NDTV’s Jai Jawan programme, where he spent time with soldiers and shared a meal with them. During his visit, the actor revealed that his sons, Taimur Ali Khan and Jeh Ali Khan, have started asking questions about wars around the world and whether they are safe.Saif Ali Khan shares his sons’ concerns over wars.Saif Ali Khan reveals sons Taimur and Jeh’s concerns Speaking to the armed forces, Saif said, “My children ask me about the many wars that are…

Whilst in Egypt, Kushner also met Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. According to Israeli media reports, Kushner, Mladenov and Blair will meet Netanyahu on Monday with the aim of advancing Trump’s plan. The Israeli prime minister has said he wants a full Hamas disarmament first in order to implement the deal. “Israel rejects the Board of Peace’s 15-point document on Gaza. The IDF will not carry out any withdrawal until Hamas is genuinely disarmed,” Netanyahu said last week defying Israel’s closest ally.In a joint statement on Sunday, Egypt, UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Turkey, Pakistan and Indonesia said Israel’s rejection…

NEW DELHI: After earlier uncertainty, there are now clear indications that barrierless tolling on national highway (NH) stretches, coupled with e-notices for violations, is inculcating greater discipline among road users.At Choryasi toll plaza on NH-48 in Gujarat, the first to go live, e-notices fell from 1.7 lakh in May to 1.1 lakh in June and further to 92,240 in July. Mundka toll plaza in Delhi, which went live on May 10, recorded 1.69 lakh e-notices in June, with a marginal decline to 1.67 lakh in July.Share your thoughts in the commentsInsightfulAgreeDisagreeSkepticalConcerningPromisingWorth ReadingBig DevelopmentPost CommentBe respectful · TOI community guidelinesMultilane free…

In a letter dated August 12 to Canadian Consul General Jeff David, Powai Action Forum member Ratan Sharda said broad pavements used by residents for nearly 25 years had been barricaded or obstructed, leaving pedestrians without safe walking space Mumbai: The controversy over barricaded footpaths along Central Avenue in Powai’s Hiranandani Gardens has now reached the Canadian Consulate. Residents have sought its intervention with Brookfield, the Canadian-origin company undertaking the redevelopment of Citipark.In a letter dated August 12 to Canadian Consul General Jeff David, Powai Action Forum member Ratan Sharda said broad pavements used by residents for nearly 25 years…

New Delhi: Residents of Prem Nagar in northwest Delhi are reportedly facing a shortage of neighbourhood primary school facilities, with a representation alleging that the absence of a municipal primary school is forcing several children to travel to schools outside the locality.According to the representation, there is no municipal primary school in Ward No. 38 despite the area having nearly 2.5 lakh residents and 7,000 to 8,000 children.The issue has reached the authorities, with an education activist seeking urgent intervention. The representation states that efforts to establish a school have been underway for nearly three years, including correspondence over allotment…

Independence Day celebrations in Bengaluru As fireworks lit up the sky over Vidhana Soudha on Saturday night, they brought down the curtain on a day Bengaluru had never quite seen before.Freedom Habba, the city’s first-of-its-kind Independence Day carnival, threw open the grand steps of Vidhana Soudha to citizens from morning to night. Organised by the Karnataka government to mark India’s 80th Independence Day, the festival ran under the theme “Namma Ooru, Nimma Ooru, Nammellara Bengaluru (Our City, Your City, Everyone’s Bengaluru).”The day opened with a parade of nearly 40 contingents representing different states. A living museum called India’s Freedom Trail…

Hyderabad: It is not just Jubilee Hills, several colonies in Banjara Hills find are on the 22-A prohibited properties list. Official sources said survey numbers 102 and 102/1 are also on the govt’s prohibited list. Residents of these colonies discovered the shocking fact when some people wanted to sell their properties.For instance, a flat owner of Stone Valley Apartments, (society) approached the registration department to know about the ban on registration when he tried to sell his flat. The residential apartment was constructed over 20 years ago and now it has been classified as ceiling land.Similarly, some societies such as…

T. Ramasami, Former Secretary, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, handing over a medal and certificate to a medallist during the 14th Annual Convocation of VIT Chennai on Sunday. 140 PhD, and 4,440 undergraduates and postgraduates received their degrees on the occasion. G Viswanathan, Founder and Chancellor, VIT; Mohit Jain, Chief Operating Officer (Publishing) and Board Member; Ganesanathan Geathiswaran, Deputy High Commissioner of Sri Lanka, Southern India, G.V. Selvam were also seen in Chennai on Sunday. Chennai: Urging the graduating engineers to innovate for the uplift of society, former department of science and technology secretary T Ramasami said…

Gandhinagar: State govt is set to bring a slew of changes to the Gujarat Shops and Establishments (Regulation of Employment and Conditions of Service) Act, 2019, including allowing women to work night shifts across the state and doubling the employee threshold for licence requirement for shops and establishments, top sources in state govt said.The proposed amendments are part of Omnibus Act, which is scheduled to be introduced in the state assembly session next month as part of Gujarat’s broader push to improve ease of doing business.Officials said the changes are being undertaken in line with guidelines issued by the Centre…