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AI-generated image for representation ​What once seemed distant is becoming possible. Artificial Intelligence (AI) may soon help humans communicate with animals. But the technology is also raising an ethical question over whether animals have a right to privacy. Machine learning models are helping researchers catalogue and reproduce animal sounds, allowing scientists to identify patterns in how animals communicate. But researchers writing in Springer Nature warn that collecting and decoding these signals could itself raise ethical concerns.“One risk that is currently not taken into account in research ethics is the concern that we might be violating the privacy of animals by…

New Delhi: ED’s Kolkata unit on Monday conducted searches at seven premises in Kolkata, Delhi and Ranchi in connection with a money laundering probe involving Akhbar-E-Mashriq Pvt Ltd, publisher of an Urdu daily, and its director, Trinamool Congress’ Rajya Sabha MP Mohd Nadimul Haque, people in the know said.The agency launched a PMLA probe on the basis of an FIR filed by the Bidhannagar Police Commissionerate. As per ED, the case involves allegations relating to the publication and dissemination of material allegedly promoting communal disharmony, besides alleged illegal transactions, unaccounted cash dealings and funding from suspicious sources. Source link

Nora Fatehi has landed in a legal dispute with an aviation company over her comments about a chartered aircraft. Dunes Aviation has filed a Rs 3 crore civil defamation suit against the Bollywood actor, accusing her of making “derogatory and reckless” remarks about one of its planes on social media. The matter will come up before senior civil judge R Agarwal at a Gandhinagar court on September 25.According to PTI, the dispute stems from videos Nora allegedly recorded inside a Cessna Citation CJ2 while travelling from Mumbai to Jaipur in December last year. In the videos, which she later shared…

Ed Miliband will announce what he has described as a broad reset of the UK’s relations with Israel on Tuesday, promising the government will take a more active approach in supporting the Palestinian cause.In an intervention that is expected to draw fierce criticism from the US and Israel, the foreign secretary will impose a UK ban on the trade in goods and some services from illegal Israeli settlements.He has also told civil society groups he is determined to reassert the call for a two-state solution to the conflict with an appeal for the protection of Palestinian rights and respect for…

The irony was evident: on the day the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) had its greatest success of the year — the launch of its first geosynchronous imaging satellite (EOS-05) on a temperamental GSLV — its employee organisations demanded clarity on its long-term plans. But this grievance was long in the making. Since the Indian Space Policy of April 2023, the message has been clear that ISRO would, one day in the unspecified future, stop making commercial satellites and launch rockets. Clearly inspired by NASA, it expects to focus on ambitious exploratory missions and, literally, moonshots. Why would a space…

Detained Pak national repatriated via intl border JAMMU: A Pakistani man detained near the international border in Jammu’s Kanachak sector last week was repatriated on Monday.Troops of BSF’s 44Bn caught the intruder on Sept 3 near a forward area border outpost. During questioning, he identified himself as Nazir Sadhir from Luni Pundra village in Sialkot and allegedly told investigators that he had inadvertently crossed into Indian territory, officials said.Security agencies investigated his claims, following which BSF officials contacted their Pakistani counterparts and initiated the repatriation process. On Monday, Sadhir was handed over to Pakistan Rangers at Golpattan border outpost along…

Mumbai: A 49-year-old woman from Gujarat has been arrested for allegedly stealing jewellery worth Rs 6.3 lakh from a shop at the Oberoi Hotel in Nariman Point after posing as a customer and trying on several ornaments. After she left, the jeweller checked and found one pair of earrings worth Rs 2 lakh missing and on careful observation of the CCTV footage she was caught.The police arrested Priti Dasani, a resident of Porbandar district, Gujarat. Dasani was remanded in police custody.According to the police, the complainant, a 31-year-old employee of Vipul Arts Shop at Oberoi Hotel at Nariman Point, was…

New Delhi: The collapse of a five-storey building housing a boys’ PG in south Delhi’s Satya Niketan has put the spotlight on the approval, inspection and safety mechanisms governing basement construction in the city.As questions arise over who is responsible for sanctioning a basement and monitoring the construction, civic officials said permission for constructing is granted by the urban local body concerned. The basement forms part of the sanctioned building plan and construction has to comply with the applicable provisions of Master Plan of Delhi 2016, along with other building regulations and statutory requirements.The responsibility for inspection is also shared…

Bengaluru: By its traditional weather calendar, Bengaluru should now be basking in one of the southwest monsoon’s wettest phases. Instead, temperatures in Bengaluru are hovering between 30°C and 32°C for the past few days, pushing the city perilously close to a 75-year Sept heat record.According to India Meteorological Department, Bengaluru touched 32.2°C on Sunday, followed by 31.9°C on Monday, unusual for September.Bengaluru’s all-time Sept maximum is 33.3°C, recorded on Sept 16, 1951. Monday’s maximum was 1.4°C short of that mark. “The near-record temperature across Bengaluru city is largely influenced by El Nino. This dry condition is likely to prevail for…

Hyderabad: Specialty chemicals maker Vishnu Chemicals Ltd (VCL) has signed a definitive agreement with France’s DCX Chrome SAS to form a 50:50 joint venture that will build a greenfield high-purity chromium metal plant in Visakhapatnam, marking the Hyderabad-based company’s entry into aerospace-grade materials.The JV plant, planned near VCL’s existing chrome facility and Visakhapatnam port, will have installed capacity of 6,000 metric tonnes per annum.The material is used in superalloys for aircraft engines, defence platforms, nuclear power equipment, land-based gas turbines, oil and gas drilling systems, chemical process equipment and other high-temperature or corrosion-resistant applications.The venture, DCX Vishnu Private Ltd, will…