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Last Updated:February 04, 2026, 16:32 ISTGrok AI as given birth to Grokipedia which Elon Musk says is more accurate, unbiased and useful than Wikipedia.Elon Musk’s Grokipedia, an AI-driven encyclopedia, has taken on its rival Wikipedia. Elon Musk and his xAI company are once again making the headlines for worrying reasons. The startup has developed Grokipedia (AI version of Wikipedia) which is based on the Grok AI model. We have come to a point where people heavily rely on AI tools for information but now we have a situation where one AI is quoting another AI which may or may not…
Chief Economic Adviser V. Anantha Nageswaran during a press conference at the National Media Centre in New Delhi on January 29, 2026 after the tabling of the Economic Survey 2025-26 in Parliament. | Photo Credit: ANI Quality is established in the marketplace through competition, not through quality control orders, Chief Economic Adviser (CEA) V. Anantha Nageswaran said in an interview to The Hindu.Speaking a day after the Economic Survey 2025-26, authored by him and tabled in Parliament by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Dr. Nageswaran on Friday also spoke about how States need to balance the costs of unconditional cash transfers…
Image used for representational purposes only. File | Photo Credit: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar The Delhi High Court issued notice to the Central Government on Wednesday (January 28, 2026), seeking its stand on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) challenging the blanket ban on the adoption of frozen embryos.A Bench of Chief Justice D. K. Upadhyaya and Justice Tejas Karia issued notice to the Centre while hearing a PIL filed by IVF specialist Dr. Aniruddha Narayan Malpani who approached the court challenging Sections 25(2), 27(5), 28(2) and 29 of the Assisted Reproductive Technology (Regulation) Act, 2021 and Rule 13(1)(a) of the Assisted Reproductive…
SpaceX faces a significant hurdle in attracting engineers and technicians to its Starbase facility in South Texas due to limited job prospects for their spouses. Elon Musk highlighted this ‘significant other’ problem, noting the remote location’s scarcity of non-SpaceX employment. This challenge, though less pronounced, also affects Tesla’s recruitment in Texas. Elon Musk has revealed that SpaceX is facing a hiring challenge in Texas. In a recent podcast, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO noted that married engineers and technicians are struggling to relocate their families to areas with limited job opportunities for spouses. The problem is particularly acute at SpaceX’s…
Meta’s WhatsApp messaging service is offering users an advanced security mode, joining a growing number of US tech firms that are letting users opt into stronger protections against hackers in exchange for a more restrictive experience.The new option, rolling out on Tuesday and called ‘Strict Account Settings,’ is a one-click button in WhatsApp’s settings that activates a series of defences.These include blocking media and attachments from unknown senders, disabling link previews – the thumbnails that appear when a URL is entered into a chat – and silencing calls from unknown contacts. All three have been identified as potential vectors for…
Kolkata: The Election Commission of India (ECI) has named state home secretary JP Meena and commissioner of police-Howrah Praveen Kumar Tripathy as the central observers in the list of 25 IAS and IPS officers from West Bengal who have been called for a briefing meeting in February regarding the upcoming elections in five states.The central observers from these states — Assam, Kerala, Puducherry, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal — have been called for briefing by ECI on February 5 and 6 in New Delhi.ECI warned of disciplinary proceedings against officers for any unauthorized absence from the meeting.ECI said that despite…
Two top Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) officials said Friday they had paid the first visit to Moscow since Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The OSCE’s acting head, Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis, and OSCE Secretary General Feridun Hadi Sinirlioglu met Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday and Friday. “Without dialogue, there is no trust,” Cassis told reporters in Vienna in a briefing about their four hours of talks with Lavrov. Cassis said the goal was to “show the willingness to reach out and to say… we are here to talk to you and to…
Mumbai: After a bystander lost an eye to a stone flung by a commuter over a spat between him and another traveller on a local train at Bandra, the Govt Railway Police (GRP) tracked down and arrested the suspect on Thursday. Yogendra Bauddha, the accused, is a labourer. The stone flung by Bauddha injured Nishant Khatri, a 28-year-old professional who had got engaged just two days before the incident.On Feb 3, Khatri had finished work at office and boarded a Churchgate-bound local from Andheri station to head home. An MBA in finance, he works as an assistant manager (accounts and…
What used to be the best time to be outdoors in Delhi, with the winter sun and chilly nights, has now been reduced to months spent in sealed indoor spaces with air purifiers, rue Delhiites Winters were once Delhi’s favourite season. Families spread chatais at Nehru Park, India Gate lawns or Lodhi Gardens and lingered over homemade food.Today, acrid air has blurred those memories. Masks and air purifiers have become essential. Delhi no longer wakes to morning dew. It wakes coughing, with smoke and a strange chemical tang in the air. Last November and December saw the worst levels of…
Bengaluru: Taking a dig at the kind of films being released across the country, health minister Dinesh Gundu Rao Friday said cinema should not be confined to a single style or viewpoint, stressing that freedom of expression is vital for both art and democracy.He was speaking at the valedictory ceremony of the 17th Bangalore International Film Festival (BIFFes). Rao said filmmakers carry a public responsibility and must resist pressures that narrow the range of stories. “Freedom of expression is crucial and we must preserve it. Art plays a big role in that. Producers, directors and everyone must take up that…