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Shiv Sena MP Priyanka Chaturvedi | Photo Credit: ANI The Indian government on Friday has cautioned X’s (formerly Twitter) artificial intelligence (Al)-based application ‘Grok’, to ensure it does not generate, promote or facilitate content which contains nudity, sexualisation, sexually explicit or otherwise unlawful content in any form whatsoever.In a directive to Chief Compliance Offrcer, X, India Operations, the Ministry for Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) has told the company to immediately undertake a comprehensive technical, procedural and governance-level review of Grok, including its prompt-processing, output-generation (responses generated using Large Language Models (LLMs), image handling and safety guardrails, so as to…

Kolkata: Election Commission of India has said revision of voters’ list under the supervision of 11 ‘illegally’ appointed officials at Basirhat in North 24 Parganas would be overruled after an on-the-ground probe against gross lapses. ECI would appoint new officials to ensure hearings are conducted to create an error-proof and up-to-date list of electors, it said.A detailed probe report to ECI over “serious lapses” by Assistant Electoral Registration Officer (AERO) – or the BDO of Basirhat-II – said he had allegedly appointed 11 officials as “Additional AEROs” and conducted hearings. ET reported that on January 25, ECI has directed the…

MUMBAI: The petitions filed in HC by senior advocate Haresh Jagtiani and stand-up comedian Kunal Kamra contended that Rule 3(1)(d) of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code Amendment Rules, 2023), as amended in Oct 2025, and the Sahyog Portal “are illegal and beyond the scope of the IT Act, and in contravention of the Supreme Court’s 2015 judgment in Shreya Singhal case that upholds sanctity of a hearing as a necessary safeguard.”Lack of safeguards would render the amended rule and portal illegal and arbitrary and the procedure “patently riddled with bias”, contended the two petitions filed…

Delhi’s Census 2027 houselisting operations will commence in NDMC and Delhi Cantonment areas from April 15. NEW DELHI: The first phase of Census 2027, under which houselisting operations will be carried out across 13 revenue districts of Delhi, is likely to begin from April 15 in New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) and Delhi Cantonment areas.It will start from May 15 in municipal corporation areas. The formal schedule will be notified by Delhi govt weeks before the exercise starts, officials said. Govt has stepped up ground-level preparations. A group of 17 master trainers is scheduled to undergo comprehensive training on houselisting…

Bengaluru: The Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Friday announced a steep 700% hike in fees for its four-year undergraduate Bachelor of Science (BS) programme from the 2026-27 academic year, with annual tuition fees raised from Rs 10,000 to Rs 80,000. The fees, unchanged since the programme’s launch in 2011, have been revised to bring them in line with other top academic institutions in the country, IISc said. The revised fee structure will apply only to new admissions, not to existing students. IISc also said tuition fees for PhD programmes and some Master’s programmes will be increased, though the quantum was…

Hyderabad’s prestigious Nizam Club is embroiled in a power struggle as elections are delayed by over four months, splitting its influential membership HYDERABAD: The city’s prestigious Nizam Club has landed itself in a bitter power struggle after the club elections were pushed back by more than four months — only the second such delay in its 140-year history.And apart from leading to administrative concerns, the impasse has also split its influential membership, which includes politicians, senior bureaucrats, business leaders, and members of the erstwhile royal family.The crisis began after an extraordinary general meeting (EGM), convened in June, 2025 — to…

Chennai: Despite the Supreme Court’s order removing the interim stay on amendments giving power to the Tamil Nadu govt instead of the governor to appoint vice-chancellors (VCs) to state universities, educationists say that universities may not get VCs before the start of the next academic year due to the Assembly election.They urged both governor R N Ravi and chief minister M K Stalin to strike a compromise, albeit temporary, without prejudice to the pending court proceedings, and appoint VCs according to the existing university Acts and conventions.While removing the interim stay, the Supreme Court directed Madras High Court to decide…

Ahmedabad: In the coming decades, India will add 35-40 crore people to its urban areas. Hence, urban planners must design locally to ensure quality of life for people, experts at the 74th National Town & Country Planners Conference organized by the Institute of Town Planners, India (ITPI) in Ahmedabad on Friday.K Srinivas, secretary, Union ministry of housing and urban affairs (MoHUA), who inaugurated the conference said, “Urbanization is now recognized as a positive force for economic growth, with town planners emerging as key stakeholders in India’s development story. It is no longer enough to design cities in kilometres. There is…

BHUBANESWAR/BERHAMPUR: Top Maoist couple Niranjan Rout and his wife Rashmita Lenka were among 19 rebels who surrendered before Odisha Police on Friday.Niranjan alias Nikhil and Rashmita alias Indu were state committee members — the second-highest tier in the CPI (Maoist) hierarchy after the central committee — with each carrying a bounty of Rs 55.10 lakh. The couple’s surrender is being hailed as a turning point in the fight against Maoists, with state police officers calling it the last nail in the coffin in Odisha, keeping in mind the Centre’s target of a Naxal-free India by March 31. The Collapse Of…

Coimbatore: Road widening work on Vadavalli–Marudhamalai Road stretch in the city is likely to be further delayed with the Madras high court directing the Highways Department not to fell the trees on roadside along the stretch.The order was passed by a bench comprising justice N Sathish Kumar and justice T Bharatha Chakravarthy on Jan 30 while hearing a petition submitted by activist S Muralidharan. Muralidharan in his petition said 19 banyan trees, nine peepal trees, 107 palmyra trees and nearly 100 other native tree species were likely to be felled for the road widening project. According to him, the trees…