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The UAE will see misty mornings, humidity, intermittent cloud cover and possible rain through midweek/Representative Image Residents across the UAE can expect a shift in weather patterns over the coming days, with humid mornings, increasing cloud cover, and a chance of rainfall in several regions as conditions fluctuate between Saturday and Wednesday, according to the National Centre of Meteorology.The forecast points to rising humidity levels during the early hours, with mist likely to form at times, particularly across coastal, western, and internal areas. These conditions are expected on several mornings during the period and could affect visibility, especially around sunrise.…

In a milestone, India and the European Union (EU) have hailed the conclusion of the India-EU Free Trade Agreement (FTA) while launching a ‘Comprehensive Strategic Agenda’ for 2030. Among other measures, the pact moves beyond supply chains to operationalise joint R&D in advanced semiconductor “heterogeneous integration” and chip design.It also formally links the European AI Office with India’s National AI Mission to jointly develop safe, human-centric AI and take advantage of what the agreement called India’s vast “multilingual datasets” and Europe’s research infrastructure to secure strategic autonomy in critical technologies.Three phasesThe AI and semiconductor aspects represent the maturation of three…

India and the United States have unveiled a framework for an interim trade agreement, cutting US reciprocal tariffs on Indian goods to 18 per cent from 50 per cent. As per the joint statement India’s agriculture market has been ring-fenced. India has granted no duty concessions on what it calls “sensitive” farm and dairy products.Also read: US tariffs on India cut to 18%; $30 trillion market access – trade deal explained in 10 points“The agreement reflects India’s commitment to safeguarding farmers’ interests and sustaining rural livelihoods by completely protecting sensitive agricultural and dairy products, including maize, wheat, rice, soya, poultry,…

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…