Lok Sabha polls | Thiruvananthapuram district to have 127 squads to enforce model code of conduct

Lok Sabha polls | Thiruvananthapuram district to have 127 squads to enforce model code of conduct

Across the two parliamentary constituencies of Thiruvananthapuram and Attingal, Thiruvananthapuram district will have a total of 2,730 polling stations, with a maximum of 1,500 voters in each station. (image for representational purpose) | Photo Credit: Ritu Raj Konwar A total of 127 squads have started functioning in Thiruvananthapuram district in Kerala to enforce the model … Read more

Milestone embraces the G7 Code of Conduct for sophisticated AI technologies – ET HealthWorld

Milestone embraces the G7 Code of Conduct for sophisticated  AI technologies – ET HealthWorld

India, Jan 19, 2024: “We need rules to ensure AI is being developed to serve humanity. But companies should not wait for regulation. They must take their own steps to identify and resolve the weaknesses and pitfalls of the AI they develop,” says Thomas Jensen, CEO of Milestone Systems, and continues: “When it comes to … Read more

Jamaat-i-Islami questions timing of Uniform Civil Code exercise

Jamaat-i-Islami questions timing of Uniform Civil Code exercise

Muslim opinion is quietly consolidating against the proposed Uniform Civil Code. After other Muslim organisations spoke out against Uniform Civil Code, the Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, which had initially preferred to wait to see the draft of the proposed code, has written to the Law Commission, questioning the timing of the commission’s public notice, issued on June … Read more

RSS’s tribal body welcome Sushil Kumar Modi’s suggestion to keep the tribal community out of Uniform Civil Code

RSS’s tribal body welcome Sushil Kumar Modi’s suggestion to keep the tribal community out of Uniform Civil Code

BJP MP Sushil Kumar Modi. File. | Photo Credit: PTI Vanvasi Kalyan Ashram (VKS) a tribal body affiliated with Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), on July 9 said that it welcomes the ‘role’ of BJP MP Sushil Kumar Modi, Chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Law, to keep the tribes out of Uniform Civil Code (UCC). … Read more

Move to introduce Uniform Civil Code a bluff, linked to Hindu Rashtra: Amartya Sen

Move to introduce Uniform Civil Code a bluff, linked to Hindu Rashtra: Amartya Sen

Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen during an interaction with students of Visva-Bharati University at his ancestral home ‘Pratichi’, at Santiniketan in Birbhum district on July 5, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen on Wednesday said that attempts to implement a Uniform Civil Code (UCC) were a ‘bluff’. He posed a question, asking who … Read more

Palaniswami indicates AIADMK’s opposition to move to bring in Uniform Civil Code

Palaniswami indicates AIADMK’s opposition to move to bring in Uniform Civil Code

AIADMK general secretary and Leader of the Opposition in T.N., Edappadi K. Palaniswami, at the party’s district secretaries meeting in Chennai on Wednesday | Photo Credit: SRINATH M AIADMK‘s general secretary Edappadi K. Palaniswami on Wednesday indicated his party’s opposition to the move to introduce the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) in India. Prime Minister Narendra … Read more

Uniform Civil Code can’t be forced on people by agenda-driven majoritarian govt: Chidambaram

Uniform Civil Code can’t be forced on people by agenda-driven majoritarian govt: Chidambaram

A day after PM Modi made a strong pitch for a Uniform Civil Code, Congress leader P. Chidambaram said it cannot be forced on people by an “agenda-driven majoritarian government” | file photo | Photo Credit: ANI A day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a strong pitch for a Uniform Civil Code (UCC), Congress … Read more

Fight against Uniform Civil Code a key challenge, says AIMPLB president

Fight against Uniform Civil Code a key challenge, says AIMPLB president

Maulana Khalid Saifullah Rahmani. File Hyderabad-based Islamic scholar Maulana Khalid Saifullah Rahmani succeeded the late Maulana Syed Rabey Nadw as president of the influential All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB). In an interview with The Hindu, he speaks about the challenges ahead for the AIMPLB, including the continuance of the Places of Worship Act, … Read more

Poll code violations: cash, jewellery, liquor among unaccounted materialsseized in Mysuru

Poll code violations: cash, jewellery, liquor among unaccounted materialsseized in Mysuru

The authorities have seized unaccounted materials including jewellery, cash and liquor the cumulative value of which has been pegged at around ₹3 crore in the district ever since the election process began. Deputy Commissioner K.V. Rajendra who is also the district election officer said that 162 flying squads have been deployed across Mysuru and this … Read more

This gel with QR code can accurately detect Covid in hundreds of people at one go – ET HealthWorld

This gel with QR code can accurately detect Covid in hundreds of people at one go – ET HealthWorld

London: Researchers have developed a hydroalcoholic gel with a QR code that enables people to access a test that assesses their ability to identify the smell of the product and eight symptoms of Covid, instantly evaluating the risk of having the deadly respiratory disease. The team from Spain’s Universitat Rovira i Virgili, in conjunction with … Read more