Sweden passes law lowering age to change legal gender from 18 to 16
Swedes have been able to change their legally recognised gender since 1972 – but this will make it easier. Source link
Swedes have been able to change their legally recognised gender since 1972 – but this will make it easier. Source link
B. C. Jojo, senior journalist and former Executive Editor of the Kerala Kaumudi daily, died here on Tuesday. He was undergoing treatment at a private hospital in the city. Mr. Jojo was 66. He was residing at ‘Uthradam,’ S.N. Nagar, Pettah. He joined the Kerala Kaumudi in 1985 and served as Executive Editor from 2003 … Read more
Parliamentarians in Lok Sabha in New Delhi. File | Photo Credit: PTI The Lok Sabha on Tuesday passed a Bill which seeks to deal sternly with malpractices and irregularities in government recruitment examinations, with provisions for a maximum jail term of 10 years and a fine up to ₹1 crore. Piloting the Public Examinations (Prevention … Read more
Union Minister Anurag Thakur speaks in the Lok Sabha during the Winter session of Parliament | Photo Credit: PTI Parliament passed a Bill on Thursday to make the process of allotment of title and registration of periodicals simple and simultaneous through an online system without the requirement of any physical interface. The Press and Registration … Read more
Award-winning writer P. Valsala, 85, passed away at a private hospital in Kozhikode on Tuesday night. Doctors attributed the cause of death to cardiac failure. Ms. Valasala was one of the few women writers in Malayalam who achieved literary renown. In her decades-long writing career, Ms Valsala bagged the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award, Ezhuthachan Puraskaram … Read more
The BJP government in Gujarat on Friday passed a Bill in the Assembly earmarking 27% of seats in local bodies like panchayats, municipalities, and civic corporations for Other Backward Classes (OBCs). Previously, the communities had a 10% reservation. The Gujarat Local Authorities Laws (Amendment) Bill, 2023, was passed through a majority voice vote in the … Read more
The Jana Sena Party (JSP) passed a resolution in its general body meeting on Friday that the Union Home Ministry should order a comprehensive probe into the alleged theft and misuse of people’s personal data through ward and village volunteers. It expressed concern that the data being collected by volunteers could end up in the … Read more
Founder and Chairman of Sri Chaitanya Group of Educational Institutions Boppana Satyanarayana Rao, popularly known as B. S. Rao, died on Thursday at a private hospital while undergoing treatment after he reportedly had a fall in the bathroom, in Hyderabad. He was 76 and is survived by wife Jhansi Lakshmi Bai and two daughters Sushma … Read more
Google‘s artificial intelligence-powered medical chatbot has achieved a passing grade on a tough US medical licensing exam, but it’s answers still fall short of those from human doctors, a peer-reviewed study said on Wednesday. Last year the release of ChatGPT — whose developer OpenAI is backed by Google’s rival Microsoft — kicked off a race … Read more
Minister for Animal Husbandry J. Chinchu Rani paying her last respects to filmmaker and industrialist K. Raveendranathan Nair in Kollam on Saturday. | Photo Credit: C. SURESHKUMAR Industrialist and renowned film producer K. Ravindranathan Nair passed away in Kollam on Saturday due to age-related ailments. He was 90 and his navathi (ninetieth birth anniversary) celebrations … Read more