Parliament proceedings | Lok Sabha passes Bill to check use of unfair means in govt recruitment exams

Parliament proceedings | Lok Sabha passes Bill to check use of unfair means in govt recruitment exams

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

Parliament passes Bill simplifying registration of periodicals

Parliament passes Bill simplifying registration of periodicals

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

Writer P. Valsala passes away at 85

Writer P. Valsala passes away at 85

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

Gujarat Assembly passes Bill for more OBC seats in local bodies

Gujarat Assembly passes Bill for more OBC seats in local bodies

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

Jana Sena Party passes resolution for probe into ‘people’s data theft’  

Jana Sena Party passes resolution for probe into ‘people’s  data theft’  

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-chairman of Sri Chaitanya Group B. S. Rao passes away

Founder-chairman of Sri Chaitanya Group B. S. Rao passes away

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 AI health chatbot passes US medical exam: study – ET HealthWorld

Google AI health chatbot passes US medical exam: study – ET HealthWorld

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

Yesteryear film producer Achani Ravi passes away

Yesteryear film producer Achani Ravi passes away

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

Educationist Chitran Namboodippad passes away 

Educationist Chitran Namboodippad passes away 

Eminent educationist, writer and former additional director of the Kerala Education department Chitran Namboodirippad died at his residence here on Tuesday. He was 104. A national award-winning educationist, Mr. Namboodirippad established a high school at Mookkuthala in 1947 soon after his post-graduation from Pachaiyappa’s College, Chennai. After running the school for 10 years, he handed … Read more