NEW DELHI: The resolution confirming President’s rule in Manipur was passed by Rajya Sabha at 4am on Friday after a heated debate between treasury and opposition members. Union home minister Amit Shah slammed opposition for politicising an ethnic conflict and said Meitei and Kuki communities would engage in dialogue, adding that the next meeting between…
Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacts with President of Chile Gabriel Boric Font, at Hyderabad House in New Delhi on Tuesday. (Pic credit: ANI) NEW DELHI: Chilean President Gabriel Boric Font hailed Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a “key player in geopolitics” because he can talk to every leader of the world, including US President Donald…
NEW DELHI: “We didn’t stop teaching arithmetic just because we got calculators. We need to teach students what the machines can’t do and how to use machines (more efficiently).” That’s how the world’s leading universities are coping with AI, according to Michael Spence, University College London (UCL) president & provost. Speaking at the ET Now…
KOCHI: A campaign in her native Kerala to secure the release of nurse Nimisha Priya from death row in Yemen suffered a setback Monday after President Rashad Muhammed al-Alimi approved her sentence for murder. Nimisha, from Palakkad, was convicted of murdering a Yemeni citizen, Talal Abdo Mahdi, in 2018 and has been in Yemen’s central…
Magnus Carlsen and Viswanathan Anand NEW DELHI: Five-time world chess champion Magnus Carlsen’s unexpected withdrawal from the World Rapid and Blitz Championships has drawn sharp reactions from across the chess community. The controversy stemmed from Carlsen’s refusal to comply with FIDE‘s dress code, which prohibits jeans at tournament venues. This defiance led to his disqualification…