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Artificial intelligence (AI) – FAQs
September 30, 2023, 2:52 PM IST
Q: What was the need of artificial intelligence? A: Out of millions of human beings, only Newton wondered why the apple falls to the ground. Rest of the population was busy blaming each other for…
September 30, 2023, 2:52 PM IST
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‘If more and more patients need this TB medicine, its price has to come down. This is why I fought J&J’s attempt to extend the bedaquiline patent’
March 25, 2023, 2:05 AM IST
Nandita Venkatesan and South African Phumeza Tisle, two TB survivors, filed an application challenging the patent application of Johnson and Johnson to extend their patent on bedaquiline, an important drug for drug resistant TB in…
March 25, 2023, 2:05 AM IST
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‘Indus Valley Civilisation differs from others as inequality levels were far lower… likely because the Indus changed course often’
March 17, 2023, 2:10 AM IST
Oxford University historian Peter Frankopan explained the influence of climate and geography on human history in his book ‘The Earth Transformed: An Untold Story’. He gave an overview of it to Sanjiv Shankaran. Is it…
March 17, 2023, 2:10 AM IST
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‘World needs to put Russia on hold … Ukraine war may be first deeply cultural war in recent history’
March 10, 2023, 2:10 AM IST
Beyond bombs and missiles, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has sparked interest in Ukrainian culture. Director of Ukrainian Institute Volodymyr Seiko tells Rudroneel Ghosh how the war has galvanised Ukrainian culture as response to Russia’s imperialist…
March 10, 2023, 2:10 AM IST
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‘Before making traffic lights smarter we need to get our cities to the average baseline of a Chinese city first’
March 7, 2023, 2:10 AM IST
Pilibhit MP Feroze Varun Gandhi’s new book The Indian Metropolis: Deconstructing India’s Urban Spaces analyses the country’s urban infrastructure, from municipality funding to law and order, housing to civic services and job opportunities. Talking to…
March 7, 2023, 2:10 AM IST
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‘If you talk to Adivasis themselves, they don’t usually think of themselves or their culture as particularly endangered’
March 6, 2023, 2:10 AM IST
Ezra Rashkow is Associate Professor of History at Montclair State University, US, with a new book, The Nature of Endangerment in India: Tigers, ‘Tribes’, Extermination & Conservation, 1818-2020. He talks to Renuka Bisht about combining…
March 6, 2023, 2:10 AM IST
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‘Balloon-gate showed how tense US-China relations are … most scary is their weak communication mechanisms’
February 23, 2023, 2:10 AM IST
The recent US shooting of alleged Chinese spy balloons highlighted growing distrust between the two countries. Michael Szonyi, professor of Chinese history and former director of Fairbank Centre for Chinese Studies, Harvard University, and also…
February 23, 2023, 2:10 AM IST
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‘Why not use Sanskrit as our first or second official language?’ Ex-CJI Sharad Bobde makes a case for it, citing Ambedkar’s argument
February 21, 2023, 2:10 AM IST
What led to your affinity towards Sanskrit? My love towards the language developed from the vast experience as a lawyer and judge from trial courts to the Supreme Court. I realised the need for a…
February 21, 2023, 2:10 AM IST
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‘Russia doesn’t get a veto on Nato enlargement… we want to put Ukraine in the strongest possible position’
February 8, 2023, 2:10 AM IST
Amid signs of another round of intensification of the Ukraine war, ambassador Julianne Smith, the US Permanent Representative to Nato in Brussels, spoke to Naomi Canton about Nato’s position, India’s role and supporting Ukraine: Could…
February 8, 2023, 2:10 AM IST
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‘India’s much-hyped tiger recovery needs a total reboot and official monopoly over tiger research should end’
February 4, 2023, 2:05 AM IST
For over five decades, K Ullas Karanth, a world-renowned conservation scientist based at the Centre for Wildlife Studies in Karnataka, has been engaged in the struggle to conserve tigers in India. Karanth pioneered radio-tracking as well as the…
February 4, 2023, 2:05 AM IST
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‘We are using Western weapons to defend our country, not attacking anyone else’
February 3, 2023, 2:10 AM IST
With Russian attacks on Ukraine again intensifying and the West pledging to supply Kyiv with modern tanks, the war in Europe is heading for further escalation. Tamila Tasheva, Permanent Representative of the President of Ukraine…
February 3, 2023, 2:10 AM IST
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‘There was no camera when Mahatma was assassinated … extraordinary for one of the most filmed personalities’
January 30, 2023, 2:10 AM IST
Mahatma Gandhi, assassinated this day 75 years ago by Nathuram Godse, hated the movies. But cameras followed Gandhi most of his career, with the exception of his last moments. Prakash Magdum, former director of the…
January 30, 2023, 2:10 AM IST
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‘Even with IMF cash, Lanka won’t be out of political crisis … local body polls can precipitate another showdown’
January 27, 2023, 2:10 AM IST
Sri Lanka appears on the verge of securing an IMF bailout package. Ranga Jayasuriya, researcher and former senior fellow at the Institute of National Security Studies Sri Lanka, spoke about it and the political turmoil…
January 27, 2023, 2:10 AM IST
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‘The story of art has been a story without women … Now women at Tate, Louvre are making a huge difference’
January 21, 2023, 2:05 AM IST
One day in 2015, Katy Hessel visited an art fair in London that featured no women artists. Seven years later in 2022, ‘The Story of Art Without Men’ was born – a sprawling history of…
January 21, 2023, 2:05 AM IST
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‘Wetlands deserve a law specifically for their conservation, urbanisation must be planned around them’
January 16, 2023, 2:10 AM IST
A few recent reports suggest that the country has lost a large number of wetlands in the past couple of decades. Manoj Misra, a former Indian Forest Service officer who is now convener of not-for-profit…
January 16, 2023, 2:10 AM IST
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‘The next coding revolution will enable hospitals to do large patient studies without revealing personal data’
January 11, 2023, 2:10 AM IST
Shafi Goldwasser is among the world’s top scientists and one of the only three women to have won the Turing Award. She has made fundamental contributions to cryptography and computational complexity and co-invented zero-knowledge proofs…
January 11, 2023, 2:10 AM IST
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‘OTT is a huge platform … It has opened the floodgates to all kinds of cinemas … I think the star system is on shaky grounds’
December 24, 2022, 2:20 AM IST
Renowned film director Saeed Mirza (‘Salim Langde Pe Mat Ro’, ‘Naseem’) was a close friend of Kundan Shah, who among other things, helmed the iconic politically-aware comedy, ‘Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro’. Shah passed away in…
December 24, 2022, 2:20 AM IST
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‘Putin’s vision for Russia looks increasingly threadbare … In some ways the West created circumstances for Putin’s rise’
December 15, 2022, 2:10 AM IST
As the war in Ukraine grinds on, the international community waits for clues from the Russian regime. Mark Galeotti, an authority on Russian security affairs and author of ‘Putin’s Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine’, spoke with…
December 15, 2022, 2:10 AM IST
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‘We are still not clear on the morality police. The hijab law remains. Iranian women are continuing to lead the protests’
December 13, 2022, 2:10 AM IST
The Iranian regime recently indicated that it was dismantling the morality police that has been at the centre of widespread protests following the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in the custody of the force. However,…
December 13, 2022, 2:10 AM IST
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‘Wait times for US visas are still longer than we’d like … We are working to reduce the backlog by 2023’
December 1, 2022, 2:10 AM IST
The interview wait period for US B1 (business) and B2 (tourist) visas globally is the highest in India, at close to 1,000 days. The current wait time for B1/B2 interview waiver (drop box) cases is…
December 1, 2022, 2:10 AM IST
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