The TNIE reporter was covering murder-accused Kannada actor Darshan Thoogudeepa being produced before court. The attackers questioned the reporter about what he was doing at the court complex. It must be viewed as part of a string of attacks on media persons and the condition of press freedom across India. According to the India Freedom of Expression Initiative’s annual press freedom report, in 2023, five journalists were killed and 226 injured. These were carried out across India by state agencies, non-state political actors and criminals.

The Finance Commission is a constitutional body instituted by the Union government once in five years without any transparent discussion on selecting its members and its terms of reference (ToR). The FC’s recommendations are not justiciable and not all recommendations are accepted by the government. Normally, the Union government adds to the constitutionally mandated ToR using the Constitution’s Article 280, sub-clause 3(d)—“any other matter referred to the commission by the president in the interests of sound finance”. The NDA government gave a long ToR for the 15th FC that was coercive in more than one way. The ToR of every FC retained almost all items in the previous ToR.

अखिलेश ने कहा कि विभिन्न परीक्षाओं का पेपर लीक होना, परीक्षा में सेंटर से लेकर सॉल्वर तक की धांधली, परीक्षा कराने वाली एजेंसी का काम शक के घेरे में आना, रिजल्ट में ग्रेस मार्क्स की हेराफेरी, मनचाहे सेंटर मिलना, एक ही सेंटर से कई छात्रों का चयन होना और 100 प्रतिशत आना केवल परीक्षा प्रबंधन की समस्या नहीं है।राज्य ब्यूरो, लखनऊ। समाजवादी पार्टी के अध्यक्ष अखिलेश यादव ने सोमवार को एक बार फिर प्रतियोगी परीक्षाओं के पेपर लीक मामले को लेकर भाजपा सरकार को घेरा।इन सबसे बढ़कर यह एक मानसिक त्रासदी है, जिससे न केवल परीक्षा देने वाले युवा बल्कि उनके माता-पिता भी ग्रसित हो रहे हैं। सरकार इस संकट को एक मनोवैज्ञानिक दृष्टि से भी देखे और कम से कम युवाओं के मामलों को अपने चौतरफा भ्रष्टाचार से मुक्त रखें।अखिलेश बोले- कौन लेगा गारंटी? सपा अध्यक्ष ने सोमवार को जारी बयान में कहा कि अगर पुलिस भर्ती, एआरओ, नीट जैसी अन्य परीक्षाएं रद्द होकर दोबारा होती भी हैं तो इस बात की गारंटी कौन लेगा कि अगली बार परीक्षा आयोजित किए जाने पर ऐसा कुछ भी घपला-घोटाला नहीं होगा।जब सरकार वही है और उसकी व्यवस्था भी वही है तो ये सब धांधलियां कहीं फिर से सरकार संरक्षित ‘परीक्षा माफिया’ के लिए पैसा कमाने का जरिया न बन जाएं। युवा मानस वैसे ही बहुत नाजुक होता है, ऐसे में उनको संभालना माता-पिता के लिए एक बहुत बड़ी चुनौती है।यह भी पढ़ें: UP News: दारोगा को दौड़ाकर पीटा… सिपाहियों की वर्दी फाड़ी, विवाद सुलझाने आई पुलिस टीम पर हमलायह भी पढ़ें: स्टेशन पर खड़ा था युवक… हरकतों पर होने लगा शक, बैग खुलवाया तो निकली ये ‘चमकदार’ चीज, दंग रह गए सुरक्षा कर्मी!

Here's what US experts suggestAccording to Redfield, the death rate from the corona virus outbreak was just 0.6%, while the fatality rate from the bird flu epidemic might be as high as 20% to 50%. In a conversation, he said that the avian flu is becoming more widespread in the US. In his opinion, the pandemic might be much more deadly than the Covid-19 pandemic if it spreads via bird flu and affects people. It is known that the third human case of avian flu was detected in America last month. According to scientists, this might be the cause of the avian flu virus's fast proliferation among American cattle.

Amul has requested a woman in Noida to return an ice cream tub, in which she claimed to have found a centipede, for further investigation. The woman, Deepa Devi, shared a picture of the insect on social media, prompting the Noida food safety department to launch a probe.

In fact, 44 years ago this month, astronomer Vera Rubin published her famous paper with indirect evidence about the need for dark matter. Both dark matter and dark energy are assumptions. However, these alternatives suffer from an important problem: they don’t explain away all the disparities, whereas the dark matter and dark energy hypotheses do. Their studies make heavy use of simulations to understand how the universe would look if there were certain kinds of dark matter or dark energy. But for now, we have no choice but to draw all our inferences about dark matter and dark energy from indirect evidence alone.

The Israeli military on Sunday announced a "tactical pause" in its offensive in the southern Gaza Strip to allow the deliveries of increased quantities of humanitarian aid. The army said the pause would begin in the Rafah area at 8 a.m. (0500 GMT, 1 a.m. eastern) and remain in effect until 7 p.m. (1600 GMT, noon eastern). It said the pauses would take place every day until further notice.

Video AI tools are all the rage right now. As the Economic Times gears up to launch a brand new page on Artificial Intelligence called Eye on AI, we tried three different models to generate a video to mimic a BTS of what goes inside a newsroom while conceptualising and creating a new page. Here's what different models threw up. Have a look!

On Kanchenjunga Express train accident, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee says, "...They (Railway Ministry) don't care about passenger amenities. They don't even care about railway officials, railway engineers, railway technical staff and workers. I am completely with the railway employees and railway officials. How to go for hacking, how to go for manipulation, how to go for rig the election... I think they should give more time for the governance, not for utterance."

At least 15 people died and around 60 others were injured after a goods train collided with the Sealdah-bound Kanchanjunga Express near Rangapani station in West Bengal on Monday, police said. Three rear compartments of the express train derailed under the impact of the collision from behind by the locomotive of the goods train, railway officials said. TMC MP Santanu Sen expressed concern about the railway ticket price hike and privatization. He praised Mamata Banerjee's tenure as railway minister and urged the current rail minister to learn from her achievements.

Amid ongoing tensions between India and Canada, Canadian PM Justin Trudeau side-steps question on PM Modi at the post-G7 press meet in Italy. Here's what Trudeau said after a reporter asked if Ottawa will invite PM Narendra Modi to the 2025 G7 Summit under Canada's presidency.

This is an electromagnet: a device in which an electric current produces the magnetic field. This is because ferromagnetic metals like iron already contain small magnetic fields inside their bulk produced by its atoms. When the iron is used as the core in an electromagnet and a current is passed, the magnetic field it produces penetrates the iron’s bulk and forces the tiny fields to align along the external field’s direction. In a superconducting electromagnet, such as in an MRI, superconducting wire is coiled around a core to produce magnetic fields of up to 30 tesla (600,000-times as powerful as the earth’s). In Bitter electromagnets, current flows in wires coiled through a helical stack of electromagnets, producing magnetic fields of up to 40 tesla.

Elon Musk’s remarks on EVMs ignited a heated debate, with ex-Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar. The former IT MoS called it a 'sweeping generalisation' that lacked a factual basis, as Musk suggested EVMs can be hacked. Rajeev stated it might apply to US and other regions where standard computing platforms are used to build 'Internet-connected voting machines'. However, Chandrasekhar asserted that this is not the case in India, EVMs are custom-designed, secure, and isolated from any network or media.

In a recent exchange on 'X', the CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, Elon Musk, sparked a debate over the credibility of EVMs. The billionaire tech magnate suggested the elimination of EVMs, citing the risk of the machines getting hacked. Reacting to this, former Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar labeled Musk’s view as a ‘sweeping generalisation statement'. Asserting that EVMs are safe, Chandrasekhar also offered to run a tutorial for Musk on how EVMs can be architected and built correctly. Replying to Chandrasekhar's remark, Elon Musk stated that ‘Anything can be hacked’ Congress' Rahul Gandhi also supported the comment and referred to the EVMs as a ‘Black Box that can’t be scrutinised’.

Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw today took a bike ride to reach the Kanchenjunga Express train accident site in the Darjeeling district. At least 15 people lost their lives and around 60 others were injured when a goods train collided with the Sealdah-bound Kanchanjunga Express near Rangapani station in West Bengal on Monday. The collision caused three rear compartments of the express train to derail, railway officials stated. Rescue operations are in progress at the site, located about 30 km...