Bihar: Three arrested after videos show minor girl, boy being harassed and assaulted in Jamui
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·21d ago
The Bihar Police on Monday said that three persons have been arrested for allegedly harassing and assaulting a minor girl and her male friend in Jamui district.
Delhi SIR: MP Kapil Sibal asks why he received ‘unmapped’ notice despite matching 1998 voter record
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·21d ago
Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal on Sunday asked why he was issued a notice during the special intensive revision of electoral rolls in Delhi, saying that the details in his enumeration form matched...
Canada’s overqualified immigrants suffer at work but companies pay the price too
Scroll.inby Kingsley Ivande, The Conversation·22d ago
Canada actively recruits highly educated and skilled immigrants through programs, yet many of these immigrants struggle to find work matching their skills and experience.
Why it is important to teach students what AI cannot do when it comes to writing
Scroll.inby Billy J Stratton, The Conversation·22d ago
It’s disconcerting to envision human thought becoming redundant or deemed inferior due to advancements in artificial intelligence. But for all its ills, AI cannot be ignored or wished away.
Assam CM lays foundation for Adani power project on land cleared by evicting 1,400 Muslim families
Scroll.inby Rokibuz Zaman·22d ago
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday laid the foundation for a thermal power project to be built by Adani Power Limited in the state’s Dhubri district on land where the homes of 1,400...
Bengaluru’s Hebbal tunnel is a risk to groundwater and could worsen flooding, say experts
Scroll.inby Sohel Sarkar·22d ago
The proposed three-lane, bidirectional tunnel road in north Bengaluru, intended to ease congestion at Hebbal Junction – a major interchange connecting the airport with the rest of the city – has...
Following a Goan photographer across empires and a global war
Scroll.inby Nishitha Mandava·22d ago
In 1918, a photograph taken in Baghdad captured the officers and soldiers of Dunsterforce, a military unit assembled from across the British Empire during the First World War.
Delhi SIR: Rekha Gupta, Arvind Kejriwal among 33 lakh voters issued notices to validate details
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·22d ago
Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta and Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal are among 33 lakh electors in the national capital for whom notices have been generated in the special intensive revision...
Being an Indian woman biker isn’t easy
Scroll.inby Sneha·22d ago
Earlier this week, a woman biker shared a video on social media showing a car ramming into her in Gurugram.
How AI could influence our understanding of mathematics: A computer scientist-novelist’s reflections
Scroll.inby Anil Menon·22d ago
On September 8, OpenAI claimed it had solved the Navier-Stokes problem. “The question of whether smooth three-dimensional fluid motion can break down has remained unresolved for roughly 90 years,”...
Mumbai Police pressured 2 venues into cancelling Umar Khalid film screening, allege organisers
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·23d ago
Two Mumbai residents have alleged that a private screening of a documentary about jailed activist Umar Khalid, organised by them, had to be cancelled after police intimidated the managers of two...
Snakebite treatment: Promising research on nanobody antivenoms
Scroll.inby Andreas Hougaard Laustsen, The Conversation·23d ago
Every year, between 80,000 and 140,000 people die from snakebites worldwide. Hundreds of thousands more are left with amputated limbs or permanent disabilities.
At least 82% of voters deleted during Bengal SIR have appealed against removal, EC data shows
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·23d ago
The Election Commission has informed the Supreme Court that of the 38.2 lakh appeals filed before tribunals against decisions taken during the special intensive revision of electoral rolls in West...
How dreaded dacoit Phoolan Devi became an irresistible legend
Scroll.inby Nandini Ramnath·23d ago
It’s hard to imagine a time when Phoolan Devi was not an icon. Ever since news spread in the early 1980s about the “Bandit Queen”, the only woman dacoit in the Chambal Valley, Phoolan has made the...
Why India resisted the Caribbean diaspora’s attempts to return home
Scroll.inby Ajay Kamalakaran·23d ago
Almost as soon as Anand Mohan Sahay took charge as India’s commissioner in the British colony of Trinidad in 1950, he began receiving Indian-origin visitors seeking repatriation to India.
‘Murder of democracy’: Rahul Gandhi on Nandigram bye-poll candidate’s arrest
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·23d ago
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday described the arrest of the party’s candidate for the Nandigram Assembly bye-election in West Bengal as a “murder of democracy”.
Mumbai Police searched activist’s home for flying kites in Palestine solidarity, alleges group
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·23d ago
The Mumbai Police on Friday allegedly did not allow five activists to leave the home of one of them while it was searched allegedly for flying kites to express solidarity with Palestinian children.
Why do the forever friends of our 20s become strangers in our 30s?
Scroll.inby Pranav Sharma·23d ago
I can name 11 cities I have lived in, but not even half the people who made them liveable. Somewhere in a drawer is an old SIM card with 200 phone numbers, and all I remember are names or just...
September global fiction: Six new books (including Pulitzer Prize winner Hernan Diaz’s) to enjoy
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·23d ago
All information sourced from publishers. Ply, Hernan Diaz Centuries from now, an orphan adrift in an American city grows up to become a pincher – someone who steals electricity from the grid to...
Trump announces Greenland security deal with Denmark
Scroll.inby Scroll Staff·23d ago
United States President Donald Trump on Friday announced that the US had reached a deal with Denmark that gives Washington “permanent control over security” in Greenland.
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