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A store selling Studio Ghibli products in Kyoto, Japan. ChatGPT is able to generate images on request in a particular style because it has been trained on that style by its creators, and hence it is a violation of the copyright law, if done without permission. | Photo Credit: Getty Images The celebrated legal academic … Read more
A few months after my little boy turned three, we went to stay with Phuphee for a few weeks. He loved playing in her garden and we would go on all sorts of adventures in the apple orchard that sprawled behind the house. It was a wonderful time, or so it seemed until he would … Read more
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Section 69 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita has ostensibly reduced the gravity of cases of sexual intercourse registered on the false promise of marriage by reducing punishment, compared to the offence of rape defined under Section 63 BNS (or Section 375 of the IPC). | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Cases of rape registered on the … Read more
Members of various brahmin organisations stage a demonstration in Mysuru condemning the incident in which a few students were asked to remove their ‘sacred threads’ at CET exam centres in Shivamogga and Bidar. | Photo Credit: The Hindu Recently in Karnataka, there were two instances of students from the Brahmin community facing hurdles at exam … Read more
The claim that Aadhaar-voter ID linkage is voluntary is questionable. Presently, Form 6B offers no meaningful opt-out — voters must either submit their Aadhaar number or declare they do not have one, coercing even those unwilling to share it into compliance. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Election Commission of India (ECI)’s renewed push … Read more
The September Arctic sea-ice is now shrinking at a rate of 12.2% per decade compared to its average extent during the period from 1981 to 2010. File | Photo Credit: Reuters Global trade is swinging like a pendulum, with potential headwinds from the U.S. nudging each nation to start doubling down on alternate trade strategies. … Read more
The Supreme Court of India has been subjected to unfounded criticism by sections of the ruling BJP, and Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar, with regard to the separation of powers between the various branches of the government, and the principle of checks and balances. Not surprisingly, a Supreme Court bench took note of the charge that it … Read more
The announcement of the BJP-led government in Maharashtra that English and Marathi medium schools will begin teaching Hindi as a third language from Class 1, as part of the implementation of the National Education Policy 2020, is running into significant political opposition. Previously, Hindi was introduced as a third language only from Class 6 onwards. … Read more
If capital and investment moves out of East Asia and into South Asia, the manufacturing renaissance that the latter region has been hoping to get for years could finally get under way. | Photo Credit: REUTERS April 2025 has been an absolute whirlwind. Tariffs have been announced and tariffs have been suspended. So with retaliations. … Read more