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Indian-origin scholar Soumitra Shukla came under anti-Indian racist attacks on social media. American economist and social scientist Steven Durlauf stood up for Indian-origin scholar Soumita Shukla against anti-India hatred on social media. Soumitra Shukla, a research fellow at Harvard Business School’s Artificial Intelligence Institute, made an observation on the increasing hatred targeting Indians on X…

The fictional misanthrope Dr House would often joke that if one could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people. Of course, the savant made those observations before Donald Trump became president, an event so catastrophic that it has forced the most openly religious person in the world to act as a voice…

UK heatwave disrupts London trains Britain’s scorching heatwave caused major travel disruption on Tuesday after smoke was reported on railway tracks near London Waterloo station, forcing train operators to cancel services and impose speed restrictions across parts of the network.South Western Railway (SWR) said smoke was spotted between London Waterloo and Vauxhall stations, prompting emergency…

Mary Trump says Donald Trump does not love his children and Iran was only an excuse to skip Don Jr’s wedding last weekend. As Ivanka Trump posted the photos of Donald Trump Jr’s weekend wedding with Palm Beach socialite Bettina Anderson in the Bahamas, social media users noticed that her husband, Jared Kushner, who is…

Pope Leo XIV has invoked one of the Bible’s most famous stories, the Tower of Babel, while warning about the rapid rise of artificial intelligence. In recent remarks about AI ethics and global technological power, the pontiff compared the modern AI race to the ancient biblical tale of humanity attempting to build a tower reaching…

Pakistan’s Punjab government has deferred its plan and appears to take a U-turn to restore the original historical names of roads and streets in Lahore following criticism from extremist groups over the revival of several pre-Partition Hindu and Sikh-era names.The Lahore Heritage Areas Revival (LAHR) committee had earlier approved the proposal during a meeting jointly…

Indian-origin woman was shot dead at a convenience store in Virginia, US. A 45-year-old Indian woman was shot and killed at the supermarket in Virginia where she had been working for years. The killing of Meghnaben Patel in the morning of May 23, who was originally from India’s Gujarat, was caught on CCTV inside the…

Quote of the day by Nelson Mandela Some quotes feel important because they sound grand. Others stay alive because they feel personal. Nelson Mandela’s words seem to belong to the second category. At first glance, the quote appears to be speaking only about language. Someone reads it and may think it is a simple observation…

The mother of a British teenager who allegedly died after attempting a dangerous online challenge has criticised the UK government for moving too slowly on plans to restrict children’s access to social media, saying ministers are “kicking it down the road”.Ellen Roome, whose 14-year-old son Jools Sweeney died in 2022, is among a group of…

PC: University of Washington A small stretch of ground beside a chain-link fence on the University of Washington campus has turned out to hold a far older story than anyone working there on an ordinary day might have expected. It began almost casually, with soil being turned over near a greenhouse and a piece of…