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ICEA)'s TruthTell Hackathon is a collaborative initiative with the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting catering to real time misinformation detection in live broadcasts. It aims to bring together top talent in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing to develop real-time tools for detecting and flagging misinformation.

A 22-year-old tourist was killed by an elephant at a sanctuary in Thailand after the animal turned on her while she was giving it a bath, according to local media reports.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. China started the year with a broadside against U.S. defense contractors, responding to recently ramped-up Taiwan arms sales by the Biden administration and laying down a fresh warning to President-elect Donald Trump of tools Beijing can use to protect national interests.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. China’s President Xi Jinping had a message for Taiwan in his New Year’s speech. “We Chinese on both sides of the Taiwan Strait belong to one and the same family," he said.

Industrial policy is once again gaining favour worldwide. Whether through the US' Inflation Reduction Act 2022 or the Mario Draghi report for the EU, 'EU Competitiveness: Looking Ahead', the West — the traditional stronghold of market-driven economies — appears to have embraced state intervention. Even IMF, in its World Economic Outlook 2024, acknowledges that industrial policy can be used to address market failures. Against this backdrop, GoI efforts to establish a domestic semiconductor chip design and production ecosystem deserve closer scrutiny.

President Xi Jinping underlined that no one could prevent China's 'reunification' with Taiwan, and affirmed that China will continue its «united front» efforts.

Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said on Wednesday that he welcomed equal, dignified, healthy and orderly exchanges with China, but wondered whether there was goodwill from Beijing given what he said was their blocking of simple things like tourism.

anti-dumping duty of up to USD 707 per tonne on imports of PVC paste resin, used to make artificial leather and other technical textiles' products, from six countries, including China, for five years, with an aim to guard domestic producers.

iPhone or very soon even the Google Pixel that amps up your swag quotient might owe its existence to a Foxconn shopfloor. And yet, the story began rather modestly in India, 18 years ago. But lately, as India climbs the affordability and style quotient ladder, the Taiwanese major is pumping in billions to expand its manufacturing footprint in the country.

Zoho Corporation's CEO Sridhar Vembu has sparked the 70-hour work week debate once again by backing Infosys co-founder Narayan Murthy.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. AMONG EXILED Chinese dissidents, Tang Yuanjun was well known. He had participated in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 and landed in prison as a result.

Ro Khanna criticised those targeting Indian-born Sriram Krishnan, who was recently chosen as a senior policy advisor for Artificial Intelligence by President-elect Donald Trump, over his Indian origin.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Chaos isn’t a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail and never get to try again. The fall breaks them. And some are given a chance to climb. They refuse, they cling to the realm or the gods or love. Illusions. Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is.—Petyr ‘Littlefinger’ Baelish The previous part of this article discussed how many economic miracles have been midwifed amid the chaos of global geopolitics.

Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has revealed that increasing US nuclear capabilities would not deter China from employing atomic weapons in a conflict over Taiwan, Taipei Times reported. The findings, published in a report on Friday, challenge current calls among policy experts to expand and modernise the US nuclear arsenal in response to China's growing military strength. The table top exercise, described as the first large-scale unclassified simulation of a potential nuclear war over Taiwan, explored scenarios where nuclear weapons might be used. According to the report, the US's nuclear capabilities, beyond ongoing modernisation efforts, had minimal impact on Beijing's willingness to deploy nuclear arms. Instead, the exercise highlighted the conditions under which either side might face pressure to resort to nuclear strikes, rather than the likelihood of such weapons being used.