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Artificial intelligence built on mountains of potentially biased information has created a real risk of automating discrimination, but is there any way to re-educate the machines? The question for some is extremely urgent. In this ChatGPT era, AI will generate more and more decisions for health care providers, bank lenders or lawyers, using whatever was scoured from the internet as source material.

Manipur, the Mizoram government is likely to initiate biometric enrolment for refugees from Myanmar. People from Myanmar continue to come to Mizoram since the military junta seized power in the nation on February 1, 2021. At least 34,350 people including women, elderly people and children from the neighbouring country took shelter in 11 districts of Mizoram. A senior official in the Mizoram government who does not want to be named told ET, “Chief Minister Lalduhoma, during a meeting with the leaders of NGO Young Mizo Association (CYMA), indicated the state government’s plan for biometric enrolment for refugees”.

transgender icon of the election department of Himachal Pradesh's Solan district. Hailing from the Kothi village in Kunihar area of the Solan district under Shimla parliamentary constituency, Thakur said that the situation had become so grim that villagers started pressurising her family to «throw her out». She was perhaps the only transgender among 35 belonging to the third gender in the state, who gathered the courage to speak up. «When I used to tell my family members about the mal-treatment and discrimination in the school to an extent that I was not allowed to use the toilet, they thought I was making excuses to skip the school. Given a chance, I would like to resume my education,» she said, lamenting that she faced discrimination at «every step in life».

Mumbai. The post provoked an outrage as one of the requirements listed was "Marathi people are not welcome here". The firm in question claimed that their Linkedin profile was used by a freelance recruiter and they apologised for the advertisement, so did the HR recruiter. However, the post has sparked off a Marathi versus Gujarati row in Mumbai which is now seeing it being reflected in some constituencies in Mumbai, especially in Mumbai North East as BJP's Mihir Kotecha takes on Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray Sena's Sanjay Dina Patil here. Kotecha is the BJP MLA from Mulund, who has replaced sitting MP Manoj Kotak. In 2014, BJP candidate Kirit Somaiya won the elections against NCP candidate Sanjay Dina Patil by 3.17 lakh votes. Five years later, the BJP fielded Manoj Kotak who defeated Patil by a margin of 2.36 lakh votes. Sanjay Dina Patil has quit the NCP and is now contesting on the Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray Sena faction ticket.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Chairman Martin Gruenberg is sitting for a second day of grilling on Capitol Hill, this time at the Senate Banking Committee, after a damning report about the agency’s toxic workplace culture was released last week

Ramanujacharya Jayanti commemorates the birth anniversary of Ramanujacharya, a revered philosopher and thinker. The day holds significant religious importance in Hinduism, particularly in South India. This year marks the 1007th birth anniversary of Ramanujacharya. According to Drik Panchang, Sri Ramanujacharya Jayanti falls on the Panchami Tithi of Shukla Paksha in the month of Vaishakha, which is on May 12, 2024.

Narendra Modi has offered the Sharad Pawar faction of the Nationalist Congress Party and the Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray Sena faction to join the National Democratic Alliance saying, 'all their dreams would be fulfilled'. Modi has said the Congress was a party of racists who discriminated on the basis of colour and were against the Hindu faith. «A big leader here who is active for 40-50 years is worried after the Baramati Lok Sabha polls...he is so perturbed that he has given a statement, I am sure that he has done this after speaking to people, he is so perturbed that they won't be relevant after June 4 (election results) that according to him after June 4, smaller parties, in order to survive, will merge with the Congress.

Narendra Modi on Friday paid tribute to Jagadguru Basaveshwara, a revered 12th century poet, philosopher and the founding saint of the Lingayat tradition, on his birth anniversary celebrated in Karnataka as ‘Basava Jayanti’. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), PM Modi wrote, “I pay homage to Jagadguru Basaveshwara on the special occasion of Basava Jayanthi. His ideals illuminate millions of lives.

An independent review of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.’s workplace culture describes an environment that fostered “hostile, abusive, unprofessional, or inappropriate conduct,” and questions whether the agency’s chairman is credible to lead the ag...

Manipur chief minister N Biren Singh stated that out of 5457 illegal immigrants detected from Myanmar, biometric data of 5173 of them have been registered. Singh stated in X, “5457 illegal immigrants detected from Myanmar, biometric data of 5173 of them have been registered. The Government has detected a total of 5457 illegal immigrants in Kamjong District, Manipur as on May 7th, 2024. Out of the total, the biometric data of 5173 such illegal immigrants have been collected so far. Deportation process is underway. We have been giving humanitarian aides to all the illegal immigrants who were detected so far. Despite being an alarming situation, we have been handling it with utmost sensitivity.” Last week around 38 Myanmarese nationals were deported to their country from Manipur.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. 's workplace culture describes an environment that fostered “hostile, abusive, unprofessional, or inappropriate conduct," and questions whether the agency's chairman is credible to lead the agency through a cultural transformation. The report released Tuesday by law firm Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton outlines incidents of stalking, harassment, homophobia and other violations of employment regulations.

Under the Bridge, based on the disappearance of Reena Virk, is all set to release on OTT. In 1997, Virk - a 14-year-old Indian girl in Canada - disappeared after attending a party, only found to be murdered. The murder that took place in British Columbia in the late 90s made widespread headlines.

The health insurer Aetna has agreed to settle a lawsuit over whether its fertility treatment coverage discriminates against LGBTQ+ patients

immigrants from Manipur deported to Myanmar on Thursday, altogether 77 illegal Myanmarese migrants, including 55 women and five children, deported to their country since March 8. Manipur Chief Minister N. Biren Singh said on the X: “Without any discrimination, we have completed the first phase of deportation of illegal immigrants from Myanmar with 38 more immigrants leaving Manipur, India, today through Moreh.” He said: “A total of 77 illegal immigrants have been deported in the first phase. One Indian national was also brought back from Myanmar during the handover ceremony.

Rajnath Singh talks about the security situation, political issues dominating the current elections and the BJP government's performance in a freewheeling discussion at the ET Political Roundtable. Excerpts: On the assessment of elections in the first two phases. As per the assessment, it appears that we will achieve the target of 400 seats. Looking at the atmosphere across the country and the response of the masses and the survey agencies which are working for us, we are confident that we will achieve our target.

Kapil that it was at that time he learnt the "power of Namaste". Sharing a story from Punjab which was "very close" to him, Aamir in Hindi said that he was in the state for the shoot of Rang de Basanti. "I really loved it there.

Lok Sabha elections 2024: BJP national president JP Nadda on Sunday alleged that the Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee-led West Bengal government is a “terrorist sympathiser" and wants a central government that is "soft on terrorism". BJP president JP Nadda on Saturday alleged that Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee wants a government at the Centre that is "soft on terrorism". Addressing a Lok Sabha election rally in West Bengal's Murshidabad, Nadda said, “We talk about a 'Majboot Sarkar' but Mamata Banerjee wants a 'Majboor Sarkar'.

Iraq's conservative society, however there had not previously been a law that explicitly punished same-sex relations. Members of Iraq's LGBTQ community have been prosecuted for sodomy or under vague morality and anti-prostitution clauses in Iraq's penal code.

The Connecticut Senate has passed one of the first major legislative proposals in the U.S. to rein in bias in artificial intelligence decision-making and protect people from harm

Assam's Nagaon is seeing a three-pronged contest, with the Congress, the BJP and the All-India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) vying for the trust of voters in this Muslim-dominated constituency. Voting here is scheduled for April 26. In the 2019 general election, the AIUDF had supported the Congress and helped it win this seat after a gap of almost 25 years. While Congress parliamentarian Pradyut Bordoloi is seeking re-election, the BJP has fielded former militant-turned-politician Suresh Bora for this seat. Bora, who had left the militant outfit ULFA in 1999, was president of the Nagaon District Congress Committee before joining the BJP. Bora has contested Assembly polls thrice and lost on all occasions.

Pregnant workers have the right to a wide range of accommodations under new federal regulations for enforcing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act