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salary offers to freshers, IT giant Cognizant issued a detailed statement on Sunday to clarify the situation. The company emphasized that the widely circulated ₹2.52 lakh annual salary offer was meant for non-engineering graduates with three-year undergraduate degrees, not for engineering graduates. This distinction had been lost in the public discourse, leading to misunderstandings about Cognizant's compensation practices.

Prithviraj Chavan has demanded that the cut off time to register for the Maharashtra government's Mukhyamantri Majhi Ladki Bahin Yojana be waived off to enable all eligible women to avail financial assistance. The August 31 cut off date should be scrapped and the scheme should be implemented as a social security right, Chavan said in a letter to Chief Minister Eknath Shinde. Due to technical glitches, the server of the official portal is non functional most of the time, while in several instances women do not get the registration OTP for nearly six hours, he said. Women are worried they will not be able to register themselves for the scheme in time, Chavan said in the letter.

migration, the Swedish government is considering a unique initiative that would offer financial incentives for «foreign-born» Swedish passport holders to emigrate. According to a report by The National News, this proposal could extend the current voluntary exit scheme, which offers 10,000 Swedish crowns (approximately $960) and travel costs for refugees to leave the country, to include naturalized Swedish citizens and migrant families. The inquiry group behind the proposal emphasized that they do not intend to send a negative message to immigrants, stating, «they are not welcome in Sweden.» Despite this, the group rejected suggestions to increase the grant amount, which has sparked debate. The proposal emerges amid recent data showing that more people left Sweden than arrived last year, marking the first net migration loss in over 50 years. Swedish Migration Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard highlighted the importance of sustainable immigration to strengthen integration and reduce social exclusion. She noted that the number of asylum applications is at a historic low, with asylum-related residence permits continuing to decrease. However, the government's intent to maintain migration control while avoiding sending the wrong message to immigrants remains a delicate balance.

No other nation describes its elite as “creamy layer" because “cream" is enough to convey the idea of a top layer. But this is the least of India’s flaws. A few days ago, India tried to reform an injustice within its social justice programme when a Supreme Court bench said that caste is not a homogenous entity, and that the “creamy layers" of oppressed castes should not be entitled to the same benefits as the poor among them.

elections, the BJP has vowed to win all 10 assembly seats, where by-elections are to be held, underlining its dominance in the state and sending a message to the Opposition that its recent resurgence was short-lived. Political observers, however, say it could be an uphill task for the ruling NDA alliance. Bypolls are to be held on 10 seats that fell vacant after nine MLAs were elected as MPs in this year's Lok Sabha elections and the MLA of Sishamau was convicted and given a seven-year jail sentence. However, the dates for the polls have not been announced yet. «Let us all pledge that we will achieve 100 per cent victory in the upcoming by-elections on 10 assembly seats,» BJP's UP unit president Bhupendra Singh Chaudhary exhorted party workers at the party's state working committee meeting held on July 14.

West Bengal Health and Family Welfare Department has rescinded the transfer orders of 42 doctors amid the ongoing outrage and protests following the rape and murder of a postgraduate trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata on Saturday. Speaking at a press conference, the Principal Secretary of the WB Health and Family Welfare Department, Narayan Swaroop Nigam, stated, «Considering the current situation, we need to maintain normal services across the board. Therefore, we have decided to cancel these transfer orders for now. Any further decisions regarding this matter will be made in a few days.» He explained that the transfer process is part of the promotional exercise within the Medical Education Service, a lengthy procedure that began two months ago.

American teens are against the idea of regulations that would place restrictions on their use of social media platforms, despite knowing the potential harms to mental and physical health. According to a study designed by the Stanford Deliberative Democracy Lab, more than 60% of newly registered voters in the US oppose requiring kids under age 16 to seek parental consent to use social media. More than 85% of young people think there should be no time limits on when they can receive social media notifications. Parents, lawmakers, regulators and child safety advocates have spent years pushing for rules they say will ease the risks posed by heavy use of these services. But those just reaching voting age are starting to have more influence over who represents them.

Kamala Harris has placed $370 million outlay on TV and digital advertisement reservations. The ad reservations include $170 million in TV and $200 million for digital. The TV advertisement reservations will be for shows like Golden Bachelorette, Grey’s Anatomy, Abbott Elementary, Survivor, Jeopardy, and Wheel of Fortune, as per a report on Deadline. Advertisements related to Kamala Harris will also be exhibited during NFL, WNBA and NBA, NHL and MLB games, Deadline reported.

jingoism is alive and kicking. This has nothing to do with the 147-word vocabulary-constrained logorrhoea of Donald Trump. Or the equally muddled manifesto of Project 2025 — a political initiative published by the Heritage Foundation that aims to promote conservative and rightwing policies to reshape the US federal government if the Orange One wins in November — which could elevate the standing of the US presidency at the expense of that nation and make some frustrated autocrats in other large democracies green with envy. Instead, it has everything to do with the steadfast rejection of that silently dissenting historical witness: fact. This is a serious problem in an age liberated by individual interpretation, PC rendering, social media influence, and compensative revisionism. In such a situation, fact is bound to be unreliable, because it stubbornly refuses to be explained, restrained, swayed, or altered. This is why fact-checking should only be invoked to contest the statement of an opponent, never to question the foundation of a belief.

Social media influencers and stars are lining up in support of VP Kamala Harris, who is the Presidential nominee of the Democrats, against a very formidable adversary, Donald Trump.

Raksha Bandhan is a festival revered by the majority of people in India that celebrates the special bond between siblings. Even if you live thousands of miles apart from your brother in the United States, United Kingdom, or Canada, you can still make this day special and memorable for them.

controversy after being accused of drunk driving. In the days that followed, the singer faced significant backlash, with trucks demanding his removal from the seven-member group spotted around Seoul, South Korea. Here's a breakdown of the controversy: According to reports from Koreaboo, several trucks were seen in Seoul protesting against Suga, calling for his expulsion from the globally renowned K-pop group. One of the protest messages on the trucks labeled Suga a «criminal» and stated, «He told his fans to be confident, but returned with a DUI. Drunk driver Suga, today is D-Day to leave the group. 7-1=6. Armys will complete the group. Drunk driver Suga out. Kick Suga out of BTS. We don't need a criminal who deceives fans. Suga, leave the group on your own before things get worse.»

Matthew Dominick aboard the International Space Station (ISS), captures the ethereal beauty of our planet's atmosphere as seen from above. This stunning photograph showcases a lightning bolt illuminating the skies over Southeast Asia, its brilliance slicing through the darkness like a celestial nebula. The image, part of a series of nearly 1,000 shots, highlights the striking contrast between the calm of space and the sudden, electrifying flash below. Dominick, known for his incredible space photography, described the scene as a mix of «Green lights from fishing boats in Southeast Asia, city lights, a sun about to rise, and a single lightning strike in the left part of the frame that looks like a nebula,» Dominick described in his post on social media platform X.

artificial intelligence services on cloud under the Rs 10,372-crore India AI mission, which was approved by the cabinet in March this year. The empaneled agencies, like data centers and cloud service providers, will have to provide access to high-speed computing AI infrastructure like graphics processing unit (GPUs), accelerators, Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), storage etc to academia, startups, researchers, government bodies among others at the lowest rate that will be discovered through the bidding process. Under the IndiaAI Mission, supercomputing capacity, comprising over 10,000 GPUs, will be made available to various stakeholders for creating an AI ecosystem. «With an objective to empanel service providers for making this possible, IndiaAI — an IBD under Digital India Corporation, MeitY has issued a RFE (request for empanelment),» Meity, Additional Secretary Abhishek Singh said in a social media post.

NEW DELHI : Indian business over the years has had very few mavericks with the mix of audacity and controversy that Ramakrishna Dalmia, the founder of the Dalmia group, did. As much a product of his times as an architect of his destiny, he was a defiant and towering figure, his life a potent cocktail of outsized personality, political ambition and shrewd financial dealings. To that, he added strategic alliances, including his little-known piquant friendship with his neighbour Muhammad Ali Jinnah.

(This story originally appeared in on Aug 17, 2024)

Prince Harry urged caution over artificial intelligence and talked of social media as divisive during a panel in Colombia's capital Bogota alongside his wife Meghan and the Andean country's Vice President Francia Marquez. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex, who stepped away from official royal duties in January 2020 and now live in California, arrived in Colombia on Thursday at the invitation of Marquez and will tour the country. During a panel discussion at Bogota's EAN university on Thursday evening, Harry raised his concerns over the future of AI.

OpenAI said on Friday it had taken down accounts of an Iranian group for using its ChatGPT chatbot to generate content meant for influencing the U.S. presidential election and other issues. The operation, identified as Storm-2035, used ChatGPT to generate content focused on topics such as commentary on the candidates on both sides in the U.S. elections, the conflict in Gaza and Israel's presence at the Olympic Games and then shared it via social media accounts and websites. Investigation by the Microsoft-backed AI company showed that ChatGPT was used for generating long-form articles and shorter social media comments.

Google Pixel 9 Pro Fold vs Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 6 vs Vivo X Fold 3 Pro: Price, display, cameras and more comparedAccording to social media posts shared by the company, Vivo T3 Pro will come with a 3D curved AMOLED display with 120Hz refresh rate and a peak brightness of 4,500 nits. The phone is also said to come with an eye protection feature. As per the teaser images, the T3 Pro looks to coming with a vegan leather back while also packing a Snapdragon chipset and Sony sensor for rear imaging.

Germany’s quarrelsome governing coalition has reached an agreement on details of the country’s 2025 budget