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Donald Trump's vision for education revolves around a single goal: to rid America's schools of perceived " wokeness " and «left-wing indoctrination.» The president-elect wants to keep transgender athletes out of girls' sports. He wants to forbid classroom lessons on gender identity and structural racism. He wants to abolish diversity and inclusion offices. Throughout his campaign, the Republican depicted schools as a political battleground to be won back from the left. Now that he's won the White House, he plans to use federal money as leverage to advance his vision of education across the nation.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. In a world poised for the long reign of algorithms, there should be a premium on romantic notions. One of these is harboured by many of us without admitting it: That the more we gaze at our planet from the great far yonder, the fonder we’ll grow of it.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Having learnt from videos, a da Vinci robot has been replicating surgical procedures like using a needle and suturing. Robots may be a step closer to performing complex surgeries independently—but will humans trust autonomous AI surgeons? Robotic surgeries, especially in the post-covid era, are being routinely done in urology, oncology, nephrology, gynaecology and laproscopy.

Infosys' founder Narayana Murthy recently said Indians failing to solve problems as the main factor behind issues such as Delhi pollution remaining a persistent problem for the country. «Which area has (India) invented? Please give me an example,» Murthy during an inter highlighting the country’s dependence on adapting foreign technologies rather than creating innovations. Murthy said that India has yet to solve long-standing issues like Dengue and Delhi's pollution, despite these being persistent problems. He questioned why the IT services industry should be singled out for criticism when the country as a whole has not addressed these challenges.

Guru Nanak Jayanti is a sacred festival celebrated with deep devotion, primarily by the Sikh community. It marks the birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev Ji, the founder of Sikhism. In 2024, devotees will commemorate Guru Nanak Ji’s birth anniversary on Kartik Purnima, which falls on November 15. On November 15, millions around the world will mark the 555th birth anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev Ji, the founder of Sikhism, known for his teachings on unity, compassion, and equality.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. As festivities bring families and friends together, dinner table conversations more often than not turn to children and their future. This time it was around higher education, a topic that is particularly resonant for me as a parent of a 13-year-old son.

Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison and its biggest tech company GoTo Gojek Tokopedia launched on Thursday the development of Sahabat-AI, a large language model ecosystem in Indonesian languages. Sahabat-AI would enable Indonesians to build artificial intelligence-based services and applications in Bahasa Indonesia and various other local languages, with the understanding of local context, the companies said in a joint statement. It is supported by AI Singapore and India's Tech Mahindra, which used Nvidia AI Enterprise software including Nvidia NeMo to train the model and enhance its general language understanding, according to the statement. Several universities and media groups will contribute to optimise it for local context and cultural relevance, it added.

Prime Video is set to bring popular video game worlds to life through an animated series titled Secret Level. The star-studded series premieres on December 10, with episodes released until December 17.

A hacking group that is believed to be Chinese state-sponsored has compromised two websites with ties to the Tibetan community in an attack meant to install malware on users’ computers

Kristy Shen, who is in her early 40s, has never bought a home and doesn’t plan to (unless you count her shares in real estate investment trusts).

Netflix’s Arcane returns with its Season 2, which resumes the ongoing story of power struggles, personal turmoil and alliances in the League of Legends universe.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Hit franchises having released initially as either theatrical films or OTT platform shows are no longer restricted to the medium they first arrived on.

Naoki Hyakuta is facing severe backlash after making a controversial comment suggesting that women might need to «remove their uteruses» after 30 and help reverse the declining birthrate in Japan. Naoki Hyakuta, Japan's Conservative Party leader made the bizarre claim in a YouTube video where he discussed measures to increase the country's birthrate as part of a broader discussion on the challenges Japan faces due to its ageing population. According to a report in the South China Morning Post, the leader of the Japanese Conservative Party also said the solution to the nation’s population crisis would be to ban women from getting married after the age of 25. He did not stop there.

After over 100 days of theatrical release, the film is available to stream, bringing the action-packed adventure to a new audience. The film’s release on Disney+ follows its successful run in theaters as the second-highest-grossing film of 2024.

Mike Waltz, named National Security Advisor by President-elect Donald Trump, has recently said that this partnership which will «determine whether this is a century of light or a century of darkness». Waltz, who is the Co-Chair of the Congressional India Caucus, had made these remarks at an event hosted by US India Strategic and Partnership Forum (USISPF) at Stanford University for the INDUSUSX Summit in September. «The bottom line is, in my view, this (US-India) is the most important relationship of the 21st century. This will determine whether this is a century of light or a century of darkness,» he said. In his video message to the summit, which he could not attend due to his engagements in the election, Waltz encouraged further collaboration to maintain a free and open Indo-Pacific and protect India's sovereignty, particularly along the Line of Control (LoC).

...the people Had squandered the confidence of the government And could only win it back By redoubled work. Would it not in that case Be simpler for the government To dissolve the people And elect another? — Die Losung (The Solution), Bertolt Brecht, 1953 Brecht, of course, was mocking the Stalinist government of East Germany, against which the people had staged an uprising in 1953, only for it to be crushed. However, there is a strong case for stripping Brecht's solution of installing a new people of all irony, and adopting it as the primary project of redemption around the world, given the kinds of leaders who get elected. Does this sound frivolous? Or worse, elitist? Instead of moulding yourself to find acceptance among the people who had rejected you, isn't it pure conceit to hope to change them, rather than change yourself?

Tech giant Meta is partnering with universities in the UK to launch the ‘Meta for Education beta program’ to test Meta Quest devices. “Meta Quest devices are wireless all-in-one mixed reality devices” with features such as boundary, passthrough and hand tracking, according to the company’s website. Educators are trying out VR and XR prototypes in their classrooms in order to achieve this, Meta said. Along with giving early access to a range of apps and features to the university partners, the beta test will be an opportunity for the students to experience metaverse technologies up close which could otherwise be inaccessible to them.

A young Afghan student, who has lived in India for seven years and completed his doctorate from South Asia University on an MEA scholarship, has agreed to serve as a diplomat at the Afghan Consulate. Over the past three years, most of the Afghan diplomatic staff in India have left, seeking refuge in various Western nations, leaving behind a significant gap in consular services.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. CAPE TOWN, South Africa—If it looks like a quagga, gallops like a quagga and barks like a quagga, then it probably is a quagga. Or is it? Scientists and conservationists here say they’ve brought a zebralike mammal back from the dead, giving the quagga a major win over the more-famous Woolly mammoth and Dodo bird in the global race to bring animals back from extinction.