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Show Quick Read Key points generated by AI, verified by newsroom In what could be seen as a sign of discord within the INDIA bloc ahead of the Bihar assembly elections, the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) has fielded five of its candidates against nominees from its alliance partners, including the Congress, according to the party list released on Monday. The development has sparked speculation over potential friction within the Grand Alliance, as the parties struggle to finalise a seat-sharing arrangement for the second phase of polls, highlighting the growing complexity of opposition coordination in the state. RJD releases its…

Bill Atkinson was a computing pioneer who, in the 1980s, effectively made Apple computers usable for everyday people by transforming code into windows, menus, and graphics.But few people know that later in life he was a secret advocate of what’s widely considered the world’s most potent psychedelic: 5-MeO-DMT.The hallucinogen, also called “the God molecule,” is a compound found in the venomous secretions of the Sonoran Desert toad named Incilius alvarius (it’s commonly called Bufo alvarius) and is known to bring about ego death, a total dissolution of the senses, and a euphoric feeling of existential connectedness, all in a roughly…

Paramount Pictures Here’s an offer we can’t refuse: organize all the “Godfather” books into a ranked list. Mario Puzo may have made crime fiction history when he released “The Godfather,” but he only had a direct hand during his lifetime in the publication of one sequel to the storied crime epic, “The Sicilian,” before passing away at the age of 78 in 1999. While he did produce another novel with a tangential connection to the Corleones –  “Omertà,” about the Aprile clan –  he mainly concerned himself with other projects…

In late July 2024, Lina Khan, then the chair of the US Federal Trade Commission, gave a speech at an event hosted by the San Francisco startup accelerator Y Combinator in which she positioned herself as an advocate for open source artificial intelligence.The event took place as California lawmakers were considering a landmark bill called SB 1047 that would have imposed new testing and safety requirements on AI companies. Critics of the legislation, which was later vetoed by California governor Gavin Newsom, argued it would hamper the development and release of open source AI models. Khan called for a less…

The Karnataka High Court last week restrained the state government from making appointments to government posts on the basis of a new internal quota scheme formulated for Scheduled Castes (SC) by the state. The High Court passed the interim order on October 16 on the basis of a writ petition filed by the Confederation of Untouchable Nomadic Communities of Karnataka, which has been protesting against the SC internal quotas formula as unfavourable to nomadic SC communities. The Confederation has challenged a government notification of August 25 fixing the internal quotas for government recruitments of SC communities. Story continues below this…

The Bengaluru city police recently booked a case against Ola CEO Bhavish Aggarwal and others after a 38-year-old employee died allegedly by suicide, leaving behind a ‘death note’ where he claimed the management was harassing him. The deceased was identified as K Aravind, a resident of Chikkalasandra in Bengaluru, who had been working as a homologation engineer at Ola Electric since 2022. Aravind died on September 28, and the case was registered on October 6. Besides Aggarwal, the police named Subrat Kumar Dash, head of vehicle homologations and regulations, and others in the FIR filed under Section 108 (abetment of…

At the end of August, the AI company Anthropic announced that its chatbot Claude wouldn’t help anyone build a nuclear weapon. According to Anthropic, it had partnered with the Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to make sure Claude wouldn’t spill nuclear secrets.The manufacture of nuclear weapons is both a precise science and a solved problem. A lot of the information about America’s most advanced nuclear weapons is Top Secret, but the original nuclear science is 80 years old. North Korea proved that a dedicated country with an interest in acquiring the bomb can do…

On 16th October, the Prayagraj District Court dismissed the bail application of 13 individuals accused of orchestrating an organised Christian conversion racket in Baudai village under Phulpur Police Station area of district Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh. The order was passed by the Additional District Judge. The court found that the evidence on record prima facie suggested the involvement of the accused in attempts to unlawfully convert poor Hindus to Christianity through inducement, monetary incentives, job offers at missionary schools, and religious propaganda. The accused have been identified as Sonu Kumar, Pankaj Saroj, Sachin, Anil, Ram Milan, Sona Devi, Aarti Devi,…

Show Quick Read Key points generated by AI, verified by newsroom Bhojpuri superstar Khesari Lal Yadav, contesting the Chapra assembly seat in Bihar for the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), has declared assets totalling Rupees 24.81 crore in his election affidavit. Filing under his original name, Shatrughan Yadav, the actor-singer listed movable assets of Rupees 16.89 crore and immovable properties worth Rupees 7.91 crore. His wife, Chanda Yadav, also joined the RJD alongside him and declared movable assets of Rupees 90.02 lakh and immovable properties valued at Rupees 6.49 crore. The affidavit includes Rupees 5 lakh in cash held by Khesari…

Janshakti Janta Dal chief Tej Pratap Yadav, the elder son of RJD supremo Lalu Prasad, has been booked for allegedly violating the Model Code of Conduct (MCC) during the filing of his nomination papers from the Mahua assembly seat in Bihar’s Vaishali district, police said on Sunday. According to the district police, the action followed a complaint lodged by the Circle Officer of Mahua after a video surfaced online showing Yadav using an SUV adorned with a police logo and beacon light during a procession on October 16. The footage quickly went viral on social media, prompting an official inquiry.…