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03/11/2025

03/11/2025

01/11/2025

Across the world, the AI story is turning into one of anxiety – layoffs, restructuring, shrinking human roles. Every other week, Big Tech firms announce massive layoffs – Amazon is set to cut 30,000 jobs, owing mainly to efficiencies gained from AI, while Meta has cut around 600 roles from its superintelligence team. Back in June 2025, Amazon’s CEO Andy Jassy openly admitted that generative AI will “reduce” corporate headcount as automation scales.

But here in India, the same technology is being packaged as our next big leap forward. The irony is hard to miss. In a country still struggling for labour-intensive growth and equitable jobs, we’re celebrating automation as salvation.

The mirage of Google’s AI hub in Vizag

When Google announced its AI Hub in Visakhapatnam earlier this October, the press releases were drenched in optimism – “empowering India’s future,” “driving innovation,” “AI for Bharat.” Yet beneath that glow lies a more familiar script: a pattern of extraction and dependency that the Global South has seen for centuries.

Scholars Nick Couldry and Ulises Mejias call it data colonialism – the extraction of human life as digital raw material for profit. India’s new AI hubs risk becoming exactly that: vast data pipelines feeding Big Tech’s global models. The data of Indian citizens, institutions, and public systems will power algorithms refined and monetised elsewhere. The profits and patents will stay in the global North.

We’re told this is a partnership. But when the chips, servers, and cloud infrastructure are all imported, when the very code is written elsewhere, what kind of sovereignty is that? It feels uncomfortably close to the old colonial pattern: resources flowing outward, decision-making flowing upward.

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01/11/2025

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31/10/2025

Video of drunk man petting, offering alcohol to Pench tiger is AI-generated

A 6-second clip, ostensibly CCTV footage, showing a man petting a tiger in the middle of an empty street and offering the animal some liquor he was holding, is being widely shared as an incident from Madhya Pradesh, where a drunk labourer mistook the tiger for a giant cat.

According to those sharing the video — the man, 52-year-old Raju Patel — was drunk and on his way back home after playing cards and allegedly mistook a tiger, which had wandered off from the nearby Pench Tiger Reserve, as a big cat. Users also claimed that the tiger, which was roaming the village for hours, created panic among residents. According to several users, the tiger was finally brought under control by forest officials, who drove the animal back into the woods with the help of tranquillizers. The fiasco turned Patel into a local legend, as the news of the bizarre encounter spread.

found that the video was fake and Ai-generated. How did we come to the conclusion? Find out in the report by Prantik Ali on our website. Link in comment.

28/10/2025

Over 300 writers, scholars and public figures have refused to write for the New York Times Opinion section in a collective effort to hold the paper accountable for its role in the genocide in Gaza.

The signatories of a public statement also include nearly 150 past New York Times contributors. The writers have committed to refusing to write for the paper’s Opinion section until their three demands are met.

Those pledging to withhold contributions from NYT Opinion include Rima Hassan, Chelsea Manning, Rashida Tlaib, Gabor Maté, Sally Rooney, Rupi Kaur, Elia Suleiman, Mariam Barghouti, Greta Thunberg, Kiese Laymon, Mohammed El-Kurd, Hannah Einbinder, Plestia Alaqad, Susan Abulhawa, Mona Chalabi, Catherine Lacey, Kaveh Akbar, Noura Erakat, Mosab Abu Toha, Derecka Purnell, aja monet, Nan Goldin, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Jia Tolentino, Mariame Kaba, Dave Zirin, and Omar El Akkad.

The NYT’s coverage of Israel’s attacks on Palestine has consistently misrepresented Israel’s culpability – striking at the heart of the cores of journalistic ethics that the paper was instrumental in crafting.

Full statement : https://thewire.in/media/new-york-times-opinion-gaza-genocide-300-writers-public-figures

25/10/2025

19/10/2025

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, awarded to Philippe Aghion, Peter Howitt and Joel Mokyr, arrives at a crucial juncture, when the geopolitical and economic scenario for the world, particularly emerging markets, seems unsure of where the future path of growth lies.

Economies are seeking to expand in breadth and scope, yet macro-productivity remains sluggish. Technology advances daily to make production processes more capital intensive, yet jobs and incomes feel precarious for the working class.

This year laureates’ work helps decode this paradox. By reimagining innovation as a restless, often ruthless process of renewal, they remind us that progress has always depended on the tension between creation and destruction, warranting a constant push for nations towards innovation.

Modern economic thought portrayed growth as smooth and predictable: capital accumulated, output increased and technology appeared as an unexplained miracle. Aghion and Howitt changed that narrative.

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15/10/2025

14/10/2025

Facing growing criticism over the su***de of senior IPS officer Y. Puran Kumar, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Haryana on late Monday (October 13) night sent director general of police (DGP) Shatrujeet Kap00r on leave. Later on Tuesday (October 14), 1992 batch IPS officer Om Parkash Singh was assigned the additional charge of DGP Haryana during the leave period of Kapoor.

The action comes just before Lok Sabha leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi is supposed to meet the family of the deceased officer in their Chandigarh residence on Tuesday.

In another development, a BJP rally on October 17 in Sonipat, which Prime Minister Narendra Modi was to address to mark one year of the third term of the BJP government in Haryana, too stands cancelled.

The preparations for the rally were in full swing with chief minister Nayab Singh Saini even holding multiple review meetings, including one earlier in the day.

Read here: https://thewire.in/politics/under-fire-after-dalit-ips-officers-su***de-haryana-bjp-govt-sends-dgp-on-leave-pms-rally-cancelled

10/10/2025

Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has reported one of its sharpest quarterly workforce contractions, with nearly 20,000 employees exiting in the second quarter of FY26. As reported by The Tribune, the company’s headcount fell to 5,93,314 on September 30 from 6,13,069 at the end of June; a net reduction of 19,755 employees.

The number is 66% higher than the layoffs TCS had projected earlier. In July, the country’s largest IT services exporter had said it would cut about 2% of its workforce, or around 12,000 employees, as part of a phased restructuring. The actual fall suggests a sharper-than-expected correction.

As reported by the Business Standard, Sudeep Kunnumal, the newly appointed chief human resources officer, explained the reduction in a late evening investor call. “The 20,000 headcount reduction is a factor of voluntary and involuntary attrition,” he said, adding that about 6,000 employees were “released” as part of involuntary exits. He also noted that the company was “halfway through” its estimated workforce rationalisation.

According to Business Standard, TCS also booked a restructuring cost of Rs 1,135 crore in the September quarter linked to severance payouts, underlining the scale of the exercise. Analysts view the sharper contraction as part of the company’s strategy to rebalance costs, sharpen focus on higher-value services, and align with changing demand.

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10/10/2025

A recent speech delivered by Delhi University Vice Chancellor professor Yogesh Singh on September 28, later posted on his official YouTube channel – alleging that “Naxalism today operates not from forests, but from universities and cities” has provoked fierce criticism from students, faculty, and civil liberties groups alike.

Singh, who delivered the talk on September 28 at a Bharat Manthan event, argued that “Naxalism has moved from the forests to universities,” accusing professors and students of spreading “urban naxalism” through critical thinking, data-based research, and what he called “emotional blackmail” of young minds. The speech was circulated through Delhi University’s internal mailing lists and uploaded on Singh’s YouTube and social media accounts.

‘Dangerous attempt to surveil and police classrooms and faculty’

In his remarks, Singh called on teachers to “identify” and “remove” those working “against the nation,” and praised controversial films by Vivek Agnihotri as material that could be used in classrooms.

He also singled out feminist student collective Pinjra Tod, saying that when he headed the Delhi Technical University, the women who demanded safer campuses and fewer curfews were “arrogant” and “aggressive.” He mocked their plea for freedom of movement as “a utopia that shouldn’t exist.”

Singh’s remarks immediately drew backlash from student groups including All India Students’ Association (AISA) which protested on campus, calling the speech an attack on student rights and gender equality. Faculty members described it as an “invitation to police dissent” and a “direct assault on the university’s intellectual autonomy.”

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