Two days after a tragic fire at a gaming zone in Rajkot, Gujarat, resulted in the deaths of at least 27 people, including nine children, the Gujarat High Court came down hard on the city's municipal body.
On Monday (May 27), the Gujarat High Court reprimanded the Rajkot municipal body for turning a blind eye to two gaming zones which had been operating in the city for over two years without the required permits.
Austria on Monday (Apr 29) called for renewed global efforts to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) in weapon systems, highlighting the potential emergence of autonomous so-called "killer robots."
During a conference in Vienna, which gathered representatives from 143 countries, and various non-governmental and international organisations, Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg stressed that "We cannot let this moment pass without taking action. Now is the time to agree on international rules and norms to ensure human control."
Almost a year after the attack on the Indian High Commission in London, in a major breakthrough, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday (Apr 25) made the first arrest.
The investigative agency has nabbed Inderpal Singh Gaba, a resident of Hounslow in the United Kingdom, for carrying out unlawful activities during the March 2023 protests.
Gaba, allegedly a Khalistani extremist along with Avtar Singh Khanda (since deceased), reportedly desecrated the Indian national flag during the protests.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday (Apr 26) slammed the opposition for their condemnation of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and said that the Supreme Court judgement on cross-verification of votes was a "tight slap" on the Congress-led opposition.
Speaking at a rally in the Araria Lok Sabha constituency of Bihar, the PM also said that the opposition was trying to "steal" reservations meant for OBCs, SCs and STs "for the sake of their favourite vote bank of Muslims".
Former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif has embarked on a secretive five-day visit to China, the agenda of which no one knows for sure. However, speculations are aplenty.
Till last year, the 74-year-old Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) supremo was in a four-year self-imposed exile in the United Kingdom. Following his return to Pakistan, this will be Nawaz's first foreign tour. He will be accompanied by Maryam Nawaz's son, his grandson, Junaid Safdar and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar.