Ahmedabad: Education loan disbursals in Gujarat declined by 14% in 2025-26 as fewer students opted to pursue higher education in the US and Canada amid tighter immigration policies, according to the latest report of State Level Bankers’ Committee (SLBC) Gujarat.Banks disbursed Rs 1,786 crore through 22,116 education loan accounts during 2025-26, compared with Rs 2,078…
Joseph Weizenbaum realized that programs like his Eliza chatbot could “induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people” Joseph Weizenbaum set out to prove that computers could imitate conversation. Instead, his experiment convinced him that people could become emotionally attached to machines far more easily than he had imagined. That discovery changed the course of…
Mumbai: Even as Bandraites have been protesting the proposed conversion of Neville D’Souza football ground at Reclamation into a convention centre, similar fears have gripped residents of Pali village in the same suburb. Citizens have questioned ongoing construction of a sports facility by an NGO on a large plot owned by the collectorate, which has…
NEW DELHI: Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman is set to introduce further amendments to tax laws going beyond the Ordinance offering concessions to overseas investors putting money in govt bonds.According to the bill that has been circulated, it has been proposed to replace the broad reference to “electronic goods” with a defined list of “specified electronic…
BPSC Bihar APO admit card released as exam day guidelines issued before July 15 preliminary test BPSC Bihar APO admit card 2026: The Bihar Public Service Commission (BPSC) will conduct the Bihar Assistant Prosecution Officer (APO) Preliminary Examination 2026 on July 15, 2026, with the admit cards already released on July 9, 2026. Candidates appearing…
Sharmila Tagore was married to Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi (fondly called Tiger Pataudi) for 43 years, before he passed away in 2011. Their interfaith marriage in 1968 created a huge stir because it wasn’t so normal in those times. So much so that Tagore’s parents got death threats and many also warned her against her…
Rochdale grooming gang leader Shabir Ahmed The impending release of Rochdale grooming gang ringleader Shabir Ahmed, who cannot be deported because of a decades-old legal provision despite being stripped of British citizenship, has sparked a political storm in the UK, with Andy Burnham promising to examine “all possible options” to remove him from the country…
Jannik Sinner of Italy returns (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth) The Times of India at Wimbledon: Jannik Sinner arrived at Wimbledon having left little to chance.After his dramatic collapse in the second-round of the French Open, where he stood on the threshold of victory before melting in the heat, the 24-year-old underwent a battery of tests to…
CHENNAI: The Madras high court on Thursday dismissed the anticipatory bail plea filed by DMK MLA and former minister V Senthilbalaji in connection with a corruption case registered against him by the Directorate of Vigilance and Anti-Corruption (DVAC).The court observed that the allegations against Senthilbalaji involved causing a loss of over Rs 17 crore to…
Inter Miami forward Lionel Messi (10) celebrates after scoring his side’s third goal during the first half of a Leagues Cup soccer match against Atletico de San Luis, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2026, in Miami. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell) Lionel Messi needed just one full game after returning from the FIFA World Cup to add another record…
