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New evidence says that every generation has many more differences within its individuals than between generations, understanding of which would resolve issues

Adaptation key to survival

Generations may have distinct characteristics lending themselves to stereotype labels as baby busters, baby boomers or...

22 July 2018 9:31 PM GMT

Next generation of fake news will be empowered by Artificial Intelligence and be far more sophisticated, and even more disastrous.

Time fake news is nipped in the bud

With digitisation developing at breakneck speed it has become imperative to talk about stopping the spread of fake news.

16 July 2018 1:20 AM GMT

A year-and-half down the line, Zuckerberg was sitting in front of attorneys being probed, as the world watched his confessions.

Fake news cannot be unseen

As it brings more people online, a phrase that is heard most often since the onset of 2018 is Fake news'.

16 July 2018 1:17 AM GMT

American stereotypes of masculinity demand boys and men to be strong, aggressive, unemotional and anti-female. In spite of marches and campus violence protests, campuses are dangerous places for cis and trans women.

Survey trashes India, US on women

India has been branded the most dangerous country for women and the USA third.

8 July 2018 8:23 PM GMT

Mr Blum and his organisations incomplete and misleading data analysis paint a dangerously inaccurate picture of Harvard Colleges whole-person admissions process by omitting critical data and information factors.

What Harvard says

As they know, this work was explicitly understood to be preliminary and incomplete, and it was done with limited...

3 July 2018 9:00 PM GMT

Many states in India follow the reservations policy as part of affirmative action and social engineering. So for us to argue against racial balancing in the U.S. is far-fetched.

Race neutrality helps students grow

It is in a nation's best interests to properly develop the minds of its brightest and best so they may be able to tackle...

3 July 2018 8:57 PM GMT

The superior Ivy League colleges have committed discrimination against AsAm students.

Attempt to limit Asian Americans in universities

Today, the average percentage of Jewish students is 25 per cent on Ivy League campuses, with a 6-million population.

3 July 2018 8:44 PM GMT

Trump has been a target himself: On the cover of its April 2 issue, New York magazine depicted the President as a pig.

Speech that wreaks havoc

History is replete with instances of the havoc played by dehumanising language.

26 Jun 2018 9:08 PM GMT

Due to Modi floods, all cats, dogs, snakes and mongoose are getting together to contest polls: Amit Shah on Opposition

Time for rhetoric of justice

The language became threatening as a witch-hunt.

26 Jun 2018 9:05 PM GMT

Experts believe the system will be able to handle posts containing hate speech, racism and sexism.

AI learns to ditch swear words

The new sentence was then translated back to see how closely it resembled the original.

26 Jun 2018 9:03 PM GMT

The new voting equipment was largely touch screen computers that are still very inferior to the EVMs India uses.

Onus on EC to ensure EVM credibility: EVMs too need a physical record

Many people are quite surprised when it turns out that computer scientists and security experts are among those most...

17 Jun 2018 8:27 PM GMT

EVMs make the election process transparent. Counting is more efficient and the results can be declared in 3-4 hours instead of the traditional 30-40 hours taken to count votes manually.

Onus on EC to ensure EVM credibility: Glitches apart, EVMs are...

The issue of tamperability' of EVMs has been doing the rounds ever since they were introduced.

17 Jun 2018 8:23 PM GMT