SC collegium ends 1-year impasse by finalising judicial appointment procedure
Overcoming serious differences within itself, as well as with the Centre, the Supreme Court collegium has finalised the memorandum of procedure (MoP) for appointment of judges to constitutional courts, reports The Times of India.
PM Modi degree row: DU says it has no data of students passing out in 1978
The controversy over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s degree refuses to die down. Delhi University’s School of Open Learning (SOL), from where he is said to have passed out in 1978, says it doesn’t have records for that year as these are maintained only for one year. An IANS report in the Hindustan Times.
Manohar Parrikar is #NotMyCM: Goans protest as BJP ministers take oath
As BJP's Manohar Parrikar made his way to Goa’s Raj Bhavan to be sworn in as the state’s new CM on Tuesday evening, protesters waved placards saying “I want my vote back” and “No horse-trading” and broke into jeers. “Shame,” they yelled. “Chor, chor” (thief, thief). A Scroll.in report.
Smells like legacy tax in budget
The worst fears of some wealthy Indians have come true: the Centre has imposed a pseudo-inheritance tax in its recent budget that could wreck succession planning and tear down the tax shields the affluent have traditionally used to pass on their estates to their heirs without diminution of value, reports The Telegraph.
Google’s DeepMind makes AI program that can learn like a human
Researchers have overcome one of the major stumbling blocks in artificial intelligence with a program that can learn one task after another using skills it acquires on the way. Developed by Google’s AI company, DeepMind, the program has taken on a range of different tasks and performed almost as well as a human, reports The Guardian.
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