Correspondent

A great egret walks near a one-horned rhinoceros as migratory birds arrive at a wetland in the Pobitora Wildlife Sanctuary on the outskirts of Guwahati, India, on Wednesday. Bollywood actor Ananya Panday poses for photographers during an event, in Mumbai on Thursday. Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt performs on the sixth day of the seven-day 'Sapta Sangeeti' music festival organised by NeoRajkot Foundation in Rajkot on Wednesday. Visitors silhouetted against the setting sun, at Rainbow Hanging...

Delhi An anti-encroachment drive should ideally be a modest municipal exercise. Instead, the one near Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan has become another case study in how routine governance is repeatedly converted into controversy. Acting on a Delhi High Court order, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi began removing unauthorised structures adjoining the Syed Faiz Elahi mosque and a nearby graveyard at Turkman Gate. Following frenzied speculation that the mosque was about to be demolished, an irate mob...

Silicon Valley likes to dress its creations in the language of freedom. Artificial intelligence, its apostles insist, is merely a mirror that reflects society’s appetites. India’s brusque 72-hour ultimatum to X over the misuse of its chatbot Grok now punctures that alibi. When a machine repeatedly enables the sexual humiliation of women, such mirrors no longer suffice. It is time to take responsibility. The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology’s notice to X is an overdue...