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Iran & Ukraine usher in the era of the underdogs in a war-torn worldGlobal conflicts are increasingly prolonged, with unexpected resilience from weaker forces challenging traditional military predictions. Wa...- Marc Andreessen dismisses AI layoff fears; Musk says work will be optional in futureCountering the Lump of Labour Fallacy, which holds that the amount of work in an economy is fixed, Andreessen argued that productivity gain...
- Kahneman for investors: How to use behavioural economics to become better a investorFor those who invest, this work is particularly relevant. The financial markets are filled with uncertainty, risk and emotional stress—cond...
- India points to 'sweeping conclusions' and 'fallacious assumptions' in Global Democracy Report 2023The GSoD 2023 report - published in November 2023 - stated that India persists at the mid-range level on the criteria of "representation" w...
- Supreme Court defers hearing on pleas challenging scrapping of four per cent Muslim quota in KarnatakaThe Karnataka government has been given until April 25 to respond to a batch of legal challenges over its scrapping of the four per cent Mu...
- Karnataka Elections: Congress unveils third list of 43 candidates; Siddaramaiah denied ticket from KolarSiddharamaiah was seeking to contest from the Kolar assembly seat as the second constituency, but the Congress party did not grant his requ...
- Redistributed quota for Lingayats, Vokkaligas on hold after SC terms Karnataka decision ‘shaky, flawed’Solicitor general Tushar Mehta, representing the Karnataka government, assured the bench that no admissions or appointments will be made un...
- Which listed new age company has the biggest moat? Saurabh Mukherjea’s team answersFor the uninitiated, anything that makes a company’s business harder to disrupt or imitate is a competitive advantage or ‘moat’. For a corp...
- Sell metals on rallies rather than buying on dips: Sandip Sabharwal“For the metal pack specifically, liquidity in the system will be very important and as the liquidity dries or reduces, expecting that meta...
- Reports claiming underreporting of Covid deaths fallacious: GovernmentThe government defended India's Covid-19 death reporting after a report in the journal Science by prominent epidemiologist Prabhat Jha of U...
- Media reports claiming under-reporting of Covid deaths ill-informed, baseless & misleading: GovtIn a statement, the ministry refuted some media reports alleging a "significant undercount" of the actual number of people who have died in...
- Centre trashes reports claiming India's COVID death rate may be about 7-8 times higherIn a statement, the Union Health Ministry said the report further "concludes" that India's COVID death rate may be about 7-8 times higher t...
- Given robust system of reporting, missing out on Covid deaths unlikely: GovtThere have been some recent media reports alleging that India's toll of excess deaths during the pandemic could be in millions, terming the...
- Inferences drawn from comparison of HMIS, CRS data on Covid deaths fallacious: Govt"The report compares data from the Civil Registration System (CRS) and HMIS to draw erroneous inferences. Such reports are conjectures and ...
- Terror funding case: Separatist leader Mirwaiz again appears before NIAThe NIA has also summoned Naseem Geelani, son of pro-Pakistan separatist Syed Ali Shah Geelani, on Tuesday but it was not immediately clear...
- Terror financing case: NIA issues fresh summons to Mirwaiz Umer Farooq for questioning in DelhiIf the NIA wants to question the Mirwaiz, it can do so in Srinagar and he is willing to cooperate as "he has nothing to hide", the letter h...
- Aarushi murder case: HC chastises trial court judgeAdditional Sessions Judge Shyam Lal in Ghaziabad (UP) had sentenced the Talwars to life imprisonment on November 28, 2013, holding them gui...
- Assam governor unhappy with political mudslinging over his commentOpposition Congress has alleged that Governor praised commander of Ahom kingdom, Lachit Borphukan as the “saviour of Hindutva”.
- Let not telecom war hurt consumersReductio ad absurdumis a method of proof, often employed in mathematics, to prove or disprove an assumption.
- Occupy Wall Street: A movement beyond fearEver since the financial meltdown of 2008, proponents of market capitalism have sought ways to re-legitimise their creed.
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