-The Hindu Business Line The solution, developed at IIIT-H, is based on Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Hyderabad: Not every message in your WhatsApp groups or on your Twitter and Facebook timelines is true. Far from the truth, the news reports, images and videos may well be a figment of someone’s imagination, and have the ability to trigger tensions. With the fake news menace virtually going out of control, researchers at the International Institute...
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Hunger deaths have skyrocketed after aadhaar-based authentication came into force, allege Right to Food activists
There is a list available with the Right to Food Campaign (http://www.righttofoodcampaign.in) – a decentralised network of civil society activists and experts who are working together voluntarily for ensuring food and nutrition security – which shows that 56 persons died between May, 2015 and March, 2018 on account of hunger and starvation despite India having passed the National Food Security Act (NFSA) in 2013. The RTF campaign has compiled the...
More »'Beti bachao roti banwao': Regressive campaign gets massively criticised on Twitter
-The Indian Express A new wall graffiti can be seen that is going viral on social media owing to its regressive content. Several people on social media are putting up photos of the wall graffiti and criticising it. In its bid to protect girls, the message reads, "Kaise khaoge unke haath ki rotiya, jab paida hone nahi doge betiyan." New Delhi: Almost all us are aware of beti bachao, beti padhao,...
More »Meet the Dalits who are using online platforms to tell stories of their community -Danish Raza
-Hindustan Times Rather than feeling ignored by the mainstream media or disgruntled by the ‘biased’ coverage, Dalits are using digital space to publish news and opinions. On December 31, when violence spread in Pune on the 200th anniversary of the Bhima- Koregaon battle, it was the first time many people in other parts of the country got to know about the encounter between the army of Peshwa Bajirao II, and a...
More »KJ Joy, co-editor of India Unshackled, interviewed by Pema Wangchuck (India Water Portal)
-India Water Portal The editor of a new book that lays out alternative futures for India discusses India, democracy and development with a noted journalist. Alternative Futures: India Unshackled is a new book that dares to imagine what India could be. Published by Authors Upfront, 35 author-activists, researchers and thinkers have drawn upon their experiences to write on alternative political, ecological, economic and sociocultural scenarios that will benefit India in its...
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