Supreme Court rejects plea to replace hanging with painless method

The government is against extending the creamy layer to SC and ST reservation benefits, emphasizing that the challenges these communities face are rooted in more than economic issues. Reservation serves to right historical wrongs and ensure equitable access. The Supreme Court has permitted states to categorize castes within SC groups, but only Parliament holds the…

In a special report, Wall Street brokerage Goldman Sachs said the labour market impacts of gen-AI are expected to be “uneven” and it looks gen-AI as a medium-term positive for India’s growth outlook.

Microsoft EVP Jay Parikh has told engineers that “tokenmaxxing is not what we are optimizing for,” in an internal memo first reported by 404 Media. Microsoft has made OpenAI’s cheaper GPT-5.6 the default internal model, set AI token budget targets for every division, and given employees dashboards to track individual GitHub Copilot spend. Many engineers,…