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Algorithms, AI alone can’t help Facebook tackle online extremism. It needs people too

The focus is often on removing terrorist and violent extremist content. However, that alone will only tackle a symptom of radicalisation, not the root causes.

China is facing another major disaster and the world is missing it

Climate change is bringing more frequent & intense deluges that threaten the economic heartland in China, and infrastructure defenses can’t keep up.

Indian Muslims and liberals are trapped in a toxic relationship

Muslims love Hindu liberals conditionally, and together they hate the microscopic Muslim liberals unconditionally.

Modi’s Japan visit is a window India must use to up its game against China

The ‘broader Asia’ that Japanese PM Shinzo Abe once spoke about is all set to become a reality in a post-pandemic emerging security and world order.

Putin critic Alexei Navalny is latest Russian dissident to be poisoned & why Belarus on fire

In episode 558 of #CutTheClutter, Shekhar Gupta talks about Russia's history with dissenters that often ends in poisonings, and the role of Belarus in all this.

Nehru’s noble intent of treating Muslims fairly put India on slippery slope of faux secularism

Decades of a false secular narrative has allowed BJP to engage in an exhibition of religiosity we saw during the Ram Mandir bhoomi pujan in Ayodhya.

Chhattisgarh to Punjab, Covid forcing states to reform. But a lot hinges on Modi govt support

Chhattisgarh was the first state in the country to enact a rule that compensates consumers in the face of prolonged power cuts — a bold move.

Red pandas in India are being trafficked into extinction. And laws stand in the way

Exclusionary conservation policies are making the situation for endangered red pandas and pangolins worse in India’s Singalila National Park, argues a researcher.

India’s comatose opposition is letting Modi govt’s foreign policy go unchallenged

The Centre failed to defend Indian territory along the LAC, but the only pressure on the Modi govt appears to come from a set of journalists & analysts.

If Modi cares for the forces, Rajnath Singh must act on the ‘mischievous’ MoD order

The order on pensions for disabled soldiers shows why India needs to have a separate Ministry for Veteran Affairs to supervise the DESW

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Arvind Kejriwal is paying the price for the politics he created

What Modi govt is doing to Arvind Kejriwal is wrong. But would there ever have been a Modi govt if Kejriwal and his India Against Corruption movement had not destroyed the UPA?

Lesson for India from the West: AI is hollowing out white-collar jobs & birthing a new middle-class elite

Post-2022 as AI has spread in developed economies, it is leading to another round of polarisation—the middle class jobs are being lost in offices rather than in factories.

Fourth S-400 sets sail for India, to arrive by mid-May; likely to be deployed along Pakistan border

The fifth S-400 air defence system is undergoing various stages of production trials, and will be delivered by November-December this year, it is learnt.

Trump, Netanyahu’s Iran gamble: The regime change rebound

American objectives are unmet. They neither have muscle nor motivation to resume the war. As for Iran, the regime didn’t just survive, it’s now led by more radical individuals.