BHUBANESWAR l Saturday l february 24, 2024 l `9.00 l PAGES 14 l JEYPORE EDITION Govt sees red over Google AI’s response to a query about Modi A query on Gemini on whether the prime minister was a fascist, fetched a response that IT minister Rajeev Chandrasekar said violated the IT Act circumspect in Response to trump query Violations of India’s IT act, says govt To the query on Narendra Modi, the platform responded that he has been “accused of implementing policies some experts have characterised as fascist.” For a similar query on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Gemini responded saying “no simple answer” and for former US President Donald Trump it said, “Elections are a complex topic... try Google Search” ■ ■ “These are direct violations of Rule 3(1)(b) of Intermediary Rules of the IT Act and violations of several provisions of the criminal code,” minister Rajeev Chandrasekar said in his post on X Reports suggest the IT ministry is in the process of issuing a notice to Google over Gemini’s “problematic and illegal” responses | P12 8 Years since google began work on artificial intelligence CHENNAI ■ MADURAI ■ VIJAYAWADA ■ BENGALURU ■ KOCHI ■ HYDERABAD ■ VISAKHAPATNAM ■ COIMBATORE ■ KOZHIKODE ■ THIRUVANANTHAPURAM ■ BELAGAVI ■ BHUBANESWAR ■ SHIVAMOgGA ■ MANGALURU ■ TIRUPATI ■ TIRUCHY ■ TIRUNELVELI ■ SAMBALPUR ■ HUBBALLI ■ DHARMAPURI ■ KOTTAYAM ■ KANNUR ■ VILLUPURAM ■ KOLLAM ■ TADEPALLIGUDEM ■ NAGAPATTINAM ■ THRISSUR ■ KALABURAGI March on pause till farmers announce next plan on Feb 29 Family rejects `1 crore relief, wants justice for slain tiller; Haryana Police drops proposal to invoke NSA will not move further,’’ he said. In Haryana, the state police sofTwo days after putting their Dilli tened its stand against protesting Chalo march on hold, the Samyukta far mer leaders, saying it had Kisan Morcha (non-political) and dropped a proposal to invoke the the Kisan Mazdoor Morcha (KMM) draconian National Security Act on Friday said the next decision on (NSA) against them. But it used tear their agitation will be announced on gas to disperse farmers in Haryana’s February 29. In the interregnum, a Hisar who wanted to proceed to the candlelight march will be Khanauri inter-state borheld at both the Shambhu der to join other and Khanauri inter-state protesters. borders between Punjab In Punjab, Chief Minisand Haryana on Saturday . ter Bhagwant Mann anThe proposal to invoke NSA Sarwan Singh Pandher, nounced a compensation of general secretary of the against a few farm `1 crore and a government union leaders of Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh job for the sister of farmer Ambala district Committee, said seminars Shubhkaran Singh who has been dropped on the World Trade Organidied during the protest, but sation will be held on Sunhis family rejected it saying Sibash Kabiraj, IGP day in which intellectuals they want justice instead. will also take part. The family said they who would not On Monday effigies of big corpo- allow his post-mortem till the per, rates and BJP leaders will be burnt. son who shot Shubhkaran dead is Next day, the SKM (non-political) booked. and KMM will hold their own interThe Bharti Kisan Union (Ekta Ugnal meetings. It will be followed by a rahan), which is part of the SKM, joint meeting on Wednesday and the said it held demonstrations at 47 next plan of action will be an- places in 17 Punjab districts in pronounced on Thursday “Till then we test against Singh’s death. . H a r p r ee t B a j w a @ Chandigarh An elderly farmer participating in a ‘Black Day’ protest at the Shambhu border in Patiala district on Friday | PTI 30 police personnel injured so far Sibash Kabiraj, IGP (Ambala Range) said 30 Haryana Police personnel have been injured at Shambhu. As for initiating proceedings to seize the assets of farmers who damaged public property, he said it did not apply since farmers from Punjab have not entered Haryana yet Exam pressure Two students die by suicide in Ganjam and Bhadrak dists E x p r e s s N e w s Se r v i c e @ Berhampur/Bhadrak Examination-related pressure reportedly forced two students to die by suicide in the state during the last 24 hours. In the first incident, a 17-year-old Plus II student ended his life in his house in Berhampur city after allegedly being caught for malpractice in the ongoing Plus Two examination. The 17-year-old, a student of a private college in Berhampur, took the test in Physics paper on Thursday During the exam, he was spotted by the . squad for indulging in malpractice. In the evening, the teenager took the extreme step in his house when his family members were out for some work. On returning home, his mother and sister found him hanging and rushed him to MKCG Medical College and Hospital. However, he was declared dead. Police registered an unnatural death case and are investigating the circumstances that compelled the boy to take the extreme step. Similarly a Class X student took his life by hang, ing at Jahangir Sasan village in Bhadrak’s Dhamnagar on Friday morning. The 16-year-old was supposed to take the test in English as part of the ongoing Class X Board examinations on the day . Sources said the student ended his life due examination pressure. The boy hailed from Kaptipada in Mayurbhanj district and was staying at his uncle’s place in Jahangir Sasan. Dhamnagar IIC Fanindra Bhusan Nayak said the body was sent for postmortem and further investigation is underway . Working on bringing back Indians lured to Russia: MEA Y e s h i s e l i @ New Delhi The Ministry of External Affairs is working closely with the Indian Embassy to bring back Indians who have been recruited as helpers by Russia for its ongoing war with Ukraine. About 100 Indians joined the Russian army in non-combat roles as helpers a year ago. “We are aware that a few Indian nationals have signed up for support jobs with the Russian Army. The Indian Embassy has regularly taken up this matter with the relevant authorities for their early discharge,” said MEA spokesman Randhir Jaiswal in New Delhi on Friday Lok Sabha MP Asaduddin Owaisi in a . letter to MEA on January 25 wrote that Indians are being Continued on P7 misled by agents for jobs to Russia.
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