chennai l saturday l february 24, 2024 l `9.00 l PAGES 22 l late city 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 Chandrasekhar 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 Zelenskyy, 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 Chandrasekhar 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 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 Byju’s investors vote out founder Raveendran in Dubai U m a K a n n a n @ Bengaluru An elderly farmer participating in a ‘Black Day’ protest at the Shambhu border in Patiala district on Friday | PTI Farmers pause Delhi march till February 29 IN a setback for embattled edtech firm Byju’s, its shareholders who control nearly 60% of its parent firm Think & Learn on Friday voted to remove founder CEO Byju Raveendran, his wife Divya Gokulnath, and brother Riju Raveendran from the board. According to sources, those who attended the extraordinary general meeting (EGM) include Prosus, Owl Ventures, Peak XV, and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. However, Byju’s said only 20% of the shareholders attended the virtual meet, Byju Raveendran, who is in Dubai, might conduct a board meeting soon and will discuss whatever happened in the EGM held on Friday. In a recent letter to shareholders, he said the $200 million the company raised through rights issue will take care of current liabilities which it termed ‘invalid’. It added that the Karnataka High Court had granted it interim relief that any decisions made during the meeting would not be given effect until the next hearing. Prosus said the shareholders unanimously H a r p r e e t B a j w a @ Chandigarh Two days after putting their Dilli Chalo march on hold, the Samyukta Kisan Morcha (non-political) and the Kisan Mazdoor Morcha (KMM) on Friday said the next decision on their agitation will be announced on February 29. In the interregnum, a candlelight march will be held at both the Shambhu and Khanauri inter-state borders between Punjab and Haryana on Saturday . Sarwan Singh Pandher, general secretary, Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee, said seminars on the World Trade Organization will be held on Sunday in which intellectuals will also take part. On Monday, effigies of big corporates and BJP leaders will be burnt. Next day SKM (non-political) , and KMM will hold their own meetings. It will be followed by a joint meeting on Wednesday and the next plan of action will be announced on Thursday . “Till then we will not move further,’’ he said. In Haryana, police softened its stand against farmer leaders, saying it had dropped a proposal to invoke the draconian National Security Act (NSA) against them. But it used tear gas in Hisar to disperse farmers who wanted to proceed to the Khanauri interstate border to join other protesters. In Punjab, Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann announced a compensation of `1 crore and a government job for the sister of farmer Shubhkaran Singh who died during the protest, but his family rejected it saying they want justice instead. The family said they would not allow his post-mortem till the person who shot Shubhkaran dead is booked. The Bharti Kisan Union (Ekta Ugrahan), which is part of the SKM, said it held demonstrations at 47 places in Punjab in protest against Singh’s death. MEA working ON Bringing back Indians India is working closely with its embassy in Russia to bring back 100 Indians, who were recruited as helpers by Russia for its war with Ukraine, but are now forced to fight Free Wi-Fi at 500 public places in city, CM launches scheme E x p r e s s N e w s S e r v i c e @ Chennai Chief Minister M K Stalin on Friday launched the first phase of the state government’s free Wi-Fi hotspots in public spaces scheme in Chennai, and said it his dream to see Tamil Nadu become a trillion-dollar economy and human resources capital of the world. The DMK government had announced in the budget that free Wi-Fi will be rolled out at 1,000 places across major city corporations in Tamil Nadu, including Chennai, Coimbatore, Madurai, PTR made IT Tiruchirapalli and Salem. Chenmin to reform nai will now have free Wi-Fi sector: CM hotspots at 500 public places, inPutting an end to cluding parks, bus stands, and beaches. speculation on Speaking at the inauguration the reasons for of the two-day IT summit, Umagichange of neTN 2024, Stalin recalled the role portfolio, the CM played by former Chief Minister on Friday said M Karunanidhi in revolutionisPTR was moved ing the IT sector, especially his out of finance foresight in unveiling the first IT and made IT minister to reform policy in the country and establishing a separate department for the sector | P4 IT in 1997. The IT summit is being held under the aegis of the state IT and digital services department at the Nandambakkam Trade Centre in Chennai. Continued on p7 tndiprnews tndipr tndipr TN DIPR www.dipr.tn.gov.in/ passed all resolutions at the EGM. “These include a request for the resolution of the outstanding governance, financial mismanagement and compliance issues at Byju’s; the reconstitution of the board of directors, so that it is no longer controlled by the founders of T&L; and a change in leadership of the company .” However, Byju’s said the resolutions do not have any binding effect whatsoever on the company or its decision-making processes. Meanwhile, some investors have moved the National Company Law Tribunal against suppression of investor rights and mismanagement of the firm.
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