Highlights: EU, US ready common code of conduct on artificial intelligence

The European Union and the United States said Wednesday that they would soon release a voluntary code of conduct on artificial intelligence, hoping to develop common standards among democracies as China makes rapid gains.

Both political and technology industry leaders have been warning of the growing risks as AI takes off, with potentially wide-ranging effects on privacy and other civil liberties.

After talks with EU officials in Sweden, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken told reporters that Western partners felt the "fierce urgency" to act and would ask "like-minded countries" to join the voluntary code of conduct.

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Senior Congress leader Partap Singh Bajwa on Wednesday said the party will not support the AAP on the Centre's ordinance on control of services in Delhi.

His remarks came days after Congress leaders from Punjab met the party leadership in the national capital and suggested not supporting the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on the Delhi services ordinance issue.

Replying to a question whether the Congress will support the AAP, Bajwa, who is the leader of opposition in Punjab Assembly, said, "We are not going to support them at all. We have made it clear-cut that we have no relation with the AAP."

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‘Surely there will be a solution for it. The matter is under investigation’, said Union Defense Minister Rajnath Singh on women wrestlers' protests against WFI chief over sexual assault allegations. 

Union Minister Kiren Rijiju, speaking about Rahul Gandhi's remarks on PM Narendra Modi in US, said, "Be it within the country or abroad, wherever Rahul Gandhi might be he has just one work - verbally abuse PM Modi and defame the country. I don't understand why he hates PM Modi so much & speaks against the country. He should know that this country gave his family everything, the common man can't even imagine. Rahul Gandhi is unable to tolerate that a common man became the PM of the country. His language and the manner in which he speaks are not taken seriously by anyone..."

The Dakshina Kannada district minority cell of the Congress has demanded a reinvestigation by a special investigation team (SIT) into the murders over "communal" enmity in the district last year.

In a letter to Chief Minister Siddramaiah through Karnataka Assembly Speaker U T Khader, who represents Mangaluru, minority cell president K K Shahul Hameed said the culprits behind the murders of three Muslim youths should be charged under Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA), after a proper reinvestigation.

Hameed said all communal murders in the district should be reinvestigated and a SIT should be formed for the purpose. Compensation should be provided to the relatives of the Muslim youths on the lines of the financial support extended to the family of slain BJP youth wing leader Praveen Nettaru, he said.

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Chinese scientists have begun drilling a 10,000-meter (32,808 feet) hole into the Earth’s crust, as the world’s second largest economy explores new frontiers above and below the planet’s surface.

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The Centre's fiscal deficit narrowed to 6.4 per cent of the GDP in 2022-23 from 6.71 per cent in FY22, as anticipated by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in her Budget in February this year.

In the Union Budget, the government aimed to further bring down the fiscal deficit -- a key indicator of borrowing -- during the current financial year 2023-24 to 5.9 per cent of the gross domestic product (GDP).

Unveiling the revenue-expenditure data of the Union government for 2022-23, the Controller General of Accounts (CGA) said the fiscal deficit in absolute terms was ₹17,33,131 crore (provisional), marginally down from the amount projected in the Revised Estimates (RE) in the Budget.

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West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday said in support of protesting wrestlers against former WFI chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh over sexual harrasment charges against him, “We are proud of our wrestlers.”

“PM took people of only one religion inside the New Parliament building (during inauguration). He should have taken people of all religions as he is the PM of 130 crore people of India and not only of Hindus,” said AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Wednesday. 

WFI chief and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh said on Wednesday, “If a single allegation against me is proven, I will hang myself. If you (wrestlers) have any evidence, present it to the Court and I am ready to accept any punishment.”

The Indian Army on Wednesday foiled a major infiltration bid by terrorists on the Line of Control (LoC) in the Karmarha sector in Poonch, three terrorists were injured in their attempt to cross the border.

Heavy security deployed near India Gate area. Rapid Action Force and Delhi Police along with Riot Control Vehicle present at the spot.

A single-day rise of 310 fresh coronavirus cases was reported in India while the active cases decreased to 4,222, according to the Union health ministry data updated on Wednesday.

National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Wednesday conducted raids at about 25 locations in Karnataka, Kerala and Bihar in the Popular Front of India (PFI) Phulwarisharif case.

The raids were still underway at the premises of suspects linked to the conspiracy which pertains to the involvement of PFI and its leaders and cadres in violent and unlawful activities, who had assembled for that purpose in the Phulwarisharif area of Patna.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday will launch Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) month-long pan-India campaign, 'Maha Jansampark', in poll-bound Rajasthan's Ajmer today covering all 543 Lok Sabha constituencies.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in an address in the United States on Wednesday said India is being run by a group of people who are 'absolutely convinced' that they know everything. They could sit down with God and explain things, Rahul Gandhi said adding that the prime minister is 'one such specimen'.

A day after academicians met Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah over the hijab ban in educational institutes and changes to textbooks brought in by the former BJP government, state education minister Madhu Bangarappa on Tuesday said that the Congress government will take a “decision that will benefit all students”.

Rain lashed parts of the national capital of Wednesday morning. The India Meteorological Department (IMD) had predicted rain along with dust storms to hit parts of Delhi-NCR.