Galgotias University was asked to vacate its stall at the India AI Impact Summit exhibition in Delhi. This came amid a controversy about the Uttar Pradesh-based university displaying a commercially available Chinese robot, claiming that it had been developed by the institute.

Social media users identified the robot as the Go2, manufactured by Chinese robotics company Unitree Robotics. It is available online for about $1,600 or Rs 1.4 lakh.

The summit is being promoted as the first major gathering on artificial intelligence in the Global South. Twenty world leaders, officials from major technology companies and exhibitors from 30 countries are attending the event. Read on.

With Galgotias ‘robot’ dog row, ‘AI-washing’ comes full circle for India, writes Prithwiraj Mukherjee

The Maharashtra government scrapped the process of providing caste verification and validation certificates to Muslims. This formally closes a 2014 policy to provide 5% reservations to the community in jobs and education.

The quota had not been implemented due to legal hurdles. The order withdrawing the policy does not change the existing situation, but terminates the grant of certificates to around 50 Muslim groups seeking benefits under the Special Backward Category-A framework.

Criticising the move, Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) spokesperson Clyde Crasto said the decision showed that the BJP-led government “does not value Muslim leaders of BJP and their allies”. Read on.

The Supreme Court issued an interim order restraining the forcible exhumation and relocation of the bodies of Adivasi Christians from their village burial grounds in Chhattisgarh. This came on a petition alleging that the community was being denied burial rights in their villages, and their bodies were being dug up and reburied elsewhere.

The petitioners also alleged that a split verdict delivered by the Supreme Court on January 26, 2025, in another case was being used by the Chhattisgarh Police to prevent the burial of Adivasi Christians in their villages

The bench sought a response from the Chhattisgarh government on the petition. Read on.

The News Broadcasting and Digital Standards Authority imposed a fine of Rs 1 lakh on Zee News for airing an unverified video that falsely linked a traffic jam on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway to a truck driver offering namaz. According to fact-checks and traffic advisories, the highway disruption was because of severe weather conditions and landslides.

The broadcast communalised a routine traffic disruption and presented an unverified social media clip as the cause, the complainants alleged. In its response, Zee News stated it had made clear during the telecast that the video was “viral” and unverified. Read on.

The Enforcement Directorate told the Supreme Court that it was being “terrorised”, after the West Bengal government argued that the central agency had been “weaponised”. The court was hearing a petition by the ED against Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and West Bengal Police officers for allegedly obstructing searches at the premises of political consultancy I-PAC on January 8.

The central agency had conducted searches at the political consultancy’s office in Kolkata’s Salt Lake area, the home of its head Pratik Jain and the office of a trader as part of an investigation into alleged money laundering. Banerjee had arrived at Jain’s home while the search was underway and came out with a green file, claiming that the central agency’s officials were “taking away” party documents ahead of the Assembly elections. Read on.

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