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Nepal will hold first election since deadly protests, with 3 rivals vying to be prime minister

KATHMANDU, Nepal, February 27, 2026 (AP) — A former rapper who ran Kathmandu as a mayor. The young leader of Nepal’s oldest political party. And a communist veteran politician hoping to return to power after being ousted in youth-led protests in which dozens were killed last year. They are the three leading contenders as Nepal heads into a crucial nationwide election, the first since the protests led to the fall of former Prime Minister Khadga Prasad Oli’s government in September. Whoever prevails will become Nepal’s 16th prime minister in less than two decades, underscoring the recurring political instability that has

How China is betting cheap AI will get the world hooked on its tech

Sydney, Feb 27 (The Conversation) Artificial intelligence (AI) is at a very Chinese time in its life. Recent moves from Chinese AI labs are throwing the dominance of American “frontier labs” such as Google and OpenAI into question. Last week ByteDance, the company behind TikTok, released an AI video-generating tool called Seedance 2.0 which produces high-quality film-like clips from text prompts, with a casual disregard for copyright concerns. This week Anthropic, the US company behind the chatbot Claude, said three Chinese AI labs created thousands of fake accounts to harvest Claude’s answers in a practice called “distillation” which can be

Delhi court discharges Kejriwal, Sisodia in excise corruption case, rejects CBI chargesheet

New Delhi, Feb 27 (PTI) In a big relief to Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia, a court here on Friday discharged the former Delhi chief minister and his ex-deputy in the politically charged liquor policy case, as it refused to take cognisance of the CBI chargesheet. Besides the two leaders, 21 more were discharged in the case. The CBI has been probing alleged corruption in the formulation and execution of the erstwhile-AAP government’s now-scrapped excise policy. Special Judge Jitendra Singh rapped the federal agency for lapses in investigation, saying there was no cogent evidence against Kejriwal, while there was no

‘Nagpur Communal Ecosystem for Rewriting of Textbooks’ is real NCERT: Congress’ dig at govt

New Delhi, Feb 27 (PTI) The Congress on Friday took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the NCERT row, saying the PM has himself guided and shaped the “Nagpur Communal Ecosystem for Rewriting of Textbooks”, which is the real NCERT. The opposition party said the next logical step for the Supreme Court to take is to institute a full-fledged investigation into how textbooks have come to be rewritten and how they have become instruments of polarisation and political score-settling Congress general secretary in-charge communications, Jairam Ramesh, alleged that over the last decade, the prime minister has presided over

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