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Tejashwi detained in Patna while taking out march over police action during NEET protests

Patna, Aug 19 (PTI) RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav was detained in Patna on Wednesday while taking out a march over the recent police action during the NEET paper leak protests in Bihar, SSP Kartikeya K Sharma said. Yadav was taken away in a police vehicle near the Income Tax office here. “The government is pushing the future of students into darkness. Exam papers are getting leaked frequently,” he alleged, while being put inside a police van. RJD leaders and workers, led by Yadav, the Leader of Opposition in Bihar assembly, took out the protest march to the Lok Bhavan from

Does ‘AI‑watermarking’ mean the party is over for cheating students

August 19, 2026 (Conversation) Concerns about students cheating with AI are rife within schools and universities. Some lecturers have even expressed fears students have been “lobotomised by AI” amid reports AI-detection tools are patchy and far from fool-proof. Last week, New South Wales moved to ban take-home assignments for Year 12 to try to stop AI use in assessments. At the same time, a major generative AI system has developed a way to “watermark” whether or not a text is AI. Developer Anthropic, has announced the text output of Claude (one of the five big AI tools) will include a

Fake polling from mysterious company highlights danger of unvetted election surveys

NEW YORK, August 19, 2026 (AP) — Locked in a competitive reelection race, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass declared on social media last week that a new poll was evidence that her campaign was “gaining momentum.” Just a few days later, the truth emerged: The poll was fabricated. The California results were among at least three “polls” across three states posted online this month by Median Strategies, a previously unknown organization that admitted to the Los Angeles Times on Monday that the purported results were fake. The company wrote before shuttering its website this week that it “was created as

After deadly floods in India’s Assam, experts call for better warnings and long-term planning

GUWAHATI, India, August 19, 2026 (AP) — Rojo Neog left his house in India’s Assam state on the evening of July 19 to buy candles after heavy rain knocked out electricity. As he rode back on his bicycle, the Dikhow River suddenly rose and the current intensified. The floodwaters swept him away, and his body was found three days later, said his niece Priyakshi Gogoi, who lives nearby. Gogoi said floodwaters around her uncle’s village Hulang Katoni rose from knee-deep to neck-deep in about 30 minutes. “There was no warning, nothing,” she said. “In the morning we thought it’s fine,

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