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  • At least 33 passengers were injured and had to be pulled out of the well by rescuers

    At least 27 people, including a 7-year-old girl, were killed after the speeding bus they were travelling in crashed with an autorickshaw and fell into a well in Maharashtra state in western India, officials said on Wednesday.
    Both vehicles fell into the roadside well after the crash late on Tuesday.
    Emergency crews worked through the night to rescue survivors and retrieve bodies and used a crane to remove the red-and-white bus from the well, as hundreds thronged to the crash site in Nashik district, around 254km (158 miles) from India’s financial capital Mumbai.
    Rescue operations ended early on Wednesday.
    “We conducted rescue operations throughout the night and recovered 26 bodies. Another 32 injured have been sent for treatment,” National Disaster Response Force spokesman Sachidanand Gawde said.
    Other reports put the death toll at 27. The bus driver was among the dead.

  • The state government in West Bengal has passed a resolution rejecting India’s citizenship law that sparked widespread protests

    The state government in West Bengal has passed a resolution rejecting India’s citizenship law that sparked widespread protests. New Delhi insists it’s a humane piece of legislation aimed at protecting minorities.

    On Monday the state of West Bengal, which borders Bangladesh, one of the three countries covered by the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), passed a resolution rejecting the legislation. Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said the law and the plan for a national population and citizenship registries (NPR and NRC) would be enforced in her state “over her dead body.” She called on the repeal of the CAA.

    Banerjee heads the All India Trinamool Congress (TMC), which has only a small representation in the national parliament, but controls more than two thirds of seats in the West Bengal state legislature.

    Kolkata follows the example of three other states which have defied the central government on the citizenship issue. Kerala, Punjab and Rajasthan, all of which are controlled by opposition parties, passed similar resolutions. India consists of 28 states and 9 union territories.

  • An Indian deep-tech startup will begin teaching the country’s teenagers how to build their own artificial intelligence systems using DIY kits

    An Indian deep-tech startup will begin teaching the country’s teenagers how to build their own artificial intelligence systems using DIY kits, before applying what they’ve learned to real-world problems.
    Tech start-up CYRAN developed the ‘BUDDHI AI DIY Kit’, with ‘Buddhi’ standing for “Build, Understand, Design, Deploy Human-like Intelligence.” It also means ‘brain’ or ‘mind’ in Hindi.

    The pack includes an AI handbook, DIY AI projects, lessons, exercises, presentations, and videos while making use of both proprietary software and hardware like AI actuation circuit boards powered by AI computing-engines.
    AI was only recently added to the school curriculum in India by the country’s Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), and will be taught to pupils in class 8, from roughly the age of 14 onwards, who have the requisite background in subjects like advanced mathematics, data science, and computer programming. A CBSE official previously said that AI “will be the power that will fuel the future global digital economy.”