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The Bombay High Court stated: “Freedom of speech has been restored. We must stop inflammatory speech right away before more harm is done.”

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There is a limit to freedom of speech, the Bombay High Court stated during a hearing. Any inflammatory material should be removed right away if it is discovered. We can’t hold off on more outcomes.

This observation was made on Tuesday by Justice Milind Jadhav’s single bench, which was sustaining the decision to fire a worker at Hitachi Astemo, a manufacturer of auto parts.

Understand the nature of the issue

Two Facebook posts critical of Hitachi Estemo had been made by an employee. The worker was then fired from their position. The employee then went to the Labor Court, where the Labor Court reversed the employee’s dismissal order. Subsequently, the business challenged the Labor Court’s ruling in an appeal to the High Court.

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The employee’s Facebook post is offensive, the court concluded.

The employee was found guilty by the High Court, which heard the full case. In the decision, Justice Jadhav stated that these aggressive and anti-company posts were published with the goal of stirring enmity.

The court declared that such conduct must be strongly condemned. We should take immediate action to stop these provocative things.

The High Court declared, with terrible results

“Speech and freedom of speech cannot be allowed to go beyond a certain limit,” the bench stated in its order. This might have terrible effects if it is permitted.

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Justice Jadhav continued, saying, “We cannot and should not wait for its bad consequences in such inflammatory cases.” We must stop these things before they start. If not, it will convey the incorrect message to society as a whole.

Identification of any employee’s discipline

“Discipline is the identity of any employee,” the court declared. The worker is in charge of making sure that business as usual continues both inside and outside the building. In the age of technology, everyone owns a cell phone. All day, every day. Using a mobile device makes accessing Facebook accounts easier.

What states the business?

During the salary settlement dispute, Hitachi alleged that the employee had made two posts on his Facebook account. The business added that the posts damaged the company’s reputation, incited employees to rebel against the management, and were defamatory.

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The employee was fired from his position on May 2, 2018, after an investigating officer for the corporation declared him guilty in 2018.

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PM Modi Launches AI Summit in New Delhi at Bharat Mandapam

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The GPAI Summit was officially opened by Prime Minister Narendra Modi yesterday at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, with an emphasis on the difficulties facing AI safety and growth.

On December 12, the yearly Global Partnership for Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) Summit got underway at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, with a focus on important conversations about the difficulties facing AI development and safety. India will serve as the head chair of GPAI in 2024, with participation from 29 nations in North and South America, Europe, and Asia; China will not be included in the list of members.

Different Views of AI

In order to foster trust in AI, Prime Minister Narendra Modi emphasized in his inaugural address the significance of tackling ethical, economic, and societal issues. Discussions on a wide range of topics were held between AI officials and industry experts.

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During the meeting, Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw emphasized the importance of looking into issues pertaining to agricultural and healthcare.

The CEO of Paytm, Vijay Shekhar Sharma, discussed the difficulties Indian farmers have in integrating data, highlighting the potential of AI to address ecological intricacies, boost output, and close supply-demand imbalances.

Ownership and Governance of Data

Discussions on data sharing and cross-border data flows were one of the main themes. To address these concerns, the Union Government is actively working to rebalance data ownership.

The IT Ministry’s Kavita Bhatia, a group coordinator, stressed the significance of looking at cross-border data flows in the context of equitable computing—a topic that would be covered in the GPAI data governance working group.

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Modi’s Request for Transparency and Institutional Mechanisms

Concerns regarding AI’s effects on employment, the necessity for consistent AI standards, and the content of curricula around the world were brought up by Prime Minister Modi.

He suggested creating an international AI education curriculum and urged the establishment of an institutional framework to guarantee stable employment.

Modi also addressed issues about the abuse of AI, bringing up the concept of watermarking AI products to identify information that is generated by them. This is especially important for improving transparency in AI applications and combating deepfake videos.

Resolving Security Issues

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Modi underlined the need for transparency into the methods employed in AI models, pointing out the possible risks of terrorists gaining access to AI technologies as well as the growing threat of cybercrime and data theft. Although he emphasized that openness in AI deployment is our shared obligation, he acknowledged the revolutionary power of AI.

-What will be the primary subject matter of the 2023 Global Partnership for Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) Summit?

 The summit highlights important conversations about the problems facing AI development and safety.

-What topic was discussed extensively during the data-related sessions of the GPAI Summit?

Discussions about data flows across borders and sharing.

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-What subjects were covered during the summit in relation to the difficulties faced by Indian farmers?

The difficulties in combining data and the ways in which AI could enhance output, close supply-demand gaps, and handle ecological subtleties.

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The second Twenty20 was won by South Africa by five wickets. took a 1-0 series lead over India, despite Surya-half-centuries Rinku’s being unsuccessful

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In the second T-20 series encounter versus India, host South Africa prevailed by a margin of five wickets. The African batsmen accomplished their revised target of 152 runs in 15 overs using the DLS technique on Tuesday at the St. George Stadium in Kebera

They did this by losing 5 wickets in just 13.5 overs. Earlier, in 19.3 overs, Team India scored 180 runs for 7 wickets after losing the toss and opting to bat first.

South Africa now leads the three-match series 1-0 after this win. Rain forced the cancellation of the opening game. On December 14, the series’ third game will take place in Johannesburg.

India-South Africa 2nd T20 scorecard

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The innings of Hendricks-Markram is more than that of Surya-Rinku.

Captain Suryakumar Yadav (56 runs) and Rinku Singh (68 runs) each played half-century innings for the Indian team. Rinku Singh scored the first half-century and Surya scored the 17th, however neither half-century was enough to help the side win.

Reeza Hendricks (49 runs) and Matthew Britzky (16 runs) scored rapidly in the reply innings. Following that, captain Aiden Markram contributed a crucial 30-run inning. After that, Tristan Stubbs and David Miller guided the team to victory.

African batsmen’s explosive innings on powerplay

To chase the goal of 152 runs in 15 overs, the South African openers got off to an exciting start. Reeza Hendricks and Matthew Britzky combined for 42 runs off of 17 balls. Here, Britzky was run out. The run rate for the side did not drop even after this wicket. In 4 overs, the side scored 56 runs. In five overs during the powerplay, the home team scored 67/1.

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Rain delayed the Indian innings, which ended with 180 runs in 19.3 overs. The Indian side, batting first after losing the toss, amassed 180 runs for 7 wickets in 19.3 overs; however, the rain prevented the Indian innings from being finished.

Rinku Singh scored 68 runs in one inning on 39 balls for Team India. He made two sixes and nine fours. In addition to Rinku, captain Suryakumar Yadav amassed 56 runs in 36 balls by hitting three sixes and five fours.

Three wickets were taken by South Africa’s Gerald Cootzie. Each of Marco Janson, Aiden Markram, Lizaad Williams, and Tabraiz Shamsi claimed a wicket.

Rinku’s first fifty runs were scored in the final twenty-one balls, and India batted superbly in the dying overs. Ravindra Jadeja was the player who struck a six to Gerald Cootzie in the 17th over. Rinku also reached her half-century mark in this over at the same moment with a single. In the eighteenth over, Shamsi bowled beautifully, conceding just four runs. Rinku Singh then shifted gears and blasted two sixes to Aiden Markram in the 19th over.

Gerald Coetzee delivered three balls in the final over, which was not able to be finished because to rain. let up two runs on the first delivery before taking two wickets in a row. India amassed 31 runs and lost 2 wickets in the death over

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Even though Gerald Cootzie was on a hat-trick, the game was ruined by the rain.

Gerald Cootzie, a fast bowler from South Africa, was on a hat-trick. Rain arrived before the fourth ball was thrown, but he LBWd Ravindra Jadeja on the second ball of the 20th over and had Arshdeep caught by Andil Felcuyo on the third ball.

India was taken over by Rinku-Surya in the middle overs.

Rinku Singh and captain Suryakumar Yadav seized control of the Indian batting after the team lost three wickets in the powerplay. They each played fifty-seven innings. A 70-run partnership ensued for the fourth wicket between the two players. India lost 2 wickets in the first 10 overs, but still managed to reach 90 runs. Team India’s total after 16 overs was 149/5. At times, the situation is in the middle…

49 balls for 50 runs by Surya With 29 balls, Indian captain Suryakumar Yadav reached his fifty. His 17th half-century in his T-20 career was scored by him. Against South Africa, he has achieved his fourth half-century.

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Captain Suryakumar Yadav and Rinku Singh shared a half-century stand for the fourth wicket after Surya-Rinku’s fifty partnership was lost for 55 runs. 70 runs were added by both on 48 balls.

Rinku Singh, an Indian cricketer, reached his first fifty runs in a Twenty20 match. Additionally, this is his first half-century abroad. He made fifty off thirty balls.

returning to the pavilion with the top three batters out on zero and a total of 59/3.

The Indian team did not have a good start. After scoring six runs as a team, the team’s openers made their way back to the pavilion. Shubman Gill and Yashasvi Jaiswal, the openers, were unable to open their accounts. Tilak Verma and skipper Suryakumar elevated the team’s score above 50 in this circumstance.

Team India scored 59 runs for three wickets in six overs during the powerplay. Gerald Cooties, Lizad Williams, and Marco Yanson each claimed one wicket.

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Review of Charlie Chopra and the Mystery of Solang Valley: A Watchable Agatha Christie Adaptation

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Charlie Chopra & The Mystery Of Solang Valley Review: In a show dominated by Wamiqa Gabbi, a few other performers stand out, none more so than Priyanshu Painyuli

Agatha Christie’s The Sittaford Mystery, the source material for this web series, was initially published in 1931, but it has endured as a popular whodunit. Charlie Chopra & the Mystery of Solang Valley gives it a fresh, engaging, and clever makeover.

The six-episode SonyLIV series, which is directed by Vishal Bhardwaj and based on a story he co-wrote with Anjum Rajabali and Jyotsna Hariharan, concentrates on a murder that was predicted and a false arrest that prompts an amateur sleuth to take action in a setting where danger lurks around every corner.

Charlie Chopra & the Mystery of Solang Valley deviates, frequently frothily, from the original book by inventing plot twists and character traits that not only greatly localise the narrative but also bring it up to current for modern tastes. The end result isn’t immediately exciting, but as Charlie Chopra’s investigation progresses, you start to like the programme.

Even if some of the cast members are left to linger on the periphery of the plot, Bhardwaj assembles a cast of seasoned film actors and younger actors who do their part to liven up the proceedings. Not Wamiqa Gabbi however.

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The lead actress plays the young investigator with the vivacity of a wide-eyed rookie and the steely resolve of a steely lady searching for the truth in a setting of mistrust and deceit. She is wonderfully full of beans.

Charlie Chopra & the Mystery of Solang Valley substitutes a Himachal Pradesh highland station for snowy Dartmoor. Through the lens of cinematographer Tassaduq Hussain, the location’s muted colour palette gives the series both depth of field and long-lasting visual shine.

The surface is glistening. The aces are in what’s underneath. The tone of delivery is something the series excels at, more so than the richness of the visuals and the interaction of sun and snow, light and shadow, and silences and sounds. Secrets loom over the neighbourhood and the homes that the suspects call home, yet the atmosphere of dread is softened by moments of gentle hilarity that stem from the characters’ sharp angles.

Emily Trefusis, the amateur detective from Agatha Christie, is transformed into Charulata “Charlie” Chopra (Wamiqa Gabbi), a brash Patiala girl who starts looking into the death of a retired brigadier when her fiancé Jimmy Nautiyal (Vivaan Shah), the victim’s nephew and a start-up businessman in need of a large sum of money, is arrested and charged with murder.

A long-dead woman alleges, through a child who has been possessed, during a seance during a weekend gathering in the Solang Valley home of a cranky psychic (Naseeruddin Shah), that Brigadier Meherbaan Singh Rawat (Gulshan Grover) is deceased at his Manali villa.

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In fact, the retired army officer is discovered in a pool of blood by his best friend Colonel Anand Barua (Baharul Islam), who risks his life to get to the cottage in treacherous weather. Hanif Sheikh, the brigadier’s longtime factotum, and a weary police investigator named Narayan Joshi (Ghanshyam Garg) join him in breaking into the home.

Everyone there at the séance—which, incidentally, opens with a similar ceremonial assembly to that in Kenneth Branagh’s best Agatha Christie adaptation to date, A Haunting in Venice, which is still playing in theatres even though The Hallowe’en Party and the Sittaford Mystery were written forty years apart—is a suspect.

The wealthy brigadier, who Charlie’s inquiry reveals to be a man with more than his fair share of skeletons in the closet, stands to gain from his death, as does everyone else. Charlie is adamant about doing everything it takes to identify the true offender and establish Jimmy’s innocence because everyone close to the deceased, including his family and friends, has something to conceal.

Charlie investigates the circumstances behind Brigadier Rawat’s death with the help of obnoxious television journalist Sitaram Bisht (Priyanshu Painyuli), with whom she gets off to a bad start. The Old Manali Police station is eager to bury Jimmy.

As she searches for answers, Charlie must contend with a number of issues, including a ski resort that may have reached a dead end, a covert marijuana operation, an insurance scam, two fugitives hidden in plain sight, a schizophrenic receiving psychiatric care, a war refugee, and many other things. The girl jumps in headfirst, disregarding the dangers, as lies and half-truths emerge from the closet.

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Both of Jimmy’s older siblings, Billu (Imaad Shah) and Saloni (Paoli Dam), are subject to suspicion. Charlie is also interested in Saloni’s husband Manas Dabral (Chandan Roy Sanyal), a writer with a history of failures, as well as a number of other family members, including the brigadier’s younger brother Mohan (Lalit Parimoo), his psychoanalyst-wife Janki (Neena Gupta), and their sick son Varun (Pulkit Makol), who needs a costly kidney transplant.

That is not all, either. The semi-classical vocalist Lara Dutta and her daughter Wasima (Bhagyashree Tarke), the enigmatic Miss Bharucha (Ratna Pathak Shah), the Negis (Amitabh Bhattacharjee and Damini Basu), who rent a cottage from the brigadier, and, undoubtedly, the deceased man’s Man Friday, Hanif Sheikh, are all on Charlie’s list of suspects.

While adding creative flourishes that give the story his own unique spin, Bhardwaj keeps the traditional Agatha Christie structure. The episode begins with a murder, followed by a few more demises, and the plot is riddled with red herrings, just like in the most recent Hercule Poirot case adaption, A Haunting in Venice.

The remainder of the arc differs significantly. The show’s strong title track, written by Vishal Bhardwaj and performed by Sunidhi Chauhan, sets the mood and introduces Charlie Chopra, her address, and her propensity for challenging cases. The protagonist then advances the show’s upbeat tone by frequently turning to the camera and joking with the viewers.

The effect of distance is underpinned by delectable whimsy, which in addition to highlighting the artifice in the adaptation gives the audience a sense of familiarity and empathy for the charming Charlie Chopra, a girl who is constantly only a murderous assault away from serious physical danger.

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Despite Wamiqa Gabbi’s dominance of the programme, a couple of the other performers shine, none more so than Priyanshu Painyuli. If Charlie Chopra & the Mystery of Solang Valley’s cast has any weak spots, it’s mostly due of how full it is, making it impossible to give each character equal weight.

Neena Gupta and Ratna Pathak Shah, who play supporting roles, both have their moments, although Lara Dutta and Paoli Dam could have used more screen time. But when everything is said and done, the show’s strengths far surpass its weaknesses. Watchable throughout.

Cast:

Vivaan Shah, Imaad Shah, Paoli Dam and Priyanshu Painyuli, Chandan Roy Sanyal, Wamiqa Gabbi, Naseeruddin Shah, Ratna Pathak Shah, Neena Gupta, Lara Dutta, and Gulshan Grover.

Director:

Bhardwaj, Vishal

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