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Whack-a-mole

TO begin with, a cliché much favoured by journalists, NAB has been ‘nabbed’. Perhaps with as much alacrity as all the parties had displayed to give an extension to the…

Global climate chaos

Extreme weather events continue to manifest worldwide in various forms. A few days back, Toronto (Canada) experienced over 100 millimeters (about four inches) of rain, matching the average rainfall for…

Flood notes

FIRST, a few snapshots from the road with water dunes on both sides, as far as one can see. These frames are now going to live with me. A large…

Can chatbots be therapists? Only if you want them to be

A manager at artificial intelligence firm OpenAI caused consternation recently by writing that she just had “a quite emotional, personal conversation” with her firm’s viral chatbot ChatGPT. “Never tried therapy…

Zelensky in Europe

Volodymyr Zelensky’s ‘surprise’ visit to three European capitals – London, Paris and Brussels – has been an immensely successful trip despite the fact that he could not get any clear-cut…

Imran’s art of losing

Saturday, April 9, was not meant to be an ordinary day. And it was not, with the National Assembly in session to vote on the no-confidence move against Imran Khan…

At its nadir of instability

Imran Khan was playing politics when the country was drowning in the floods. This could be one of the captions of an account of the present trauma of Pakistan, after…

Remembering 1977

The year 2022 marks 45 years since the fateful days of 1977. As the nation prepared to celebrate 30 years of its independence, the country that had already lost its…