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CJI calls for deepening technology and AI-based judicial architecture for faster justice delivery

CJI calls for deepening technology and AI-based judicial architecture for faster justice delivery

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Jabalpur, Chief Justice of India Surya Kant on Saturday called for deepening technology and artificial intelligence -based judicial architecture, and using technological advancements to expedite justice delivery. CJI calls for deepening technology and AI-based judicial architecture for faster justice delivery Stating that technology was the only effective answer to wastage of judiciary’s time, he said the country’s judiciary was committed to ensuring optimum utilisation of technological advancements and AI for the benefit of the common man. The CJI was speaking at a programme organised by the Madhya Pradesh High Court on the topic of “Fragmentation to fusion, empowering justice via united digital platform integration”. He also launched the MP high court’s newly-developed digital platforms. “Indian judiciary is committed to ensuring optimum utilisation of not only technological advancements that have been going on and which are integral part of our system since 1990, but also of latest designs of AI and how we can use them for the benefit of the common man,” he said. “We should think of deepening technology and AI-based judicial architecture. Technology …

Is colonial architecture the hidden bottleneck in India’s legal system?

Is colonial architecture the hidden bottleneck in India’s legal system?

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Written by: Siddarth Rao Errabelli 4 min readApr 13, 2026 06:20 AM IST First published on: Apr 13, 2026 at 06:20 AM IST The announcements of new high court complexes in Assam, Maharashtra and Telangana present a significant opportunity to reimagine what courts should look like in a rapidly changing India. They also offer an opportunity to think afresh about better design and architecture of courthouses, which can, in turn, improve case pendency and litigants’ perceptions of justice. The grandiose architecture of India’s courts was conceived in colonial times to reinforce the hierarchical relationship between the state and its subjects. They were built at a time when courts had a small fraction of today’s case load. The Supreme Court, for instance, had 14 judges and 2,656 pending cases in 1960. Today, it has 86,000 cases and 34 sanctioned judges. High courts together have 6.3 million pending cases, while over 46 million cases are pending in the lower courts. Meeting this high case load has required space, resulting in a haphazard expansion of court spaces. Such …

The architecture of digital literacy: An introduction to Binance Academy

The architecture of digital literacy: An introduction to Binance Academy

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In the current landscape of Virtual Digital Assets (VDAs), the shift from speculative curiosity to technical proficiency is increasingly important for market participants. As decentralised ecosystems become more layered and harder to navigate, the gap between what users think is happening and what is actually happening at a technical level often becomes a point of exposure. Binance Academy aims to fill this gap by providing education on how blockchain systems work, helping a worldwide audience that is getting involved without fully grasping the basic principles. The intent is to move users toward a “verify-first” mindset, instead of relying on trust-based assumptions that have historically led to security lapses across the Web3 ecosystem. This latest course is a 31-minute module structured to make the process of blockchain verification more accessible without diluting its importance. (Binanace) Its resources move across levels, starting with foundational blockchain concepts and extending into areas like smart contract security. But the purpose here is not simply to inform. It is to build a way of thinking. In an environment where code can …

Public architecture endures as cherished memory: Former NID executive director at 20th Convocation of CEPT University | Ahmedabad News

Public architecture endures as cherished memory: Former NID executive director at 20th Convocation of CEPT University | Ahmedabad News

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Architecture evokes an “emotive connection” – especially public architecture that deals with public spaces, it “endures as a kind of cherished memory,” well-known design educator Prof Ashoke Chatterjee said on Saturday. Chatterjee, a former executive director of the National Institute of Design (NID), was speaking during the 20th convocation of CEPT University in Ahmedabad. “At the end of the day, design and architecture has to be about caring and so you have to care, and do better than what my generation has done for you.” “So what makes architecture actually work? My real immersion with architecture came when I returned to India from the US and began to work with the India Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC), which had decided in the early 1970s that design, including architecture, would be the USP for drawing travelers to India. The trademark for the ITDC was The Ashoka Hotel which was built long before ITDC was established but it was a strange building, iconic in its own way and everybody loved to hate it. And if you worked in …

Inside PRAGATI: The Architecture Behind India’s Infrastructure Turnaround | India News

Inside PRAGATI: The Architecture Behind India’s Infrastructure Turnaround | India News

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Last Updated:January 02, 2026, 22:54 IST The platform operates through a rigorous five-level escalation mechanism that ensures even the most complex issues reach the highest levels of government for resolution The platform was conceptualised by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to dismantle the chronic coordination bottlenecks that historically led to massive time and cost overruns in public projects. (Representational image: PTI) In a landmark achievement for Indian governance, the PRAGATI (Pro-Active Governance and Timely Implementation) platform has completed its 50th review meeting, marking a decade of transformative, tech-enabled leadership. Launched on March 25, 2015, this ICT-enabled multi-modal platform was conceptualised by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to dismantle the chronic coordination bottlenecks that historically led to massive time and cost overruns in public projects. By bridging horizontal and vertical gaps between central ministries and state governments, PRAGATI has turned national priorities into measurable ground-level outcomes. The Architecture of Accountability The platform operates through a rigorous five-level escalation mechanism that ensures even the most complex issues reach the highest levels of government for resolution. While regular matters are …

India Demands Comprehensive UNSC Reform: ‘Time To Redesign 80-Year-Old Architecture’ | World News

India Demands Comprehensive UNSC Reform: ‘Time To Redesign 80-Year-Old Architecture’ | World News

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Last Updated:November 16, 2025, 06:00 IST India has emphasised that the overall endeavour needs to be on ‘redesigning’ the Council’s architecture to meet current and future challenges purposefully India, alongside its G4 partners—Brazil, Germany, and Japan—advocates for increasing the total membership of the Council from the current 15 to around 25 or 26 by adding six new permanent members and four or five non-permanent members. File pic/AP India has once again mounted a strong push for comprehensive reform of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), arguing that the eight-decade-old body’s structure is deeply anachronistic and ill-equipped to handle contemporary geopolitical realities. India’s position, articulated at the UN, is clear: the Council must expand in both the permanent and non-permanent categories, stressing that any piecemeal or superficial changes will fail to make the UN’s principal organ for peace and security fit for purpose. The current structure of the UNSC, with its five permanent members (P5) retaining veto power, was established in 1945 following the conclusion of World War II. India argues that this post-war architecture no longer …

From Madras to Lucknow and back

From Madras to Lucknow and back

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Neill’s Gate in Lucknow | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Last week, I was in Lucknow, and as always, I enjoyed wandering around the monuments large and small that dot the Nawabi city. And, as always, I learnt a few new things, some with a Madras connect. It was news to me that the smooth texture of the walls at the Bara Imambara and La Martinere, owed much to Madras chunam! Our local plaster had become famous enough to be sent in large quantities in the 18th century to Lucknow, which was then in a fever of construction of palaces and prayer halls. La Martinere stands testimony to Claude Martin, the French mercenary who, after serving his country’s East India Company for a while, found the British a better prospect and switched allegiance. He then moved to the service of the Nawabs of Oudh and lived in Lucknow, constructing his vast residence Constantia, which also became his tomb and now is the school functioning in his name. What is of interest is that Martin, while in …

Why layering is the new minimalism in interior design: Experts give tips on how to ace the trend

Why layering is the new minimalism in interior design: Experts give tips on how to ace the trend

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If you had asked me in 2010 what my design style was, I would have said minimalistic. White walls, clean lines, one striking focal point and barely any furniture. Back then, I found beauty in restraint. But life has a way of teaching you that homes are not showpieces. They are lived in, filled with memories, books, and the odd misplaced remote. I started to see the value of growing it into a space instead of trying to perfect it. Layering one material brings depth and calm, turning simple textures into soulful spaces that feel both grounded and timeless.(Rashi Bothra and Ruchi Gehani (Azure Interiors)) That shift began when I saw fashion designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee’s home in a magazine. It was beautifully chaotic, a masterclass in organised clutter, and it broke every rule I had followed. That was when I began to look at minimalism differently. Today, material drenching feels like the next chapter in that evolution. It brings the calm of minimalism and the comfort of tactility together through layers of a single material. …

Meta Unveils Llama 4 AI Series Featuring New Expert-Based Architecture

Meta Unveils Llama 4 AI Series Featuring New Expert-Based Architecture

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Image: Meta Meta unveiled on April 5 its new AI model series: Llama 4, which includes Llama 4 Maverick and Llama 4 Scout, tailored for conversation and processing large files, respectively, along with an unreleased “teacher” model called Llama 4 Behemoth. Llama 4 is Meta’s first series to adopt a “mixture of experts (MoE) architecture.” This approach activates only select parts of the neural network, referred to as the “experts,” to handle specific subtasks. The task will be broken down into subtasks and each routed to the most appropriate experts, improving resource efficiency. What are the specifics about Llama 4 Maverick and Scout? Llama 4 Maverick features 128 experts and 17 billion active parameters, which represent the portion of a model’s knowledge used to process a given input. Meta describes it as the “product workhorse model for general assistant and chat use cases,” specialising in image interpretation and creative writing. Interestingly, Mark Zuckerberg’s company boasts that Maverick offers “a best-in-class performance to cost ratio” when it comes to conversations. Cost has been playing on the …

Take a peek inside Abhay Deol’s beautiful Goa home

Take a peek inside Abhay Deol’s beautiful Goa home

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Abhay Deol is a man of different flavours. On one hand, he wants to be connected to nature — immersing himself in deep meditation flanked by sound bowls, and on the other, the elaborate DJ equipment at his home gives us a peek into his life of the party persona. “I keep myself busy. That’s what I love about my profession. It’s all about character development and reflection,” the Aisha actor revealed about himself in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter for their ‘Celebrity Corners’ segment. Giving a tour of his glass house in Assago — the actor’s first house that he built from scratch — Abhay Deol shared his vision for the place as follows: “When I’m looking at the person in front of me, I do not want to look at the ceiling, or want any windows.” Story continues below this ad He wanted to feel like he was one with the outdoors, but “with no bugs and the AC on”, revealed architects Vishakha Dholakia Chowdhry and Muninder Singh Chowdhry. Deol’s home is …