Vijay Srinivas

The Reserve Bank of India (RBI)’s Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) is widely expected to leave the repo rate unchanged at 5.25 per cent on Wednesday (August 5), extending its pause for a third consecutive meeting as Governor Sanjay Malhotra's panel balances inflation that has edged above target against slowing growth and an uncertain global backdrop.

Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) offer a compelling alternative to autoregressive (AR) generation by enabling bidirectional context and iterative refinement. However, their reliability under natural input noise and adversarial attacks remains under-explored. To address this, we systematically evaluate DLM robustness and calibration against AR baselines, using two parameter-matched pairs (LLaDA-8B vs.

The resignation of Dharmendra Pradhan as Union Education Minister may have ended the immediate phase of the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP)-led agitation, but it is "not the end" of the youth movement, says author and senior journalist Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay. He argues that the protests have demonstrated that sustained public mobilisation can still force political accountability and that young Indians are unlikely to remain silent after securing what they see as their first major victory.