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The first Everest climbers families took their person bond and love for the mountains to a new high on May 29, 1953, seventy years after that great achievement by tensing Norgay and Edmund Hillary who became global icons during that period.

Tina Turner, a trailblazer of rock and roll, has died at the age of 83. Throughout her decades-long career in the public eye, Turner showcased a raw and unfiltered musical energy whenever she took the stage. As a Black woman in the music industry, she often broke out of the boxes society intended for her to fit neatly into. Not only that, she pushed back on the notion of how “women of a certain age” were supposed to act and behave when her career had a second surge in the 1980s. The self-made rocker pushed through adversity both within the industry and in her personal life to solidify herself forever in music history.

Most people, including even trained economists, fail to appreciate the fact that an exchange rate depreciation, if it is to work in reducing the trade deficit in a capitalist economy, must necessarily hurt the working class by lowering the real wage rate. A capitalist economy, looking at it differently, improves its trade balance, for which it must improve its competitiveness, by lowering the real wage rate; and an exchange rate depreciation is one way of doing so.

Everybody over 50-60-even 70 will have a picture of Tina Turner in the head shaking things up inside there, leaving the grey cells in an almighty disarray with songs that rock all the way to wherever. Yeah, wherever, ‘cause Tina Turner took off for ’Wherever’ May 24, at 83, which is 17 short of a century. She should have stayed; especially after making such an impact. Somebody in the media called Tina the “earthshaking singer” with “rasping vocals, sexual magnetism and explosive energy”.

Only about a month ago, on Monday, April 4 this year, a South African pilot named Rudolf Erasmus gathered applause from aviation experts for safely making an emergency landing after an extremely venomous Cape Cobra reared its head in the cockpit midflight, news agency PTI had reported. Erasmus kept his nerve even as he spotted for a brief second the cobra slithering back under his seat. He was piloting a small aircraft from Worcester to Nelspruit carrying only four passengers.

A traditional family in Lahore, Pakistan, is ripped apart when the youngest son becomes infatuated with an ambitious trans starlet in Saim Sadiq’s impressive debut feature which explores sexual fluidity, love, desire, and rebellion within a repressed patriarchal society.

Some of the most successful practitioners and developers of “artificial Intelligence” are now calling for its regulation by the government. These creators of the strikingly advanced AI systems are underlining immediate need for global regulation.

The call by ChatGPT founder Sam Altman a US Senate committee meeting for heavy regulation of the use of artificial intelligence by governments across the world to mitigate the risks from the new technology takes the current debate about generative AI to a new dimension.

The WHO’s warning on precipitous adoption of AI must serve as a wake-up call for the world. These new AI-based tools require vigilance, especially in light of such rapidly expanding platforms such as ChatGPT, Bard, BERT, and many others that imitate understanding, processing, and producing human communication, World Health Organization has said, with special reference to patients.

We are at Mumbai’s newest landmark, Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre, on a Monday evening. Preparations are in full swing for award winning Broadway musical—Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The Magic of Music – which will begin playing early May. Ambani says this will be first time an international Broadway production will be staged in India, and the entire team has flown down from the US and stay almost for almost a month. Nita Ambani, who is personally involved with everything at the NMACC, has just held Muhurat Puja ahead of the show, after which she meets us. It is 8 pm on International Workers’ Day, and Ambani looks radiant in a pink sari, as if her day has begun. She is self—effacing and gracious as she warms up for a candid conversation, along with a mug of coffee.