The results of the West Bengal polls are out, and the controversy over voter deletions following the conducted by the ECI is back in focus. According to reports, in nearly 50 seats, the number of voters declared ineligible and flagged as "pending adjudication" exceeded the victory margins. Of these, half went in favour of the BJP while the other 25 were won by the TMC. The final tally in the state stands at BJP 206, TMC 81.

A cruise ship carrying nearly 150 passengers is stranded off the coast of West Africa after a suspected outbreak. Three people have succumbed and many others are reported to be ill. The ship, MV Hondius, departed from southern Argentina in April and was on a voyage through remote islands in the Atlantic Ocean.

, which became widely known during the meme stock craze of 2021, has made an offer to buy ecommerce OG eBay for $55.5 billion. The CEO of the video game retailer believes that together they can become serious competition for Amazon.

Smartphone maker India arm has sued Google, YouTube, Meta, Facebook, Instagram, X, Threads and other individuals over posts on these platforms that depict their devices as unsafe. This move by the Chinese-owned American phonemaker has alarmed the industry and digital rights activists, as the lawsuit seeks deletion of existing and future defamatory content.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which awards the , has released new rules that make AI-generated actors and scripts ineligible for the awards. The new rules state that only performances "credited in the film's legal billing and demonstrably performed by humans with their consent" will be eligible. The Academy also said that only "human-authored" screenplays would be eligible.