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Hans India
31-05-2025
- Business
- Hans India
Four AI missions launched for differently-abled to ensure ease of services
Bengaluru: The Department of Empowerment of Persons with Disabilities (DEPwD) under the Union Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment on Friday launched four major digital and technology missions to aid persons with disabilities in receiving government and societal services in the areas of education, healthcare, livelihood, and everyday life. It is being implemented in collaboration with the Artificial Limbs Manufacturing Corporation of India (ALIMCO), according to an official statement. The four missions -- Mission AI Accessibility, Implementation of AI in Assistive Technology and Tools for Empowering People with Disabilities, National Disability Support AI Chat Bot, and Unified Benefits Interface (UBI), modelled on the widespread and popular UPI financial technological tool, were launched here by Rajesh Aggarwal, Secretary, DEPwD at the national conference on AI for Empowering Persons with Disabilities. 'India now has one billion digital Aadhaar IDs. The digi-locker, which can have all physical documents in digital form in just one device, and the UPI (Unified Payments Interface), which has made financial transactions easy. According to him, differently-abled students will receive scholarships in their accounts in 24 hours from now on and people with health problems can interact with a chatbot to clarify and seek medical and health advisory services from home itself.
Toronto Sun
20-05-2025
- Politics
- Toronto Sun
Clinton insults conservative women, says don't be 'handmaiden to patriarchy'
Hillary Clinton takes part in the event: 'Empowering Communities: Women at the heart of climate resilience' at the COP28 Climate Conference in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Dec. 3, 2023. Photo by Mark Case / Files / Getty Images Hillary Clinton didn't have anything good to say about conservative women when she offered advice for the first female president of the United States. The former secretary of state, who ran for president in 2016 and lost to then-political newcomer Donald Trump, told a New York City audience earlier this month that a potential female leader should not be subservient to men. 'Well, first of all, don't be a handmaiden to the patriarchy, which kind of eliminates every woman on the other side of the aisle, except for very few,' Clinton said during a discussion recorded May 1 at The 92nd Street Y, a Jewish cultural and community centre. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. Support local journalists and the next generation of journalists. Daily puzzles including the New York Times Crossword. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account The hourlong conversation with Margaret Hoover, political commentator, strategist, and great-granddaughter of 31st U.S. president Herbert Hoover, was shared online last week and first noticed by the Daily Caller. Clinton said one example of a woman who is not a 'handmaiden to the patriarchy' is Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, while Hoover mentioned former Republican Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney. Murkowski opposed Trump's nomination of Pete Hegseth as secretary of defence as well as his presidential pardons of U.S. Capitol rioters. Cheney was one of two Republicans appointed to the committee that investigated the Capitol riot and backed former vice-president Kamala Harris during her run for the White House last year after then-president Joe Biden ended his bid for a second term following increasing calls to step aside. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. 'Look, first we have to get there, and it is, you know, obviously so much harder than it should be,' Clinton said. 'So, you know, if a woman runs who I think would be a good president — as I thought Kamala Harris would be, and as I knew I would be — I will support that woman.' RECOMMENDED VIDEO Clinton appears to have not learned from a previous comment she made during a September 2016 campaign fundraising event where she called half of Trump's supporters a 'basket of deplorables' and received backlash for the insult. 'You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump's supporters into what I call the basket of deplorables,' she said at the New York event at the time. 'The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic — you name it. And unfortunately there are people like that. And he has lifted them up.' Clinton added that those people are 'irredeemable, but thankfully they are not America.' The next day, following criticisms from Trump and other conservatives, she showed contrition. 'Last night I was grossly generalistic, and that's never a good idea,' Clinton said at the time. 'I regret saying half — that was wrong.' Read More Columnists Toronto Maple Leafs Basketball Toronto Maple Leafs Columnists
