Police seized ketamine hidden inside life-size Transformer robots in Thailand. A woman who was previously caught trying to ship meth hidden in a food processing machine was trying to send the robots to Taiwan. Thailand on Monday officially began the selection of new senators, a process that has become part of an ongoing war between progressive forces hoping for democratic political reforms and conservatives seeking to keep the status quo. Hopeful candidates headed to district offices across the country on the first day of registration to compete for one of the 200 seats in Parliament's upper house. The power of the Senate -- although limited compared to the House of Representatives, which is tasked with law-making responsibilities -- was demonstrated dramatically when it blocked the progressive party that won the most seats in last year's election from forming a new government.

The Election Commission of India has introduced Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail since 2019. This mechanism has increased voter confidence at the time of casting the votes. However, physical verification of the VVPATs against the party level counts from the EVMs is done only in 5 (randomly selected) machines per constituency. The time required to conduct physical verification becomes a bottleneck in scaling this activity for 100% of machines in all constituencies. We proposed an automated counter powered by image processing and machine learning algorithms to speed up the process and address this issue.

The Election Commission of India (EC) is an independent and permanent constitutional authority in India in charge of organising free and fair elections. Organising elections in a country with a population of over 1.4 billion people is a tremendous undertaking, especially when they occur on a regular basis. While there is no doubt that EC is innovating its day-to-day operations, be it implementing technology like JARVIS to combat vote manipulation or a smartphone-based e-voting system, there, however, are numerous areas where it can improve, such as checking hate speech and foreign trolls. One of the main problems for the Election Commission today is to prevent vote counting manipulation. Many parties have repeatedly alleged irregularities in the election process, the primary reason being the way EVMs are used.

While working on different Machine Learning techniques for Data Analysis, we deal with hundreds or thousands of variables. Most of the variables are correlated with each other. Principal Component Analysis and Factor Analysis techniques are used to deal with such scenarios. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) is an unsupervised statistical technique algorithm. PCA is a "dimensionality reduction" method.