New Delhi, Feb. 23 -- About 150 academicians from across India on Monday condemned the Indian Youth Congress' "shirtless" protest during the India AI Impact Summit, terming the act "disgraceful and shameful," Director of Dr Syama Prasad Mookerjee Research Foundation, Binay Kumar Singh, said in a press release.

According to the release, a broad cross-section of India's academic and intellectual community has issued a formal collective statement expressing deep concern over what it described as the highly inappropriate conduct of leaders from the Indian Youth Congress at the India AI Impact Summit.

The signatories observed that the summit represented a significant moment for India to showcase its technological capabilities, strategic road...