Month: October 2024

2 Brothers Found Dead Amid Rituals In Chhattisgarh: Cops

October 18, 2024 admin

The two brothers were shifted to hospital where they were declared dead. (Representational) Janjgir, Chhattisgarh: Two brothers were found dead under mysterious circumstances and four other members of the family were hospitalised in Chhattisgarh’s Sakti district on Friday, police said. As per the preliminary investigation, the family was performing some rituals for the last couple…

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Living with sirens and uncertainty in Ukraine

October 18, 2024 admin

On a clear, bright morning in late August, Megan D’Souza, an Indian student at Ukraine’s National Pirogov Memorial Medical University, Vinnytsya, stood in front of a hotel overlooking the Sophia square in Kyiv, the capital. With her stood a few hundred Indian students from the university, all eagerly waiting to welcome Prime Minister Narendra Modi,…

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Meta Launches AI That Can Monitor Other AI As Human Involvement Diminishes

October 18, 2024 admin

New York: Facebook owner Meta said on Friday it was releasing a batch of new AI models from its research division, including a “Self-Taught Evaluator” that may offer a path toward less human involvement in the AI development process. The release follows Meta’s introduction of the tool in an August paper, which detailed how it…

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3 Decades Later, First Brown Dwarf Ever Found Offers A Surprise

October 18, 2024 admin

Washington: In 1995, astronomers confirmed the discovery for the first time of a brown dwarf, a body too small to be a star and too big to be a planet – sort of a celestial tweener. But it turns out that was not the full story. Researchers now have taken a fresh look at that…

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China lodges protest with India over Taiwan’s office in Mumbai

October 18, 2024 admin

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning. File | Photo Credit: AP China said it lodged a diplomatic protest with India over the newly established office of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Centre (TECC) of Taiwan in Mumbai. “There is but one China in the world and Taiwan is an inalienable part of China’s territory,” China’s…

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Sugar Content In Baby Foods Among Issues Under Parliamentary Panel Scanner

October 18, 2024 admin

Committee has also decided to examine subjects such as storage of foodgrains (Representational) New Delhi: Sugar content in packaged baby foods, safeguarding consumer rights in the banking sector and rising prices of medicines are some of the issues that have come under the scanner of the parliamentary panels. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Consumer Affairs,…

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PFI Wanted To Create Islamic Movement, Start Civil War In India: Probe Agency

October 18, 2024 admin

“PFI had more than 13,000 active members in Singapore, Gulf countries: Probe Agency (Representational) New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Friday said the Popular Front of India (PFI), a proscribed terrorist organisation, was working to create an Islamic movement in India through a “jihad” that included non-violent air raids and “guerilla theatre”, apart from…

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Ranji Trophy: Abhimanyu Easwaran’s Ton Leads To Draw As Bengal dominate Uttar Pradesh

October 18, 2024 admin

Abhimanyu Easwaran continued his sublime run of form with a brilliant century as Bengal played out a draw with Uttar Pradesh on the final day of their Ranji Trophy encounter on Monday. Resuming the day at 78, Easwaran scored his 27th First-class hundred — his fifth century in the last nine innings —…

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5 More Arrested In Connection With Baba Siddique’s Murder, Total Arrests Now 9

October 18, 2024 admin

The arrested persons were also in touch with the Lawrence Bishnoi gang (File) Mumbai: Five more persons were held on Friday in connection with the murder of NCP leader Baba Siddique, taking the total number of arrests in the sensational case to nine, a Mumbai police official said. Based on specific information, raids were carried…

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AI Safety System Stops Train As Elephants Cross Tracks In Assam

October 18, 2024 admin

The East Central railways has rescued 383 elephants till October 16 this year since January New Delhi: A safety system driven by artificial intelligence (AI) helped stop a train in Assam while a herd of elephants were crossing the tracks at night. On October 16, the train driver JD Das and his assistant Umesh Kumar…

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