Month: January 2025

Pakistan outlaws disinformation with three-year jail term

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Pakistan outlaws disinformation with three-year jail term

The law targets anyone who “intentionally disseminates” information online that they have “reason to believe to be false or fake and likely to cause or create a sense of fear, panic or disorder or unrest”. Image for representation | Photo Credit: Getty Images/iStockphoto Pakistan criminalised online disinformation on Tuesday (January 28, 2025), passing legislation that…

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World

Rupee falls 25 paise to close at 86.56 against U.S. dollar

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Rupee falls 25 paise to close at 86.56 against U.S. dollar

FIIs sold equities worth ₹5,015.46 crore net on January 27, 2025, according to exchange data. File Photo: S.R. Raghunathan/The Hindu The rupee depreciated 25 paise to close at 86.56 (provisional) against the U.S. dollar on Tuesday (January 28, 2025), as global risk sentiments were dampened amid tariff threats by the U.S. President Donald Trump. …

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Business

Stock markets recover after two days of fall; banking shares lead gains

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Stock markets recover after two days of fall; banking shares lead gains

Sun Pharmaceutical, Larsen & Toubro, ITC, HCL Technologies, NTPC, Power Grid, Nestle India, Tata Consultancy Services, and Asian Paints were among the laggards. File | Photo Credit: PTI Benchmark stock indices Sensex and Nifty rebounded on Tuesday (January 28, 2025) after two straight days of steep decline driven by intense buying in banking and rate-sensitive…

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Business

ICC Women’s Under-19 Twenty20 World Cup: India under-19 women vs Scotland under-19 women; Trisha Gongadi scores first-ever century in women’s U-19 T20 World Cup history

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ICC Women’s Under-19 Twenty20 World Cup: India under-19 women vs Scotland under-19 women; Trisha Gongadi scores first-ever century in women’s U-19 T20 World Cup history

Opener Trisha Gongadi celebrates after etching her name in the record books scoring the first-ever century in Women’s Under-19 T20 World Cup history. Photo: X/@icc Opener Trisha Gongadi etched her name in the record books scoring the first-ever century in women’s U-19 T20 World Cup history to power India to 150-run victory over Scotland in…

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Sports

U19 WC: Trisha Gongadi’s All-Round Show Guides India To 150-Run Win Over Scotland

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U19 WC: Trisha Gongadi’s All-Round Show Guides India To 150-Run Win Over Scotland

Trisha Gongadi in action© X (Twitter) Trisha Gongadi scored a maiden ton as India thrashed Scotland by 150 runs in the Super Six match of the ICC U19 Women’s T20 World Cup in Kuala Lumpur at the Bayuemas Oval on Tuesday. Trisha played a blistering knock of unbeaten 110 off 59 balls and…

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Sports

Turned Down Chole Puri, Then Virat Kohli Ate This Desi Dish With Delhi Teammates Ahead Of Ranji Trophy Return

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Turned Down Chole Puri, Then Virat Kohli Ate This Desi Dish With Delhi Teammates Ahead Of Ranji Trophy Return

At exactly 9am when his jet black Porsche zoomed in through the Feroz Shah Kotla ground’s ‘Virender Sehwag Gate’, it was homecoming for Delhi’s very own Virat Kohli, who checked in for a training stint with his first-class team after more than 12 years. Save for pacer Navdeep Saini, all other 18 members…

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Sports

Has China achieved AI breakthrough with DeepSeek?

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Has China achieved AI breakthrough with DeepSeek?

For over two years, San Francisco-based OpenAI has dominated artificial intelligence (AI) with its generative pre-trained language models. The startup’s chatbot penned poems, wrote long-format stories, found bugs in code, and helped search the Internet (albeit with a cut off date). Its ability to generate coherent sentences flawlessly baffled users around the world.  Far away,…

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World

In Relief For Atishi, BJP’s Defamation Case Dismissed By Court

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In Relief For Atishi, BJP’s Defamation Case Dismissed By Court

New Delhi: A Delhi court on Tuesday afternoon junked a BJP leader’s defamation complaint against Delhi Chief Minister Atishi, who had been summoned in connection with the charges. The city’s Rouse Avenue court, as it quashed the summons, noted that the AAP leader’s comment had been made against the opposition party as a whole and…

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Nation

Earlier California fire shows how Los Angeles could rebuild

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Earlier California fire shows how Los Angeles could rebuild

Seven years before wildfires tore through opposite ends of the Los Angeles area, the Tubbs Fire in Northern California’s Sonoma County jumped a six-lane freeway and decimated Santa Rosa’s Coffey Park subdivision, a suburban enclave similar to Pacific Palisades and Altadena. The fire destroyed about 5,000 homes in Santa Rosa and the surrounding area in…

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Science