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Beijing, Aug 6 (IANS) Chinese tech conglomerate Alibaba has bid goodbye to nearly 10,000 employees in an effort to cut expenses amid sluggish sales and slowing economy in the country, the media reported on Saturday. According to South China Morning Post, more than 9,241 employees left Hangzhou-based Alibaba during the June quarter, as the company […]
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New Delhi: India is all set to commemorate its 75th Independence Day on August 15 this year with the theme ‘Nation First, Always First’. The Indian government is celebrating the Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav program in view of 75 years of Independence and is dedicated to the people of India. India was under British rule […]
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New Delhi: A 22-year-old woman, working at a spa in the national capital, was allegedly sedated and gang raped by two men, an official said on Saturday, adding that four persons have been arrested in connection. The arrested were identified as Rahul, a manager at the spa; Satish Kumar, a customer; and owners of the […]
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New Delhi: Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Saturday said he has written to the CBI to probe the changing stands of former LG Anil Baijal on opening of liquor shops in unauthorised colonies in the capital city. Sisodia alleged: “Why was the decision changed 48 hours before all the liquor shops were set to […]
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New Delhi: Millions of Indians are spending close to five hours on their smartphones daily and 5G promises to revolutionise the Internet with super-fast connection speeds and reduced latency, giving gaming and OTT streaming a much needed boost, industry experts have said. The Indian gaming industry is set to become a $5 billion sector by 2025, […]
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Tokyo: Japanese camera players Nikon and Panasonic have suspended the production of low-end compact digital cameras and will now focus on costlier mirrorless cameras going forward, the media reported on Saturday, as smartphones become more camera-centric. Nikon has suspended development of new compact models in its Coolpix line, report Nikkei Asia. Nikon now offers just two […]
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Hyderabad: Masoom Sawaal, a movie that aims to create awareness about menstruation and released on 5 August has created quite a stir on social media as its poster featured Lord Krishna’s image on a sanitary pad. The makers are facing backlash and threats from different communities on releasing the film. Speaking of it, Director Santosh […]
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New Delhi: An Indian drummer’s performance at a ‘jagrata’ has caught the attention of international pop singer Justin Bieber, who is all set to perform in the national capital this October. The music sensation shared on his Instagram account a video of the drummer in action while tagging friend and drummer Devon Taylor in the […]
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Chennai: Tamil actor Dhanush, whose role in the Hollywood film, ‘The Gray Man’ came in for much appreciation, on Saturday dropped hints that led fans to believe that he would be a part of the sequel as well. Taking to Twitter, Dhanush wrote: “‘The Gray Man’ universe is expanding and the sequel is coming. Lone Wolf […]
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New Delhi: The Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG), in a weekly meeting, reviewed the data of genomic surveillance of variants and found that at present, Omicron and its sub-lineages are the predominant mutataions that are circulating in India. “Presently, only Omicron and its sub-lineages are the predominant circulating variants in India,” sources told ANI today. […]
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Dakshina Kannada: The Karnataka police has arrested from Kerala a man who allegedly harboured BJP youth wing leader Praveen Kumar Nettaru’s killers, police sources said on Saturday. According to the sources, the accused who stayed in Uppala Sonkalu village was in direct touch with the killers and gave shelter to them for two days. The […]
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Johannesburg: The average life expectancy in the African region has increased on average by 10 years per person between 2000 and 2019, the WHO has said, describing the rise greater than in any other region of the world during the same period. But the World Health Organisation also cautioned that the advent of the COVID-19 […]
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New Delhi: The mass production of chip-maker Intels next big flagship processor Meteor Lake is expected to be delayed until 2024, a report has said. According to TrendForce research, Intel plans to outsource the tGPU chipset in Meteor Lake to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) for manufacture. “Mass production of this product was initially planned […]
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Bhopal: A villager was killed by Maoists on suspicion on being a police informer in the forest area of Madhya Pradesh’s Balaghat district, police said on Saturday. The deceased has been identified as Lalu Dhurve, a resident of Malajkhand village. Maoists also took away the corpse, police said, adding that efforts are on to get the […]
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Mumbai: Bank of Baroda, the second largest state-owned bank, is planning to raise Rs 1,000 crore through issuance of infrastructure and affordable housing bonds on August 12, a source close to the development told IANS. “The likely tenure for the bonds is seven years and have Rs 250 crore as base issue and Rs 750 […]
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Tokyo: Japan on Saturday marked the 77th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima that took place in the final days of the Second World War. A moment of silence was observed at 8.15 a.m., the exact moment when a uranium bomb dropped from a US bomber detonated over the city on August 6, 1945, […]
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Los Angeles: A scathing letter from the Beatles legend John Lennon to Sir Paul McCartney is going up for auction. According to aceshowbiz.com, the late The Beatles legend, who was shot dead in 1980, wrote to his former bandmate days after the “Live and Let Die” hitmaker gave an interview critical of him and the […]
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Noida: Noida Police has launched an intense manhunt to nab Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Shrikant Tyagi, accused of outraging a woman’s modesty during an argument over the plantation of palm trees near his apartment here in a residential society, officials said Saturday. To trace out his location, the police have detained four people, including […]
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Chennai: The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is hoping to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the country’s Independence with the launch of its new rocket Small Satellite Launch Vehicle – Developmental Flight 1 (SSLV-D1) on Sunday. The countdown down for the SSLV-D1 launch will begin about six-and-half-hours before the lift off which is scheduled at 9.18 […]
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Mumbai: As the much anticipated Vijay Deverakonda-starrer ‘Liger’ races towards theatrical release, the third track from the movie was released Saturday. Featuring Vijay Devarakonda and Ananya Panday, track ‘Aafat’, looks set to electrify the dance floors. Vijay said “It’s overwhelming to see the response of the audience for ‘Liger’, and I hope to continue receiving […]
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Washington: A team of researchers has discovered 11 previously undetected space anomalies, seven of which are supernova candidates. The study was published in the journal, ‘New Astronomy’. The researchers analysed digital images of the Northern sky taken in 2018 using a k-D tree to detect anomalies through the ‘nearest neighbour’ method. Machine learning algorithms helped […]
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New Delhi: Twitter has fixed a security bug that exposed data of at least 54 lakh accounts on its platform that were put up for sale on the Dark Web. Twitter said that if you operate a pseudonymous Twitter account, “we understand the risks an incident like this can introduce and deeply regret that this […]
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Hyderabad: Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao on Saturday paid tributes to Telangana ideologue late professor Kothapalli Jayashankar on the occasion of his birth anniversary. తెలంగాణ ప్రత్యేక రాష్ట్ర స్వాప్నికుడు స్వర్గీయ ప్రొఫెసర్ జయశంకర్ గారి జయంతి సందర్భంగా వారికి ఘన నివాళులు! pic.twitter.com/ZD0fvTK9T9 — Telangana CMO (@TelanganaCMO) August 6, 2022 Explaining the losses and hardships suffered by Telangana during the […]
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Mumbai: Like many, superstar Shah Rukh Khan also loves to “Netflix and chill” during his free time. After shooting for ‘Dunki’ in London for a while, SRK, who recently came back to Mumbai, took a day off from work on Friday and decided to pamper himself by watching Alia Bhatt’s film ‘Darlings’. Been working the […]
