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San Francisco: Tesla CEO Elon Musk is set to speak to Twitter employees for the first time this week in a bid to allay their fears and put his vision across to them. Musk will address Twitter employees via a virtual meeting on Thursday, reports Insider, and will take questions from them over his $44 […]
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San Francisco: Tech giant Microsoft now uses new artificial intelligence (AI)-powered voice quality improvements to improve echo, interruptions, and acoustics on Teams. According to The Verge, the tech giant is now using machine learning (ML) models to improve room acoustics so users will no longer sound like they are hiding in a cave. “While we […]
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Adilabad: Farm activities gained momentum with onset of monsoon across erstwhile Adilabad. Farmers began preparing agricultural lands for raising various crops for this Vanakalam season. Farmers began tilling fields, clearing weeds, erecting fences as part of the preparations for the ongoing agriculture season. Some of the farmers are dumping cow-dung and other organic fertilizers to […]
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Hyderabad: Four days after the open letter by TRS working president and Telangana minister K T Rama Rao to Prime Minister Narendra Modi highlighting the Centre’s failure to fill up vacancies in different central government departments, Modi has asked for recruitment of 10 lakh people on a “mission” mode in the next one and half […]
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Tehran: An explosion at a chemical factory in southern Iran injured scores of people, most of them lightly, the country’s state TV reported Tuesday. The report said a leak from an ammonium tank caused the blast on Monday evening in the southern city of Firouzabad in Fars province, located about 770 kilometers (480 miles) south […]
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New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will chair the ‘first national conference of chief secretaries’ in Dharamshala on June 16 and 17. The conference will be held at HPCA stadium in Dharamshala and will be a significant step towards further strengthening the partnership between the Centre and the state governments. Slated to be held from […]
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Mumbai: The rupee rebounded from its all-time low level and inched higher by 2 paise to 78.02 against the US dollar in opening trade on Tuesday. At the interbank foreign exchange, the rupee opened at 78.02 against the dollar, registering a rise of 2 paise over its previous close. In initial deals, the domestic unit […]
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San Francisco: Tech billionaire Elon Musk has said that its electric vehicle company Tesla had a ‘very tough quarter’ and needs to rally. According to the auto-tech website Electrek, over the weekend, the Tesla CEO sent emails to employees and in the first email, Musk tried to instill meaning about building Tesla products to workers. […]
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Indore: A video has gone viral on social media showing a group of four women mercilessly beating up a young female employee of a pizza chain in Indore, despite repeated pleas by the latter to stop. In a video, the four women are seen beating the victim, an employee with Domino’s Pizza, with sticks and […]
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Hyderabad: A few vehicles including a police patrol car was damaged, allegedly by a group of drug addicts at Asifnagar on Monday night. According to the police, around midnight a group of persons created nuisance in the Jhirra area under rhe in Asifnagar police station limits and damaged windscreens of a few private vehicles. When […]
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Mumbai: Equity benchmarks fell for the third day running on Tuesday, with the Sensex tumbling 375 points in early trade, tracking weak global markets as investors remained cautious ahead of the Federal Reserve meeting outcome. Unabated foreign fund outflows continued to weigh on the domestic equity markets. The 30-share BSE benchmark was trading 374.72 points […]
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Hyderabad: A rally taken out by some persons in support of suspended BJP leader Nupur Sharma in Bowenpally area in Hyderabad sparked tension, sources said on Tuesday. The incident occurred in Hasmathpet locality late on Monday night when some persons took out candle light rally to express solidarity with Sharma, who was suspended by the […]
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Thane: The Thane city police commissionerate’s website was allegedly hacked on Tuesday, with a message appearing on it apparently directed towards the Indian government and demanding an apology to “Muslims all over the world”. A senior police official here confirmed that the website has been hacked. “We have contacted the agencies concerned for necessary action. […]
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Washington: Microsoft has commenced the beta testing of its new File Explorer tabs for Windows 11. The tabs characteristic for File Explorer is now rolling out to Windows Insiders withinside the Beta Channel, and looks to be very near to its launch for everyone on Windows 11. As per The Verge, the ‘tabs’ function consists […]
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Aurangabad: A group of men aggrieved with their wives held an agitation here in Maharashtra, demanding laws against “injustice” they face at home, and took 108 anti-clockwise rounds around a peepal tree, praying not to get the same life partner again. Some men not happy with their spouses formed a ‘patni peedit’ ashram in Aurangabad […]
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Washington: US President Joe Biden has signed into law a bill to explore the possibility of establishing a museum of Asian Pacific American history and culture, a move which will recognize and document the history and culture of Indian Americans. “I am honoured to sign into law something that is long overdue, and — the […]
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Hyderabad: The city witnessed heavy rainfall and thunderstorms on Monday night, indicating the onset of monsoon. Several localities in the city, including Hayathnagar, Uppal, Saroornagar, LB Nagar, Dilsukhnagar and Saidabad received heavy rains overnight. Meanwhile, Kapra received the maximum rainfall of 89.8mm followed by Alwal, which witnessed 56.0 mm rain. Hayathnagar, Sarooornagar, and Kukatpally also […]
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Kanpur: Zafar Hayat Hashmi, the main accused in the June 3 violence in Kanpur, has revealed during interrogation that his organisation was funded by builders, businessmen and political functionaries. According to a police source, “Hashmi has accepted that he was involved in crowdfunding. Besides, he got a huge amount of money through donations from across […]
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New Delhi: Congress MP Deepender S Hooda on Tuesday condemned the long hours of questioning of party leader Rahul Gandhi by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and called it a political vendetta. “The way in which ED is handling this matter, the number of hours Rahul Gandhi was questioned and has been called on Tuesday again, […]
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Bengaluru: Bollywood actor Shraddha Kapoor’s brother Siddhanth Kapoor has now been released on bail after he was arrested on Monday when his medical reports confirmed his consumption of drugs. The other four people detained have also been released on bail, as per the police. Siddhanth Kapoor and the four others will have to further appear […]
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Lucknow: At a time when the communal cauldron is boiling over, this news brings a smile to the face. Yameen Siddiqui, a 23-year-old Muslim youth, has got an image of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath tattooed on his chest. He says that Yogi is his role model and he has given himself a gift […]
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Los Angeles: About 88,000 child Covid-19 cases were reported across the US in the week ending June 9, according to a latest report released by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the Children’s Hospital Association. Over 13.5 million children have tested positive for Covid-19 since the onset of the pandemic in the country, and […]
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Washington: Published in the research of the ‘Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences’ (PNAS) on June 13, a study explains age-related health inequalities, including the unequal toll of the pandemic on people, and identifies potential intervention points. “As the world’s population of older adults increases, understanding disparities in age-related health is essential. Age-related changes […]
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Srinagar: Two LeT terrorists were killed and a policeman was injured after a late night encounter broke out between terrorists and security forces at Bemina in Central Kashmir’s Srinagar district, officials said. “Two terrorists of proscribed terror outfit LeT neutralised by Srinagar Police in a swift encounter in Bemina area of Srinagar. One policeman also […]
