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San Francisco: Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, has confirmed that the US Secret Service Director James Murray, who is retiring from his current post, will join the company as a chief security officer at the end of the month. According to The Verge, Murray’s private sector move was first reported this week, shortly after the […]
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Los Angeles: In a year when the world is celebrating the golden jubilee of ‘The Godfather’, James Caan, one of the film’s many actors who’ll never be forgotten, passed away on Wednesday (U.S. Pacific Time), according to an announcement by his family on Twitter. Best remembered for playing Sonny Corleone, the hotheaded, loose-fisted son of the […]
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Hyderabad: Heavy rains continue to lash several parts of the State since last couple of days. Till 8.30 am on Friday, the highest rainfall of 190.4 mm was recorded at Atmakur, Suryapet, followed by 162 mm at Khanapur in Khammam and 154.5 mm at Nagula vancha in Khammam. As many as 20 locations in Suryapet, […]
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San Francisco: Tech billionaire Elon Musk’s offer to buy the microblogging platform Twitter for $44 billion is in serious trouble, media reports say. According to The Washington Post, Musk’s deal to buy the platform is “in peril” — based on three anonymous sources who told the paper that the billionaire’s camp has “stopped engaging in certain […]
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Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin said his country is open to peace talks, but the negotiations with Ukraine will get more difficult with time passing by. “We do not refuse peace negotiations, but those who refuse should know that the more time they waste, the more difficult it will be for them to negotiate with […]
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Mumbai: The rupee depreciated 12 paise to 79.25 against the US dollar in early trade on Friday tracking the strength of the American currency and persistent foreign fund outflows. At the interbank foreign exchange, the rupee opened at 79.20 against the American dollar, then lost ground to quote at 79.25, registering a fall of 12 […]
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San Francisco: At least seven kids, under age 15, have lost their lives owing to the infamous ‘blackout challenge’ on Chinese short-video making app TikTok that encourages users to “choke themselves with belts, purse strings, or anything similar until passing out.” TikTok is facing multiple lawsuits from parents who alleged their kids died of strangulation […]
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Mumbai: Market benchmarks started the trade on a positive note on Friday, with the Sensex climbing 448.68 points, mirroring a bullish trend in global equity markets. The 30-share BSE benchmark advanced 448.68 points to 54,627.14 in early deals. The broader NSE Nifty went higher by 142.6 points to 16,275.50. From the Sensex pack, Larsen & […]
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New Delhi: Four people, including minors, drowned while swimming in the Yamuna river here, an official said on Friday. Deputy Commissioner of Police (north) Sagar Singh Kalsi said they received a call around 1.20 a.m. about the incident stating that four people have gone missing.”It was found that around noon on Thursday, four persons aged […]
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Mahbubnagar: About 30 children had a miraculous escape after their school bus was caught in a flash flood while crossing railway under bridge between machannapally and kodur villages on Friday morning. Locality people rushed out after noticing the bus caught in the flash flood and extricated the children one by one in almost neck deep […]
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New Delhi: India saw a single day rise of 18,815 new coronavirus infections, taking the tally of COVID-19 cases to 4,35,85,554, while the active cases increased to 1,22,335, according to the Union health ministry data updated on Friday. The death toll has climbed to 5,25,343 with 38 new fatalities, the data updated at 8 am […]
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San Francisco: Indian-origin Ramesh ‘Sunny’ Balwani, the former business partner and ‘boyfriend in secret’ of Elizabeth Holmes, founder and CEO of healthcare company Therano, has been found guilty of defrauding Theranos investors and patients in the US. Balwani faced 10 counts of wire fraud and two counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. After a three-month […]
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Srinagar: Two persons were killed and 38 others were injured after a bus fell into a deep gorge in Keya Morh area of Udhampur in Jammu and Kashmir on Thursday, said Udhampur Chief Medical Officer Dr Vijay Basnotra. Ten injured have been referred to district hospital Udhampur, added the Udhampur CMO. “Upon receiving the information, […]
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San Francisco: Tech billionaire Elon Musk has shown his support for large families a day after court documents revealed the tech billionaire had twins with a senior executive at one of his companies. On the microblogging platform Twitter, Musk also wrote that the “population of Mars is still zero people”. “Doing my best to help the […]
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Bengaluru: The Karnataka government has directed the authorities concerned to ensure that cows are not slaughtered in the state on Bakrid which falls on Saturday. No cow, calf, ox, buffalo and camel can be killed during the festival, it said. To ensure its implementation, helplines and task forces have been set up to monitor and to […]
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Nainital: Nine tourists from Punjab drowned on Friday morning as a car fell into the Dhela river in Uttarakhand’s Ramnagar and was washed away by its strong current, police said. उत्तराखंड के ढेलवा नदी में कार गिरने से 9 लोगों की मौत हो गई है। केवल एक लड़की जिंदा बची। #Uttarakhand #RamnagarAccident #BreakingNews #BREAKING pic.twitter.com/NxcVaSlh8R […]
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Tokyo: Shinzo Abe, who was Japan’s longest-serving Prime Minister, collapsed and showed no life signs after he was shot at while addressing a crowd in Nara prefecture on Friday, state media said in a report, adding that the police have arrested a suspect. According to state broadcaster NHK, the incident took place at around 11. 30 […]
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Etawah: In a bizarre turn of events, a bride took two ‘pheras’ at the wedding and then suddenly called off the ceremony saying that the groom was ‘too dark’. According to reports, the incident took place in Bharthana in Etawah on Thursday when the bride Neeta Yadav was all set to marry Ravi Yadav. The couple […]
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Tokyo: Japan’s former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was in heart failure after apparently being shot during a campaign speech Friday in western Japan, NHK public television said Friday. The broadcaster aired footage showing Abe collapsed on the street, with several security guards running toward him. Abe was holding his chest when he collapsed, with his […]
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Nalgonda: A woman and her daughter died after a wall of their house collapsed on them at Padmanagar in Nalgonda in the early hours of Friday following heavy rain. The victims were Nadikudi Lakshmi(42) and her daughter Kalyani(21). They migrated to Nalgonda from Srikakulam in Andhra Pradesh and were working as railway coolies. The incident […]
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By Dr K Srinivasa Rao Despite the ongoing twin crisis – lingering Covid-19 and war between Russia and Ukraine, banks have gained strength in the last couple of years. The RBI’s Financial Stability Report-June 2022 reflects improved asset quality and capital adequacy ratio (CAR). The asset quality of banks continued to improve steadily with the […]
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Nagarkurnool: The Amrabad Tiger Reserve (ATR) officials have installed a solar-powered sensor-based Animal Intrusion Detection and Repellent System (ANIDERS), which raises an alarm when a wild animal passes within its radius. The move aims at minimising man-animal conflict and helping farmers save their fields. The officials installed an ANIDERS at Turkapally village near Mannanur, which […]
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As the Goods and Services Tax (GST) regime completes five years this month, a closer look at the implementation challenges makes it clear that the States are losing out a lot in the bargain. At the time of the rollout in 2017, the GST was considered a prelude to the countrywide integrated market but in […]
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Hyderabad: With Eid-ul-Adha festival round the corner, the demand for rams, sheep and goats in the city has escalated. Around 2 lakh sheep are sold in the city during the three-day festival to be celebrated from Sunday. The festival popularly known as Bakrid is celebrated on the 10th day of the Islamic calendar month of […]
