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San Francisco: Twitter co-founder and Block CEO Jack Dorsey on Friday partnered with artist Shawn Carter, popularly known as Jay-Z, to launch The Bitcoin Academy — an educational initiative in New York. The initiative is a 12-week free educational course, both online and in person, for residents of the Marcy Houses in Brooklyn, where Jay-Z […]
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San Francisco: Announced at tech giant Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2022, the all-new iOS 16 has introduced a new feature that allows an eSIM to be transferred between iPhones via Bluetooth while setting up cellular service. According to MacRumors, in the Settings app on an iPhone running iOS 16, tapping on “Set up eSIM” brings […]
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San Francisco: Tech giant Amazon announced that it is introducing an interactive mobile experience that allows customers to try on shoes virtually for iOS users in the US. “Virtual Try-On for Shoes” provides customers a convenient way to visualise how a pair of shoes will look on themselves, creating more immersive experiences while shopping for fashion […]
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Aurangabad: With an aim to defeat the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) has extended support to Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) and will vote for Congress candidate Imran Pratapgarhi in the Rajya Sabha elections in Maharashtra. However, the political differences of AIMIM will continue with Shiv Sena which is an ally […]
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Hyderabad: A 11-year-old girl and her grandmother died after an unknown vehicle mowed them down while crossing the road near AG College in Rajendranagar on Thursday night. The victims were V.Bhavani (11), a school student and P.Venkatamma (60), a construction worker from Venkateshwara Colony in Budwel in Rajendranagar. According to the police, around 10.30pm, the […]
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New Delhi: India’s COVID-19 case tally rose by 7,584 in a day to reach 4,32,05,106 while the number of active cases has increased to 36,267, according to Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday. The death toll has climbed to 5,24,747 with 24 more fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated. Active case tally […]
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Mumbai: Equity benchmark Sensex declined nearly 600 points in early trade on Friday, following weakness in IT, banking and finance stocks amid sluggish investor sentiment in global markets. Besides, a weaker rupee also weighed on the domestic equity markets, traders said. The 30-share index was trading 597.2 points or 1.08 per cent lower at 54,723.08 […]
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Mumbai: The rupee depreciated 8 paise to a record low of 77.82 against the US dollar in opening trade on Friday, tracking the strength of the greenback in the overseas market. At the interbank foreign exchange, the rupee opened on a weak note at 77.81 against the American dollar, then lost ground to quote at […]
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Hyderabad: Mirza Houzef Baig (130 no) and Mohd Asaduddin (115no) hit unbeaten centuries as Concorde CC crushed Tirumala CC by 248 runs in the Nawab MAK Pataudi T20 Tiger Cup, on Thursday. Brief Scores: HCA Academy CC 43 in 15 overs (S Mehdi Hasan 3/7, Vidyananda Reddy 4/8) lost to Jai Hanuman CC 47/0 in […]
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Hyderabad: The Hayathnagar police on Friday arrested a Bharatiya Janata Party leader from Ghatkesar on charges of defaming government schemes with false accusations on Chief Minister K.Chandrashekhar Rao and the government with a malicious intention to mislead the people and provoke hatred and unrest. The arrested person was J.Bala Krishna Reddy from Ghatkesar. On June […]
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New Delhi: The polling to elect the members of the Upper House of the Parliament on 16 Rajya Sabha seats spread across four states will take place today amid speculations of horse-trading and fears of cross-voting. Polling is set to begin at 9 am and conclude at 4 pm. Notably, all 41 candidates from Uttar […]
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Kiev: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has signed a decree imposing personal sanctions on his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, and a number of other high-ranking officials in Moscow. The decree signed on Thursday came in approval of a decision taken by the National Security and Defence Council of […]
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New Delhi: Stating that the proposed draft E-waste Management Rules of 2022 totally disregards the role and responsibilities of dismantlers or Producer Responsibility Organisations (PROs), the Indian Federation of Reverse Logistics (IFRL) has demanded the government to recognise their position in the Extended Producer Responsibility value chain and not rid them of their livelihoods. Considering the […]
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Meerut: An Army Major has been accused of cutting his wife’s finger demanding dowry from her in Uttar Pradesh’s Meerut district. The Major’s wife, who is in her early 30s, approached police with the finger injury and alleged that her husband has been harassing her “mentally and physically” for dowry since 2014 when they got married. […]
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Washington: Three people died and another was critically injured after a shooting broke out in Smithsburg, US state of Maryland, police said. The incident took place on Thursday afternoon, Xinhua news agency reported. Officers responded to the Columbia Machine Inc. at around 2:30 p.m, where they found the four victims, the Washington County Sheriff’s Office wrote […]
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By Tej Singh Kardam In one of the United Nations water conferences, the United Nations Organization passed a resolution, which says; “All the people, whatever their stage of development and their social and economic conditions, have the right to have access to drinking water in quantum and of quality equal to their basic needs”. The […]
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The Reserve Bank of India’s decision to raise the repo rate — for the second time in over a month — by 50 basis points sends a message that the central bank is focused more on taming runaway inflation. However, the move is expected to hurt economic recovery as home and vehicle loans are set […]
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Hyderabad: After work-from-office and work-from-home, it is the work-from-anywhere concept that is now catching up fast. While employees and companies are slowly adapting to hybrid model of work, some employees still do not wish to come back to the office due to various reasons. The topmost reason is that many employees working from their native […]
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Hyderabad: Having got custody of four of the six suspects in the Jubilee Hills gang-rape case, the police might now go for a reconstruction of the crime scene to understand what happened exactly on May 28 and are likely to take them along the route to the crime spot from the pub and collect more […]
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Hyderabad: Agriculture Minister S Niranjan Reddy lashed out at BJP State president Bandi Sanjay Kumar over his letter to Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao on the alleged farmers’ woes in the State. He challenged him to write to Prime Minister Narendra Modi to get pending funds amounting to Rs 30,000 crore released from the Centre […]
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Hyderabad: Stories have the power to change people’s perspectives and they have the power to heal and educate. This was the earnest belief of like-minded storytellers that came together in 2019 and formed the Hyderabad Storytellers Association (HYSTA) to promote the oral form of storytelling in the city. Throughout the pandemic, the group was active […]
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Hyderabad: Innovation hub and ecosystem enabler T-Hub has selected 12 Australian startups for the first cohort of the Big LEAP Incubator programme. This is in partnership with La Trobe University, Arrow Digital, a digital marketing agency; and Investible, an early-stage venture capital firm. The startups which have been selected are CI Business Solutions and Analytics, […]
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Hyderabad: This article is in continuation to the last article on preparation for the Sub-Inspector of Police recruitment exam. Here are some practice questions and answers along with explanations on the Simple Interest and Compound Interest topic. 1. On what sum will be simple interest amount to Rs 400 after 8 months at 5% per […]
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Hyderabad: The study of life, living organisms, life cycles of various species of organisms, and the environments they live in — these broadly come under the biological sciences. From single cell organisms to well-developed species, from various plant species to aquatic (marine) life to human beings, everything living becomes part of the studies categorised as […]
