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Panchkula, Aug 18 (IANS) Sukhman Singh, who had a rough start to the week with a 75, made amends over the next three days as he closed the week with 68-71-74 and won by three shots in Category A of the IGU Haryana India Junior Boys Championship. Sukhman totaled even par 288.Sukhman, one of the top juniors in India, was a clear winner as Jujhar Singh (74-71-75-71) was three behind at 291 for the second spot. Angad Singh, who set the Panchkula Course alight with a 65 on the first day, finished third with rounds of 65-80-74-73.It was the second…

New Delhi, Aug 18 (IANS) Jay Shah, the secretary of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), congratulated premier batter Virat Kohli on completing 15 years in international cricket.On August 18, 2008, a young Kohli, then 19 years and 287 days old, made his international debut against Sri Lanka in an ODI match in Dambulla, just a couple of months after leading the side to the U19 Men’s Cricket World Cup title in Malaysia. Since then, Kohli has become the epitome of consistency in scoring runs for India across all formats.”Congratulations to the incredible @imVkohli on 15 years…

Kokrajhar/Kolkata, Aug 18 (IANS) Indian Super League (ISL) Shield winner Mumbai City FC (MCFC) will take on the Indian Navy Football Team (INFT) in their final Group B fixtures in the 132nd Durand Cup on Saturday.That key clash at the Vivekananda Yuba Bharati Krirangan (VYBK) in Kolkata will be followed by a Group F game in Kokrajhar’s SAI stadium where Odisha FC will take on local side Bodoland FC in what will also be their respective final group games.Islanders will look to top groupIf evidence from their first two games is anything to go by, Des Buckingham’s Mumbai City will…

Bengaluru, Aug 18 (IANS) Future of technology cannot be shaped by a few countries and companies and needs to be more inclusive and India Stack has transformed lives of citizens and built trust between the government and ‘Digital Nagriks’, Minister of State for Electronics and IT, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, said here on Friday.Chandrasekhar held bilateral meetings with the ministerial delegations and other senior representatives from Bangladesh, South Korea, France and Turkey at the fourth meeting of the G20 Digital Economy Working Group.Potential areas of collaboration such as digital public infrastructures, India Stack, AI, skilling and cybersecurity were explored during the meetings.The…

New Delhi, Aug 18 (IANS) Reliance Jio on Friday announced the launch of Jio prepaid plans with a bundled Netflix subscription. A Netflix subscription is already available on select Jio Postpaid and Jio Fiber plans, but this is the first time that a Netflix subscription will be available on a prepaid plan, the company said.A Netflix mobile-only plan will come bundled with Jio’s Rs 1,099 plan, whereas a Rs 1,499 plan will give subscribers access to Netflix Basic. Both plans have a validity of 84 days.With this launch, over 400 million Jio prepaid customers will get the option of availing a…

San Francisco, Aug 18 (IANS) Meta (formerly Facebook) is reportedly preparing to launch software to help developers automatically generate programming code, challenging proprietary software offered by OpenAI, Google, and others.According to The Information, citing sources, Meta’s code-generating artificial intelligence (AI) model — ‘Code Llama’, will be open-source and could launch as soon as next week.The new coding model competes with OpenAI’s Codex model and is based on Meta’s Llama 2 software, a large-language model capable of understanding and producing conversational text.Llama 2, an open-source AI framework, has upended the AI field by making it easier for businesses to create their…

Congress General Secretary in-charge Organisation KC Venugopal said that the Election Manifesto Committee will be headed by Mohd Akbar.Among the name of members of the panel includes Ravinder Chaubey, Umesh Patel, Arun Vora, Rajesh Tiwari, Hema Deshmukh, Vani Rao and Akash Sharma.Shiv Kumar Dahariya has been appointed as the chairman and Ramgopal Aggarwal as convener of the Election Management Committee.The party also constituted Disciplinary Action Committee, and Planning and Strategy Committee.Dhanender Sahu has been appointed as the chairman of the Disciplinary panel and T Sahu as the chairman of the Planning panel.Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has approved the proposal for…

Taking to Instagram, the director shared pictures of himself with his wife visiting the area and captioned the post: “Saw the images of this Pulpit Rock while researching for ‘Magadheera’. Wanting to come here since then. Thanks to Baahubali film in concert in Stavenger, finally it happened.”As his post said: Rajamouli had been wanting to visit the area ever since his 2009 Telugu epic fantasy film ‘Maghadheera’ hit the screens, as one of the locations in the movie was inspired from the iconic Norwegian landmark.Rajamouli’s wife Rama has been a big partner in his filmmaking, and has helped the director…

The Sun is currently in an active phase of its 11-year solar weather cycle, known as Solar Cycle 25. The solar cycle is the period when the Sun’s magnetic field flips every 11 years as it becomes more tangled like a ball of yarn. This is evident in the increasing number of sunspots and increasing solar flare activity.As the cycle progresses, the Sun’s tempestuous behaviour builds to a maximum, until the magnetic field breaks down and reverses polarity. Then the Sun settles back down to a minimum, only to start another cycle.The link between Neptune and solar activity is surprising…

Rahul, who had been representing the Amethi Lok Sabha seat since 2004, suffered a shocking defeat in the Gandhi bastion in 2019 when he lost to BJP’s Smriti Irani.While Rahul polled 4,12,867 votes, Smriti Irani ended-up with 4,67,598 votes.Rai also said that if Priyanka Gandhi decides to fight the polls from Varanasi, each and every Congress worker will work for her.Ajay Rai was the Congress candidate in Varanasi both during 2014 and 2019 election and lost to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.Rai was appointed Uttar Pradesh Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Thursday.Taking a dig at Smriti Irani, the UP Congress chief…