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Officials have informed Chief Minister Jagan Mohan Reddy that the south and north breakwater works are nearing completion and the dredging and reclamation works would be completed by September.In the first phase, the port will have four berths with a cargo handling capacity of 34 million tonnes annually, they said.Reddy had laid the foundation stone for the construction of the port in July last year.When fully completed, the port will have 19 berths with a cargo handling capacity of 138 million metric tons annually.The project is being executed by the Ramayapatnam Port Development Corporation Limited, under the AP Maritime Board,…

Having secured an aggregate win over the Cypriot side after last week’s 1-1 draw in Larnaca, Maccabi is set to compete against Slovenia’s NK Celje in the playoffs.In front of 26,000 spectators at Bloomfield Stadium in Tel Aviv-Yafo on Thursday evening, Maccabi captain Eran Zahavi missed opportunities to score in the fourth and 24th minutes. Adam Gyurcso managed to find the net in the 42nd minute, only for the goal to be disallowed by Croatian referee Fran Jovic for an offside violation, reports Xinhua.Zahavi came close to scoring again in the 72nd minute, but his roughly 16-meter shot hit the…

San Francisco, Aug 18 (IANS) X, formerly known as Twitter, on Friday officially placed the social media dashboard application for management, XPro (formerly known as TweetDeck), behind the paywall.On Wednesday, many users on X, including social media consultant Matt Navarra, began noticing this paywall, but there was no official announcement about implementation from the company.”Premium subscribers can now access the new version of X Pro in the sidebar on web,” the company posted from the ‘Pro’ account on Friday.XPro features decks that help users to organise their columns into separate workspaces, a full post composer, easy advanced search, and pic…

“The Transparency Center collects existing resources and policies, and was designed with you in mind, providing easy access to information on our policies, how we create and enforce them, and much more,” the tech giant said in a blogpost on Thursday.The company further mentioned that as the online threat landscape changes, its policies evolve, helping to prevent abuse on its platforms.And since the uses of the products differ, the company tailors its policies to each platform, aiming to create a safe and positive experience for everyone.With the Transparency Center, users can learn about Google’s policy development process, how it enforces…

According to the police, the incident took place at about 9 p.m. on Thursday night at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Manhattan, reports the New York Post.The unidentified man died on the spot.Police sources said that he did not appear to be staying at the hotel and is believed to have taken a service elevator to the roof before jumping.The hotel lies on the top 19 floors of the 55-storey Deutsche Bank Center tower, which is also home to some Hollywood celebrities.–IANSksk

The recurve men’s team of Dhiraj Bommadevara, Atanu Das, and Tushar Prabhakar Shelke were the first to seal their place on the podium as they came from behind to beat Spanish trio Pablo Acha, Yun Sanchez, and Andres Temino 6-2 on Thursday.Spain had defeated fourth seeds USA en route to the last four, but the Indian team ultimately proved a step too far in Paris conditions.The recurve women’s team of Bhajan Kaur, Ankita Bhakat, and Simranjeet Kaur then repeated the feat with a bronze of its own, as it beat Mexico’s Alejandra Valencia, Angela Ruiz, and Aida Roman in a…

In capital Bogota,where the earthquake was strongly felt on Thursday evening, Mayor Claudia Lopez said the city was spared serious damage but a woman died after jumping out the window of her 10th-floor apartment in the south of the city out of fear that the building would collapse, reports Xinhua news agency.”We have a painful incident. A woman in the Madelena neighborhood in Ciudad Bolivar, apparently out of panic, jumped from a 10th floor and died. It is the only serious incident we had. Please, stay calm, stay calm,” she said in a video message.Lopez recommended residents to check for…

Official sources said that the NIA sleuths accompanied by the local police and the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) started raids at Bhatindi in Jammu, and Kulgam, Shopian and Kupwara districts in Kashmir.“These raids are part of the ongoing investigation by the agency in a terror related case,” sources said.Further details were awaited.–IANSsq/dpb

The summit will be held at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland, marking the first time the three countries’ leaders will meet for a stand-alone trilateral summit that’s not on the sidelines of a multilateral event, reports Yonhap News Agency.The summit was proposed by Biden when the three leaders met on the margins of a G7 summit in Japan in May as the US pushes to lock in recently improved Seoul-Tokyo ties in a trilateral framework countering China and Russia’s growing assertiveness.As such, cooperation on economic security issues, such as building resilient supply chains for semiconductors and batteries, is…

Messi has scored nine goals from six outings in the Leagues Cup — an annual competition featuring teams from the United States, Canada and Mexico — since joining the Florida outfit on a free transfer last month.”We always saw ourselves as being capable of competing and getting this title,” the 36-year-old told a news conference at Inter Miami’s Fort Lauderdale headquarters on Thursday.Despite sitting last in Major League Soccer’s eastern conference, Inter Miami have won all of their six matches since Messi arrived along with Martino in mid-July, reports Xinhua.The Argentine World Cup winner also cited the support of Inter…