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He took the meeting on Wednesday with the senior officials of Coal India Limited (CIL) and Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) and other entities.According to official sources, it was informed during the meeting that both CIL and SCCL have adequate supplies of coal to meet the demand of coal-based power plants during the rainy season.CIL has clocked highest-ever dispatch to non-power sector, at 3.68 lakh tonnes per day during the current fiscal, sources said.Overall offtake of CIL stood at 85.2 million tonnes, a growth of almost 10 per cent over last year, whereas after dispatching 25.1 million tonnes of coal,…
Parmjeet Sandhu, 56, and his nephew Balginder Sandhu, 46, who appeared for trial at Southwark Crown Court on Tuesday, were charged with conspiracy to commit fraud by false representation between 2008 and 2017. The two worked under relative Narinder Sandhu, owner of Packpost International Ltd and “architect” of the fraud, who has already pleaded guilty, The Evening Standard reported, citing the prosecutors. Along with Lakhwinder Sekhon — not a family relation but appeared at the trial — Parmjeet and Balginder were part of a scheme to under-declare mail posted through a network of logistics companies in Buckinghamshire and Berkshire, the…
Olympia Fields (USA), Aug 17 (IANS) Japanese star Hideki Matsuyama and Byeong Hun An of Korea face battles for survival in this week’s BMW Championship, the penultimate event in the FedEx Cup Playoffs, as they fight for prized spots in the TOUR Championship where US$18 million awaits the new FedEx Cup champion. Matsuyama, 31, has qualified for the Playoffs Finale at East Lake, Atlanta for the past nine seasons which is a record for an active PGA TOUR member while a resurgent An is hoping to punch his ticket into the top-30 showpiece for the first time to put the…
San Francisco, Aug 17 (IANS) ChatGPT maker OpenAI has announced that it has acquired the team at Global Illumination, a digital product company. “The entire team has joined OpenAI to work on our core products including ChatGPT,” the company said in a blogpost on Wednesday.Global Illumination is a New York-based company that has been leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to build creative tools, infrastructure and digital experiences.The team previously designed and built products early on at Instagram and Facebook and have also made significant contributions at YouTube, Google, Pixar, Riot Games and other notable companies.”We’re very excited for the impact they’ll…
“I adore ‘Interstellar’ just because I find it so emotional. I remember seeing it in the cinema when I had little kids. It just had a big impact on me. It broke my heart. I love watching his films when I’m not in them because you don’t have to freak out about the size of your ears, or whatever,” Cillian told ‘The Independent’, reports aceshowbiz.com.Earlier this year, Cillian likened the ‘Oppenheimer’ set to a “laboratory.” The actor plays J. Robert Oppenheimer – the theoretical physicist who helped to develop the first nuclear weapons – in the acclaimed movie, and Cillian…
The leopard was caught near the Lakshmi Narasimha Swamy temple — the same place where a big cat had mauled Lakshitha, a six-year-old minor girl, to death on August 11.According to Tirumala Tirupati Devasthanam (TTD) officials, the leopard caught on Thursday morning is a male aged about five years.The animal has been shifted to Tirupati SV Zoo Park.This is the second leopard to be caught in a week after another big cat was trapped in the cage on Monday.The female leopard, aged about 4-5 years, was also shifted to the SV Zoo Park.On the evening of August 11, Lakshitha was…
According to the commissioner of Siliguri Metropolitan Police, Akhilesh Chaturvedi, the market value of the seized brown-sugar is estimated to be around Rs 5 crore. “The five arrested persons will be presented at district court on Thursday only and we will demand police custody for them,” said Chaturvedi.Local police sources said that the arrests and the seizure of huge banned narcotics consignment were done in two phases since Wednesday night.“On being tipped off by our sources, our investigating officials first raided a place near the Siliguri Eastern Metropolitan Bypass. The raid and search operations were conducted by a joint team…
The mum-of-two ‘Smile’ singer, 38, who has been hitched to ‘Stranger Things’ actor David Harbour, 48, since 2020, first had sex when on holiday with her ‘Trainspotting’ star dad Keith Allen, 69, and younger brother Alfie, 36, famed for his role in ‘Game of Thrones’, reports aceshowbiz.com.”I actually went missing. I lost my virginity to a guy called Fernando in Brazil. When I was about 12, no I am joking,” she told comedian Alan Carr, 47, on his ‘Life’s a Beach’ podcast about how her father thought she had gone missing when she was really having sex with a man…
Zagklis made these comments on Wednesday night during a pre-event media briefing less than 10 days before the commencement of the 2023 FIBA World Cup, which retains the 32-team format used in the previous edition.However, there are also notable differences this time around. For the first time, the tournament will unfold across three distinct countries -— Indonesia, the Philippines, and Japan -— each in a different time zone. Among the 32 participating teams, nine will be making their debuts in the FIBA World Cup, reports Xinhua.During the briefing, Zagklis fielded questions about basketball development in various regions, including West Asia,…
The email, which was received just past midnight, claimed that “high-powered bombs with needles” had been planted at the Japanese Embassy, the Supreme Court and city halls across the country, and would go off from 3.34 p.m. on Friday to 2.07 p.m. on Saturday, reports Yonhap News Agency.Police searched the locations but found no explosives so far.The email was sent in the name of a Japanese law firm with the same address as the one used for the four previous bomb threats received in the country in recent weeks. The sender was listed as Takahiro Karasawa, an incumbent lawyer in…
