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Officials told IANS on condition of anonymity that the RWAs are providing the information to the police stations in their respective areas as a preventive measure against anti-social elements, sources said.Communal clashes broke out in Haryana’s Nuh in Mewat after a religious procession heading to a place of worship was allegedly attacked on July 31. The violence spread to Gurugram and some districts of Haryana adjoining Delhi and Uttar Pradesh.After the Nuh riots, several shops were set ablaze after which panicked migrant workers in Gurugram started leaving for their native place.These incidents were reported from Sector-67, Sector-70A, Badshahpur, Pataudi Chowk,…

The official consumer price index, a measure of inflation, fell by 0.3 per cent last month from a year earlier, reports the BBC.Analysts said this increases pressure on the government to revive demand in the world’s second largest economy.This follows weak import and export data, which raised questions about the pace of China’s post-pandemic recovery, the BBC reported.The country is also tackling ballooning local government debt and challenges in the housing market. Youth unemployment, which is at a record high, is also being closely watched as a record 11.58 million university graduates are expected to enter the Chinese job market…

The ED’s decision to withdraw the objection came after the Calcutta High Court’s single- judge bench of Justice Tirthankar Ghosh on Wednesday rejected the bail petition of Bhadra for undergoing the surgery at the private hospital.Maintaining that the Bhadra will have to undergo the surgery being in custody, Justice Ghosh ordered that the entire treatment process will have to be conducted under strict surveillance which will include deployment of central armed forces cover at the hospital where he will be undergoing the surgery.On Wednesday, ED also submitted to the court a report of the medical board which was constituted to…

The accused was identified as T Rabindranath Gupta. He was on the run after the court delivered the sentence.“The Global Operations Centre of CBI in close coordination with Interpol channels has coordinated the return of a Red Notice Subject. He was returned to India from USA. The said Red Notice Subject was wanted in a CBI case at Bangalore for defrauding the Bank by forging the Inland Letter of Credits, cheating and forgery,” said the official.A senior CBI official said that an Interpol Red notice was published against the accused on April 4. It was published based on CBI’s report.The…

New Delhi, Aug 9 (IANS) India won the third T20I of the five-match series by seven wickets, after going 0-2 down. Tilak Varma, who made his India debut in this series, continued his good form and scored his third consecutive thirty-plus score.JioCinema expert Pragyan Ojha recently tweeted that Varma should be fast-tracked into the No. 4 spot for Team India in ODIs. Aakash Chopra seconded Ojha’s view but said there is another aspect to it. “Generally, we tend to forget people who are not there. This has been a continuous debate happening around the No. 4 position. We even talked…

Christchurch, Aug 9 (IANS) New Zealand head coach Gary Stead has expressed optimism regarding Kane Williamson’s rehabilitation and emphasised the management’s cautious approach in overseeing the speed of his recovery process.The 33-year-old hasn’t played any cricket since rupturing the ACL in his right knee while playing for Gujarat Titans in the opening match of IPL 2023 against Chennai Super Kings on March 31 in Ahmedabad. He underwent surgery in April and has started training and batting in the nets recently.Williamson wasn’t named in the New Zealand’s 15-player squad for their four-match ODI series in England, starting on September 8, but…

New Delhi, Aug 9 (IANS) One in two investors (50 per cent) are positive that the startup funding spring will return over the next 6-12 months in India, a report showed on Wednesday.Nearly 17 per cent of investors surveyed think the funding winter may end even sooner and the rest believe it would be 12-18 months or more before the funding winter passes, according to the report by Bengaluru-based market research firm Redseer.In all, the US, EU, the UAE and Japan are the largest source of funding for Indian startups, making up 5 per cent of total global funding and…

San Francisco, Aug 9 (IANS) Google has announced the launch of ‘Project IDX’ — an artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled browser-based development environment for building full-stack web and multiplatform applications.The project currently supports frameworks, such as Angular, Flutter, Next.js, React, Svelte and Vue, and languages like JavaScript and Dart, with support for Python, Go, and others in the works, according to TechCrunch.Instead of creating a new integrated development environment (IDE), Google has built Project IDX on the open-source platform Visual Studio Code that allowed the team to focus on the integration with Codey, Google’s PaLM 2–based foundation model for programming tasks.Due to…

San Francisco, Aug 9 (IANS) Verizon has announced that its Zoom rival BlueJeans app’s Basic and free trial offerings will discontinue from August 31Members of BlueJeans service have received an email that mentioned that the app is being “sunset”, reports 9To5Google.”Thank you for being a valued user of BlueJeans by Verizon services. We want to share that we have made the difficult decision to sunset our suite of BlueJeans products. In light of this, BlueJeans Basic and free trial offerings will be discontinued effective August 31, 2023, and your access to the services will be removed. However, you can continue…

“Tributes to the greats who took part in the Quit India Movement. Under the leadership of (Mahatma) Gandhi Ji, this movement played a major role in freeing India from colonial rule. Today, India is saying in one voice, Corruption Quit India, Dynasty Quit India and Appeasement Quit India,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted in a veiled attack on INDIA as he recalled the Quit India Movement launched on this day in 1942 by Mahatma Gandhi.Also remembering the sacrifices made by freedom fighters during the Quit India Movement, BJP national president J.P. Nadda said in a tweet: “Today, under the leadership…