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Toronto, Aug 9 (IANS) Three-time Grand Slam champion Andy Murray successfully kicked off his latest bid for a fourth title at the Canadian Open, eking out a marathon opening set en route to defeating Italy’s Lorenzo Sonego 7-6(3), 6-0 in the first round.This was Murray’s second meeting with Sonego. The pair met for the first time earlier this year at the ATP 250 event in Doha, where the Briton saved three match points before winning in a dramatic third-set tiebreak.The former World No. 1, who is making his first appearance in Toronto since 2015 and won the second of his…

New Delhi, Aug 9 (IANS) Union Minister of Civil Aviation Jyotiraditya M Scindia takes prompt action to assist Table Tennis player Manika Batra to get her lost baggage back safely.On August 8, Manika Batra, while returning from the Peru tournament, lost her baggage on the flight. In a tweet, she requested Jyotiraditya Scindia for help.“Unbelievable disappointment with @KLM ! Priority-tagged baggage lost on a business class flight, including my essential sports kit for an upcoming tournament. Staff at the airport had no answers or any solutions & they had no idea where my bag is. @JM_Scindia sir pls help,” she…

San Francisco, Aug 9 (IANS) Google-owned YouTube has announced that it will no longer recommend videos to users if their watch history is turned off.”Starting today, if you have YouTube watch history off and have no significant prior watch history, features that require watch history to provide video recommendations will be disabled – like your YouTube home feed,” the company said in a support page on Tuesday.This means that now users’ home feed may look a lot different.Users will see the search bar and the left-hand guide menu with no feed of recommended videos, allowing them to more easily search,…

The state government has issued a flood alerts in Gopalganj, East Champaran, West Champaran, Sitamarhi, Sheohar, Muzaffarpur and other adjoining districts of North Bihar. The torrential rain has also led to waterlogging in the low-lying areas and also inundated several villages.The district administrations have appealed to villagers to move to safer places. In Muzaffarpur, a makeshift bridgewas destroyed due to excess water in Bagmati river in Aurai block. The water level of the river has reached the danger level mark in Muzaffarpur. In Gopalganj, 2.90 lakh cusec water was released from the Valmikinagar Barrage on Tuesday, while overflowing water from…

The Centre of Excellence is a novel initiative for promoting sustainable cooling innovation and accelerating the deployment of energy-efficient refrigeration for food and vaccine supply chains across India.The CoE is a joint initiative between Telangana State Trade Promotion Corporation, which is a Telangana government body, Centre for Sustainable Cooling (CSC), University of Birmingham, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), and the GMR Group.It is the outcome of an MoU signed between Government of Telangana and University of Birmingham in 2022. University of Birmingham will serve as the knowledge partners and will help develop the centre into a state-of-the-art research and innovation…

Farhan’s Excel movie took to Instagram to reveal the actor, who would play the iconic actor, a day after the franchise was announced.Before unveiling himself as Don, Ranveer was heard saying in an impactful manner: “Sher jo so raha hai woh jaage ka kab poochte hai yeh sab. Unse kehdo fir jaag utha hun main aur phir saamne jald aaneko kya hai taakat meri kya hai himmat meri fir dikhaane ko, maut se khlena zindagi hai meri jeetna hi mera kaam hai tum toh ho jaante jo mera naam hai.”11 mulko ki police dhoondti hai mujhe par pakad paaya hai…

One of GKPD’s key demands over the last 34 years has been to get justice for martyrs who were killed because they owed allegiance to the Constitution of India and because of their faith.”We have worked tirelessly over the intervening years to approach the judiciary but have had no positive response. This announcement to direct the State Investigation agency (SIA) to effectively investigate terror related cases against the Kashmiri Pandits and coordinate with central agencies marks the beginning of a process which will go a long way in providing much needed succour to our long-suffering community,” GKPD said.GKPD will actively…

“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 wrote in a tweet, in a veiled attack on the Opposition’s alliance ‘INDIA’ as he recalled on this day Gandhi launched the ‘Quit India’ moved in 1942.Echoing similar sentiment, senior BJP leader Ravi Shankar Prasad while slamming the Opposition said, “Family rule is inherently undemocratic and irresponsible. Corruption…

In an official statement, the Spear Corps of the Indian Army said it needs to be understood that due to the complex nature of the situation on the ground in Manipur, occasional differences at tactical level do occur between various security forces. Noting that continuing to be fair to all and to fear none, the Spear Corps said that all such misunderstandings at the functional level are immediately addressed through the joint mechanism to synergise the efforts for restoration of peace and normalcy in Manipur. Citing two instances that emerged in the past 24 hours, the statement said that in…

The Hindu group gave out this warning during a rally in a market place in Haryana. Shockingly this announcement was made in the presence of police personnel who were seen walking along with the group members in the video.The members of the Hindu outfit raised “Jai Shri Ram” slogans during the rally. However, the video is yet to be verified by the police.The police said they are probing the matter. “No one will be allowed to disrupt peace and Harmony in Nuh,” said officials.On Sunday, a maha panchayat was held at Tigra village of Gurugram in support of the four…