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The proposed anti-corruption cell will operate from the erstwhile “Peace Room” within the Raj Bhavan premises opened during the recently-concluded panchayat elections in the state through which the authorities got direct complaints from the public about the incidents of poll-related violence and bloodbath.“The anti-corruption cell has been set up basically to prevent corruption in university education since the Governor is the chancellor of stateuniversities. But corruption is an all encompassing issue. Whenever anybody comes across any attempted corruption they are free to intimate that to the cell. We will analyze those complaints, take up the matter with appropriate authorities and…

Officials said another batch of 984 pilgrims left Bhagwati Nagar Yatri Niwas in Jammu on Wednesday for the Valley in an escorted convoy.“Of these 984 Yatris, 782 are male, 197 are women and five are Sadhus”, officials said.Since it started on July 1, so far, 36 pilgrims have died during this year’s Yatra.Pilgrims approach the Himalayan cave shrine either from the traditional south Kashmir Pahalgam route, which involves an uphill trek of 43 kilometres from Pahalgam base camp or from the north Kashmir Baltal base camp, which involves 14 Km uphill trek.Those using the traditional Pahalgam route take 3-4 days…

The 32-year-old faced the media for the first time since he agreed to a two-year deal with the Brazilian club last Saturday, and he made little attempt to hide his enthusiasm, reports Xinhua.”Sao Paulo are a big club so it wasn’t hard for me to make the decision to come here,” Rodriguez said.”It only took me a few days to make my mind up after Sao Paulo offered me a contract. They are a big club with ambitions to win titles and I hope I can help to achieve that.”The 32-year-old arrived on a free transfer after parting ways with…

Meanwhile, teams of the Election Commission will also be conducting meetings with recognised national political parties and a hard copy of the draft voters list will be handed over to them.The draft voters list will be published on Wednesday, and applications for addition, deletion or modification of names in the voters list accepted during the revision, says an official notification,As the draft of the voter list will be published at the polling stations and district level, all Booth Level Officers (BLOs) will be present at their respective polling booths.Chief electoral officer, Anupam Rajan said, “As per the direction of the…

Madrid, Aug 2 (IANS) FC Barcelona have loaned Mexican international right back Julian Araujo to recently promoted Las Palmas until the end of June 2024.The defender, who was born in California in August 2001, and has played 10 times for Mexico, signed for FC Barcelona from Los Angeles Galaxy at the end of January, although controversy over when the paperwork was completed meant the move wasn’t ratified until the middle of February, reports Xinhua.However, he wasn’t written into Barcelona’s squad for the second half of last season, and didn’t make his debut for the club until June 6 in Barca’s…

San Francisco, Aug 2 (IANS) Some rogue Amazon employees are reportedly helping third-party sellers by removing bad reviews on their products on the e-commerce platform via secret groups on Telegram, WhatsApp and Facebook.One such group on Telegram has over 13,000 members that is allowing sellers to pay an Amazon insider to recover their accounts, get information on a competitor, and even remove negative reviews on a product, reports CNBC.“For a fee of $200 to $400, sellers can pay for services such as ‘Amazon Magic,’ as one broker on encrypted messaging service Telegram calls it,” according to the report.The offerings include…

New Delhi, Aug 2 (IANS) Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, has introduced a ‘Lens Creator Rewards’ programme for Snap AR creators in India.The Lens Creator Rewards is a new way for Snap AR creators, developers and teams to be rewarded for building top-performing Lenses on Snapchat, the company said in a statement.India is amongst the top five markets where lenses from Lens Creators achieve the most community engagement.This programme celebrates the most creative Lenses that enable Snapchat users to express themselves and have fun with friends”Snapchatters love Lenses built by our global AR community of more than 300,000 AR…

The weatherman has predicted a generally cloudy sky with possibility of very light rain towards the night. While the maximum temperature is expected to hover around 37 degrees, the relative humidity at 8.30 a.m. on Wednsday morning was recorded at 78 per cent. The IMD have also predicted isolated heavy to very heavy rainfall activity likely over east and eastcentral India during next three to four days with extremely heavy showers likely over north Odisha on Wednesday and east Madhya Pradesh on Thursday. –IANS ssh/ksk

RJD MP Manoj Kumar Jha and AAP MP Raghav Chadha gave suspension of business notice in the Upper House over the situation in the northeastern state.The RJD MP, through his notice, demanded Prime Minister Narendra Modi to make a statement on the floor of the House on the Manipur issue, followed by a detailed and comprehensive discussion.Meanwhile, the AAP parliamentarian demanded discussion on the “breakdown of law and order in state of Manipur due to the failure of Central and state government”.Chadha in his notice wrote: ” The violence in Manipur has resulted loss of precious lives due to failure…

Kishan scored his third consecutive half-century when compiling a quickfire 77 from just 64 deliveries against the West Indies and in the process joined a group of five other India men’s players to have reached 50 in all matches of a bilateral three-game ODI series, reports ICC.There are some India greats among that group that Kishan entered, with Kris Srikkanth (1982), Dilip Vengsarkar (1985), Mohammad Azharuddin (1993), MS Dhoni (2019) and Shreyas Iyer (2020) the previous batters to have achieved the feat.While Kishan has some way to go to match the exploits of the aforementioned quintet, the dynamic 25-year-old has…