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This is likely to be the last Legislature session before the Assembly elections in the state due to be held towards the end of the year.The government plans to bring amendments to some of the existing legislations during this session.Meanwhile, Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao also decided to hold a state Cabinet meeting on July 31 at the Dr. B. R. Ambedkar State Secretariat.According to the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO), the state cabinet will discuss about 40 to 50 issues and will review the flood situation and measures being taken by the state government in the wake of the torrential…

Applications from the 16 countries mainly involve fast radio bursts observation, pulsars observation and neutral hydrogen survey, Xinhua news agency reported.Dubbed the “China Sky Eye,” the telescope is located in a deep and round karst depression in southwest China’s Guizhou Province. It has a reception area equal to 30 standard football fields. FAST started formal operation in January 2020 and officially opened to the world on March 31, 2021.Its operation and maintenance team has been working to further improve its observation efficiency and meet the growing demand from the international astronomical community.The gigantic telescope has also adopted intelligent maintenance robots,…

The suspended MLAs are Irfan Ansari, Rajesh Kachhap and Naman Bixal.Party state president Rajesh Thakur and state Parliamentary Affairs Minister Alamgir made the announcement.The MLAs were arrested by the West Bengal police, while they were travelling on national highway-16 at Ranihati in Howrah with around Rs 48 lakh in cash on July 30 last yearCongress MLA Anup Singh had filed a case against the three legislators at Argora police station on charges of conspiracy to topple Chief Minister Hemant Soren-led coalition government.The party had also constituted a committee to investigate the matter.Later, the three MLAs got bail from the Calcutta…

Nearby Mokhada town was also pounded by 234.75 mm rain, followed by Dahanu 224.80 mm, Vikramgad 221.0, Vasai 138.0 mm, Wada 129.25 mm and Palghar 116.3 mm.The average rainfall notched was 185.1mm and the total recorded in the tribal district stands at 1480.9 mm.The heavily populated Virar- Nalasopara-Vasai region was the worst-hit owing to waterlogging — as high as up to four ft in some areas — in many low-lying parts, with water entering ground floor homes.To prevent any accidents, the MahaVitaran power distributor had shut down several feeder pillars and distribution boxes due to which over 800 consumers in…

Harare, July 28 (IANS) Considered at one time to be among the most explosive and dynamic bowlers in the white-ball game, former India pacer S. Sreesanth introduced himself to the Zim Afro T10 with a game-changing over.Defending eight runs for the Eoin Morgan-led Harare Hurricanes against the high-flying Cape Town Samp Army, Sreesanth, first picked a wicket and then effected a run-out as the Hurricanes tied the game and then won it in the Super Over in dramatic fashion.The 40-year-old was understandably delighted, and said, “I am just very happy and would like to thank the Harare Hurricanes team management…

Dubai, July 28 (IANS) The International Cricket Council (ICC) has found Japan batter, Ibrahim Takahashi, for breaching the wall adjacent to the dressing room following his dismissal against the Philippines in the Men’s T20 World Cup East Asia Pacific (EAP) Qualifier in Papua New Guinea.Takahashi was found guilty of breaching Level 1 of the ICC Code of Conduct.Takahashi was found to have breached Article 2.2 of the ICC Code of Conduct for Players and Player Support Personnel, which relates to the abuse of cricket equipment or clothing, ground equipment or fixtures and fittings during an International Match, the ICC informed…

San Francisco, July 28 (IANS) Meta-owned messaging platform has released a bug-fix update to address a sorting chats issue on Android beta.Due to the issue, when a new message is received, the platform doesn’t refresh the chat list and the conversation with the most recent message doesn’t rise to the top of the conversation list, reports WABetaInfo.Closing and reopening WhatsApp was the only method to temporarily fix the problem.However, the issue could come again.Many users observed that the update had been installed automatically due to the Google Play Store’s auto-download settings.”We can finally confirm that the WhatsApp beta for Android…

Washington, July 28 (IANS) About 450,000 people living in the US may have been affected with a potentially life-threatening meat allergy that has been linked to tick bites, according to two new studies from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.Alpha-gal syndrome (AGS), also known as the red-meat allergy or the tick bite meat allergy, is a serious allergic condition some people experience after they consume food or products containing alpha-gal.It is a sugar found in meat from mammals (pork, beef, rabbit, lamb, venison, etc.) and products made from mammals (e.g., gelatin, cow’s milk, milk products, some pharmaceuticals).People may experience…

As per rough estimates, Lucknow residents have lost Rs 15 crore to click farm frauds, wherein people are hired for giving good online ratings to commodities and services.The latest victim, identified as Harshit Gupta of New Ganeshganj, was hired by fraudsters to give good ratings to some hotels and was promised Rs 10 lakh.Gupta was asked to give a rating to 28 hotel images and details. He was asked to deposit Rs 11,300 for registration.“However, I got stuck at the rating work after I had completed 13 tasks due to a technical glitch. I contacted the person who had given…

The JMA said that temperatures of 38 degrees Celsius or higher are forecast in Kanto, Tokai, Kansai and Kyushu regions, while the mercury is expected to hit 39 degrees in the western prefectures of Kyoto and Oita, reports Xinhua news agency.Temperatures are likely to rise further in the afternoon, with daytime highs reaching 39 degrees in Kyoto City and 36 degrees in central Tokyo, said the JMA.The officials warned that risks of developing heatstroke are extremely high, with 40 prefectures, out of the total 47, having been put on the alert, and called on people to be fully vigilant of…