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London, July 28 (IANS) Trailing 1-2 in the Ashes 2023 series and shot out for 283 in their first innings in the fifth and final Test, England are sweating on the availability of all-rounder Moeen Ali for the remaining part of the match.Moeen, England’s main spinner in the match, was hurt on Thursday evening while running between the wickets in England’s first innings on Thursday at The Oval and did not take to the field in the final session on day one.With Australia resuming at 61/1 in their first innings and hoping to take a big lead, England will be…

San Francisco, July 28 (IANS) Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey-backed Bluesky has announced that it is replacing the ‘What’s Hot’ feed with a new ‘Discover’ feed.The new Discover feed is a more complex feed that will evolve over time, the company said in a blogpost on Thursday.Unlike the What’s Hot feed, the new feed will be customised for what users like to see, while still giving them a view into what’s trending in the network.”The initial version of ‘Discover’ mixes in a global view of what’s trending in the network with posts from accounts you follow and posts from accounts near…

Intel will launch Meteor Lake later this year, its first consumer chip with a built-in neural processor for machine learning tasks, according to The Verge. At Microsoft’s Build 2023 conference, the company announced the collaboration with Microsoft to drive the development of AI on personal computing, and previewed AI-enabled capabilities of its Meteor Lake client PC processors. Moreover, Intel reported $12.9 billion in revenue for the quarter that ended July 1, a decrease of 15 per cent (year-over-year), plus it reported a net income of $1.5 billion for the quarter and $2.8 billion in cash from operations. The company forecast…

Lakshya, who reached the semifinals of the US Open before losing to All-England 2023 champion Li Shi Feng on July 16, defeated Koki Watanabe of Japan in straight games, 21-15, 21-19 in a 47-minute clash on Court 2 at the Yoyogi 1st Gymnasium in the Japanese capital.In the men’s doubles quarterfinal, the third seeds Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty went down to Lee Yang and Wang Chi-Lin of the Chinese Taipei, losing in three sets 15-21, 25-23, 16-21 in a 70 minutes encounter.The world no. 13 Lakshya Sen, who defeated China’s Li Shi Feng in the final to win the…

Sources said that as many 61 bank accounts have come under scanner of the central agency sleuths. The CBI is examining them to track the questionable inward and outward remittances through them.Sources further said that in the fresh round of interrogation in this new case, Bhattacharya had admitted his association with as many as 25 such bank accounts.”Additional details will be revealed once the details of inward and outward remittances are examined,” a CBI associate said.Bhattacharya, along with his wife and son, is already serving judicial custody for his alleged involvement in the multi- crore schoolrecruitment case in West Bengal.…

Kubela held a meeting with Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Bhutto Zardari among others.“Islamabad had played so far on both sides of the conflict, supplying defence supplies such as cluster munitions, rockets, howitzer shells and other ammunition to Ukraine’s military, while at the same time seeking cheaper oil and wheat from Russia,” Geopolitica.info, a platform providing news and analysis on foreign affairs noted. But for crisis-hit Pakistan, balancing its relations with Russia as well as the West is becoming precarious.Earlier this week, several Russian newspapers highlighted how Ukraine has been seeking increased cooperation from Pakistan amid the ongoing war.Kubela…

State Governor S. Abdul Nazeer administered the oath to Justice Thakur, who is the sixth Chief Justice of the high court. Chief Minister Y. S. Jagan Mohan Reddy, cabinet members, leader of opposition N. Chandrababu Nadu, high court judges and other senior officials attended the ceremony. The Central government had recently appointed Justice Thakur, a judge of Bombay High Court, as the Chief Justice of Andhra Pradesh High Court. He succeeded Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra, who has been elevated as a judge of the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court Collegium had recommended on July 5 that Justice Thakur be appointed…

The incident occurred around 9 a.m. between Harpur Safi Tola and Dharmchak village in the district. The police said that a green bamboo carried by the mourners in the procession came in contact with an overhead electric wire. It worked as a conductor of electricity and gave jolt to the people. The victims sustained injuries and were admitted to a local hospital. They are out of danger, said hospital sources. The electricity department was informed about the incident. The district Superintendent of Police Swarn Prabhat appealed to the people to stay calm and peacefully do Tazia march. Ends. –IANSajk/dpb

As soon as Speaker Om Birla arrived in the House, he began Question Hour proceedings. The opposition members however, raised the Manipur issue. Birla sought to know from opposition members whether they wanted to run the House as per rules. Congress leader in the Lower House, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury gave an instance of May 10, 1978, when the opposition had moved a no-confidence motion and the discussion on it had begun the same day. He sought immediate discussion on the no-confidence motion. Congress leader Sonia Gandhi was also present in the House. The Speaker however said that he has already…

PPD is a common perinatal complication experienced by one in eight women and has adverse maternal and infant outcomes.Zuranolone, developed by Sage Therapeutics and Biogen, is an oral, once-daily neuroactive steroid pill used in a 14-day treatment course for patients with severe PPD.“In the trial, zuranolone demonstrated significant improvements in depressive symptoms and was generally well tolerated, supporting the potential of zuranolone as a novel, rapid-acting oral treatment for PPD,” said researchers of the trial published in The American Journal of Psychiatry.About 57 per cent of the women taking zuranolone experienced a 50 per cent or more improvement in their…