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The three are — Harwinder Singh Sandhu alias Rinda of BKI, Arshdeep Singh alias Arsh Dala of KTF and Lakhbir Singh Sandhu alias Landa of BKI, (all based abroad), for creating their own networks of operatives to carry out terror activities in India.The NIA said that they have close contacts with drug smugglers and Khalistani operatives in Pakistan and other countries.”Through this complex network of operatives based abroad, they have been recruiting, motivating and handling their associates in India to carry out terrorist activities, extortion and cross-border smuggling of weapons and drugs into India. They also have linkages with major…

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A programme on mental health conducted by Mansik Shakti, a voluntary organisation on students’ mental health highlighted the issue.Dr Amresh Srivastava, a member of advisory board at Mansik Shakti, said, “By sending children to top schools or institutes, parents believe that they have done their bit. But there are risk factors, and these are evident with the suicide cases being reported from premier institutes.”The experts said that due to social media, a class 2 student also knows what suicide is. The need for parents today is to interact with their children and allow them to do what they think they…

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‘Sabrang’, the clinic, claims to be the only one of its kind in north India.Ayush Kumar Agnihotri, the clinic manager, says, “Every month we get people confused about what they look like and what they feel from inside. Experts working with us find a solution.”Transgender is an umbrella term that encompasses people who have a gender identity or gender expression, which differs from their sex assigned at birth. Being independent of sexual orientation, they have often been classified as the “third sex.”Dr Heeralal, additional director, National Health Mission, said, “Based on various socio-cultural traditions and beliefs, they are frequently discriminated…

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Manchester, July 23 (IANS) Former captain Michael Vaughan believes that if England manage to secure a victory on the final day of the fourth Ashes 2023 Test on Sunday, they will be in a favorable position to win the series. After rain allowed only 30 overs of play on Saturday, Australia will resume their innings on 214-5, 61 runs behind on Day 5. If England take five quick wickets on Sunday, they will be able to level the series before heading into the crucial fifth Test next week at The Oval.Highlighting the importance of day five, Vaughan told BBC’s Test…

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San Francisco, July 23 (IANS) Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is rolling out a new feature on iOS beta, which will allow users to initiate group calls with up to 15 people.Group calls already support up to 32 participants, but it was only possible to initiate a group call with up to 7 people, reports WABetaInfo.However, with the new feature, beta users can now initiate group calls with up to 15 people.Although it is possible to select up to 15 users for the initial call, group calls can still have up to 32 participants in total.With this feature, the company aims…

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The Jana Sena Party (JSP) chief took to Twitter to launch a fresh attack on the Chief Minister over the issue.Pawan posted a video of Jagan Mohan Reddy when he was in the opposition. Jagan had then stated that keeping details of someone’s Aadhaar, bank account and voter ID by a private person is a crime.”Everyone’s concern is same .. my dear Watson!. Data privacy laws will remain the same,whether you are CM or not . So answer these basic three questions. 1) Who’s the Boss of Volunteers? 2) Where are you storing the personal data of People of AP?…

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According to the trade data website, Sacnilk, whereas ‘Barbie’ was expected to make around Rs 18.58 crore (gross collection, before deduction of taxes) by the end of Sunday, after a rather tepid Rs 5-crore opening on Friday and only slight increases thereafter.Its rival in the ‘Barbenheimer’ sweepstakes, meanwhile, is most likely to end its first weekend with a collection of Rs 49.25 crore (gross), maintaining a steady flow of around Rs 17 crore on each of the first three days.This is the polar opposite of the early (Thursday-Friday) box-office returns from North America, where ‘Barbie’ is the clear leader.According to…

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According to cybersecurity firm Avast security researcher Martin a Milanek, “HotRat malware equips attackers with a wide array of capabilities, such as stealing login credentials, cryptocurrency wallets, screen capturing, keylogging, installing more malware, and gaining access to or altering clipboard data”.The attacks involve combining cracked software available on torrent sites with a malicious AutoHotkey (AHK) script that starts an infection chain designed to deactivate antivirus solutions on the compromised host before launching the HotRat payload via a Visual Basic Script loader.”The most commonly affected group is typically Adobe (Illustrator, Master Collection, Photoshop) and Microsoft (Office, Windows) software. The second group…

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Passed with a U/A certificate by India’s Central Board of Film Certification, the film has a sex scene between Cillian Murphy as Robert Oppenheimer and Florence Pugh as Jean Tatlock, reports Variety.In the film, Pugh stops during intercourse, gets up and goes over to the bookshelf, picks out a copy of the “Bhagavad Gita” and asks Murphy to read from it.Murphy reads the line “I am become Death, destroyer of worlds,” the quote from the “Bhagavad Gita” that Oppenheimer famously thought of when the first nuclear bomb was detonated, reports Variety.The 700-verse “Bhagavad Gita” is a part of the Indian…

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According to the external affairs ministry, between May 19 and July 15, PM Modi visited seven nations — Japan, Papua New Guinea, Australia, US, Egypt, France and UAE, which entailed expenses worth Rs 1,79,38,717 crore. Expenses incurred on the prime minister’s visits are borne by the central government while expenses on visits of other cabinet ministers are met from the funds of the respective ministry. High level visits are established means to foster closer relations with foreign countries and promote India’s engagements at bilateral, regional and global level. Through such visits India serves its national interest and implements foreign policy…

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