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The shutdown is being led by various tribal outfits, including the influential Adivasi Ekta Manch, primarily in the tribal-dominated districts of Gujarat.Gujarat Congress spokesperson Manish Doshi said: “Congress is fully backing the bandh called by tribal the organisations to protest against the Central government’s inadequate response to the crisis in Manipur. We hold BJP squarely responsible for the current situation.”Praful Vasava, a prominent tribal leader and former member of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), said that tribal communities will lead a bandh in Gujarat, protesting against a series of recent atrocities, including violence against women in Manipur, an incident in…

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Rao, 20, a Business Management student, made up for retirement in Race-1 that Raghul Rangasamy (Chennai, MSport) won earlier in the day after coming into contact with another competitor. Starting from P14 on the reverse grid, Tijil scythed through the field for a tremendous victory.“Unfortunately, I was involved in an incident in the first race and so, had to make up for that in the next race. It was fun as I managed to overtake all the 13 cars in front of me and win. I should have more such performances,” said Tijil after finishing ahead of Deepak Ravikumar (Chennai,…

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The case stems from the predicate offences in the infamous “Two leaves matter” wherein Chandrashekhar has been alleged to have impersonated an IAS officer, who allegedly promised to secure the symbol for the Sasikala faction in return for a substantial amount.The Principal District and Sessions Judge of Rouse Avenue Court Anju Bajaj Chandna was hearing Chandrashekhar’s transfer petition, which was a result of a handwritten application moved by him enlisting the instances of bias against him by the court of Special Judge Geetanjali Goel.Advocate Anant Malik appearing for Chandrashekhar, drew the attention of the court to the fact that the…

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The continuous torrential rainfall has pushed Junagadh, along with Amreli district, into a flood-like situation, demonstrating the severity of the monsoon this year.India Meteorological Department (IMD) and the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) have cautioned the fishermen along Gujarat’s coast against venturing into the sea from July 22 to July 26.The warning is particularly pertinent to the stretch of the Gujarat coast extending from Jakhau in Kutch to Diu in the Saurashtra region.The torrential downpour has already claimed three lives earlier in the week — two in Surendranagar district and one in Rajkot district. So far, around…

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Researchers from King’s College London looked at whether infection with Covid-19 affected performance of over 3,000 participants in two rounds of online cognitive testing on memory, attention, reasoning, processing speed and motor control that took place in 2021 and 2022.The results, published in the journal eClinicalMedicine, showed those who had experienced symptoms related to the virus for 12 weeks or more had the worst scores.In these people, the effect of Covid-19 on test accuracy was comparable in size to the effect of a 10-year increase in age.There was no significant improvement in these test scores between the two rounds of…

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The victim was identified as Mohammad Ahsan, a resident of Thokar No.-4, Shaheen Bagh.According to police, the incident occurred on Friday evening, prompting a PCR call about a boy drowning in the Yamuna river. “Police immediately rushed to the location and initiated a search operation. During the investigation, it was discovered that a young boy named Ahsan had been swimming near Thokar number 6, close to a crematorium, along with his friend Rajkumar,” said a senior official.”Suddenly, Ahsan found himself in distress and cried out for help. Two men named Rohit and Muhammad Alam, who were present nearby, attempted to…

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DG CISF Sheel Vardhan Singh, Tapan Kumar Deka, Director, IB, Zulfiquar Hasan, Director General BCAS, and other dignitaries were also present on the occasion.The CISF was inducted at airports for the first time in February 2000. After two decades, currently, CISF is providing security cover to 66 airports out of 134 operational airports in the country, including extremely busy and hypersensitive airports like Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Jammu, Srinagar, and Amritsar.In order to monitor the security functions and resource utilization on a real-time basis, Security Operations Control Centres (SOCCs) are functional at every airport.These SOCCs serve as the nerve/nodal center for…

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Opener Fargana Hoque scored 107, her first ODI hundred, and also became the first centurion from Bangladesh in women’s 50-over international cricket. Her efforts, along with Shamima Sultana’s 52 helped Bangladesh post a respectable 225 for 4 on a spin-friendly pitch.In reply, knocks of 77 and 59 from Harleen Deol and Smriti Mandhana respectively kept India in the hunt for winning the match. But from 191 for four, India lost their next six wickets for just 34 runs, including two in the 48th over, to be all out for 225 in 49.3 overs. With the Super-Over not happening due to…

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The Chief Justice of India was addressing the convocation ceremony of the 60th batch of students at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras here.The CJI told the students that curbing the misuse of technology for harmful purposes would be a key challenge for them.”Today I want to leave you with two questions that I hope you will ask yourselves. What are the values your technology represents and what are its affordances,” Justice Chandrachud said.He added, “When I say value, I do not mean the monetary worth of your ideas, innovations or technologies. I mean what principled values the technology…

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In a regulatory filing ICICI Bank said it closed Q1FY24 with a net profit of Rs 9,648.20 crore (Q1FY23 – Rs 6,904.94 crore) and a total income of Rs 38,762.86 crore (against Rs 28,336.74 crore). For the period under review, ICICI Bank had provided Rs 1,292.44 crore up from Rs 1,143.82 crore the previous corresponding period. ICICI Bank’s gross non-performing assets as on June 30 stood at Rs 31,822.39 crore as compared to Rs 33,163.15 crore as on June 30 last year. The net non-performing assets as on June 30 was Rs 5,381.77 crore as against Rs 6,656.15 crore as…

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