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A special bench of Justices B.R. Gavai, A.S. Bopanna, and Dipankar Datta set aside the Gujarat High Court’s order denying her regular bail, deprecating its reasoning that a prima facie presumption of commission of an offence could be made against her if proceedings to quash criminal charges were not instituted by Setalvad.The top court went on to say that such a finding by the High Court was “perverse”.While extending her regular bail, the apex court noted that the custodial interrogation of Setalvad is not required in the case as the charge sheet has already been filed before the trial court.The…

New Delhi, July 19 (IANS) “Ban gaming. Banish it.” An Indian pro gamer has in a tongue in cheek open letter responded to statements made by the revenue secretary of India, that labelled gaming as being against social values.The letter comes in the backdrop of the ongoing controversy surrounding the recommended 28 per cent Goods and Services Tax (GST) on gaming proposed by the GST Council.Sanjay Malhotra, the revenue secretary of India, in a series of interviews justified the 1200-1300 per cent increase in GST. He argued, “If the demand is inelastic and people are actually addicted to it, then…

New Delhi, July 19 (IANS) Reigning U20 World Champion wrestler Antim Panghal on Wednesday raised questions on the exemption given to Vinesh Phogat from the Asian Games selection trial and sought to understand the reason behind this decision.In a surprising move on Tuesday, the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) ad-hoc committee appointed by the Indian Olympic Association (IOA), has granted Tokyo Olympics bronze medallist Bajrang Punia (65kg) and two-time world championships medallist Vinesh (53kg) exemption from appearing in the selection trials for the upcoming Asian Games 2023.19-year-old Antim, who competes in the 53kg weight category, lashed out on a shocking…

New Delhi, July 19 (IANS) IT major Cognizant on Wednesday announced the appointment of six women leaders in the role of Senior Vice President (SVP), including two Indian executives.”These announcements are something we should collectively celebrate. Advancing diversity must be systemic, woven into everything we do starting with how we recruit and hire, develop, promote, engage and retain talent,” Cognizant CEO Ravi Kumar S. said in a statement.Among the Indian women leaders, Sailaja Josyula was promoted and is now the SVP, Intuitive Operations & Automation (IOA), for the Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance (BFSI) industry for the commercial markets in…

Gandhinagar, July 19 (IANS) London-based company OneWeb and the Gujarat Government’s Science and Technology Department have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) today for the establishment of a ‘Satellite Network Portal Site’ in Gujarat.The portal site aims to provide affordable connectivity to various sectors, including the government, offering continuous and secure satellite internet access at affordable rates nationwide.“OneWeb will set up one of the private ‘satellite network portal sites’ in Mehsana district of Gujarat. The satellite network portal site, which will be located in Jotana taluka of Mehsana district, plans to provide high-speed, low-latency, and affordable connectivity to the government,…

“Microsoft 365 Copilot will be available for commercial customers for $30 per user per month for Microsoft 365 E3, E5, Business Standard and Business Premium customers when broadly available,” Microsoft said in a blogpost on Tuesday.According to the company, the Microsoft 365 Copilot is built on the company’s trusted and comprehensive approach to enterprise-grade security, privacy, identity, compliance and responsible AI, making it enterprise-ready.The GPT-4-powered suite of tools will let businesses generate Office content using natural-language text prompts.”Copilot jump-starts your creativity in Word, analyses data in Excel, designs presentations in PowerPoint, triages your Outlook inbox, summarises meetings in Teams –…

According to a memo from the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) obtained first by Bloomberg News, the infamous lab “is not compliant with federal regulations and is not presently responsible”.It noted that the lab did not share requested documents on their security and safety measures. “This action will ensure the (Wuhan Institute of Virology) does not receive another dollar of federal funding,” an HHS spokesperson was quoted as saying in a statement to Bloomberg.“The move was undertaken due to WIV’s failure to provide documentation on WIV’s research requested by NIH related to concerns that WIV violated NIH’s…

The company has also delayed the August salary for senior employees to September 4 as well, it said in an email seen by TechCrunch. The delay comes as the startup focuses on “streamlining our cash flow so we can build a more sustainable business for the future”, according to the Bengaluru-headquartered startup. To improve its financial health, Dunzo reportedly capped employee salaries at Rs 75,000 per month, irrespective of their pay packages. “We need your support as we work through this,” the company wrote in the email. “For those team members who were expecting the balance payouts of their June…

Out of the total approved amount, the committee has allocated funds of Rs 12.50 crore for the installation of an automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) speed detection system and Rs 5.40 crore for the procurement of 30 light recovery vans and other road safety equipment.The Chief Secretary said Rs 5.6 crore has been allocated to districts for the procurement of essential safety equipment, including winter jackets, reflector jackets, raincoats with reflectors, baton lights, dresses with caps, digital diversion boards, portable speed breakers, and road safety-related literature and brochures.Additionally, measures such as audio clip distribution, road safety campaigns, rallies, marathons, cow…

A thrilling women’s Ashes series came to a close at Taunton with England defeating Australia by 69 runs via DLS method in the third ODI on Tuesday night.The victory allowed England to clinch the ODI series 2-1, but Australia still retained the Women’s Ashes as the multi-format series ended tied at 8-8 following the seven matches, due to the Alyssa Healy-led side being previous holders of the trophy. But more importantly, England handed Australia their first ODI series defeat in a decade.”I’m hugely pleased, it’s a draw isn’t it. And we’ve got two trophies against the world champions, which is…