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The decision was taken based on the prevalent Covid-19 situation and the significant achievements made in the vaccination coverage across the globe, the Ministry said.”The new guidelines shall come into effect from 0000 hours of July 20. The earlier requirements for RT-PCR based testing of a random 2 per cent subset of international travelers to India, now stand dropped.”However, the earlier advice for precautionary measures to be followed in context of Covid-19 by airlines as well as international travelers shall continue to apply,” the Ministry added.The Ministry further said that it continues to follow the Covid-19 scenario closely.According to the…

Earlier, PM Modi was to transfer the amount of Samman Nidhi to the accounts of nine crore farmers across the country in Nagaur, however now he will transfer this fund from Sikar.This programme, proposed by the Union Ministry of Agriculture and Fertilizer, was earlier to be held at Kharnal, the birthplace of Veer Tejaji, but now its location has been changed to the district stadium in Sikar.The responsibility of the programme has been given to Union Minister of State for Agriculture Kailash Chaudhary. The event’s nature has been changed from a government programme to a political rally.PM Modi will now…

“The Philippine government will not talk or deal with the ICC. We don’t need them or want them to come here,” Remulla told a press conference held in Manila He added that the ICC’s decision is “a usurpation of the authority of the Philippine government”, reports Xinhua news agencyRemulla was reacting to the ICC’s decision on Tuesday to continue its probe into the anti-drug campaign after the Appeals Chamber of the Court rejected the plea of the Philippine government against the resumption of the investigation.He said that the ICC will violate the Philippine law and the legal system should they…

New Delhi, July 19 (IANS) Team India will play Pakistan on September 2 in Kandy in the 2023 Asia Cup, scheduled to start on August 30, said a report.According to ESPNcricinfo, the tournament opener will be played in Multan with hosts Pakistan playing Nepal with the final scheduled in Colombo on September 17.“Those matches feature in the latest version of the draft schedule which is likely to see further changes before the ACC announces the final version. The original draft schedule, prepared by the PCB (the hosting board), has already undergone several iterations mainly because of the six-nation tournament being…

New Delhi, July 19 (IANS) Veteran Australian opener David Warner has expressed his fondness for the banter song created by England fans, which humorously references his less-than-impressive performance against his nemesis seasoned English seamer Stuart Broad.Warner’s well-documented struggles against Stuart Broad are evident with the English pacer dismissing him a total of 17 times throughout his career.In the Headingley Test, Broad got Warner for the 16th and 17th time in a battle that is now a decade old. On the Vaughany and Tuffers Cricket Club podcast, Warner admitted that he enjoys the banter song that England fans sing about him…

Pune, July 19 (IANS) Manika Batra starer Bengaluru Smashers will aim to register their first win as they go up against defending champions Chennai Lions in Ultimate Table Tennis Season 4, here on Thursday.Bengaluru Smashers lost their previous two ties in Season 4 against U Mumba TT and Dabang Delhi TTC and lie in the sixth position in the points table.Manika will be the key player for the franchise in the next tie, while Kirill Gerassimenko and Natalia Bajor will also look to contribute to the victory.”The last two ties were really difficult and we haven’t started really well in…

New Delhi, July 19 (IANS) Chinese short-video-making app TikTok has launched a subscription-based music streaming service to take on market leaders Apple and Spotify.The company launched the subscription-only music streaming service called “TikTok Music” in Australia, Mexico and Singapore, reports TechCrunch.The expansion comes about two weeks after TikTok launched the music streaming service in Brazil and Indonesia.TikTok Music lets users sync the service to their existing TikTok accounts and listen, download and share songs.The service includes the catalogues of major record companies, including Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group and Sony Music.”TikTok Music is a new kind of music service…

Toronto, July 19 (IANS) Has someone close to you just been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease? Well, chances are the disease has been progressing quietly but insidiously for more than 10 years, new research shows. The research, published in the journal Nature Communications, sheds new light on the surprising resilience of the brain during the asymptomatic period of Parkinson’s.In their study, a team led by Universite de Montreal neuroscientist Louis-Eric Trudeau demonstrated that movement circuits in the brains of mice are insensitive to an almost total loss of active secretion of this chemical messenger.This observation is surprising because dopamine is a…

Seoul, July 19 (IANS) LG AI Research, the artificial intelligence lab under LG Group, unveiled the second generation of its giant, multimodal AI model on Wednesday, accelerating its efforts to become a force to be reckoned with in the increasingly competitive global AI race.The EXAONE 2.0 operates faster and more efficiently and saves more energy, compared with the first version introduced in December 2021, Bae Kyung-hoon, chief of LG AI Research, said at the LG AI Talk Concert at LG Science Park in western Seoul.EXAONE, short for expert AI for everyone, is a giant, multimodal language model that can understand…

San Francisco, July 19 (IANS) Samsung has teased its upcoming foldable smartphones ahead of the Galaxy Unpacked event which is scheduled to be held on July 26.”We have distilled the Samsung design philosophy into three Design Identities, each one with you at the centre: our products must be Essential, Innovative, and Harmonious,” TM Roh, President and Head of MX Business at Samsung Electronics, said in a statement.According to Roh, these three “Design Identities” are “exemplified” by the company’s latest hardware and software ecosystem.He further said that the act of folding and unfolding a smartphone seems simple, but that simplicity users…