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Dubai, July 18 (IANS) Australia batter Beth Mooney piped Sri Lankan Chamari Athapaththu to regain the top spot in the women’s ODI players ranking released on Tuesday.Athapaththu’s reign at the top of the ODI batters rankings lasted just two weeks as she slipped to third with 758 rating points and Mooney climbed to top with 769 ratings.Mooney was among the runs in the first two ODIs against England with scores of 81 not out and 33 as Australia regained the Ashes with a win in the second match of the series.Following the Australian closely is England’s Nat Sciver-Brunt, who almost…

Mumbai, July 18 (IANS) DD Sports has achieved a groundbreaking milestone by securing the television broadcast rights in India for the highly anticipated FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023 starting July 20, 2023.Prasar Bharti, CEO, Gaurav Dwivedi IAS said, “We are HAPPY to have secured the television broadcast rights for the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023. This prestigious tournament not only showcases the immense talent and dedication of women in football but also serves as a platform to inspire the next generation of athletes. We are proud to partner with 1Stadia in this endeavour, as they share our passion for promoting…

New Delhi, July 18 (IANS) The global PC shipments saw a 15 per cent decline (year-on-year) in the second quarter (Q2) of 2023 but rose 8 per cent (quarter-on-quarter), a new report showed on Tuesday.Lenovo maintained its leading position in PC shipments despite an 18 per cent (year-on-year) decline, while HP and Apple showed solid performance with market share growth, according to Counterpoint Research.”Although the inventory levels continued to normalise in Q2, another double-digit YoY decline was recorded after the 28 per cent YoY decline in Q1. Therefore, the YoY decline in Q2 can be seen as relatively stabilising the…

Washington, July 18 (IANS) Eli Lilly’s Alzheimer’s drug has shown promise to slow down cognitive and functional decline in people who are in early stages of the disease’s progression, according to results of phase 3 trial. This comes on the heels of Eisai and Biogen’s lecanemab, known by the brand name Leqembi, becoming the first to get US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) full approval, earlier this month, to slow down disease progression in adult patients with Alzheimer’s disease.Alzheimer’s disease is an irreversible, progressive brain disorder that slowly destroys memory and thinking skills and eventually, the ability to carry out…

San Francisco, July 18 (IANS) Google has announced that it is rolling out improved meeting room suggestions in ‘Google Calendar’.Earlier, there were two different room suggestion types based on a company’s Calendar settings, the tech giant said in a Workspace Updates blogpost on Monday.The first option lists frequently used rooms for users to pick from, while the second uses the structured meeting rooms feature to suggest rooms based on meeting attendees’ self-selected working location.Structured meeting rooms are rooms that are assigned to specific buildings, with meeting hardware and capacity information.In order to better optimise meeting rooms and foster greater collaboration,…

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) and Australian Energy Market Operator published the annual GenCost report for 2022-23, revealing that all technology costs increased over the last 12 months by an average of 20 per cent, reports Xinhua news agency.It is the first time since GenCost was first published in 2018 that all generation sources monitored by the report have gone up in price.Onshore wind technology had the biggest price increase, up 35 per cent from 2021-2022, and rooftop and large-scale solar the smallest at 9 per cent.Despite the spike, wind power remained one of Australia’s cheapest new-build…

Opposing the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) statement on allowing compromise settlement of loans with fraudsters and willful defaulters the People’s Commission said fraud and willful default are criminal offences.The People’s Commission is a body comprising of eminent academics, jurists, erstwhile administrators, trade unionists and social activists.In a statement issued the People’s Commission said: “Write-offs by public sector banks increased from Rs 7,187 crore in 2013 to Rs119,713 crore in 2022. Among these public sector banks, the State Bank of India has in the last 10 years written off the highest total amount, at Rs 297,196 crore. It is followed…

The IMD also said that a spell of heavy to very heavy rainfall is likely to continue over the the Konkan region, Goa and Maharashtra during next five days and over Gujarat, Chhattisgarh, Vidarbha, Telangana and Odisha in the next three days.The weatherman also said that northwest India is expected to experience light to moderate rainfall, with fairly widespread to widespread coverage and isolated instances of heavy rainfall.Specifically, areas including Jammu-Kashmir-Ladakh-Gilgit-Baltistan-Muzaffarabad, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and East Rajasthan can anticipate rainfall till Saturday.“Himachal Pradesh will see rainfall today and on Thursday and Friday.Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, and West Uttar Pradesh are expected…

Former MLA Tanavade had filed his nomination for lone Rajya Sabha seat of Goa on July 11. However, Opposition parties including Congress, AAP, Revolutionary Goans Party and Goa Forward in joint statement had said that they will not fight the Rajya Sabha election. Thus, after the process BJP candidate was declared as winner on Tuesday. Election to the lone Rajya Sabha seat from Goa was scheduled on July 24, as the term of the current member, BJP leader, Vinay Tendulkar will expire on July 28. Namrata Ulman, the Returning Officer and Secretary of Goa Legislative Assembly, on Tuesday handed over…

Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Harjeet Singh Jaspal also granted interim bail to Vinod Tomar, former Assistant Secretary of Singh.Appearing for accused persons, Advocate Rajeev Mohan suvmitted before court that since the charge sheet is before arrest, he is filing bail bonds.However, Additional Public Prosecutor Atul Srivastava for Delhi Police said that “We (Delhi Police) have not arrested him. We leave it to my lord. Condition must be there… I oppose it with condition that he shouldn’t influence witness.”ACMM Jaspal has posted the matter for hearing arguments on regular bail plea on Thursday.The court had on July 7 summoned Singh…