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In a statement, Azad said: “The enemies of peace are trying everything to hurt the peace and prosperity in Jammu and Kashmir with their nefarious designs by carrying out such attacks on the migrant workers. I pray for the early recovery of the injured.”Expressing sympathy with the families of migrant workers who work in Jammu and Kashmir, Azad urged people to ensure their safety since the labourers belong to poor strata of society who toil hard to earn living for their families back home.”These poor migrant labourers are the backbone of Jammu Kashmir economy as daily wagers who toil in…

The consignment, which was booked from Haryana, was to be delivered in Bihar. The five miscreants, who had looted the truck on June 19, were arrested on Thursday.After the loot, the miscreants had started leading a lavish life which made their competitors suspicious and they reported the matter to police who kept a tab on their activities and finally arrested them.The miscreants were identified as Mohammed Faraz, the egg seller, Mumtaz, a tempo driver and Azmat Ali, a mobile phone mechanic, Sufian, a vegetable vendor and Ishtiaq, a driver.They had used a sports utility vehicle in the crime.DCP, north, Qasim…

DGP’s instruction came after two undertrials — Kuldeep Jaghina and Vijay Pal were shot at by an assailant in which Kuldeep Jaghina died while Vijay was injured.He also instructed IG crime Prafful Kumar to investigate the case.On Thursday, Chief Secretary Anand Kumar chaired a meeting on the Amoli toll plaza firing incident. He issued the necessary guidelines to prevent recurrence of such incidents.He instructed that Director General and the Jail Department will establish a committee at the district level in coordination with the Director General of Police, Rajasthan.The constituted committee will identify and prepare a list of hardcore miscreants, organised…

The higher than expected headline inflation (4.81 per cent vs 4.6 per cent est.) was on the back of sharp uptick in inflationary pressures in the vegetables and pulses category.The deflationary trend in the vegetable category almost reverted to inflationary phase (-0.9 per cent YoY vs -8 per cent YoY prior) in June’23, with a substantially strong momentum (12.2 per cent MoM vs 3.6 per cent MoM prior).Within vegetables, retail prices of tomato increased to Rs 57/kg by the end of June, while at the start of the month it was available at Rs 25/kg. It is pertinent to note…

Roseau (Dominica), July 14 (IANS) Young Indian opening batter Yashasvi Jaiswal, who made a spectacular hundred on Day Two of the Test match against West Indies, revealed the backing he received from captain Rohit Sharma while batting and said the skipper encouraged him to score big on his debut.On the back of centuries from Jaiswal (143 not out) and Rohit (103) India maintained their upper hand in the first Test, reaching a dominant position of 312/2 in their first innings and a lead of 162 runs at the end of the second day on Thursday.Jaiswal, who resumed on 40 not…

San Francisco, July 14 (IANS) Meta (formerly Facebook) has developed a new dataset which the company will use to improve the performance of automatic speech recognition (ASR) tools by clustering speech at the “utterance level”.As part of Meta’s continued commitment to improving ASR performance, the company has taught ASRs to train without transcripts, recognise over 4,000 spoken languages, and even read lips more accurately than humans.However, many of the datasets used to train ASR models are organised by demographic such as age group, gender, nationality, and English accent, which limits the variation of pronunciations that models are trained on, ultimately…

A bench headed by CJI D.Y. Chandrachud agreed to post the matter on Monday after advocate Kanu Agarwal mentioned the state government’s plea for urgent listing.On July 7, the Manipur High Court had directed to lift the ban on providing internet through Internet Lease Line (ILL) across the state after ensuring that all the stakeholders have complied with the safeguards given by the Expert Committee, constituted earlier by the court.Some of the safeguards stipulated by the Expert Committee for internet access to be restored include limiting the speed to 10MBPS, securing undertakings from intended users that they will not indulge…

Leading this important mission is India’s very own rocket woman, Ritu Karidhal Shrivastava and she has her roots in Lucknow.Shrivastava is an ISRO scientist. She is the mission director of the Chandrayaan-3 mission. She is a native of Lucknow though her family no longer lives here.She was also a part of the Mangalyaan mission. Shrivastava was the deputy director of the Mars mission. Now she is leading the important space mission.Shrivastava was born and raised in Lucknow. She did M.Sc from Lucknow University in Physics. She later studied at the prestigious Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru and then started working…

“We’re expanding our creator monetisation offering to include ads revenue sharing for creators. This means that creators can get a share in ad revenue starting in the replies to their posts. This is part of our effort to help people earn a living directly on Twitter,” the company said on the ‘Creator Ads Revenue Sharing’ page.The programme will be available in all the countries where Stripe supports payouts.”We are rolling out to an initial group who will be invited to accept payment,” the platform added.On Twitter, many creators shared how much money they received from the micro-blogging platform via the…

Talking to journalists in Colombo, he said that this was accomplished by measures to increase revenue and strict expenditure controls, reports Xinhua news agency.Revenues and grants grew by 38.1 per cent in the same period, compared to 2022, Siyambalapitiya said.Meanwhile, the total tax revenue, at the same time, was 1,029 billion rupees and non-tax revenues were 91 billion LKR, Director General of the Fiscal Policy Department of the Finance Ministry Kapila Senanayake said.–IANSksk