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“The relatives of pilgrims of UT Ladakh, Jammu Division and district Srinagar shall collect the same from Haj House, Bemina, Srinagar three days prior to the scheduled date of arrival,” the statement said.The passes can be had against production of xerox copy of identity card of attendant/relative having cover number written on the same.–IANSzi/dan

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In a new interview with The New York Times Magazine, the actor said that he had reservations about the movie before it even flopped.According to People magazine, the actor said: “I had some reservations. Me and my team seemed a little too excited about the deal and not quite excited enough about the merits of the execution. But at that point I was bulletproof. I was the guru of all genre movies.”Reflecting on the movie’s failure at the box office, he said: “I finished the Marvel contract and then hastily went into what had all the promise of being another…

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On June 25, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) declared the onset of the southwest monsoon over Mumbai and Delhi. While the monsoon was delayed by 14 days in Mumbai, it arrived two days early in Delhi.“There has been a significant increase in dengue cases recently, which can be attributed to weather change. With the onset of the monsoon season, we have observed an average of 10-15 cases per day, out of which 5-6 cases are diagnosed as dengue, while others are viral flu cases,” Dr. Anurag Saxena, HOD-Internal medicine at Primus Super Speciality Hospital, told IANS.“This rise is accompanied by…

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Decentralized finance is an emerging model for organising and enabling cryptocurrency-based transactions, exchanges and financial services.According to security services platform Immunefi, overall hacks across blockchains went up by 63 per cent in the second quarter compared to the same period last year.Despite a 60 per cent drop in total losses, the report warned that hacks have increased by 65 per cent and fraud losses have skyrocketed by 225 per cent.Moreover, the report mentioned that most of the crypto losses originated from two specific incidents — Atomic Wallet, a self-custodial decentralized wallet, lost $100 million in crypto allegedly to hackers on…

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“Amitabh Bachchan is a superstar. National Games will be worse than Commonwealth Games. It will be a scam. I don’t know whether Amitabh Bachchan should lend his voice to a scam. Please make him understand that there is a scam in the making,” Sardesai told reporters here.“If this question comes during the monsoon assembly session, you will come to know about the scam in National Games,” Sardesai said.Sports Minister Govind Gaude had said a couple of days back that Amitabh Bachchan will lend his voice to the theme song of the National Games 2023, also known as the 37th National…

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Dubai, July 11 (IANS) Sri Lanka’s record-breaking spinner Wanindu Hasaranga and Australian women team’s star all-rounder Ashleigh Gardner were on Tuesday adjudged the winners of ICC Player of the Month awards for June.Hasaranga beat out strong opposition from Australia batter Travis Head and Zimbabwe opener Sean Williams for the coveted award in the men’s section on the back of his superb performances for the island nation at the ICC Men’s Cricket World Cup Qualifier.The all-rounder collected 26 wickets at an average of 10 during the month, with the majority of those scalps helping Sri Lanka qualify for the 50-over World…

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Bengaluru, July 11 (IANS) Neha Tripathi returns to the 11th Leg of the Women’s Pro Golf Tour with an extra spring in her step after a long-awaited win last week. She will lead the 39-players field for the Rs. 12 lakh purse at the Bangalore Golf Club.The 31-year-old seasoned golfer, who turned pro back in 2010, went through more than four and a half years without a win before beating back a strong challenge from a bunch of younger players, some of whom are still amateurs.“I knew I was on the right track and I was playing well, but last…

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San Francisco, July 11 (IANS) Users of Meta’s Twitter rival Threads discovered that Elon Musk has begun limiting search results when they try to find links to Threads on the microblogging platform, despite the platform currently being filled with links to Threads content. A user on Threads posted, “Twitter is selectively blocking searches for tweets that link to Threads, even though they allow posting Threads URLs (for now).”However, the behaviour is also being widely reported by Twitter users, reports The Verge. The issue was discovered while searching for links to a specific URL with the “url:” search operator.Searching “url:threads.net” on Twitter…

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Washington, July 11 (IANS) NASA has awarded two American companies Axiom Space and Collins Aerospace task orders to advance spacewalking capabilities in low Earth orbit, as well as moonwalking services for Artemis missions, the agency said. The task orders, part of the latest Exploration Extravehicular Activity Services, are under existing contracts and each has a value of $5 million.It intends Axiom Space to begin work on a spacesuit for use in low Earth orbit, and Collins Aerospace to begin work on a spacesuit for use on the lunar surface.”These task orders position NASA for success should additional capabilities become necessary or…

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Sarasadat Khadem al-shariah, popularly known as Sara Khadem, came in as a replacement player for the Triveni Continental Kings in place of Nana Dzagnidze, who pulled out midway through the event due to personal reasons. Sara came in as a Superstar player and did well in the final few rounds of the league.Amongst the many riveting stories that cropped up from the inaugural Global Chess League, Sara Khadem’s is the more significant one.The International Master and Women’s GM Sara, came in as the stabilising factor for the Kings when the team lingered at the bottom of the table and helped…

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