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New York, July 11 (IANS) Seeing news about climate change daily may frighten people, but it may help shape the way people feel about the phenomenon and also help take action to address it, finds a study. Researchers from the Pennsylvania State University conducted two separate studies to understand what seeing bad news about climate change means for people.The first study involved exposing participants to three days of negative news stories about climate change. A follow-up study consisted of participants reading negative news headlines about climate change in the form of Twitter posts for seven consecutive days. The results, published…

San Francisco, July 11 (IANS) Apple on Tuesday launched an online store on Tencent’s WeChat messaging app in China. With over 1.2 billion users, WeChat is China’s largest messaging platform and is often referred to as a “super app” because it offers more than just instant messaging.  According to CNBC, the tech giant has launched the online store to the app via WeChat’s so-called “Mini Programmes”, which are effectively apps within WeChat, meaning users will no longer need to download a plethora of different apps, but will instead be able to access all of the services they require from within…

Even on Tuesday, Nifty held on to its gains despite profit booking in several banking and Financial heavyweights.”Going forward, we expect the positive momentum to continue on the back of healthy earnings, consistent FII inflows, and improving monsoon,” he said.Technology sector is likely to remain in action as TCS and HCL Tech will announce their result on Wednesday.Domestic equities traded in positive territory after an encouraging handover from global peers. Nifty opened higher and remained steady throughout the session to close with gains of 84 points (+0.4 per cent) at 19,439 levels, he said.Broader market outperformed with the Nifty midcap…

Sachin, who earned his spurs at ‘Dance India Dance 6’, and is now a part of gang leader Prince Narula’s team, celebrated his birthday in style.Young B-town notables such as Khushi Singh, Jyotica Tangri, Sidharth Nigam, Prince Narula, Nia Sharma, Pratik Gaur, Vishal Jethwa and Jogindar aka Thara Bhai Jogindar were among the prominent people who joined the birthday bash.Talking about his stint on the youth adventure reality show, Sachin said, “MTV Roadies has been the best show of my life, the best experience of my life, which has made me laugh and cry, and whatever emotions I had within…

“How can BJP’s dual policy run in the country? BJP top leader said that Chagan Bhujbal and Praful Patel are corrupt leaders. Then why did BJP worked with the same leaders? “I want to know from BJP what kind of detergent powder they use to clean leaders. When these leaders go to BJP they are clean and when they move towards us they start smelling. What kind of detergent powder BJP uses? Tell us, we will use the same detergent powder,” Ashok Chaudhary said, while interacting with the media persons in Bihar Vidhan Sabha.Reacting on Nitish Kumar having asked Jitan…

One cryptocurrency in particular that has led to investors amassing impressive returns is Bitcoin. Satoshi Nakamoto, the pseudonym for the creator of Bitcoin, is widely assumed to have the most Bitcoin wealth. Though the creator has not officially revealed the amount of Bitcoin he holds, estimates predict he has a wallet containing around 1.1 million BTC, according to data shared by niche news publisher BanklessTimes.com.This would convert to a staggering around $25 billion. “Following Nakamoto is Changpeng Zhao, commonly known as CZ who is the founder and CEO of Binance, with a total of $65 billion. Prior to Sam Bankman-Fried’s…

“Alert troops of the Indian Army on the night of July 10 foiled a major infiltration bid along the LoC in an operation,” Defence Ministry spokesperson Lt Col Suneel Bartwal said in a statement.”On 10 July midnight, the Indian Army deployed along the LoC in Naushera observed suspicious movement of a group of terrorists moving from across the LoC towards their own side. Heavy and accurate fire was brought down on the terrorists.”One terrorist was seen falling to the side, while two others who were injured, were seen taking cover into the jungle. The area of operation being broken ground,…

Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, representing the SEBI, informed the court that they had submitted a “constructive response” the previous day, addressing the suggestions outlined in the committee’s report. The bench, headed by Chief Justice D.Y. Chandrachud and comprising Justices P.S. Narasimha and Manoj Misra, asked about the progress of the investigation. Mehta replied that the apex court had granted SEBI time until August 14 to complete the probe into the allegations of stock price manipulation by the Adani group, and the investigation was currently ongoing. He clarified that their response was solely related to the recommendations made by the expert…

During the six-year period, more than 52% of the BJP’s total donations came from Electoral Bonds worth Rs 5271.97 crore, while all other national parties received Rs 1783.93 crore, as per the report, a copy of which has been accessed by IANSIt has pointed out that during the same period the Indian National Congress declared the second highest donations from bonds of Rs 952.29 crore, which is 61.54% of its total donations. The All India Trinamool Congress followed by declaring Rs 767.88 crore, which is 93.27% of the total donations.While more than 89.81% of the Biju Janata Dal’s (BJD) total…

A.S. Suresh, the assistant commandant of the Kerala Armed Police Battalion-3, who is also the nodal officer of the Kerala Police Dog Squad, has been found to have violated rules and regulations especially in buying dogs from North India and also in buying dog feed.The Vigilance and Anti-Corruption Bureau of the Kerala Police while probing the issue after it got a letter highlighting the corrupt practices found serious lapses.The findings include that the dogs were sourced from North India at a high price and also tender norms were liberalised which enabled a shop in the state capital that deals in…