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He said, however, the government’s efforts are on to stop the illegal coal mining and that there are different laws to take action against the people who are involved in illegal activities of coal mining.“Actions have been taken and thousands of cases have been registered. Chargesheets were filed against a large number of people involved in illegal coal mining.“People engaged themselves in coal mining for the last 200 years and their livelihood is based around coal business. Unless and until alternative livelihoods are not arranged for the workers, people will keep themselves associated with the coal mining,” Sangma told the…

Chairing a meeting to review the performance of public sector banks on various financial health parameters for 2022-23, the focus was mainly on positive macro trends, improved business sentiments, ‘twin balance sheet advantage’ and overall performance of state-owned banks.Sitharaman emphasised on banks’ adherence to the regulatory framework by focussing on risk management and diversification of the business base.The business outlook is progressively improving in spite of the headwinds from recent global banking sector developments, it was noted in the meeting.Sitharaman further asked banks to meet the targets for credit to street vendors under PMSVANidhi scheme.She added that the momentum of…

“Digital Nomad Visa can help to strengthen tourism as it will give new openings for home stays. It will also help create employment and boost the state’s potential as a global work-cum-leisure destination,” Khaunte told mediapersons here.He said that the issue of Digital Nomad Visa will be taken up with the External Affairs Ministry with the help of Chief Minister Pramod Sawant.Khaunte said that if the digital nomad concept is launched, Goa will have a lot to offer.”There are around 46 countries which offer Digital Nomads Visa. After Covid, we have seen that a lot of domestic tourists coming to…

Bulawayo, July 6 (IANS) Bas de Leede took a five-wicket haul and then struck his first century in an impressive all-round performance as Netherlands became the tenth and last team to book their spot in the 2023 ODI World Cup after beating Scotland by four wickets in an all-important Super Six match of the Qualifiers at Queens Sports Club, here on Thursday. After taking 5/52, De Leede overshadowed Brandon McMullen’s 106 by hitting 123 off 92 balls, laced with seven fours and five sixes at a strike-rate of 133.7, for the Netherlands to hunt down 278 in 42.5 overs and…

San Francisco, July 6 (IANS) Google has released the monthly security updates for the Android operating system, which come with fixes for 46 vulnerabilities, along with the fix for three actively exploited bugs. “There are indications that the following (vulnerabilities) may be under limited, targeted exploitation — CVE-2023-26083, CVE-2021-29256, and CVE-2023-2136,” reads Android Security Bulletin.According to BleepingComputer, CVE-2023-26083 is a medium-severity memory leak flaw in the Arm Mali GPU driver for Bifrost, Avalon, and Valhall chips that was exploited in a December 2022 exploit chain that delivered spyware to Samsung devices.CVE-2021-29256 is a critical (CVSS v3.1: 8.8) unprivileged information disclosure and…

After taking 5/52 to keep Scotland to 277/9, De Leede overshadowed Brandon McMullen’s 106 by hitting 123 off 92 balls, laced with seven fours and five sixes at a strike-rate of 133.7, also his first ODI century.His efforts, along with Vikramjit Singh’s 40 and Saqib Zulfiqar’s 33 not out propelled the Netherlands to hunt down 278 in 42.5 overs and book their ticket for the ODI World Cup in India, to be held from October 5 to November 19.De Leede also became only the fourth player to score a century and take a five-wicket haul in the same men’s ODI…

“Meanwhile, the Prime Minister is visiting Chhattisgarh and UP tomorrow. Day after he will be in Telangana and Rajasthan. More photo-ops. More distorted facts. More insults aimed at the Opposition. More self-glorification,” Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh said in a tweet.“But not a word on Manipur even after 66 days.Not an iota of expression of pain, grief and anguish. No appeal for peace, harmony and reconciliation. His behaviour on Manipur is shockingly bizarre,” Ramesh said.His remarks came ahead of the Prime Minister Modi’s visit to Uttar Pradesh and Chhattisgarh on Friday.The Prime Minister is also scheduled to visit poll bound…

Set in the milieu of a newsroom, the narrative for ‘Barsatein’ sees the passionate duo lock horns as they find themselves entwined in a complex web of emotions with the two leads having opposing personalities.While Aradhna is an optimistic soul who believes in love she is not the stereotypical girl next-door lying-in-wait for her partner. She is a sharp, clever and creative person who is brimming with ideas. She relentlessly pursues the truth, albeit with a healthy dose of scepticism.Reyansh Lamba on the other hand, is a young entrepreneur who owns a news channel and has garnered significant media attention.…

State Congress President Nana Patole said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi publicly accused the NCP of “Rs 70,000 crore corruption” and a few days later, “honourably” inducted a breakaway faction of the same corrupt party in the Maharashtra government and even awarded them cabinet posts. “The PM has different sets of standards on the issue of corruption and his anti-corruption rhetoric is hollow. How can you call the NCP a ‘corrupt party’ and then take them in power? The PM and the BJP are protecting the corrupt people,” he said. Hitting out the BJP, he alleged that “corruption was in…

In an interview with The Independent, the actress said that she chose to remain silent about the chaotic on-set behaviour and allegations of sexual misconduct against Bryan Singer because she didn’t feel like there was anything left to say, as her colleagues had already been outspoken about the whole affair.She said, quoted by The Hollywood Reporter: “Yeah, I kind of just… I didn’t feel like I needed to say anything. I know the two people that I worked with had it coming, and they got theirs,” she said. “I’m not gonna… I don’t need to say anything else.”During the interview,…