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As per the latest news, one Trinamool Congress worker, Khagen Bhutiya (55) has been severely injured in a gun battle at Basanti. He has been shifted to the local primary block rural hospital and is under treatment there.The Trinamool Congress leadership has blamed local BJP activists for the incident, which the latter has denied.Following the incident, tension and sporadic clashes broke out in pockets at Basanti. Although a police contingent reached there to take control of the situation, tension was prevailing in the area till the time the report was filed.Similarly massive clashes between Trinamool Congress and All India Secular…

The idea for ‘Rebel Moon’ started out as a pitch for a Snyder-directed ‘Star Wars’ movie that Lucasfilm heard after Disney acquired the studio in 2012 for $4.05 billion. Snyder was in post-production on ‘Man of Steel’ when he made his ‘Star Wars’ pitch to Lucasfilm, reports ‘Variety’.Snyder said in a new interview with Empire magazine that “a ‘Star Wars’ movie” was “my original concept” for ‘Rebel Moon’, adding, “It was ‘Seven Samurai’ in space. I knew that the origins for George (Lucas) were a lot of those Kurosawa films.””The sale (of Lucasfilm to Disney) had just happened,” Snyder continued.…

According to Airport Authority of India (AAI) sources here, the pilot noticed the glitch while the aircraft was taxing the runway. State Ministers Ranjeet Das, Bimal Bora and Congress leader Romen Barthakur were on board flight and heading towards Dibrugarh for individual programs. An inspection to repair the glitch is currently underway. –IANS tdr/ksk

The average mean temperature for June in the UK this year hit 15.8 degrees Celsius, 0.9 degrees higher than the joint previous record of 14.9 degrees in 1940 and 1976, reports Xinhua news agency.Met Office scientists found that the chance of observing a June beating the previous joint record has at least doubled since the 1940s.”Alongside natural variability, the background warming of the Earth’s atmosphere due to human-induced climate change has driven up the possibility of reaching record high temperatures,” said Paul Davies, Met Office climate extremes principal fellow and chief meteorologist.”By the 2050s, the chance of surpassing the previous…

Gerwig in a new interview with Rolling Stone was talking about the time the crew spent filming a rollerblading scene in Venice Beach, reports ‘Variety’.Set photos from the scene, featuring Robbie and Gosling in neon outfits, exploded on social media last summer during production.”How Barbie operates in Barbieland is she’s entirely continuous with her environment,” Gerwig said.”Even the houses have no walls, because you never need to hide because there’s nothing to be ashamed of or embarrassed of. And suddenly finding yourself in the real world and wishing you could hide, that’s the essence of being human. But when we…

The IMD also said that Tuesday’s minimum was 3.6 degrees more than Monday.The weatherman has predicted a possibility of light rainfall or thundershowers in the national capital in the day, with the maximum temperature expected to hover around 37 degrees Celsius.The relative humidity at 8.30 a.m. on Tuesday morning was recorded at 75 per cent.Over the next few days, the maximum temperature is forecasted to be above 33 degrees and below 37, and minimum temperatureis stated to be less than 29 degrees but above 25.Also in the coming days, the IMD has predicted moderate rain, light rain, rain or thundershowers.Meanwhile,…

According to a report in The Financial Times, citing sources, Apple has reportedly asked its main Vision Pro assembler Luxshare to make fewer than 400,000 units next year. It is reportedly down from an initial internal sales target of one million.China-based Luxshare is said to be Apple’s main Vision Pro assembler, apart from several others.Apple or Luxshare declined to comment on the report.Earlier, Apple relied on Taiwanese suppliers like Foxconn to help it develop the first generations of new product lines.Apple tapped Chinese electronics contract manufacturer Luxshare Precision Industry Co as the key assembler, along with six other Mainland China…

This was a 24 per cent jump in gross gaming revenue from Rs 2,250 crore in IPL 2022, and the market has grown at a CAGR of 30 per cent since IPL 2019, according to the report by Redseer Strategy Consultants.”The top three platforms captured 96 per cent of the market share during the IPL 2023, and had an average revenue of Rs 458 per user for the season,” said Ujjwal Chaudhry, partner at Redseer.The influx of new users led to an 11 per cent increase in cash users during the season, with the average spend per match of Rs…

San Francisco, July 4 (IANS) Meta’s Twitter competitor, Instagram Threads, is expected to launch on Thursday, according to an App Store listing for the application.”Say more with Threads — Instagram’s text-based conversation app. Threads is where communities come together to discuss everything from the topics you care about today to what’ll be trending tomorrow,” Meta said.With the new application, users will be able to follow and connect directly with their favourite creators and others.They will be able to “build a loyal following of your own to share your ideas, opinions and creativity with the world”, according to the company.Last week,…

San Francisco, July 4 (IANS) Micro-blogging platform Twitter has launched a new and improved version of the social media dashboard application for management ‘TweetDeck’ globally, and said that after 30 days only verified users will be able to access the new app.The company tweeted from the @TwitterSupport account: “All users can continue to access their saved searches & workflows via https://tweetdeck.twitter.com by selecting ‘Try the new TweetDeck’ in the bottom left menu.”All of the users’ saved searches, lists and columns will carry over to the new TweetDeck.Also, users will be prompted to import their columns when they load the application…