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London, July 3 (IANS) Former Australia head coach Justin Langer expressed happiness over Pat Cummins & Co managing to stand tall and emerge victorious at the end of the second Ashes Test at Lord’s despite some moments of madness coming on their way to victory.On Day Five, England were at 193/6, before captain Ben Stokes unleashed a stunning onslaught of 155 runs, leaving Australia scared. But once Stokes fell to Josh Hazlewood and his 108-run stand with Stuart Broad came to an end, Australia were able to bowl out England for 327 in 81.3 to go 2-0 up in the…

Rourkela (Odisha), July 3 (IANS) Hockey Maharashtra and Hockey Haryana registered wins in their respective matches on Day 7 of the 13th Hockey India Junior Women’s National Championship 2023 at the Birsa Munda Hockey Stadium on Monday. In the first match of the day, Hockey Maharashtra defeated Delhi Hockey 6-2 in Pool D. Captain Himanshi Gawande (5′, 28′, 33′) led from the front and scored a hat-trick for her side.Khushi (20′, 50′) also scored a brace to maintain the acquired lead for Hockey Maharashtra while Sanika Chandrakant Mane (35′) scored one goal. In response, Muskan (24′) and Subham (40′) scored…

New York, July 3 (IANS) Researchers have found new insights into how water from melting ice could have played a recent role in the formation of ravine-like channels or gullies that cut down the sides of impact craters on Mars.The study, published in the journal Science, focuses on Martian gullies, which look eerily similar to gullies that form on Earth in the dry valleys of Antarctica and are caused by water erosion from melting glaciers.The researchers, including from Brown University, built a model that simulates a sweet spot for when conditions on Mars allow the planet to warm above freezing…

New Delhi, July 3 (IANS) Meta received a record 16,995 complaints through the Indian grievance mechanism in the month of May, led by reports on inappropriate or abusive content (7,289 complaints), the social network has announced.There were 6,787 complaints regarding bullying or harassment, 699 about fake profiles and 550 reports about account hacking, said the company, which has to publish the monthly compliance under the new IT Rules 2021. “We responded to 100 per cent of these 16,995 reports. Of these incoming reports, we provided tools for users to resolve their issues in 2,325 cases,” said Meta. These tools included…

A notification issued by the Department of Information and Public Relation states that any influencer with more than 10, 000 followers on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or YouTube can have ads from as low as Rs 10,000 to Rs 5 lakh per month.Officials said that DIPR will make empanelment of such influencers soon and the process will get started in a week or so.DIPR has prepared four categories for the influencers depending on the number of followers in which followers’ six months history is being evaluated.mFluencer CEO Bhupendra Singh told IANS that its official that the next elections will be contested…

The warmth in the India-US relations was perceptible during the interactions with US National Science Foundation (NSF) and the setting up of the initiative on Critical and Emerging Technology (iCET) that will aid in cooperation in futuristic areas such as artificial intelligence, quantum computing, space exploration, semiconductors and defence technology.“We are confident that this partnership will help usher in a new era of innovation and collaboration between India and the US,” said Pankaj Mohindroo, Chairman, ICEA. “We are setting up a task-force to ensure that the current electronics trade between the 2 countries goes up from an estimated $8 billion…

Speaking to reporters, Kumaraswamy said, “after yesterday’s shocking development about Ajit Pawar’s decision, I am fearing who is going to emerge as the next Ajit Pawar from Karnataka.”Sources said that Kumaraswamy was hinting at deputy chief minister and Karnataka Congress president D.K. Shivakumar.The Shivakumar camp’s unhappiness at their leader missing the post of chief minister is an open secret in the state.Shivakumar’s camp maintains that there is a power sharing formula between the leaders and both will have a 2.5-year term as CM.However, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah’s camp is vehemently claiming that their leader will be the full term Chief Minister.The…

Kaminski wrote on Twitter that “due to the tense situation on the border with Belarus I have decided to bolster our forces with 500 Polish police from preventive and counter-terrorism units,” DW reported.Their deployment will be in addition to 5000 border guards and 2000 soldiers monitoring the security of the border, he said.Deputy Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who is also the leader of Poland’s ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS), said last week he believed there were 8,000 Wagner troops already in Belarus, DW said.Kaczynski had said that Poland would take both temporary and permanent steps to strengthen the border,…

Sami Khan, a 21 year old DYFI leader from Kollam, got into trouble when he approached the Kerala High Court with a petition that despite getting good marks in the 2021-22 NEET examination he was not able to get admission to the undergraduate course.Acting on the petition, the Court directed the NEET to report on why this had happened.Following the NEET going through Khan’s complaint, they found that it was a forged mark list and he was seeking admission based on that.The local police was alerted and after hours of questioning Khan was taken into custody and his arrest was…

The index opened in the green zone and remained positive throughout the session before the trading was halted for an hour after the index hit its upper circuit limit of 5 per cent at around 9:30 a.m., Geo News reported. The trading resumed at 10:37 p.m.When the market opened on Monday, after Eid holidays break, it surged a record 2,231.1 points to 43,683.78 points, rising more than 5 per cent, which forced the suspension, Geo News reported.As the trading resumed after an hour’s suspension, the benchmark index surged to 43,923.71 points — an increase of 5.96 per cent or 2471.03…