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Cacapa joins the Rio de Janeiro outfit from France’s Lyon, where he has worked as an assistant coach since 2016. Botafogo and Lyon are both owned by American businessman John Textor, a Xinhua report said.”Botafogo informs that Claudio Cacapa, who has been an assistant manager at Lyon since 2015, will be the interim coach of Botafogo until the arrival of the new head coach,” read a statement on the club’s official website.The position became vacant on Friday when Castro announced that he had accepted an offer to join Saudi Arabia’s Al-Nassr.Botafogo have made their best start to a Brazilian top-flight…

The state intelligence issued this alert after inputs from a central intelligence agency.According to a senior police official, these fake profiles were created by Pakistan Intelligence Operative (PIO), a wing of Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI (Inter-Service Intelligence), to target officers and personnel of central as well as state agencies involved in internal and external security.He said the state intelligence had issued an alert last week, including the list of 14 fake profile details, their photographs and names used in creating these profiles, contact numbers, URL and suggested to the officials and personnel to ensure that these profiles are not on…

Zoo assistant director and chief veterinarian Dr Utkarsh Shukla said it is yet to be ascertained if the mother gharial is the same that had laid eggs last year or the other one.“There are three adult male and four female gharials in the zoo.”As all of them look identical, it is difficult to say if it is the same gharial which had laid eggs last year or the other one,” said Shukla, adding, “We are trying to get the exact count of the baby gharials who were born on Saturday.”Zoo director Aditi Sharma said with their birth, the gharial count…

However, Raunak accidentally shot Vishal, killing him on the spot.The incident happened on Saturday evening. According to the police, two other persons — including a jail personnel and a police constable — also sustained injuries.Rajan was lodged in jail for attempted murder since June 13.Bijnor’s Superintendent of Police (SP) Neeraj Kumar Jadaun said, “As Rajan stepped out of the jail, Vishal Pandit and his accomplice Raunak, who had come to target him, opened indiscriminate firing on the former. Soon after, jail personnel and cops at a nearby jail police outpost turned up to rescue Rajan. While Rajan was running back…

San Francisco, July 2 (IANS) Twitter-owner Elon Musk on Sunday announced that the “rate limits” will “soon” increase on the micro-blogging platform.Musk on Saturday said that verified accounts have been limited to reading 6,000 posts per day, unverified accounts will be able to read 600 posts per day and new unverified accounts just 300 posts a day.In an update on Sunday, he said that “rate limits” will be increasing “soon” to 8,000 for verified, 800 for unverified and 400 for new unverified accounts.After a few hours, he posted, “Now to 10k, 1k & 0.5k.” Musk also said, “Oh the irony…

New Delhi, July 1 (IANS) Despite tall claims by Twitter owner Elon Musk, the micro-blogging platform is witnessing a decline in user engagement as well as traffic. Musk on Saturday tweeted that the “platform hit another all-time high in user-seconds last week”. The Twitter owner has made such claims in the past too. In April, as part of a BBC interview, Musk said the social media service was seeing record user engagement, and that major advertisers were returning. However, according to web analysis site Similarweb, its monthly report on traffic to the social media ad portals saw an 18.7 per…

San Francisco, July 1 (IANS) As many popular third-party apps on the social discussion forum Reddit, including the Apollo app, are now shutting down due to the platform’s upcoming paid API (Application Programming Interface), fans are sending them off with heartfelt posts and memes. “Apollo, one of the best iOS apps period. The official app, a buggy, clumsy mess. I’m about to be on reddit a whole lot less,” a Reddit user wrote in the post with a meme attached. “The app just stopped working for me. Super sad, so long and thanks for all the Apollo,” another user said.…

San Francisco, July 1 (IANS) Researchers using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have revealed a new image of Saturn and its rings which seem to glow eerily in the infrared picture, plus it unveiled unexpected features in Saturn’s atmosphere.”On June 25, 2023, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope turned to famed ringed world Saturn for its first near-infrared observations of the planet. The initial imagery from Webb’s NIRCam (Near-Infrared Camera) is already fascinating researchers,” Thaddeus Cesari, Strategic Communications Specialist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, wrote in a blogpost on Friday.”Saturn itself appears extremely dark at this infrared wavelength observed by…

San Francisco, July 1 (IANS) Automaker General Motors (GM) has announced that it acquired substantially all the assets of Israel-based battery software startup ALGOLiON for an undisclosed sum. The startup has developed sophisticated software that uses data streams from EV (electric vehicle) battery management systems to help identify anomalies in cell performance to ensure proper vehicle health management and provide early detection of battery hazards, including thermal runaway propagation events.”ALGOLiON has developed cutting edge battery analytics and prediction software that will help General Motors deliver great performing EVs for our customers,” Gil Golan, Vice President, Technology Acceleration and Commercialisation (TAC),…

New Delhi, July 1 (IANS) Epic Games Founder and CEO Tim Sweeney on Saturday threw some suggestions to Elon Musk after Twitter account-walled its platform, stressing that web browsing feels horrible now.Twitter stopped browsing access on its web platform for people without accounts, and they have to first create an account to view tweets.”The internet feels increasingly broken. News sites are paywalled or account walled, Reddit is nag walled, Google search spams ads and SEO to the point of uselessness, and now Twitter is account walled. Web browsing feels horrible now,” Sweeney posted.Musk replied: “Several hundred organisations (maybe more) were…