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Roy, himself a retired professor of physics, said that the people gets allured to teaching jobs because of the factor of “high salaries” against “lesser work” and this syndrome prompts several youths to somehow get teaching jobs at any cost and going to any extent.“It is unfortunate but true that these days very few view teaching as a ‘mission’ rather than a ‘profession’. Often people take up teaching as a profession, being unable to get jobs elsewhere. That is why there have been so many complaints of irregularities in teacher’s recruitment. The root cause is the same which is ‘high…

Colombo, Sep 10 (IANS) The India-Pakistan Super Four match in the Asia Cup has been temporarily halted due to heavy rain at the R. Premadasa Stadium here on Sunday. As of now, India are 147/2 in 24.1 overs, with captain Rohit Sharma and Shubman Gill slamming 56 and 58 respectively. Persistent rain had prevented a result when the two teams played in the league stage match in Pallekele on September 2. To avoid a washout of the India-Pakistan Super Four match, the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) on Friday added a reserve day for Sunday’s match, which had a heavy rain…

New Delhi, Sep 10 (IANS) Former Australian cricketer Greg Blewett said that he felt India skipper Rohit Sharma was just clinging on to the side and his place in the team might be somewhat dependent on his leadership role. Even though Rohit Sharma experienced initial success upon assuming the role of full-time captain, he has yet to guide India to victory in significant ICC tournaments. In the 2022 T20 World Cup, the Indian opener witnessed his team’s elimination in the semifinals and lost the World Test Championship final against Australia in June this year.”I am worried about India’s ODI captain.…

New Delhi, Sep 10 (IANS) The Indian startup ecosystem stakeholders on Sunday hailed the inclusion of startups as part of the Delhi Declaration for the first time in the history of G20.India has taken the initiative to launch the Startup20 Engagement Group during its G20 Presidency.“We are glad that Brazil has picked up the mandate to continue the Startup20 Engagement group into their presidency next year. We look forward to working on implementing the Startup20 recommendations over the next couple of years,” said Rajan Anandan, Managing Director of leading venture capital Peak XV (formerly Sequoia Capital India and SEA).One of…

San Francisco, Sep 10 (IANS) Those people who believe in the practice of ‘manifesting’ are at higher risk of ‘bankruptcy’, a new study has suggested.According to the study published in the Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, those who believe in manifestation — the idea that positive thoughts or visualisation can lead to desired outcomes — were more likely to be drawn to risky investments and to believe they could achieve an improbable level of success more quickly.The researchers asked 375 people to rate their agreement with statements about manifestation, and they discovered that for every point higher on the scale,…

San Francisco, Sep 10 (IANS) Elon Musk’s ex-partner Canadian singer Grimes (Claire Boucher) has demanded to see her son in a since-deleted X (formerly Twitter) post.She demanded to see her son in response to author Walter Isaacson’s (who wrote Musk’s biography) post which included photos of the Tesla founder’s twins with Shivon Zilis (a Canadian venture capitalist), reports Page Six.”Tell Shivon to unblock me and tell Elon to let me see my son or plz respond to my lawyer,” Grimes wrote.”I have never even been allowed to see a photo of these children until this moment, despite the situation utterly…

Persistent rain had prevented a result when the two teams played in the league stage match in Pallekele on September 2. To avoid a washout of the India-Pakistan Super Four match, the Asian Cricket Council (ACC) on Friday added a reserve day for Sunday’s match, which had a heavy rain forecast.As per the revised playing conditions, if no more play happens on Sunday due to inclement weather, then the game will continue from the point of interruption with no overs lost. A minimum of 20 overs are needed to be bowled in both innings to achieve a result.Before the rain…

With this tool, users will be able to remove the background from any picture with the click of a button. The new version is presently rolling out to Windows 11 Insiders in the Dev and Canary channels.”With this update, we are introducing background removal! With background removal, you can now remove the background of any image automatically in just one click leaving a smooth cutout of the subject. Background removal can detect the subject from the entire canvas or from a selection using the selection tool,” Microsoft said in a blogpost.To use the new tool, users will need to paste…

It’s too early to say whether the counter-offensive had failed, but Ukraine was “progressing at a very steady pace through the Russian front lines”, Gen Milley said in the programme BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.Though Kiev’s counter offensive launched in summers to liberate Russian occupied territory in Ukraine, yielded small gains, Ukrainians general claimed of breaching Moscow’s formiddable line of defence, BBC reported.However, in the same interview, UK chief of defence staff, Adm Sir Tony Radakin, said, “Ukraine is winning and Russia is losing”.Admiral Radakin claimed that Ukraine has recovered 50 per cent of the territory occupied by Russia.”Russia aimed…

The MP from Kerala’s Wayanad constituency is scheduled to participate in a programme at Leiden University in Wijnhaven, said Virendra Vashisth, Secretary of Indian Overseas Congress said.He said that on Monday, Gandhi will be in Norway where he will hold a programme at Oslo University.Earlier, Gandhi during his visit to France, held an interaction with the students and faculty at Sciences PO University in Paris, France.During the interaction, he criticised the ruling BJP and RSS, accusing them of trying to stop the expression and participation of lower castes, OBCs , tribals and minority communities.He also shared his view over the…