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New Delhi, Sep 8 (IANS) India saw the establishment of 18 Global Capability Centres (GCCs) in the first half this year, with nearly 83 per cent of those catering to three functional areas of engineering R and D, IT and Business process management (BPM), a new report showed on Friday.As of FY2023, India was home to more than 1,580 GCCs (housing over 1.66 million professionals), with a total market size of $46 billion, growing at a CAGR of 11.4 per cent, according to the Nasscom-Zinnov report.The segment has not just expanded in terms of scale but also value. Interestingly, around…

New Delhi, Sep 8 (IANS) Leading provider of cybersecurity solutions Check Point on Friday announced the acquisition of Atmosec, an early-stage start-up, to enhance its SaaS (software-as-a-service) security offering and address the security gaps and blind spots in SaaS applications. Atmosec specialises in the rapid discovery and disconnection of malicious SaaS applications, preventing risky third-party SaaS communications, and rectifying SaaS misconfigurations. The company was founded in January 2021 and employs 17 employees.The acquisition of Atmosec is expected to close by mid-September.”Integrating Atmosec’s technology into Check Point Infinity sets us to deliver one of the industry’s most secure SASE solutions, enabling organisations…

Sixteen umpires will officiate the league stage of the mega tournament, including all 12 of the Emirates Elite Panel of International Cricket Council (ICC) Umpires and four members of the ICC Emerging Umpire Panel.The 12 Elite Panel of ICC Umpires are: Christopher Gaffaney (New Zealand), Kumar Dharmasena (Sri Lanka), Marais Erasmus (South Africa), Michael Gough (England), Nitin Menon (India), Paul Reiffel (Australia), Richard Illingworth (England), Richard Kettleborough (England), Rodney Tucker (Australia), Joel Wilson (West Indies), Ahsan Raza (Pakistan), and Adrian Holdstock (South Africa).The remaining four belong to the ICC Emerging Umpire Panel are Sharfuddoula Ibne Shahid (Bangladesh), Paul Wilson (Australia),…

Even though the final tally is yet to be released, Chandy Oommen’s margin of victory stands at 36,454 votes.By crossing 36,000 he breached the highest victory margin which his father got in 2011.In 2011, Oommen Chandy had secured a margin of 33,255 in his 12 outings since 1970.”I would like to thank the people of Puthuppally for this overwhelming victory. From now on, welfare of every individual in my constituency would be my responsibility,” said Chandy Oommen.”I fully agree that it’s going to be a huge challenge against the backdrop of how my father nurtured it for the past 53…

Priyanka, who reached Ranthambore around 9.30 p.m. on Thursday night, is staying in Hotel Sherbagh.Locals spotted Robert Vadra doing tiger safari along with his children in outer zone number 6 of Ranthambore.However, Priyanka chose to stay in the hotel.On Sunday, Priyanka is scheduled to address a gathering in Tonk.–IANSarc/svn

The British singer-songwriter, 38, shared an Instagram photo from the couple’s wedding day in 2020 .“3 years with this guy, 2nd best decision I ever made. 1st was that dress,” Allen captioned the post.In the image, Allen and the ‘Stranger Things’ actor, 48, are looking at each other, with the singer laughing while wearing a simple veil to complement her white off-the-shoulder mini wedding dress, People magazine reported.Two years ago, to celebrate their first wedding anniversary, Allen shared a carousel of photo and video memories on Instagram.One of the photos included a picture of her in her wedding dress, paired…

US President Joe Biden will be put up at the ITC Maurya in Chanakyapuri, where his service team and commandos will be present on every floor of the hotel.So far, around 400 rooms have been booked in the hotel, and a special elevator has been installed to take Biden to his room on the 14th floor, as per reports.UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will be staying at the Shangri-La Eros Hotel in Connaught Place, along with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.French President Emmanuel Macron and his accompanying officials will stay at the Claridges Hotel, while the Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese…

Many China-watchers were surprised when it became clear that the top leader of the world’s second-largest economy will not attend the annual gathering on global economic governance.China’s Foreign Ministry announced Li’s visit earlier this week.Through remarks to media, China has said it wants the G20 Summit to succeed and called for deeper economic cooperation among the grouping’s 19 countries plus the European Union, and Indian officials have said Xi’s absence would not be the first time a head of state or government would miss such an event.But China’s decision is telling — Xi has attended all previous G20 Summits (including…

He said this while talking to reporters here giving confirmation to the earlier source based reports.Yediyurappa said, “Deve Gowda Ji (former PM H.D. Deve Gowda) had met our Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Already they have discussed the alliance and finalised about four seats for which I welcome them.” Sources said that the final talks are now being held in connection with putting up a united fight in the 2024 Lok Sabha election against the ruling Congress party, and soon an announcement will be made.Deve Gowda did not attend the INDIA alliance meet held in Bengaluru and gave a clear hint…

The device offers continuous monitoring by tracking the organ’s temperature. When temperatures change, the device sends an alert to a smartphone or tablet in real time.The tiny 0.3 centimetres wide device can directly be fitted on a transplanted kidney and can detect temperature irregularities associated with inflammation and other body responses that arise with transplant rejection.”Organ temperature fluctuates over a daily cycle under normal circumstances. We observed abnormal higher frequency temperature variations occurring over periods of 8 and 12 hours in cases of transplant rejection,” said Surabhi Madhvapathy, a postdoctoral researcher at Northwestern University in the US.The device contains a…