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The Congress also said that science and spirituality is one thing, but science and crackpot theories that are put out by people in positions of power are quite another.Congress general secretary Jairam Ramesh in a post on X said, “The Prime Minister spoke of plastic surgery being known to our ancestors. He also told children climate has not changed, while we have. A senior Minister confused Newton and Einstein while another justified excluding Darwin from textbooks.””Now, this simply flabbergasting statement from the Director of a prestigious institution!!! He actually has shown he is not fit to hold the position. The…

But to achieve this, Asha Bhosle and Rahul Dev Burman had to surmount a major “hurdle” — creating a new identity distinct from their illustrious and established kin: elder sibling Lata Mangeshkar and father Sachin Dev Burman.And both succeeded — with a combination of luck, support, their own undeniable virtuosity, and above all, their first joint effort.Asha Bhosle — who is still going strong at 90, having worked with four generations of music composers from O.P. Nayyar to A.R. Rehman — added a sensuous allure and element of forthrightness for the Hindi film heroine, without becoming risque or boisterous, even…

Eight fresh dengue cases were reported in Lucknow, totalling 138, out of which, 10 are from the same area. The health department and the Chief Medical Officers (CMOs) across all districts are on an alert and arrangements at hospitals, for medicines and dengue tests are being made. The CMOs, across the state, have fixed the rates for dengue tests and platelet readings. Separate wards are being prepared for dengue patients at hospitals in all districts. State Surveillance Officer Dr Vikasendu Agarwal said: “The situation is under control and all necessary further safety measures are already being taken.” Dengue is caused…

Among other notable changes is the complete removal of the work “Twitter” and replaced by X.Also, the new term of service says that by using X, “to the extent permitted by law, you also waive the right to participate as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class action, collective action or representative action proceeding.”On scraping data, it says that “crawling or scraping the services in any form, for any purpose without our prior written consent is expressly prohibited.”Earlier, it was written that “Crawling the services is permissible if done in accordance with the provisions of the robots.txt file,…

It was back way, some 80 years ago, when a petite 10-year-old girl Asha Mangeshkar earnestly stood before a studio microphone and recorded her first playback song for composer Datta S. Davjekar, ‘Chala Chala Nav Bal…’ for a Marathi film (‘Majha Bal’ – 1943).Though it came just a year after her father Pt. Deenanath Mangeshkar’s passing (1942), Asha’s maiden number did not exactly set the film industry on fire but she continued to get humdrum singing assignments, and like her older sibling Lata Mangeshkar, continued the uphill musical sojourn.After many Marathi songs, she finally landed a Hind film song assignment…

Polling for the by-election took place on Tuesday.The BJP has fielded Dara Singh Chauhan, while the SP candidate is Sudhakar Singh.The counting of votes will take place in 32 rounds, said election officials.The entire process involving 19 teams will take place under surveillance of CCTV cameras.–IANSamita/ksk

Internet watchdog group Citizen Lab, while checking the device of an individual employed by a Washington DC-based civil society organisation with international offices, found the zero-click vulnerability.“The exploit chain was capable of compromising iPhones running the latest version of iOS (16.6) without any interaction from the victim,” Citizen Lab said in a statement late on Thursday.They refered to the exploit chain as ‘BLASTPASS’. The exploit involved PassKit attachments containing malicious images sent from an attacker iMessage account to the victim.Citizen Lab immediately disclosed our findings to Apple and assisted in their investigation.Apple issued two CVEs related to this exploit chain…

Polling was held on Tuesday and 86.56 per cent of the 93,495 voters have cast their ballots. According to election officials, counting of the votes is being held in two centres at the Sonamura Girls’ Higher Secondary school in Sepahijala district under massive security cover. Claiming large-scale intimidation, rigging and irregularities by members and workers of the state’s ruling BJP on the polling day and the Election Commission’s inactiveness to deal with the “terror and misdeeds”, the CPI (M)-led Left Front have boycotted the ballot counting. Addressing the media, CPI (M) Tripura state Secretary Jitendra Choudhury said: “Due to the…

Masterson starred on ‘That 70’s Show’, a TV series that was airing at the time of his crimes in the early 2000s, The BBC reported on Thursday.Prosecutors argued Masterson, 47, had relied on his status as a prominent Scientologist to avoid accountability.Judge Charlaine Olmedo allowed the victims of his crimes to read impact statements in court ahead of his sentencing.Prominent former Scientologist and actress Leah Remini attended Thursday’s sentencing hearing and comforted the women before and after they delivered their statements.”I wished I had reported him earlier to the police,” one of the women said, according to US media.Another woman…

According to the signed US court document, German Rivera, known as Colonel Mike, was part of the convoy which headed towards Moise’s hillside Port-au-Prince residence on July 7, 2021, days after he relayed information that the plan was not to kidnap Moise but instead to kill him, Reuters reported.The document also says Rivera provided material support, training and personnel to support Moise’s kidnapping or murder. The case’s criminal docket details three counts for materially supporting the plot and conspiracy.Escalating turf warfare, largely centered around the capital, has driven a humanitarian crisis leaving nearly 200,000 internally displaced, according to UN estimates,…