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The AI-integrated robotic boat is able to collect huge quantities of garbage in reasonable time from Umiam Lake, that was formed when a dam was built over the Umiam river in the early sixties as part of a hydel power project.Under the Meghalaya government’s Smart Village initiative, the AI- enabled robotic boat was recently deployed in collaboration with a global non-profit organisation called Smart Village Movement (SVM), and Hong Kong-based technology firm Clearbot after a week-long demonstration.Tulenam Laloo, Fellow at the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley, and Director of Operations for the initiative in Meghalaya, highlighted that “this technology…

Bronwyn Pollitt, a Perth-based real estate director, wrote to Sandeep Kumar in May 2021 after he disputed a cleaning bill deduction from his security deposit, news.com.aureported on Saturday.The email was submitted to The State Administrative Tribunal in Western Australia, which heard that Pollitt compared Australian living standards and quality of life to the “overcrowded, overpopulated, dirty squaller (sic) of many countries, including India”.The Tribunal deemed Pollitt unfit to hold a real estate and business agents licence for eight months beginning September 1.It heard that after Kumar vacated the home in December 2020, Pollitt told him that the house owner did…

The Leader of Opposition (LoP) Yuri Alemao said that the law and order has completely collapsed in the coastal state.”Goa is now a murder destination under the misrule of the BJP government headed by Chief Minister Pramod Sawant. Everyday there are incidents of murders in Goa. Law and Order has completely collapsed,” Alemao said.He sought immediate intervention of the Governor of Goa P.S. Sreedharan Pillai to provide safety for citizens.”The BJP government has failed in providing safety and security to the people of Goa. There is absolutely no fear in the minds of the criminals who are now on a…

Bengaluru has always seen a steady rise in the number of people settling down. The trend in metros is people go for apartments. However, people now prefer villas, villaments and gated communities.“From a geographical point of view, in the Bengaluru market, North Bengaluru (around Devanahalli) and East Bengaluru (Sarjapur Road) have witnessed maximum demand, with more than 10,000 plots from Tier-1 organised developers sold in the last 3 years alone,” explains Sunil Pareek, Executive Director at Assetz Property Group.Earlier, these were large tracts of farmland or had unorganised plotted developments, but now the areas are emerging as an IT hotspot…

The BRS, which was gearing up for the Assembly polls slated to be held in November-December this year, is apparently taken aback with the plans by Narendra Modi government to implement ‘One Nation, One Election’ system.The special session of the Parliament scheduled to be held from September 18 to 22 may see the government taking a decision on holding simultaneous polls. If this happens, the Assembly elections in Telangana may be delayed by a couple of months.Political analysts say the Modi factor may have greater influence in simultaneous polls and this may spoil the plans of BRS.The Modi government’s move…

While Rahul Gandhi, Mamata Banerjee and Yechury were taking the same line to build a united opposition against the BJP at the national level, Chowdhury and Salim made it clear that in Bengal it is the Trinamool Congress which is the main “enemy” rather than the BJP. Both Salim and Chowdhury have described the Trinamool Congress as a clandestine benefactor of the BJP.“While Narendra Modi is looting the entire country, Mamata Banerjee is looting West Bengal”, was the common refrain of Salim and Chowdhury at the campaign rally. The Congress is backing the CPI(M) candidate Ishwar Chandra Roy in Dhupguri…

According to the Sandipan Ghat SHO, Dilip Singh, the bus was going from Kanpur to Prayagraj when it hit the school van on Saturday evening.The school van was on its way to drop the children home after school at Sakadha turn on National Highway-2 GT Road.The police official further said that the injured students were taken to Muratganj Health Centre, from where eight were discharged after administering first aid.Two children — Mohammad Gaus and Abdul — have been referred to SRN Hospital in Prayagraj in critical condition, the SHO said.He said that all children are between the ages of 10…

A source in Khartoum told Xinhua on Saturday that the SAF warplanes conducted airstrikes on RSF locations within Omdurman, northwest of Khartoum. These strikes targetted neighbourhoods such as Ombada and Dar Al Salam to the west of Omdurman, as well as the Al Salha neighborhood to the south.The army air force also launched strikes on RSF positions in Al-Kadaro neighbourhood of Bahri city, north of Khartoum, the source added.Meanwhile, Mohamed Kandasha, the spokesperson for the South Khartoum Emergency Room, reported on his Facebook page on Saturday that the army’s air force had carried out intense bombardments on Al-Inghaz, Al-Azhari, and…

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani, who also leads the Iraqi armed forces, on Saturday ordered the curfew in Kirkuk province and initiated search operations in the areas that had witnessed riots, Xinhua news agency reported.Al-Sudani stressed that the security forces “must be firm in arresting anyone who dares to tamper with the security of Kirkuk, from any party, and not allow the carrying of weapons at all, except for the security services,” according to a statement released by the Iraqi armed forces.The disturbance erupted on Saturday when Arabs and Turkmens protesting the planned return of the Kurdistan Democratic Party…

The ASI is conducting a survey in the barricaded area of the Gyanvapi mosque premises, excluding its sealed section, since August 4.On behalf of ASI, standing government counsel, Government of India, Amit Kumar Srivastava, filed the application.Srivastava said, “We prayed to the court to grant further eight weeks’ time to ASI for submitting report of the survey of Gyanvapi mosque because the exercise is still going on.””Our application was put up before the court of additional district judge (first). The application was listed. The additional district judge (first) directed to put the matter before the district judge for hearing,” Srivastava…