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In the letter sent to Alkesh Kumar Sharma, Secretary, MeitY, on August 22 and seen by IANS, Pankaj Mohindroo who is the Chairman of ICEA wrote that an overarching factor that should be taken into consideration in “avoiding supply chain disruption till domestic production ramps up” is that any “reduction in supplies or even an indication will lead to hoarding and market distortion”.This, in turn, can push up consumer prices, “which will adversely impact not just key stakeholders such as students, but also those who are the core of growing the digital economy, i.e. start-ups, IT and ITES firms, BPOs,”…

Addressing a press conference ahead of the opposition I.N.D.I.A. bloc’s third meeting here, Rahul Gandhi referred to a new report by the OCCRP (Organised Crime and Corruption Reporting Project), which allegedly found at least two cases where “mysterious” investors bought and sold Adani stock through offshore structures.Showing reports published by global newspapers copies on this issue, Rahul Gandhi said: “There was an investigation… evidence was given to SEBI but it gave a clean chit to (Gautam) Adani. The gentleman who gave clean chit to Adani is today a Director in NDTV. It is very clear that there is something very…

Hosted by Rohit Shetty, the stunt based reality show recently saw the elimination of actress Anjum Fakih. The show depicts the marvel of human potential and bravery. The current line up of contestants are — Archana Gautam, Aishwarya Sharma, Arjit Taneja, Dino James, Nyra Banerjee, Rashmeet Kaur, Sheezan Khan, Shiv Thakare, and Soundous Moufakir.Each team will be captained by a contestant chosen through votes and have two members. The team that earns the most points will be protected from the threat of elimination, but keeping a high score will be no cakewalk with never-seen-before challenges catching the daredevils off guard.The…

London, Aug 31 (IANS) English club Surrey has signed the highly rated Indian left-handed batter B Sai Sudharsan for their remaining three County Championship fixtures this season. He will be available for Surrey’s match against Warwickshire starting from September 3 at The Oval as well as fixtures against Northants (September 19-22, The Oval) and Hampshire (September 26-29, Ageas Bowl).Sudharsan, 21, has represented the India A side and scored a century against Pakistan A in the ACC Emerging Men’s Asia Cup in Sri Lanka, where he amassed 220 runs from five matches last month.Sudharsan plays for Tamil Nadu in the Indian…

New Delhi, Aug 31 (IANS) The Ashes series 2023 had a lot of controversial moments but the most talked about one was Jonny Bairstow’s dismissal by Alex Carey. Things went so bad that Carey started getting online abuse on Instagram from English fans.Carey, talking to Fox Sports about the online abuse, said he didn’t look into it that much, but things went so bad that he had to delete his Instagram ID for a week.“There were a lot of nasty comments that came my way, or came the family’s way, so post-incident it was pretty aggressive and something new as…

Mumbai, Aug 31 (IANS) Viacom 18 has bagged the BCCI media rights in both TV and digital for the next five years, announced Jay Shah, the BCCI Honorary Secretary. Viacom18 beat competition from Sony Sports Network and Disney Star in an e-auction held on Thursday.“Congratulations @viacom18 for winning the @BCCI Media Rights for both linear and digital for the next 5 years. India Cricket will continue to grow in both spaces as after @IPL, and @wplt20, we extend the partnership @BCCI Media Rights as well. Together we will continue to capture the imagination of Indian cricket fans,” said Shah on…

New Delhi, Aug 31 (IANS) India’s right-handed batter Prithvi Shaw has been confirmed to make a return to Northamptonshire for the second half of the 2024 county season. Shaw made an immediate impact in his stint with the club this summer, including smacking a record-breaking 244 off 153 balls against Somerset before a knee injury cut short his stay. “I’m so excited to be heading back to Northamptonshire next summer. Even though it was over quickly I really enjoyed my time there, It’s a great club to be a part of and I felt so welcome by everyone immediately. I…

Cape Town, Aug 31 (IANS) South Africa wicketkeeper batter Kyle Verreynne has been named as the captain for the CSA One-day Cup starting on September 16.He replaces all-rounder Wayne Parnell, who is struggling with a shoulder niggle injury. Verreynne had led the team in seven first-class games and three T20s during the 2022-23 season.Western Province head coach, Salieg Nackerdien mentioned Parnell’s workload and shoulder injury as the reason for the replacement.”Wayne is busy with physiotherapy, and hopefully, he’ll be ready during the One-Day Cup depending on his availability and how he responds,” Nackerdein said.Parnell led the Western Province in the…

New Delhi, Aug 31 (IANS) Singaporean online games developer Garena on Thursday announced the launch of Free Fire India — one of the top battle royale games banned by the Indian government in February last year due to national security concerns — from September 5.The Free Fire India game will be supported by Yotta Infrastructure’s cloud hosting infrastructure in the country in storing and protecting user data, the company said in a statement.Earlier, banned for more than a year, the Battlegrounds Mobile India (BGMI), the popular battle royale game that enthralled the country’s gaming community, made a comeback in May-end…

San Francisco, Aug 31 (IANS) Google has launched a new tool for watermarking and identifying AI-generated images — a technology that embeds a digital watermark directly into the pixels of an image, making it imperceptible to the human eye but detectable for identification.In partnership with Google Cloud, Google DeepMind (Google’s AI research division) has launched a beta version of a new tool — ‘SynthID’.SynthID is available to a limited number of Vertex AI (Google’s platform for building AI apps and models) customers using Imagen, one of the company’s latest text-to-image models that use input text to create photorealistic images.”While generative…