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According to the study by the Kiev School of Economics, the damages have increased by over $700 million as compared to June 2023, from $150.5 billion to $151.2 billionIt revealed that the housing sector was the worst hit, amounting to $55.9 billion. In total, 167,200 housing units have been destroyed or damaged as a result of the hostilities, comprising 147,800 private houses, 19.1 thousand apartment buildings, and an additional 0.35 thousand dormitories. The regions Donetsk, Kiev, Luhansk, Kharkiv, Mykolaiv, Chernihiv, Kherson and Zaporizhia have been the most severely affectedIn second and third place in terms of damages are the infrastructure…

The order followed a petition by K. C. Unni, the father of the popular violinist, in which he claimed that the probe agency’s investigation into the accidental death of his son was not foolproof and sought the court’s intervention.On Thursday after hearing the plea, the court ordered a further investigation into the death.The Court asked the CBI to complete the further investigation and submit its report within three months.The accident took place in the state capital district in 2018.In June last year, a local court in the state capital accepted the CBI’s report which described it as an “accidental” death…

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) on Thursday published the National Study of Mental Health and Wellbeing, revealing that 42.9 per cent of Australians aged 16 to 85, or 8.5 million people, have experienced a mental health condition in their lifetime, rpeorts Xinhua news agency.Of almost 16,000 people who were surveyed for the study between 2020 and 2022, 21.5 per cent reported experiencing a mental disorder in the previous 12 months.Among respondents aged 16 to 24, 38.8 per cent experienced a mental disorder in the 12 months prior to being surveyed.”Almost half of young females (45.5 pe rcent) and one…

Microsoft Translator now supports — Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, Urdu, Bhojpuri, Bodo, Dogri, and Kashmiri.This brings Microsoft Translator a step closer to its goal of supporting all 22 official Indian languages and now covers the languages spoken by almost 95 per cent of the country’s population, the company said.“We stay committed to supporting India’s diverse languages and culture by leveraging the most advanced AI technology to drive the country’s growth and make access to technology more inclusive,” Rajiv Kumar, Managing Director, India Development Center, Microsoft India, said in a…

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Hangzhou, Oct 5 (IANS) India’s no. 1 men’s shuttler HS Prannoy on Thursday secured a thrilling quarterfinal victory against Malaysia’s Lee Zii Jia, earning a spot in the semifinals at the 19th Asian Games. The 31-year-old registered a 21-16, 21-23, 22-20 to secure a semifinal berth and assured India’s first medal in men’s singles after Syed Modi’s bronze medal in 1982.Prannoy took the first game and even held two match points in the second. Nevertheless, the former world No. 2 Malaysian made a strong comeback to equalize the game. During the third game, Zii Jia reversed the momentum, securing two…

Hangzhou, Oct 5 (IANS) Dipika Pallikal Karthik and Harinder Pal Singh Sandhu won the gold medal in the mixed doubles competition in squash at 19th Asian Games, beating a Malaysian pair in the final on Thursday.The Indian pair defeated Malaysia’s Aifa Binti Azman and Mohammad Syafiq bin Mohd Kamal 2-0 in straight games, coming back from game ball to win 11-10, 11-10.The Indians were trailing in the first game but came back strongly to win the first game.Dipika and Harinder had a commanding 9-2 lead in the second game but the Malaysians fought back with all their might to win…

New Delhi, Oct 5 (IANS) Homegrown vernacular social gaming platform WinZO on Thursday announced the launch of its app in Brazil, as gaming companies in the country feel threatened by a massive 400 per cent hike in GST. WinZO will invest $25 million in Brazil in distribution and branding for more than 100 partner game developers.“We have built a tech stack that caters to over 150 million young users from Bharat today and can be scaled across the world,” said Paavan Nanda, Co-founder of WinZO. The decision to enter the Brazilian market is driven by a strategic approach to diversify…

New Delhi, Oct 5 (IANS) Meta has started rolling out generative AI-powered features for ad creatives in its Ads Manager, with global rollout complete by next year. The new AI features will allow advertisers to create backgrounds, expand images and generate multiple versions of ad text based on their original copy. “The new features — Background Generation, Image Expansion, and Text Variations — will add to the AI-powered experiences and tools we continue to build for businesses,” Meta said in a blogpost on Wednesday. The ‘Background Generation’ will create multiple backgrounds to complement the advertiser’s product images, allowing advertisers to…

Addressing a public meeting as part of his Varahi yatra at Pedana in Krishna district, he said he came out of NDA to support TDP in difficult times.“Despite difficulties, we had joined the NDA. Now we have come out and extended 100 per cent support to TDP because it is going through difficult times,” he said, referring to the arrest of TDP leader and former chief minister N. Chandrababu Naidu in alleged skill development scam.Pawan Kalyan, who had met Naidu in Rajahmundry Jail last month, said that Andhra Pradesh needs TDP’s experience of four decades and the Jana Sena’s youth…