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New Delhi, Oct 11 (IANS) Just over a week after concluding their historic 19th Asian Games campaign where they won 22 medals including seven gold, the Indian shooting squad is back at a national camp to prepare for the upcoming 15th Asian Shooting Championship (ASC) in Changwon, Korea. The championship assumes added significance, given they will offer a total of 24 Paris Olympic quota places, equally divided across the 12 individual Olympic events in the Rifle, Pistol and Shotgun categories. The Indian squad has already won seven Paris quotas in Shooting and will be looking to garner as many of…

New York, Oct 11 (IANS) US researchers are launching a new five-year project on patients playing video games during brain surgery to better understand how the brain regulates movement in people with Parkinson’s. The project, with a $5 million grant from the US National Institutes of Health, aims to develop more individualised treatments for patients with Parkinson’s — the second most common neurodegenerative disease after Alzheimer’s.”We will try to understand how our brain controls the actions we perform, how we make decisions between competing goals, how we stop moving, and how we switch actions,” said Vasileios Christopoulos, assistant professor of…

Toronto, Oct 11 (IANS) An immigration tribunal in Canada has ruled that a Sikh man who “housed and fed Khalistani militants in India” should be allowed into the North American country as he did so “mostly out of necessity” and fear of retribution, a media report said.The move to bar Indian citizen Kamaljit Ram came after he told the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) that he sheltered and fed armed Sikh militants at his farm in India on-and-off between 1982 and 1992, the National Post newspaper reported.He also told them that he supported the ideas promoted by the followers of…

The company Board of Directors at their meeting held on Wednesday also approved a proposal to buyback up to 4,09,63,855 (Four crore nine lakh sixty three thousand eight hundred and fifty five) equity shares for an aggregate amount not exceeding Rs 17,000 crore at Rs 4,150 per share.The proposed buyback represents 1.12 per cent of the total paid-up equity share capital of TCS.In a regulatory filing, TCS said it had closed the quarter ended September 30, 2023 with a revenue of Rs 59,692 crore (Q2FY23 Rs 55,309 crore) and a net profit of Rs 11,342 crore (Rs 10,431 crore).The Board…

Hoblidhar, who represents the state of Karnataka, finished first in the heat ahead of the Railways’ Elakkiyadasan who ran a 10.49.Earlier, Amiya Mallick held the previous national record with a time of 10.26 during the National Federation Cup at New Delhi in 2016.More to follow.–IANShs

She made these observations during her intervention in a roundtable discussion on ‘IMF policy priorities and how the institution should support its membership’, hosted by US treasury secretary Janet Yellen in Marrakech, Morocco.The event was held on the sidelines of the annual meetings of IMF and World Bank in Marrakech.In her intervention, Sitharaman spoke about IMF’s mandate and lending policies, a strong, quota-based, and adequately resourced IMF, poverty reduction and growth trust and IMF governance reforms.She highlighted that in line with the evolving needs of the membership, the IMF’s primary focus needs to be macroeconomic surveillance and policy guidance.Sitharaman also…

Vodafone UK (which is owned by Vodafone Group) and Three UK (which is owned by CK Hutchison Holdings Ltd) are major providers of mobile telecommunication services in the UK. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said, in a statement, that it is providing an early opportunity for interested third parties to comment on the impact that the merger could have on competition in the UK, “in advance of launching a formal investigation once it has received the information it needs from the merging companies”. The CMA is considering “whether the creation of that situation may be expected to result in…

“Pramod Sawant should be aware that the Chief Minister has to respond when there are protests against the government. But it is strange that he is not responding to issues, against which people are raising their voice, and loot by this BJP government continues. Seems he has become ‘Maun Mukhyamantri’ or there are parallel Chief Ministers in his cabinet,” Chodankar said.”Pernem residents have taken up to the streets protesting against the hidden agenda of BJP government, which has proposed to convert 1.4 crore sq. metre land. People have expressed fear that if this becomes reality then they will suffer to…

According to officials, the L-G accorded approval to the EOW to conduct an inquiry/investigation against eight jail officials of Delhi Prisons for the allegations levelled against them.“The L-G’s nod to conduct a probe against these eight already under arrest Group B officials of Delhi Prisons is in addition to the permission granted last year by him to probe the role of another 81 jail officials for facilitating Sukesh for financial gains,” said an official.The jail officials who will now face probe are Sunil Kumar, Sunder Bora (both superintendents),Prakash Chand, Mahender Prasad Sundriyal, Subhash Batra (deputy superintendents), Dharam Singh Meena, Lakshmi…

He said that the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas had directed the Oil and Gas PSUs to help create an innovative ecosystem and promote start-ups in the fields such as IOT in Upstream/ Midstream/ Downstream operations, digitalisation of business processes, green fuels, alternative energy, etc.”The PSUs of oil and gas sector have already disbursed Rs 208 crore to fund 232 startups,” he added.The Petroleum Minister cited examples of successful startups including Bandicoot, a robotic scavenger, developed by Genrobotic Innovations, who were provided grants, mentor support and specific technical assistance by Bharat Petroleum under Project Ankur, to improve the working…