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Kabul, Oct 11 (IANS) Just five days after a massive earthquake struck Afghanistan’s Herat province killing more than 2,000 people, another temblor measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale hit the same region on Wednesday, injuring 80 persons.According to local residents, most of the injured have been taken to hospital from Rubat Sangi district, reports Xinhua news agency.The epicente of the quake which struck at around 5.10 a.m. on Wednesday morning, is 28 km north of the city of Herat.The fresh quake comes as rescuers are still digging for survivors of the powerful 6.3-magnitude earthquake that hit Zindajan, a rural district…

San Francisco, Oct 11 (IANS) A US judge has tossed out an earlier $32.5 million verdict against Google in a long-running legal battle with high-tech audio technology company Sonos.In May this year, a court in the US had ordered Google to pay $32.5 million to Sonos, for infringing on the company’s smart speaker patent.In the latest decision, US District Judge William Alsup said that Sonos had wrongfully linked its patent applications for multi-room audio technology to a 2006 application, in order to make them appear older and claim that its inventions came before Google’s products.“Sonos filed the provisional application from…

The investigations revealed that the accused took sadistic pleasure in commenting on those posts, said police on Wednesday, adding that the accused was a part of a group which indulged in similar bad activities.The arrested person has been identified as 26-year-old Anjay from Tamil Nadu. The South East Division Cyber Crime police nabbed him following a complaint in this regard.The police said that the accused had accompanied his lover to the cybercrime police station to lodge the complaint.Police said that the accused and his lover hailed from Vellore in Tamil Nadu. They were also classmates till Class 10. Later, the…

Washington, Oct 11 (IANS) The US Coast Guard has said that remaining debris and presumed human remains from the Titan submersible which imploded on an ill-fated trip to the Titanic in June this year, have been recovered by its engineers.In a statement on Tuesday, the Coast Guard said that marine safety engineers”recovered and transferred remaining Titan submersible debris and evidence from the North Atlantic Ocean seafloor on October 4″ in a salvage mission.The mission, which was a follow-up to initial recovery operations following the loss of the Titan submersible, was joined by investigators from the US National Transportation Safety Board…

In May this year, a court in the US had ordered Google to pay $32.5 million to Sonos, for infringing on the company’s smart speaker patent.In the latest decision, US District Judge William Alsup said that Sonos had wrongfully linked its patent applications for multi-room audio technology to a 2006 application, in order to make them appear older and claim that its inventions came before Google’s products.“Sonos filed the provisional application from which the patents in suit claim priority in 2006, but it did not file the applications for these patents and present the asserted claims for examination until 2019,”…

Big B lovingly calls his fans his extended family, and came out and celebrated his birthday with them.A video shared by celebrity paparazzi Viral Bhayani, shows that Amitabh stepped outside barefoot and stood at the podium, which he religiously does to greet his fans on Sunday.In the clip, he is seen with folded hands, thanking fans for their wishes. He then waved to his fans with a bright smile. The thespian was dressed in powder pink and mint-coloured printed jacket. He paired it witha pair of grey track pants. He also wore a colorful bandana cap and wore eyeglasses.To celebrate…

Kabul, Oct 11 (IANS) Just five days after a massive earthquake struck Afghanistan’s Herat province killing more than 2,000 people, another temblor measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale hit the same region on Wednesday, injuring 80 persons.According to local residents, most of the injured have been taken to hospital from Rubat Sangi district, reports Xinhua news agency.The epicente of the quake which struck at around 5.10 a.m. on Wednesday morning, is 28 km north of the city of Herat.The fresh quake comes as rescuers are still digging for survivors of the powerful 6.3-magnitude earthquake that hit Zindajan, a rural district…

In a statement on Tuesday, the Coast Guard said that marine safety engineers”recovered and transferred remaining Titan submersible debris and evidence from the North Atlantic Ocean seafloor on October 4″ in a salvage mission.The mission, which was a follow-up to initial recovery operations following the loss of the Titan submersible, was joined by investigators from the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and the Transportation Safety Board of Canadas.”The recovered evidence was successfully transferred to a US port for cataloging and analysis. Additional presumed human remains were carefully recovered from within Titan’s debris and transported for analysis by US medical…

Pakistan pull off the biggest World Cup chase in the match against Sri Lanka, thanks to the brilliant centuries by Mohammad Rizwan (131) and Abdullah Shafique (113), to win their second straight game in the ODI World Cup 2023 on Tuesday.Pakistan’s bowlers struggled, allowing Sri Lanka to score 344 runs in 50 overs. Centuries by Kusal Mendis and Sadeera Samarawickrama set a formidable target, making it seem like a winning score.Afridi was the expensive bowler of the day for Pakistan, conceding 66 runs in 9 overs and managing to secure just one wicket. This marked Shaheen’s second disappointing performance in…

The duration of the contract will be one year starting from November, 2023 and Danish will be officially representing them at a global stage.Danish has recently represented India in a historic first-ever World Taekwondo Octagon Diamond G4 Olympic Ranking event in Gangwon, South Korea, where he was ranked 5th.He has previously competed at the Israel Open G2 ranking event and is eying for the next Olympics.–IANSbc