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Geneva, Oct 12 (IANS) The International Olympic Committee (IOC) announced that the historic town of Bayeux in Normandy, France, will be the place to host the IOC Refugee Olympic Team and a pre-Games Training Camp will be held ahead of the Olympic Games Paris 2024. A total of 63 refugee athletes from 12 nations and regions are on the list of refugee team and are training hard to be selected for Paris 2024. The training camp is scheduled for July 15-18, Xinhua reports.Masomah Ali Zada, a member of the Refugee Olympic Team at Tokyo 2020 and a member of the…

New Delhi, Oct 12 (IANS) You will not be able to activate Windows 11 with older keys from Windows 7 anymore as Microsoft has now completely blocked those from activating a copy of latest Windows 11.This loophole existed for years and people upgraded from Windows 7 or 8 to Windows 10 or 11 free of charge.Last month, the company had announced to block Windows 7 and Windows 8 keys from activating Windows 11.“Microsoft’s free upgrade offer for Windows 10 and 11 ended July 29. The installation path to obtain the Windows 7 and 8 free upgrade is now removed as…

Hyderabad, Oct 12 (IANS) Eventbrite, a US Tech company and a global events marketplace that serves event creators and event goers in nearly 180 countries, has been awarded ‘The Most Inclusive Organization for Women in Tech in India’ 2023 by equality organization Wequity at their annual WITfluence conference at the Radisson Blu in Bengaluru.The event was held on Wednesday.Farheen Mehdi, Eventbrite’s Head of HR for the region along with Aditi Sharma, Engineering Manager, Privacy for Eventbrite India, received the award, felicitated by Geetha Mohan and Divya Ravindranath, founders of Wequity Awards and pioneers for women in tech in India.Some of…

“I think prior to that, I just had really low self-esteem,” the actress/model told the co-hosts. “You could tell me I was beautiful and this, but I would always think, ‘They want something from me.’ I was already very jaded, even as a young teenager.”She went on saying that she started seeing her worth when she could make money off her beauty, reports aceshowbiz.com.The mom of two also shared that the job was the one thing that inspired her to be an actor.”A lot of it is role play, a lot of it is cosplay. So really, that’s where I…

Lovlina was facilitated by the Assam Police for taking home a silver medal in the recently-concluded 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou.The award ceremony was held in Guwahati at the Assam Police headquarters on Wednesday.As a token of appreciation, the pugilist also gifted the police department a pair of autographed boxing gloves.Taking to ‘X’, the Assam DGP G.P. Singh wrote, “Assam Police felicitated Asian Games medalist, our own DySP Lovlina Borgohai at Police Hq Guwahati on grand success at 19th Asian Games at Hangzhou. She has also been awarded Assam DGP Commendation Medal. She also presented a signed pair of boxing…

In a post on Threads, Mosseri said they are not anti-news and news is clearly already on Threads.“People can share news; people can follow accounts that share news. We’re not going to get in the way of any either. But, we’re also not going go to amplify news on the platform,” he clarified.“To do so would be too risky given the maturity of the platform, the downsides of over-promising, and the stakes,” he added.However, if Threads does not post news on its platform, it will never be an alternative to X.At an Instagram creator event last week, Mosseri said” “We…

Police sources told IANS that the police special team were trying to secure the duo but they attacked the police force injuring three police personnel.The duo were involved in several criminal activities including murder and attempt to murder.Sources in Chengalpattu police told IANS that Muthu Saravanan and his associate Sathish were involved in the murder of an AIADMK functionary, Parthiban near Red Hills, Chennai, and also in the murder of another person called Selvam in two separate incidents.Selvam was hacked to death on February 2022 at Rajaji Road in Chennai by the gang and Muthu Saravanan and Sathish were alleged…

Pharmacist Jitendra Chaudhary owned Zarzamora Healthcare LLC, which was doing business as Rite-Away Pharmacy & Medical Supply in San Antonio, according to a Department of Justice release.Pursuant to an agreed consent judgment and permanent injunction, the court enjoined Chaudhary and his pharmacy from dispensing certain opioid prescriptions, including combination opioid and benzodiazepine prescriptions.The order also mandated that the defendants undergo periodic comprehensive reviews of their dispensing practices to ensure compliance with the order and the Controlled Substances Act.“The distribution of opioids and other prescription drugs by healthcare practitioners throughout the country has caused immense harm to our communities over the…

The 52-year-old actress revealed that upon turning 40, she was in “so much pain” despite living her dream in Hollywood and used to look for places where she could stage her death as an accident so she could hide the truth from her family, reports aceshowbiz.com.She told People: “When I turned 40, I was in so much pain. I couldn’t figure a way out besides death. So I made a plan. But, while I was really living the dream, I hit a huge wall – a massive amount of depression.”“I think that I looked at having outside sources to supplement…

The team visited the Promod Nagar tea estate on Wednesday evening, and according to police sources, the officers questioned its manager about the property’s yearly turnover.The officers also questioned the labourers of the tea garden as well and inquired whether they were getting their remuneration regularly or not.The team then went to the circle office in Karimganj town and asked the employees about a few land-related documents, the sources said.The officers also met District Commissioner Mridul Yadav.The first visit of the Vigilance Cell team was around 12 days ago, during which they questioned Purkayastha’s brother and also associates of the…