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About 8.8 ounces of rocky material collected from the surface of the asteroid Bennu in 2020 was brought to Earth by the OSIRIS-REx (short for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) in late September.The 4.5-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu sample was showcased by NASA on Wednesday from its Johnson Space Center in Houston for the first time since it landed.“The OSIRIS-REx sample is the biggest carbon-rich asteroid sample ever delivered to Earth and will help scientists investigate the origins of life on our own planet for generations to come,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, in a statement.“As we peer into…

Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy will be visiting Visakhapatnam on a regular basis to hold review meetings on the development of north coastal Andhra Pradesh, said a state government order issued late Wednesday.The order issued Chief Secretary K.S. Jawahar Reddy indicate that Visakhapatnam will be a transit halt even for the ministers and officials.The committee comprising Special Chief Secretary (MA & UD Department), Special Chief Secretary (Finance Department) and Secretary (Services & HRM), General Administration Department, will identify suitable transit accommodations for the offices and submit a report to the General Administration Department.However, the government did not specify any…

Sources also said the convention will be held after the Assembly elections in five states. The high command wants to pass on the message to the grassroots-level workers in the alliance. The plan is to bring a top leader, PM Modi or Amit Shah from New Delhi, former CM B.S. Yediyurappa and former PM H.D. Deve Gowda and his son former CM H.D. Kumaraswamy together.All the leaders will proclaim the alliance and pledge to take on the Congress government in Karnataka. Though the alliance has been announced and Kumaraswamy has met Union Home Minister Amit Shah, the party workers at…

ThecollectivewealthofIndia’s100Richestwasflatat$799billionthisyear.India is on a high after hosting the G20 Summit in New Delhi this September andbecoming the fourth country to land a spacecraft on the moon.Reflecting this sentiment, India’sstockmarketrose14 per centsincefortuneswerelastmeasured.Howeverthatjump,temperedbyaweaker rupee, was not reflected in the collective net worth of India’s 100 Richest, whichflatlinedat$799billion.MukeshAmbani,whotransformedhisRelianceIndustriesintoadiversifiedconglomerate,reclaimedtheNo.1spotwithanetworthof$92billion.Shortlyafterspinningoff and listing Jio Financial Services, which has an asset management joint venture withBlackRock,Ambani cemented his succession plan by appointing histhree children toReliance’sboardasnon-executivedirectorsinAugust.The fortune of infrastructure magnate Gautam Adani, who rose meteorically toovertake Ambani as India’s richest person for the first time last year, reversed dramaticallyafterareportbyUSshortsellerHindenburgResearchinJanuarysenthisgroup’ssharestumbling.Despiterecoveringsomewhatsince,hisnetworth,whichincludesthatofhisfamily, fell by a whopping $82 billion to $68 billion –…

The up and down Patna Varanasi Janshatabdi express train was cancelled.Nineteen trains, including Patna Azimabad express, Pune Danapur super fast express, Patliputra Superfast express, Dibrugarh Rajdhani, Patna Rajdhani, Vikramsheela express, Kamakhya express, Guwahati express, Tejas Rajdhani express, Anand Vihar Bhagalpur Garib Rath express, Baba Baidyanath Dham Deoghar super fast express train were diverted from Patna to Gaya and Deen Dayal Upadhyay Junctions.Trains like Ahmadabad Express, Poorwotar Sampark Kranti and others were diverted from Deen Dayal Upadhyay, Sasaram and Arrah stations to reach Patna and further towards Kolkata and Guwahati.–IANSajk/shb

The poster, shared ahead of the film’s teaser launch on Friday, shows Vicky’s titular character of the former Army chief, Sam Manekshaw, standing in an open field in a deep thought with his back facing the camera. The golden hour and the sun peeking from the horizon make the shot a compelling one.The text on the poster reads: “Zindagi unki, itihaas humara (His life, our history).” Sharing the picture on his Instagram, Vicky wrote in the caption: “To a life well lived.”Sam Manekshaw, an Indian war hero, was the Chief of the Army Staff of the Indian Army during the…

Analyst Ming-Chi Kuo of TF International Securities, one of Apple’s most respected analysts, expects Cybertruck shipments to begin this year, but only about 100-200 units would likely be delivered to consumers.”The current shipment estimates for the Cybertruck in 2023, 2024, and 2025 are 100-200, 100,000-120,000, and 240,000-260,000 units, respectively,” Kuo wrote in a Medium post.The top Apple analyst also noted that the Cybertruck’s innovative design will probably provide it a competitive edge through 2030.”The innovative designs of Cybertruck (such as aerodynamic efficiency) are expected to maintain its competitive advantage until 2030, meaning the all-new designed Cybertruck 2 will likely not…

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…