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Twitter vacating office space in India too, staff told to work remotely

Elon Musk-owned Twitter is reportedly vacating its co-working spaces in Delhi and Mumbai after having already done so in Bengaluru. Already 150 of the company’s employees who work at the WeWork facility in Mumbai’s BKC, and 80 at The Executive Centre in Delhi’s Qutub area are asked to do so, reports said. IANS, quoting sources, reported that the company has ...

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Humble as ever, Keeravani says inspired by Western musical films ‘Fiddler on the Roof’, ‘Phone Booth’, ‘Coming to America’

The ‘RRR’ Golden Globe award for the original song landed Telugu music composer M.M. Keeravani along the ranks of world famous composers who have struck original concept to get the whole world dance to their tune. In his interview with journalists after receiving his trophy, Keeravani, who’s also known as M.M. Kreem in Hindi movie credits, said he is a ...

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Indian American Jennifer Shah of ‘Real Housewives of Salt Lake City’ sentenced to 78 months in jail

American Indian Jennifer Shah, 49, who starred in ‘Real Housewives of Salt Lake City’ has been sentenced to 78 months in prison for running a nationwide telemarketing fraud scheme that targeted “vulnerable, elderly victims”. Jennifer Shah previously pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with telemarketing. Besides the prison term, Shah has also been ...

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New Year Gift? Dining out to be clostlier as cylinder price hiked

gas price hiked

Dining out in 2023 would be a costlier on New Year’s eve as oil companies on Sunday, the first day of the New Year, hiked the price of commercial LPG cylinder by Rs 25, effective from today. Rates of domestic LPG cylinders have been kept unchanged. Rates of domestic LPG cylinders have been kept unchanged in view of Asembly elections ...

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Times Square Ball Drop revives New Year spectacle again after Covid

New York City ushered in 2023 with a dazzling Saturday night spectacle in iconic Times Square, kicking off New Year’s celebrations across the United States. The night culminated with a countdown as a glowing geodesic sphere or the iconic Ball Drop weighing almost six tons descended from its lofty perch atop One Times Square. Its surface is comprised of nearly ...

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CES 2023: Samsung to unveil new refrigerator with larger screen

Samsung Electronics said its new ‘Bespoke Refrigerator Family Hub Plus’, equipped with a large touch screen, will be unveiled at CES 2023 to be held in Las Vegas from January 5. At 32 inches, it features a much larger display than the 21.5-inch screen found on previous generations of Samsung Family Hub refrigerators. The new Family Hub has been enhanced ...

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Michael Pratt, one of FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives Captured in Spain

Pratt

Michael James Pratt, one of the FBI’s ten most wanted fugitives was arrested last week by Spanish authorities, said the agency. Pratt has been a fugitive since 2019 and was named to the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List earlier this year. Pratt is charged in a 19-count indictment with sex trafficking, production of child pornography, sex trafficking of a ...

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Who’s Rajeev Badyal? New Indian American chosen to serve in National Space Council

Rajeev Badyal

Indian-American Rajeev Badyal has been chosen to be one the 30 members selected by US Vice President Kamala Harris to serve on the National Space Council’s Users Advisory Group (UAG) to provide advice on space-related projects and issues. Rajeev Badyal presently leads Amazon’s Project Kuiper — an initiative to launch a constellation of Low Earth Orbit satellites to provide low-latency, ...

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Remote Internet Voting System: Congress opposes, cites German example

The Congress on Thursday expressed its objections to the Election Commission proposal inviting political parties to observe the functioning of a prototype Multi-Constituency Remote Electronic Voting Machine on January 16, 2023 and to make written submissions by January 31, 2023. The Election Commission of India earlier today said that it is ready to pilot remote voting for domestic migrants, and ...

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New Year Celebrations: Delhi Police imposes traffic restrictions at CP

The Delhi Police on Thursday announced deployment of more than 18,000 personnel across the national capital ahead of New Year’s celebrations on Saturday night with usual traffic restrictions at Connaught Place from 8 p.m. onwards, besides testing drunk drivers. The traffic will be restricted to enter Connaught Place and only authorised vehicles will be allowed there. Mobile teams will also ...

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London Underground polluted with metallic particles small enough to enter human bloodstream

The London Underground is polluted with ultrafine metallic particles small enough to end up in the human bloodstream, according to University of Cambridge researchers. These particles are so small that they are likely being underestimated in surveys of pollution in the world’s oldest metro system. The researchers carried out a new type of pollution analysis, using magnetism to study dust ...

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Two fungi work together to kill fig trees; leads to fig-wilting disease

Ceratocystis ficicola/CREDIT:Zi-Ru Jiang and Hisashi Kajimura

In many countries, the number of fig trees have been declining. While there are numerous explanations, one key problem is fig-wilting disease. A recognized cause of this disease is a fungus, Ceratocystis ficicola, which is transmitted by an ambrosia beetle, Euwallacea interjectus. Now, a group from Nagoya University in central Japan has identified another fungus, Fusarium kuroshium, which is harmless ...

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NASA Sensors to Help Detect Methane Emitted by Landfills

NASA

A nonprofit group, Carbon Mapper, will use data from NASA’s EMIT mission, plus current airborne and future satellite instruments, to survey waste sites for methane emissions. Observations from the Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation (EMIT) and other NASA science instruments will be part of a global survey of point-source emissions of methane from solid waste sites such as landfills. ...

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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Gets the Dirt on Mars

The mission’s first two samples of regolith – broken rock and dust – could help scientists better understand the Red Planet and engineers prepare for future missions there. NASA’s Perseverance rover snagged two new samples from the Martian surface on Dec. 2 and 6. But unlike the 15 rock cores collected to date, these newest samples came from a pile ...

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Viral Videos Today: Trump to MS Dhoni videos

Here are today’s viral videos and the one-year-old video of faceoff between Indian and Chinese troops along the Tawang border is trending. See them here:       https://youtube.com/shorts/6gE–usZAKY?feature=share       https://youtube.com/shorts/S5M8UVX4VOg?feature=share   https://youtube.com/shorts/5YWxh6oa8Xc?feature=share

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Researchers uncover factors linked to optimal aging

What are the keys to “successful” or optimal aging? A new study followed more than 7000 middle aged and older Canadians for approximately three years to identify the factors linked to well-being as we age. They found that those who were female, married, physically active and not obese and those who had never smoked, had higher incomes, and who did ...

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Earth’s inner core may be oxygen-rich

Iron-rich Fe–O compounds at Earth’s core pressures/CREDIT:Jin Liu

Oxygen is the key substance for life and one of the most abundant elements in the Earth. However, it’s still unknown whether oxygen is present and in which form in the inner core with extreme high pressure and temperature conditions, and almost composed of pure iron. Scientists co-led by Dr. Jin Liu from HPSTAR (the Center for High Pressure Science ...

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Bharat Jodo Yatra: Why Raghuram Rajan singled out for joining Yatra

Bharat Jodo Yatra

Former RBI Governor Raghuram Rajan joined the Bharat Jodo Yatra of Rahul Gandhi in Rajasthan on Wednesday as many celebrities have joined the 3,500-km long Yatra in the course of last 98 days. But Rajan was singled out first time when BJP’s IT Cell chief Amit Malviya said the former RBI governor “fancies” himself as the next Manmohan Singh. Raghuram ...

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