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22 Oct

India sends humanitarian aid to battered Gaza Strip as Israel-Hamas war rages

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The war between Israel and Hamas has entered to its 16th day leading to the destruction of the live of people. The death toll of Gaza rose to 4,651. The catastrophic attack on Al Ahli Hospital in Gaza has led to the death of hundreds of Palestinian. However, Israel has denied its hand behind bombing, while the Palestinians have held it responsible. On Sunday, India has sent an IAF flight C-17 to El-Arish airport in Egypt, carrying around 6.5 tonnes of medical aid and 32 tonnes of disaster relief material for Palestine. As per the statement of Ministry of External…

18 Oct

Elon Musk starts charging new users to create account on X

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsBusiness, InternationalBusiness, international

X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, has begun testing $1-per-year subscription fees for new accounts on the web that want to post or interact with other users, saying this measure can reduce spam, automated bot accounts, and manipulation of its services. The test, called "Not a Bot," has been launched in New Zealand and the Philippines, X said in a blog post on Tuesday. New users who do not pay a fee cannot take certain actions, including writing, liking, replying or bookmarking posts on the site. "This will evaluate a potentially robust measure to help us combat bots…

17 Oct

Former Miss World Uruguay Sherika De Armas dies at 26

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsInternational, worldinternational

Former Miss World contestant Sherica de Armas, who represented Uruguay in the Miss World pageant in 2015, died on October 13 at the age of 26 after a battle with cervical cancer, the New York Post reported. Mrs. De Armas underwent chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatments. Her death sent shock waves through Uruguay and around the world."Fly high, little sister. Always and forever," her brother Mayk De Armas said on social media. Carla Romero, Miss Universe Uruguay 2022, lamented that Ms De Armas was "too evolved for this world. One of the most beautiful women I've ever seen in my life."…

08 Oct

Narges Mohammadi: Iranian woman jailed for rights work wins Nobel Peace prize

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Narges Mohammadi, a 51 year old Iran's leading human rights activists who at present is behind bars serving multiple sentences in Tehran's notorious Evin prison has received 2023 Nobel Peace Prize for promoting human rights and freedom for all as well as the courageous activities she held against the oppression of women in Iran and relentless fight for social reform. In the past she had also campaigned for women’s rights and the abolition of the death penalty in Iran. After winning the award she gave her statement to The New York Times in which she asserted that she would never…

25 Sep

Nasa capsule returns to Earth with largest asteroid sample ever collected

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The largest sample collected from an asteroid in space, and the first for NASA, landed in the Utah desert on Sunday after a fiery final descent through Earth's atmosphere, seven years after the mission's launch."Touchdown of the Osiris-Rex sample return capsule. The one-billion-mile journey to asteroid Bennu and back is complete," a commentator said on NASA's live video webcast of the landing. The sample collected from Bennu in 2020 is estimated by the US space agency to contain about 250 grams (nine ounces) of the material, much more than the previous two asteroid samples brought back by the Japanese mission.

14 Sep

Google parent Alphabet lays off hundreds of employees

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsBusiness, InternationalBusiness, INDIA, international

Google parent Alphabet Inc. on Wednesday laid off hundreds of employees from its global hiring team. This comes as an attempt by the tech giant to slow down the hiring process. Notably, Alphabet Inc. was the first "tech giant" to lay off employees this quarter, while others, such as Meta Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Amazon Inc., aggressively laid off in early 2023. It cut staff by about 6 percent in January, amounting to 12,000 jobs. The move in January marked Google's first "major" layoff in the company's history. The NY Times reported that as of June 30, the company had…

05 Sep

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 safely returns to Earth after 186 days

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Four astronauts aboard the SpaceX Dragon Endeavor spacecraft that splashed off the coast of Florida on Monday morning have successfully returned to Earth after completing their Crew-6 mission from the International Space Station. US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoberg, United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan Alneyadi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedayev landed safely aboard the SpaceX Dragon Endeavor in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida, at 12:17 am EDT after 186 days in space, the space agency informed. According to NASA, crew students have contributed to hundreds of experiments and technology demonstrations,…

04 Sep

Woman steals iPhone 14 from store cutting anti-theft cable with her teeth

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsBusiness, Crime, InternationalBusiness, international

A woman has been arrested for allegedly chewing on an anti-theft cable for stealing an iPhone 14 Plus worth $960 (Rs 79,414) from an Apple store in southern China's Fujian province, the South China Morning Post reported. The woman, identified as Qiu, was caught by police half an hour after leaving the store with the device. In a CCTV camera video that has gone viral on Chinese social media platforms, Ms Qiu is seen standing in front of a smartphone display stand. Then he leans on the counter and puts his right hand on a phone. After a brief test…

23 Aug

“India is the centre of universe…”: US Ambassador Eric Garcetti

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsIndia, InternationalBusiness, international

US Ambassador to India Eric Garcetti on Tuesday highlighted the close cooperation between his country and India in various fields including technology, trade, environment and space. He said President Joe Biden told him that India was the most important country in the world to him. Delivering the keynote address at the Indiaspora G20 forum, Garcetti said that Indian Americans constitute six percent of the taxpayers in the United States. "He (President Biden) told me, when he asked me to come here to serve, he said, this is the most important country in the world to me, something that I think…

19 Aug

Elon Musk announces removal of block feature on X

Priyanka Bhowmick0 CommentsBusiness, InternationalBusiness, international

Elon Musk, the owner of X (formerly known as Twitter), has announced that the platform will remove the blocking feature for its users, saying it "doesn't make sense." However, users will still have the ability to block others from sending direct messages. Musk's move is just one of many changes since the site was acquired in a $44 billion deal last year. Currently, when a user blocks an account, it prevents that account's posts from appearing in the blocker's timeline, and vice versa. In addition, a blocked account loses the ability to send messages to the blocker and view their…