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Fiction: Vani will marry Vir only if he wins her over before the train reaches the last stop
There was screaming and yelling: “It was almost 7 am, and I had barely slept. I didn’t feel like getting up, but if I didn’t, the whole train would. The drama was happening next door, Mum and Dad. But what happened so early?” “Why can’t both of you act like a mature couple for once?”…
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Rain updates: Waterlogging in Delhi, 3,000 LPG cylinders swept away in Maharashtra
Heavy rainfall led to waterlogging and traffic snarls in parts of Delhi and the National Capital Region on Thursday. Thursday was the second consecutive day of near-continuous rainfall in the region. The Mehrauli-Badarpur road was among the worst affected by waterlogging, ANI reported. Waterlogging was also reported at Burari in the northern part of the…
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E20 may marginally hurt mileage, but vehicle damage claims ‘overblown’: Nitin Gadkari
Union Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari has told The Indian Express that while the average mileage of vehicles may have marginally reduced because of blending petrol with ethanol, the claims made online about damage to cars are “overblown” and part of a “false narrative”. “Show me a single car that has suffered damage because of…
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This book reveals how an AI winter, caused by poor machine translation, nearly killed the technology
We are currently in the throes of an AI renaissance – but it hasn’t always been that way. AI hasn’t advanced in a single, upward exponential curve that those tech companies currently at the forefront of the generative AI revolution love to suggest. Instead, it’s a stuttering story of two steps forward, one step back.…
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Bengal SIR tribunals could ‘take 21 years’ to clear appeals at current pace, remarks Calcutta HC
The Calcutta High Court on Wednesday verbally observed that pending appeals against voter deletions under the Special Intensive Revision process “will take 21 years for all appeals to be disposed of” if the appellate tribunals function at the current pace, The Times of India reported. The court made the verbal observation while hearing the case…
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Dombivli hospital assault: Doctor resigns after attack by Shinde Sena corporator, fearing for safety
A doctor who was assaulted by Shiv Sena corporator at a civic hospital in Dombivli in Thane district resigned on Tuesday, saying he does not feel safe returning to work, The Indian Express reported. The 26-year-old resident medical officer at the Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation’s Shastri Nagar Hospital said he had left the city after receiving…
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Wayanad landslide: Toll rises to five, three still missing
The toll in the landslide in Kerala’s Wayanad reached five on Thursday with the recovery of two bodies at the disaster site, PTI quoted Kerala ministers AP Anil Kumar and T Siddique as saying. Search operations were underway to locate three persons who are still missing. The landslide occurred in the Kelladi area of Wayanad…
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US announces investigation into fraud in H1B temporary employment visas
Just over a month after a US federal judge struck down the Trump administration’s proposed $100,000 fee requirement for H-1B applicants, the government has announced an investigation into potential fraud in this temporary work visa programme. Also under scrutiny is a labour certification system that serves as the gateway to most employer-sponsored “green cards” that…
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US launches fresh strikes on Iran, Tehran retaliates with attacks on three Gulf countries
The United States launched fresh attacks on Iran on Thursday, hours after President Donald Trump said that the ceasefire was “over”. Eight Iranian Army personnel were killed in the US strikes, the country’s state-run Islamic Republic News Agency reported. Iran retaliated by striking sites in Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar, AP reported. There were no reports…
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Why are so many trees falling in Mumbai?
On June 30, as heavy rains battered Mumbai, a 60-year-old peepul tree came crashing down on a school bus that had briefly stopped on Lane 11 near Chembur’s Diamond Garden. As it collapsed on the bus roof, its trunk fell directly on Vihaan Srivastava, a Class 6 student of Universal School, who lived in the…