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Disclaimer: It’s an AI-generated image, used for representative purpose only The Taiwanese inventors recently captured global attention with its standout performance at this year’s Silicon Valley International Festival (SVIIF) in California. The inventors took home the top prize of the event along with 24 gold medals and other special awards, as reported by Taipei Times. The report also revealed that among the standout winners was 10-year-old Hsu Ting-wei of Kang Chiao International School, whose AI-powered “electronic nose” invention earned both a gold medal and the International Federation of Inventors’ Associations’ best invention award.The “electronic nose” innovationHsu’s invention, called the “Novel…
Deputy CM Eknath Shinde called on organisers to exercise caution at public functions. THANE: A Hindi song sung by legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar, featuring a reference to ‘Vande Mataram’, was mistakenly played instead of the official version of the national song at a government event attended by Maharashtra deputy chief minister Eknath Shinde in Thane, news agency PTI reported.The incident took place on Monday evening during a function organised to mark the conclusion of a Marathi language course campaign for cab and auto-rickshaw drivers from non-Marathi backgrounds. Certificates were distributed to participants who successfully completed the course.At the start of…
BENGALURU: A Rs 450-crore road project on Bengaluru’s Outer Ring Road has run into opposition from the companies that employ lakhs of people along the busy corridor, with the industry body asking authorities to put the work on hold until the Namma Metro Blue Line becomes operational.The Outer Ring Road Companies’ Association (ORRCA) has objected to the proposed white-topping and other road works on the 17.1km stretch between Central Silk Board and KR Pura, arguing that carrying out the work alongside Metro construction could worsen traffic and disrupt businesses.The six point charterFirms reject work-from-home solutionThe association has also rejected a…
Hyderabad: A 21-year-old carpenter was allegedly killed by three co-workers during a drunken brawl in their room at Bandlaguda Jagir on Monday night. Aniket Kumar, a native of Bihar, had recently come to Hyderabad for work at an under-construction real estate venture. Police said the accused attacked him with an iron rod. Aniket succumbed to his injuries at a local hospital. The trio was arrested.- Source link
The Madras High Court clarified a Union Home Ministry notification. CHENNAI: The Madras high court has clarified that the Union home ministry’s notification requiring ‘Vande Mataram’ to be sung first at government functions does not prohibit the Tamil Thai Vazhthu from being sung before it.The court was hearing a PIL filed by Ananya Radhakrishnan, who sought to quash the Centre’s circular.The Centre told the court that its notification only requires ‘Vande Mataram’ to be sung first, followed by the National Anthem, and does not mention the state song.The Madras high court is yet to release order in the matter. Source…
Video grab of the leopard’s pug marks in Moti Devati village, Sanand. The fresh pugmarks and the ones found on Monday are the same size Ahmedabad: The leopard in Sanand could be on the move. Fresh pugmarks have been found some 800m from the spot in Moti Devati village where they were first seen on Monday. The feline may be moving further into the area, probably towards Sanand city, foresters suspect. The forest department on Tuesday stepped up surveillance and set up two more trap cages in the area, taking the total to three.“No kill has been found,” an official…
Statewide Nipun assessments for young students began Tuesday but faced significant disruptions. GURGAON: Statewide Nipun assessments for students from classes I-IV began Tuesday, but the flagship foundational learning exercise failed to take off in more than half of the city’s govt primary schools because a number of teachers are deployed on Special Intensive Revision (SIR) or Census duty.Under the state’s implementation of National Initiative for Proficiency in Reading with Understanding and Numeracy (Nipun), every child’s response is recorded digitally through an app that can only be accessed using the login credentials of the regular class teacher. With a large section…
Shillong: The first indigenous tribal woman chief secretary of Meghalaya, Rebecca Vanessa Suchiang, passed on Tuesday at the age of 64. She was under treatment for a terminal illness for the last couple of years.A 1989-batch IAS officer of the Assam-Meghalaya cadre, Suchiang became the first indigenous tribal woman chief secretary to the Meghalaya govt on taking oath on September 30, 2021. She continued in office as the highest bureaucrat in the state till her superannuation on December 31, 2022.PP Trivedi from the general category was the first woman chief secretary of Meghalaya from 1983 to 1985.On her retirement from…
(From left) Consultant SL Kirloskar CSR Foundation Suresh Mijar, foundation CEO Jagdish Purandare, director Arti Kirloskar, co-founder of The Youth Cosmo Nidhi Bennur and director of Ecological Society Kedar Bhagwat at a press conference announcing the festival Pune: The Kirloskar Vasundhara International Film Festival (KVIFF) returns to an in-person format for its 19th edition, bringing together films, discussions, performances and community activities around environmental issues.The festival has been organised by the SL Kirloskar CSR Foundation and will be held on Aug 21-22 at the Pune International Centre, Pashan. This year’s theme is Brought to You by Earth and aims to…
The Alipur-Khatauli bridge in Panchkula was damaged after the water level in the river rose sharply following heavy rain on Tuesday Panchkula: Heavy rain wreaked havoc across Panchkula on Tuesday, damaging a bridge connecting Alipur and Khatauli, sweeping away two youths in a rainwater drain in Rajiv Colony, Sector 17, and submerging a car at the railway underpass in MDC.The Alipur-Khatauli bridge was damaged after the water level in the river rose sharply. As a precaution, Panchkula Police barricaded the road from both sides and closed the route to all vehicular and pedestrian movement.Police advised commuters to use alternative routes…