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CHENNAI: Chief minister M K Stalin has intensified flood rescue and relief operations in Chennai by deploying additional ministers to oversee specific areas. The assignments are as follows:* Minister S Regupathy: In charge of K K Nagar and MGR Nagar* Minister C V Meyyanathan: Responsible for Semmanchery and Perumbakkam* Minister R S Rajakannappan: Overseeing Royapuram* […]
RANCHI: Lalbiaktluanga Khiangte, a 1988-batch Jharkhand IAS officer, has been appointed as the new chief secretary of the state, an official notification said on Wednesday.Khiangte replaces Sukhdev Singh, who has been made the director general of Shri Krishna Institute of Public Administration, it said.Khiangte, who was holding the charge of additional chief secretary, Department of […]
CHENNAI: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh would visit Tamil Nadu on Thursday to assess the flood situation in the state in the wake of Cyclone Michaung and meet chief minister M K Stalin, said an official release from the Press Information Bureau.Singh, who would be visiting Tamil Nadu as a representative of the Union government, would […]
CHENNAI: Nine people died in Chennai and Chengalpattu districts due to electrocution, flooding, and fallen trees caused by the Cyclone Michaung. The state government is actively working to restore normalcy by draining floodwater, providing essential services, and clearing roads. IAF helicopters have been deployed to airdrop food packets in affected areas, and relief efforts are […]
NEW DELHI: Researchers have evaluated the efficacy of current therapy regimens for the neglected tropical disease, Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL), and published their findings in The Lancet Regional Health-Southeast Asia journal. The researchers conducted a meta-analysis of 131 studies aimed at quantifying the proportion of relapses observed at and beyond 6-months using the University of Oxford‘s […]
Google has introduced its ‘largest’ and ‘most capable’ large language model, which goes by the name of Gemini, to the world. Dubbed Gemini 1.0, the model is the “start of a new era” and is the first of “new generations of AI models,” reads the blog, penned by Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Demis Hassabis, […]
LUDHIANA: Ludhiana rural police have arrested a couple after they recovered 50 grams heroin and Rs 40,000 drug money from them. The accused were identified as Harpreet Singh Happy aka Longa and his wife Inderjit Kaur Indu, of Hardev Nagar in Jagraon.Police officials said that the Crime Investigating Agency (CIA) got a tip off that […]
MUMBAI: The BEST took a proactive step on Mahaparinirvan Divas by setting up a special stall at Shivaji Park near Chaityabhoomi in Mumbai to raise awareness about quitting tobacco and preventing dengue.Hundreds of people who had gathered to pay tribute to Dr Ambedkar benefitted from the stall, with over 1,000 receiving free health checkups and […]
LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh will notify 50 wetlands under the Wetland Rules of 2017. These wetlands span about 1,000 hectares across nine districts. The decision was taken in the fifth meeting of Uttar Pradesh State Wetland Authority held on Wednesday. Over two lakh metric tons of carbon will be absorbed in these newly notified wetlands.In other […]