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BJP announced its first list of 195 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, the Overseas Friends of BJP in the US has kicked off its 2024 election campaign pledging to volunteer and contribute towards the goal of winning 400 seats in the elections. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday released its first list of 195 candidates out of which 51 are from Uttar Pradesh, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Varanasi. «The Indian Diaspora is going to support the BJP in India,» Adapa Prasad, president of Overseas Friends of BJP (OFBJP) USA told PTI after the conclusion of the kick-off event on Saturday in a Maryland suburb of Washington DC. The event was attended by about 100 core members of the OFBJP.

OpenAI’s ChatGPT is promptly met by a response that is confident, coherent and just plain wrong. In an AI model, such tendencies are usually described as hallucinations. A more informal word exists, however: these are the qualities of a great bullshitter.

Lok Sabha polls, the Overseas Friends of BJP in the US has kicked off its 2024 election campaign pledging to volunteer and contribute towards the goal of winning 400 seats in the elections. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday released its first list of 195 candidates out of which 51 are from Uttar Pradesh, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Varanasi.

Nifty ended with weekly gains of 0.75% with leadership taken by banks, auto and metals. When markets resume trading on Monday, a host of important domestic and global events lined up during the holiday-shortened week are likely to impact them. Commenting on the day's trade, Rupak De, Senior Technical Analyst at LKP Securities said that Nifty struggled to withstand the selling pressure at higher levels after beginning the day on a positive note and ultimately closing at the day's lowest point. According to him, the overall sentiments remain positive and the index must surpass the 22,400 mark to trigger a new leg of rally. «A decisive breakthrough above 22,400 could propel the index towards 22,600. On the downside, support is situated at 22,250-22,200,» De said.

Goa, has achieved a remarkable feat by winning the title of "Best Indian Single-Malt Whisky" at the Icons of Whisky awards, presented by the Whisky Magazine in the UK. This victory on the international stage is a significant milestone for Kadamba Whisky, propelling it into the league of global whisky brands such as Suntory, Red Breast, JP Wiser, and Johnny Walker. Award-Winning Expression Kadamba's Signature Expression, the winning whisky, is double-distilled and aged in a blend of bourbon, sherry, and virgin American oak casks. This unique aging process results in a complex and full-bodied flavor profile that sets Kadamba apart.

semiconductor chip, that is used within the Bluetooth and Wi-Fi component of your phone, could’ve crossed international borders as many as 70 times before it reached you. And this entire process can take up to 100 days, 12 of which are spent in transit between various supply chain steps. And this is just one tiny component that makes up the lifeline of the digital world. Components are as critical as the final device. But most of the components currently come from countries such as Taiwan, China, South Korea and the US. This is going to change soon, however.

World Economic Forum says AI-driven misinformation could interfere with electoral processes in various countries, including India. Sam Gregory, executive director of Witness, a global human rights organisation, which uses video and technology to expose human rights abuses and has worked on the threats of AI and deepfakes, spoke to ET about AI related challenges and strategies in elections. Edited excerpts: Can you quantify the risk of deepfakes in elections? We are entering a challenging moment in terms of deepfakes. This year, we have made technical progress that makes it easier and cheaper to make them. We are going to have an election year where synthetic media tools will be used for positive purposes such as voter outreach, and for negative ones.

Netflix is set to add a late Christmas gift to its lineup with the arrival of the R-rated horror comedy "There's Something in the Barn" in March 2024. The movie, originally a Norwegian film, will make its streaming debut on Netflix in the United States, a report by What’s on Netflix said.

CAIRO (Reuters) — The Houthi Transport Ministry in Yemen said on Saturday there had been a «glitch» in undersea communication cables in the Red Sea as a result of actions by U.S. and British naval vessels.

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Israel has broadly accepted a deal for a six-week Gaza ceasefire and it is now up to Hamas to agree to release the most vulnerable hostages for the deal to take effect, a senior US official said Saturday. «There's a framework deal. The Israelis have more or less accepted it,» the Biden administration official told reporters on a call, speaking on condition of anonymity.

ADEN, Yemen (Reuters) -The UK-owned Rubymar, attacked by Houthi militants last month, has sunk in the Red Sea, Yemen's internationally recognised government said on Saturday, warning of a «environmental catastrophe» from the ship's cargo of fertilizer.

image generation tool Gemini because it had thrown up images of, among other things, Black vikings, Black and East Asian 1930s German soldiers, and an African-American founding father of America. As anyone familiar with the non-existence of Hindus buried in Christian cemeteries, men admitted in maternity wards of hospitals, or communists in Goldman Sachs, these images generated by Gemini have no bearing in real life. They are, in the truest sense, surreal, adj. strange, especially because of the combination of items that are never found together in reality. Quite like, say, Salvador Dali's 1944 painting, 'Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate a Second Before Waking', where two tigers are seen jumping out of a fish's mouth while a white elephant with incredibly long stilt-legs passes by in the background, all while a naked woman is lying back unbothered by everything happening around her. Tigers, fish, elephants and stretched-out women have yet to complain. But quite unlike Dali and other surrealists, Gemini and other LLMs, don't really think up these images themselves. They create from what they are told — prompted — by their human overlords and by dipping into their vast vats of training datasets, and then go beyond these two parameters. They're darzis, not designers. Yet.

students, dreaming of Harvard and Yale, with parents in tow, step into a rather unimpressive building nearby. They come from as far as Amritsar, Dhanbad and Delhi. They make their way to the sixth floor where an amiable-looking, grey-haired, bespectacled man waits for them in his three-room office. Viral Doshi, they believe, has the key to their favourite undergraduate destination—the Ivy League. The kids are often just 14 years old. When they are in Class IX, they come to Doshi, one of the most sought-after consultants for US college admissions in India, to entrust their next four years to him. These years will be spent in crafting a student life that will tick all the boxes in an application form to a top American college. Doshi’s four-year package costs anywhere between Rs 4 lakh and Rs 7 lakh. “Applying to universities is not a cookie-cutter process,” says Doshi. “Each application requires a lot of time and attention to detail as a kid’s career is at stake.” He starts by getting to know a student—their favourite subjects and interests. He puts them to a psychometric analysis to crosscheck their strengths and weaknesses. He then sits them down and advises on areas they should focus on and maps out a possible career path.

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Becoming Warren Buffett.") Their personal friendship turned into a professional relationship by 1966, when Buffett was looking for companies to buy and Gottesman called him with an idea: What about buying a department store in Baltimore? As it happened, the department store Hochschild Kohn was run by Ruth’s extended family (her mother was a Kohn), and Sandy knew they were ready to sell. Buffett, Munger and Gottesman formed a company called Diversified Retailing and bought it. It soon became clear they had made a big mistake.

Also Read: US sanctions threaten Russian oil sales to India; complicate process for OMCs to secure annual deals: Report Back home, on the Multi Commodity Exchange (MCX), crude oil futures due for a March 19 expiry, last settled 0.02 per cent lower at ₹6,637 per bbl, having swung between ₹6,475 and ₹6,694 per bbl during the session, against a previous close of ₹6,638 per barrel. -A decision on extending OPEC+ cuts is expected in the first week of March, with individual countries expected to announce their decisions. Analysts said that the expectation that OPEC+ is going to continue with their voluntary production cuts well into the second quarter of 2024.

foreign institutional investors (FIIs) poured in Rs 1,539 crore last month despite the US bond yields ruling high with the 10-year yield at around 4.25%. “FIIs may again turn sellers in some of the coming days. But they are unlikely to sell aggressively because their selling is not having any impact on the market, which is setting new record highs. FIIs will have to buy the same shares, which they are selling now, at higher prices when the situation turns favourable for FII buying. Therefore, even if they sell in the coming days, that will be subdued selling,” said Dr. V K Vijayakumar, Chief Investment Strategist, Geojit Financial Services.