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05.08 / 05:29

BLOCK Parke Reddit love country fun Hilarious exchange over car parking goes viral, Netizens react

Car parking can be a real bone of contention between neighbours, and sometimes it can take an ugly turn. However, a hilarious exchange has come to light where the two neighbours shared their parking concerns via written messages without even knowing each other's names. A user on Reddit has shared the hilarious exchange with a call for community members to follow them for part 3 of the whole fiasco.

05.08 / 04:51

Facebook UPS BLOCK Progressive Action Situation in Tripura district tense after a student was beaten up

Tripura's Sepahijala district turned tense after a student was beaten up a group of students. Huge contingent of security forces were deployed after the incident. A police officer said that Mohammad Illyas Sarkar, a class ten student of a government aided Higher Secondary School in Bishalghar sub-division protested against the group of student for preventing Muslim girl students wearing hijab.

05.08 / 03:45

UPS BLOCK Highways Traffic Uttarakhand: Portion of Gangotri Highway caves in following landslide, traffic diverted

Gangotri National Highway caved in due to a landslide near the Forest Department office at Lisa Depot in Uttarakhand's Uttarkashi disrupting vehicular movement on Saturday. According to officials, a stretch of around 60 meters has caved in and the area is close to an airstrip said to be strategically important.

05.08 / 02:53

UPS Waves BLOCK Waters Extreme A widespread heat wave has ocean temperatures soaring to record levels

The planet's average sea surface temperature spiked to a record high in April, and the ocean has remained exceptionally warm ever since. In July, widespread marine heat waves drove temperatures back up to near-record highs, with some hot spots nearing 100 degrees Fahrenheit (nearly 38 Celsius).

05.08 / 02:43

BLOCK Discover DISH After weeks of silence, NASA restores contact with the 47-year-old Voyager 2 spacecraft,interstellar

After weeks of silence, NASA finally managed to communicate with its 46-year-old Voyager 2 spacecraft on Friday. Communication was restored after flight controller corrected a mistake that led to weeks of silence. Two weeks ago, VOyager 2 stopped communicating because of a wrong command sent by controllers to the space craft.

04.08 / 20:51

UPS BLOCK Manufacturing Apple Enterprise DELL country NOT Protectionism 2023? Not quite so PC

security does not constitute a breach of WTO rules, unless contested. Security restrictions are commonplace for countries to impose non-tariff trade barriers. India's notification this week requires importers of IT hardware to obtain a permit from the Directorate General of Foreign Trade (DGFT), which promises to issue these expeditiously.

04.08 / 20:27

Facebook BLOCK Google Platform Instagram country social Threat Facebook owner Meta carries out threat to block news in Canada. Google plans to do the same

Facebook and Instagram parent company Meta is keeping its promise to block news content in Canada on its platforms in response to a new law that requires tech giants to pay publishers for linking to or otherwise repurposing their content online

04.08 / 20:27

BLOCK Citizens love country blast 3 years after Beirut port blast, intrigue foils an investigation and even the death toll is disputed

Three years after Beirut’s massive port explosion, attempts to prosecute those responsible are mired in political intrigue and the death toll remains disputed

04.08 / 20:27

COST Lowe's BLOCK McDonald's Australian China reopens trade in Australian barley in a new sign of improved relations

China is lifting a stifling 3-year-old tariff on Australian barley in a sign of an improving bilateral trade relationship since Australia’s government changed

04.08 / 20:27

UPS Waves BLOCK Extreme Parke ICE A Greek zoo serves up frozen meals to animals to help them beat the heat

A zoo outside Athens is feeding animals with frozen meals to help shield them from the searing heat as heat wave temperatures return to Greece

04.08 / 18:19

Provident BLOCK SUN Tether stage Tackling global warming with an asteroid ‘umbrella’? Here’s all you need to know about the unique method and how does it work

Earth from the sun's rays using a spaceborne «umbrella» tethered to a captured asteroid. This theoretical concept, proposed by István Szapudi, an astronomer at the University of Hawaii Institute of Astronomy, seeks to mitigate the impending catastrophe of climate change by reducing the amount of sunlight reaching our planet's surface.

04.08 / 18:15

Target BLOCK Man Parke Subway country social debate South Korea’s ‘Don’t Ask Why’ Stabbings Prompt New Debate on Criminal Punishment

A string of random stabbings in South Korea has inspired online threats of copycat attacks and unnerved the country of 52 million, pushing officials to consider adding new criminal punishments such as life imprisonment without parole. Lawmakers and local media have referred to the knife-wielding incidents as “Don’t Ask Why" crimes, given the lack of clear motives behind the violence and indiscriminate victim targeting. South Korea, where strict firearm laws block nearly all civilians from gun ownership, had recently reported a decade-low level of crime, with its murder rate dropping to 1.3 homicides per 100,000 people, according to the latest government data.

04.08 / 16:39

BLOCK Booking Amazon Platform Apple Fortinet performer Stocks making the biggest moves midday: Amazon, Apple, Block, Tupperware and more

Check out the companies making headlines in midday trading.

04.08 / 14:45

BLOCK Centre Centre completes seventh tranche of coal block auctions successfully

₹787 crore (excluding partially explored coal mines) calculated at the peak rated capacity (PRC) of these coal mines. These auctions are also anticipated to attract a capital investment of approximately ₹1,050 crore, leading to creation of around 9,464 employment opportunities, it added.

04.08 / 10:05

BTC BLOCK Binance Digital Discover Bitcoin performer Bitcoin Price Prediction; BTC is Steady Above $29,000; All Eyes on US NFP Figures

Bitcoin's price is trading choppy above the $29,000 threshold, and has captured the attention of traders and investors.

04.08 / 08:49

BLOCK Mobile Puzzle Yellow Quordle clues and solutions for August 4 wordy puzzle

puzzle game which is available on its official website. Quordle is a Wordle- Dordle inspired game. It was designed by Freddie Meyer when Wordle game was at boom. Quordle is an ad free game and is free to play. Gamers can play it on desktop or mobile. Quordle is four times more challenging than Wordle as it requires you to decipher four words in the puzzle. Quordle brings in new challenges every day. For beginners, a previously played Quordle dashboard is available at the website for users to try their hands on before playing it live.

04.08 / 06:49

UPS Provident Target BLOCK Software Block shares crunched on concerns about spending

The shares of Afterpay’s parent company, Block, tumbled by 10 per cent on Friday despite second quarter earnings beating forecasts and a stronger outlook, with the company calling out Australian spending as being more challenged than the United States.

04.08 / 06:31

Provident Target BLOCK Mobile Honda Bengaluru police apprehend armed muggers after series of robberies and thefts

Ahmed, also known as Kala, aged 24, and Mohammed Zeeshan Pasha, aged 20, both residents of Govindapura, were arrested, while their two accomplices remain at large. The authorities were able to seize two swords and recover two stolen scooters during the arrests, leading to the resolution of two robbery cases and two vehicle theft cases reported in Banasawadi, Sampigehalli, and DJ Halli police stations. The first incident took place on July 19 when the suspects targeted Nitesh Bhatia, a private firm employee returning home in his car at 3 am.

04.08 / 02:23

UPS BLOCK Digital Citizens Platform social information Fine Data Protection Bill: This much fine entities will have to pay for violating online information of citizens

₹250 crore and a minimum of ₹50 crore would be imposed on them, including blocking of the platform. This new mandate has come as the union government on Thursday tabled the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2023 in the Lok Sabha with an aim to protect the privacy of Indian citizens. The entities such as social media companies, startups, e-commerce platforms, banks, fintech, state-backed entities etc will be imposed with a penalty of up to ₹250 crore for misusing or failing to protect the digital data of individuals, the Bill proposed on Thursday.

04.08 / 00:59

UPS Provident FIVE BLOCK Digital Platform country penalty Rs 250 crore penalty for breaches in new data bill tabled in Parliament

Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Bill, 2023 in the Parliament on Thursday. An older version of the Bill — which was five years in the making – had been withdrawn exactly a year ago. The new legislation aims to give people tighter control over the use of their personal information by businesses as it lays out strict conditions for data sharing, processing and storage.

04.08 / 00:59

UPS FIVE BLOCK Manufacturing Strategy performer Blackstone sets its sights on buying out Hamieds from Cipla

Blackstone, the world’s largest private equity fund, is set to submit a non-binding bid as early as next week to acquire the entire 33.47% promoter stake in Cipla, India’s third-largest generics company by revenues, said people in the know. This will formally start a process which could see the eventual exit of the Hamied family from the company they created in 1935, and which has often been seen as a crusader against Big Pharma’s pricing strategies in emerging markets on account of its championing of affordable drugs. The move by Blackstone, if it comes about, will also trigger an open offer for an additional 26% of the company.

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