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Personal Data Protection Bill (DPDPB), 2023, tabled in the Parliament on Thursday has detailed certain scenarios in which the protection to users under the provisions of the Act will not be applicable. Members of the Opposition and some technology policy experts have raised concerns as this gives wide ranging powers to the government. Manish Tewari, MP, INC, Punjab, on the floor of the house said, “This bill cleaves the entire digital universe into two parts.

After almost a year on the auction block, Sydney’s largest privately owned coach charter company has been sold to electric bus outfit TrueGreen.

China has emerged as the biggest market for major crypto exchange Binance, despite a ban on crypto trading in the country.

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NEW DELHI : The government will put up over 12 offshore mineral-bearing areas for auction to the private sector before the end of 2023, an official aware of the plans said. The Geographical Survey of India has estimated 79 million tonnes of heavy minerals lying untapped off the country’s 7,517-km long coastline.

The storms, which have killed at least 20 people and led to the displacement of hundreds of thousands of residents, were the worst to hit China in over a decade, with Beijing experiencing its heaviest rainfall in 140 years. HOW SEVERE WAS THE RAINFALL? The amount of rainfall since Saturday has breached many local meteorological records. A reservoir in Beijing's Changping district logged a precipitation reading of 744.8mm (29.3 inches) between Saturday and Wednesday, the most in the city in over 140 years and far exceeding the previous record of 609mm set in 1891.

PARIS (Reuters) — Talks to sell parts of French company Atos to Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky are raising concerns among some French lawmakers, who say the deal risks undermining the independence of France's nuclear deterrence.

India will participate in Ukraine peace talks to be hosted by Saudi Arabia on Aug. 5 and 6, a foreign ministry spokesperson said during a news briefing on Thursday. Saudi Arabia has invited Western nations, Ukraine and some major developing countries to discuss the peace plan proposed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy earlier this year.

Yogi Adityanath on Thursday directed officials to identify new blocks for mining in the state to increase mineral production. The chief minister also laid special emphasis on finding alternative resources and setting up brick kilns, instead of extracting soil from fertile land for brick production in the state.

If you still don’t have your office groove back, there might be a scientific explanation. Hybrid work arrangements mess with our brains. Frustrated bosses who survey their half-empty officescapes say it makes no sense that somebody who worked full time in an office before 2020 can’t show up like they used to.

“Barbenheimer" might be good for theaters, but it’s bringing out some bad behavior in theatergoers. Many attendees are forgetting the cardinal rule: Never take out a phone during the film. Instead, people are picking out selfies to post, scrolling during dull moments, even taking pictures of the screen—with the flash on.

Ashwini Vaishnaw tabled the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2023 in Lok Sabha on Thursday. Opposition members AIMIM MP Asaduddin Owaisi, TMC MP Saugata Roy and Congress MP Manish Tewari strongly opposed the introduction of the bill and said that the bill violates the fundamental right to privacy.

Assembly Funds Management, the investment house backed by the billionaire Lowy family, has begun raising finance for a second property fund, reflecting growing appetite for non-bank real estate debt.

Alan Joyce on Thursday dismissed as “nonsense” the suggestion Qantas exchanges benefits for favours from the Albanese government, and declined to comment on who gets access to the airline’s coveted Chairman’s Lounge.

Also read: Supermoon in August 2023: See date, time, when to watch Supermoon in India The event on 28 October 2021 is a rare example of a 'ground level enhancement,' during which solar particles are energetic enough to penetrate Earth's magnetic bubble that normally protects us from less energetic solar outbursts. This marked only the 73rd ground level enhancement since records began in the 1940s, and none have been recorded since as reported by Geophysical Research Letters.

economy, this “Ozanada" would be the world’s fifth-largest, bigger than India and just behind Germany. Considering the two in tandem is not as nutty as it seems. Weather aside, they have a remarkable amount in common.

Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain is among the top lots to be sold at Kruse GWS Auction later this month, and could fetch upward of $200,000. Doodles, still photographs and even swimming goggles from the American rocker are also included in the sale. «I think we are going to see some great activity on that guitar,» said lead auctioneer, Brigitte Kruse. «I would expect this one to probably fall in the couple of hundred thousand range conservatively,» Kruse said. The 'Artifacts of Hollywood & Music' online sale, on August 26, will feature over 350 lots from singers, actors and movie costumes.

wolf statue that once sat atop a pillar in central Benghazi before disappearing decades ago, found on a farm whose owner said he bought the sculpture as scrap. Authorities were alerted to the colonial-era statue after a tip off and discovered it in a farm near Benghazi belonging to Saied Mohammed Bourabida, who told them he had bought it from a metal yard because he liked the way it looked. «I remembered this statue in its position near the port from when I was young… I had a smelting workshop and when I saw it by chance at the scrap dealer's I liked its shape and the quality of work so I bought it,» he said. Bourabida, 80, kept the statue, a replica of the famous Capitoline Wolf sculpture that depicts a legendary scene of ancient Rome, in plain view under a spreading tree next to the terrace of his house. Khaled al-Aqouri, head of the tourism and antiquities department in the Benghazi police, said he was confident that Bourabida had not known that it was still public property.

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Nandaprayag and Chhinka on the Badrinath National Highway was blocked due to debris on Thursday, officials said. Chamoli police shared the visuals from the spot on Twitter, showing a huge pile of debris on the road.

Hero MotoCorp: Enforcement Directorate seized cash and jewellery worth ₹25 crore during raids against top officials of Hero MotoCorp. The law enforcement agency also found "incriminating" documents in the residences and offices of executive chairperson Pawan Kant Munjal and others. This comes a day after ED conducted searches at Chairman Pawan Munjal's premises on August 1 located in Delhi and neighbouring Gurugram, and also registered a case against him under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA), reported news agency PTI.