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Kuki-Zo community on Saturday took out three rallies in parts of Manipur, demanding a separate administration and protesting viral audio clips allegedly of chief minister N Biren Singh making certain objectionable comments. The state government had said the audio tapes were falsely attributed to the chief minister and that the police were conducting an investigation into the matter. It alleged that the «doctored» clips have been released on social media to derail peace initiatives in the ethnic violence-affected state. Kukis organised rallies at Leishang in Churachandpur district, Keithelmanbi in Kangpokpi, and Moreh in Tengnoupal even as T Michael Lamjathang Haokip, a BJP spokesperson and leader of the Thadou tribe, faced yet another attack on his residence in Churachandpur.

Election Commission of India (ECI) has announced a revision in the polling schedule for the upcoming Haryana Assembly elections. Originally set for October 1, 2024, the polling day has been rescheduled to October 5, 2024.

Visa is focusing on leading the digital economy with more women entrepreneurs, said Kelly Mahon Tullier, Vice Chair and Chair People and Corporate Affairs Officer at Visa. She was speaking at the Economic Times World Leader Forum being held in New Delhi on Saturday. «The purpose of Visa (company) is to uplift the world by engaging them in the digital economy...Visa is so much more than a credit card,» she said in the session called The New Paradigm of Payments, chaired by Arijit Barman, Associate Editor, The Economic Times. Tullier also spoke on Visa's work with uplifting women in India in collaboration with United Way of Mumbai.

Kuki-Zo community on Saturday took out three rallies in parts of Manipur to press their demand for a separate administration and protested against the viral audio clips allegedly of Chief Minister N Biren Singh, in which certain objectionable comments were made. They organised the rallies at Leishang in Churachandpur district, Keithelmanbi in Kangpokpi and Moreh in Tengnoupal. In Churachandpur, the protest rally started from the Anglo Kuki war gate at Leishang and culminated at Peace ground in Tuiboung, covering a distance of 6 km. All markets and schools in the district remained closed in view of the rally organised by students belonging to the Kuki-Zo community.

Police in California made a dramatic arrest late Thursday in connection with the disappearance of a couple and their small dog who were all reported missing from their home at a nudist community last week.

Tim Walz will be seen more often in orange. The Democratic vice presidential nominee, Walz, is going pheasant hunting wearing a bright vest. Democrats claim that for years, they virtually gave former President Donald Trump all of the rural counties and even some of the suburbs. Since 2016, rural counties in states like Wisconsin and Nevada have become deeply red areas associated with President Trump, making them nearly impossible for the left to penetrate. Promoting Walz's Midwest origins, military service, labor connections, hunting experience, and football coaching career, Harris campaign officials feel they have an edge over white moderate and blue-collar voters, to whom Harris may have a softer appeal. Using her experience as a prosecutor and the narrative that she created about being the immigrant daughter who worked at McDonald's before moving up the ranks to become vice president, Harris has also made a signal to those voters.

Manipur government on Friday urged the people not to respond to the tribal student bodies' call for shutting down all business establishments, government offices, and private institutions and join their rally on Saturday in the tribal-inhabited Kangpokpi district. The government also warned the tribal student bodies that if anybody creates any law-and-order problem, it will take appropriate action. Manipur Home Commissioner N. Ashok Kumar, in a public appeal, said that the Zomi Students' Federation (ZSF) and the Kuki Students Organisation (KSO) gave public notices for holding a public rally at Kangpokpi on Saturday and urged people to shut down all business establishments, government offices, and private institutions and join it.

Vadhvan Port in the Palghar district of Maharashtra will generate 12 lakh jobs for the local youth and women besides creating multiple facilities for the people of the area once it becomes operational, Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal said on Friday. Speaking at the foundation stone laying ceremony of the port project at CIDCO ground in Palghar, Sonowal also said that India has earned a name as a maritime nation in the world under the guidance of Prime Minister Narendra Modi who has taken a slew of initiatives for the maritime sector in the last 10 years. Modi laid the foundation stone for the mega project in the presence of Maharashtra Governor C P Radhakrishnan, state chief minister Eknath Shinde and deputy chief ministers Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar. The prime minister during his visit to the state also inaugurated, laid foundation stoned for 218 fisheries projects worth Rs 1,560-crore in Palghar besides addressing the 2024 edition of three-day Global Fintech Fest in Mumbai, which culminated here on Friday.

At its current price of $0.000014, the $8.26 billion market cap Shiba Inu ($SHIB) token, the second largest in the sector, is still 84% short of an all-time high of $0.00008616, posted on October 28, 2021.

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Meta’s Llama series of AI models have become the fastest growing open-source family of models securing 350 million downloads globally on Hugging Face. Of these, 20 million downloads were made last month alone, the company said. Besides the community platform Hugging Face, Llama was also being accessed through Meta’s cloud partners such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft’s Azure, Databricks, Dell, Google Cloud, Groq, NVIDIA, IBM watsonx, Scale AI, Snowflake, to name a few. “Hosted Llama usage by token volume across our major cloud service provider partners more than doubled May through July 2024 when we released Llama 3.1,” Meta said in a blogpost on Thursday.

National Grocers Association President Greg Ferrara explains factors contributing to the rise in grocery prices in an interview with FOX Business Network's Edward Lawrence.

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Chattanooga State Community College in Tennessee is under lockdown following a Tiger Alert. The situation is ongoing, with emergency responders actively managing the situation. Here’s what we know so far.