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Apple, IBM, Disney, Warner Brothers, Comcast/NBCU, Paramount, Discovery - that's only some of the major advertisers who have abandoned X (formerly Twitter) en masse in the past few days. Most of these companies say they have “paused" advertising on X, but this is the busy season and there's no timeline to suggest how long these pauses might last. It is estimated that ad revenues this year on X will drop at least 50% compared with 2022.

Sankara Nethralaya in Chennai, he was a beacon of hope in the field of ophthalmology and charitable healthcare. Rama Suganthan, Vice President of the Tamil Nadu Congress, confirmed the passing of Dr Badrinath. He was 83.

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The world’s richest one per cent contributed as much carbon as the five billion people who comprise two-thirds of the globe’s poorest in 2019, which could spell out dire consequences in less than a decade, according to a new report.

BRICS leaders on Tuesday to discuss the Israel-Hamas conflict. The heads of state of six countries invited to join the group earlier this year — Saudi Arabia, Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, Argentina and the United Arab Emirates — will attend the talks, the presidency said in a statement on Monday. United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres will also participate in the virtual meeting, it said.

Boris Johnson, the former British prime minister, struggled to come to grips with much of the science during the coronavirus pandemic, his chief scientific advisor said Monday. In keenly awaited testimony to the country's public inquiry into the COVID-19 pandemic, Patrick Vallance said he and others faced repeated problems getting Johnson to understand the science and that he changed his mind on numerous occasions. «I think I'm right in saying that the prime minister gave up science at 15,» he said. «I think he'd be the first to admit it wasn't his forte and that he struggled with the concepts and we did need to repeat them — often.» Extracts from Vallace's mostly contemporaneous diary of the time were relayed to the inquiry.

Vyas ji ka tehkhana' located in Gyanvapi complex here to the district magistrate was deferred to Tuesday. Vijay Shankar Rastogi, a lawyer who had filed an application before the district judge to make him a party in this case, had to present his side on Monday but the hearing was put off following the death of an advocate, according to the counsel of the Hindu side Madan Mohan Yadav.

Taylor Swift postponed an Eras Tour concert in Rio de Janeiro Saturday after a 23-year-old fan died during her Friday night show, according to a message posted on the singer's Instagram. «I'm writing this from my dressing room in the stadium. The decision has been made to postpone tonight's show due to the extreme temperatures in Rio,» the singer said in a handwritten note on Instagram.

India's loss in the ICC World Cup Final match against Australia, Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra took a dig at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government, saying that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has launched a raid on Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's residence. «BREAKING NEWS: ED raids Australian Prime Minister's residence,» Moitra, who has been under fire in the 'cash-for-query' allegations, said in a post on 'X'. The BJP has often been accused by opposition parties of misusing central investigation agencies like the ED to target its political opponents. «In other news: Ahmedabad Stadium has been renamed — India loses World Cup finals at Jawahar Lal Nehru Cricket Stadium,» Moitra added in her post.

Our dependence on fossil fuels is damaging our health and pushing temperatures to record levels. The interlinked climate calamities of the past few years—extreme weather events, food insecurity, water scarcity, and worsening air pollution—are a direct result of greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions. But the adverse effects we are experiencing today could be just a preview of the catastrophes that await us.

NASA are circulating open letters demanding that President Joe Biden pursue a cease-fire in Israel's war against Hamas. Congressional staffers are picking up microphones in front of the Capitol, speaking out to condemn what they say is the silence of lawmakers about the toll on Palestinian civilians. As the deaths soar in Gaza, Biden and Congress are facing unusually public challenges from the inside over their support for Israel's offensive.

Shinde on Sunday used a music analogy to describe the current state of politics as «besur sur» (not in tune). Shinde, who heads a coalition government comprising Shiv Sena, BJP, and NCP (Ajit Pawar faction), performed bhoomi pujan of Bharat Ratna Lata Mangeshkar Sangeet Vidyalaya in his home turf Thane and also inaugurated various civic projects. «The world had witnessed a Lata Mangeshkar era wherein she mesmerised the people with her rich repertoire of songs,» he said.

DK Shivakumar on Sunday said BJP's veteran leader BS Yediyurappa had advised him to implement just two election guarantees this year in a revelation that may embarrass the Opposition party. Shivakumar, who is also the president of the Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC), said the BJP leader told him it was enough to implement just two guarantees in the first year when he met him ahead of the swearing-in of the Congress regime in May. He said okay to Yediyurappa with a smile before leaving his house, Shivakumar said speaking at the Indira Gandhi birth anniversary celebrations at the KPCC office. «But we decided to implement all the five guarantees in the first Cabinet meeting itself. The government would implement the fifth guarantee of Yuvanidhi in December,” he added.

Siddaramaiah and JDS state president HD Kumaraswamy lashed out at each other on Sunday as the latter stuck to his allegation that the CM and his son Dr Yathindra indulged in corruption in the transfer of officials. The JDS leader in a series of posts on social media platform X as well as in a press statement threw some more questions at the CM, not satisfied by the explanation he had offered about the mobile conversation his son had with one of his officials. The CM, in a chat with the media, offered to retire from politics if Kumaraswamy established he made money in official transfers. Kumaraswamy was now talking about the “money transactions in transfers’ during his own tenue as chief minister, Siddaramaiah said, seeking to turn the tables on his bitter rival. The two leaders were once part of the JDS, and Siddaramaiah switched to the Congress in 2005 after his expulsion from the party over differences with HD Deve Gowda.

Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut on Sunday said the Election Commission of India had become a caged parrot and a sham and accused it of «turning a blind eye» to the actions of the Bharatiya Janata Party. In his weekly column 'Rokthok' in Shiv Sena (UBT) mouthpiece 'Saamana', Rautaccused the BJP of resorting to religious propaganda to «bribe» voters after losing ground in five states where Assembly polls are being held (in November).

Indira Gandhi's regime was plagued by starvation deaths, naxal movements and encounters. Addressing rallies in the state, Rao, also known as KCR, said the Congress leaders should feel ashamed to seek votes as they were not able to provide drinking water during their rule even when the Krishna river was flowing nearby at Kollapur.

Narendra Modi. The Biden administration drew up various schemes involving India in alliances with Israel and rich Arab countries, aimed in part at stemming Chinese influence. A European Council on Foreign Relations report echoed the new Western consensus: The West needed to woo friendly members of the Global South such as India and Turkey if it was to build a new world order.

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Leo' director Lokesh Kanagaraj have called out actor Mansoor Ali Khan for his ‘bedroom scenes' and ‘rape scene’ remark. Trisha Krishnan took to X (formerly Twitter) and called Mansoor Ali Khan “pathetic", expressing gratitude for “never to have shared screen space." Thalapathy Vijay and Trisha Krishnan starred in Kanagaraj's film Leo alongside Sanjay Dutt. In the movie Leo, Mansoor Ali Khan played a death row convict.