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By Nick Starkov

alliance formation, Mayawati confirmed that her party would neither go with the 26-member INDIA alliance nor the 39-member NDA alliance. She said that she would maintain equal distance from both the formations and contest the upcoming Lok Sabha polls on her own. Addressing a press conference, the 67-year-old leader said the party's preparations are going in full swing ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his Microsoft counterpart Satya Nadella have joined forces to introduce the world to Llama 2 (Large Language Model), the next generation of AI. What makes this collaboration even more intriguing is the decision to release Llama 2 as an open-source technology. This new partnership between Meta & Microsoft was announced by Zuckerberg in a power-packed Instagram post. The picture shared on Zuckerberg's handle captured the two tech titans dressed in blue, smiling for the camera as they celebrated the collaboration. His post read, «Today, we're open sourcing Llama 2 with our preferred partner @microsoft. This gives researchers and businesses access to build with our next generation large language model as the foundation of their work. Grateful to Satya and our teams for making this happen.»

Also read: Islam occupies a ‘position of pride’ amongst religious groups in India: NSA Ajit Doval Muharram commemorates the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, Prophet Muhammad's grandson, and his companions at the Battle of Karbala in 680 AD. This battle symbolizes the fight for justice against oppression. Imam Hussein's refusal to submit to the tyrannical ruler Yazid that ultimately led to his sacrifice.

dinosaur for dinner. The fossil shows a badgerlike creature chomping down on a small, beaked dinosaur, their skeletons intertwined. The find comes from a site known as 'China's Pompeii,' where mud and debris from long-ago volcanoes buried creatures in their tracks.

climate change. The current conflagration has already destroyed more than half the forest area that would have been burned by more than 100 smaller fires in a typical year, the same government department said in emailed comments to Reuters.

Federal Reserve will raise its benchmark overnight interest rate by 25 basis points to the 5.25%-5.50% range on July 26, according to all 106 economists polled by Reuters, with a majority still saying that will be the last increase of the current tightening cycle. A resilient economy and historically low unemployment well over a year since the Fed began one of its most aggressive rate hiking campaigns in history has repeatedly confounded analysts and investors.

Republican lawmakers urged the Federal Trade Commission to drop its fight against Microsoft's deal to buy video game maker Activision Blizzard, calling it «an example of the FTC's rejection of sound antitrust policy.» The lawmakers, all members of the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, in a letter sent on Monday to FTC Chair Lina Khan and two commissioners and publicly released on Tuesday, said the proposed deal is a «pro-competitive transaction.» The agency, which enforces antitrust law, is considering its options after a U.S. District Court judge ruled last week that the deal was legal and an appeals court declined an emergency motion to pause the transaction.

House Republicans are searching for solutions to climate change without restricting American-produced energy that comes from burning oil, coal and gas

Congress will vote this week on legislation that will shape the agency responsible for safely managing the nation’s airspace and regulating its airlines

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has denied the latest bid by conservationists and tribal leaders to block construction of a huge lithium mine already in the works along the Nevada-Oregon line

Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) has said film and television studios in Hollywood offered actors over $1 billion in higher compensation and enhanced benefits before the SAG-AFTRA union called a strike last week. The AMPTP, which negotiated on behalf of Netflix, Walt Disney, Warner Bros Discovery and others, said the labor union representing media professionals "continues to mischaracterize the negotiations." The Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRAP called a strike last Thursday after the negotiators said they were unable to reach an agreement with studios on a new three-year contract with higher benefits and limits on the use of their images by artificial intelligence.

A veteran economist and banker had been getting ready to retire in the weeks before Chinese leader Xi Jinping picked him to lead China’s central bank, according to officials familiar with the matter. Now, Pan Gongsheng is set to take the reins at the People’s Bank of China as it confronts an urgent challenge: whether and how to defend the Chinese yuan. The Chinese currency’s value has been sliding this year, as the world’s second-largest economy stagnates.

Indian Express. The police said the victim has not yet been identified. It is verifying if the person was a tourist or a local resident.

₹11. In 1997, I saw Steven Spielberg’s The Lost World at Anupam Cinema in Delhi. The ticket was priced at an unheard of ₹75.

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday said everybody knows who the winner is when someone stands against India and nobody has been able to fight the idea of India. Addressing the media here after deliberations between opposition leaders for the second day, Gandhi said the 2024 Lok Sabha polls are going to be a fight between «INDIA» and Narendra Modi. The opposition has named its alliance as INDIA — the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance — as announced at the press conference after the meeting of the parties.

Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Uddhav Thackeray said on Tuesday, in a riposte to BJP's criticism that the opposition leaders were pursuing dynastic politics and were only concerned about the welfare of their families. Thackeray, while addressing a joint presser after 26 opposition parties pledged to get together under Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) to take on the BJP in the next general elections, also said that their next meeting will be in Mumbai. «Some people think we are fighting for the family.

NDA with Congress leader Rahul Gandhi asserting that the fight will be «between INDIA and Prime Minister Narendra Modi». According to sources, the name of the alliance, 'INDIA' was suggested by Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee. After the meeting of Opposition parties in Bengaluru, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee asked whether the National Democratic Alliance would be able to challenge the newly formed Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance or I.N.D.I.A.

Lok Sabha elections draw nearer 26 Opposition parties banded together under the ‘Indian National Democratic Inclusive alliance’ on Tuesday. The group is likely to hold a third meeting in Mumbai and decide upon the face of the grand Opposition alliance.  “BJP government wants to destroy democracy in this country. They want to bulldoze the Constitution.

Rahul Gandhi said ‘this is a fight between NDA and INDIA, Narendra Modi and INDIA’, after the Opposition party meet was held and twenty six party leaders discussed a strategy to take on the ruling NDA in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. “And, we know that when someone fights with INDIA, INDIA wins." the Congress leader was heard saying.

European shares edged higher after a muted start on Tuesday, with Swiss stocks outpacing regional peers following a forecast upgrade by drugmaker Novartis, though a decline in telecom stocks capped the gains. The pan-European STOXX 600 rose 0.2% by 0819 GMT, following declines on Monday when Richemont's underwhelming results and weak economic data from China pummelled Europe's luxury sector. Novartis climbed 3.6% on Tuesday after the drugmaker raised its full-year earnings guidance and mapped out the planned spin-off of its generic medicines division Sandoz for early in the fourth quarter.