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authorities declaring a state of emergency. Described the devastating floods as a “major humanitarian emergency", aid agencies have warned of widening havoc, news agency Reuters reported. Afghan authorities have reported several people missing after heavy rains on Friday that sent roaring rivers of water and mud crashing through villages and across agricultural land in several provinces, causing damage to healthcare facilities and vital infrastructure besides thousands of homes and livestock wiped out.

Fintech platform Zeta has announced the launch of its ‘Digital Credit’ as a service offering.

Iran-based Houthi rebels launch drone attack on 4 ships in Indian Ocean, Red Sea He reiterated that in 2019, saying that building and stockpiling nuclear bombs was "wrong and using it is haram", or religiously forbidden. But Iran's then-intelligence minister said in 2021 that Western pressure could push Tehran towards nuclear weapons.

liberalize the economy on May 10 aimed at ensuring freedom of entrepreneurship by developing competition, reducing state stakes in the economy, and decreasing business costs in a step that would encourage Indian private investors to explore the regional market by making Kazakhstan as a base. Firstly, it is envisaged to create a National Privatization Office at the Kazakh Agency for Protection and Promotion of Competition. This office will be responsible for developing the standards for state assets that are eligible for privatization and compiling a list of those assets.

Trump pledges ‘upper class’ tax cut if he returns to White House The president raised the issue after warning Israel on Wednesday that he would stop supplying artillery shells and other weapons if its forces attacked the city of Rafah, Gaza, as he deplored the fact that civilians had been killed by the dropping of US bombs. Hamas, the Palestinian militant group on Friday said efforts to find a Gaza Strip truce deal were back at square one after Israel effectively spurned a plan from international mediators.

Top Events of the Day: PM Modi will hold four rallies in West Bengal. Additionally, he would be in Patna, Bihar for a road show. Canadian authorities have detained a fourth suspect, 22-year-old Amandeep Singh, in connection with the murder of Hardeep Singh Nijjar, who was designated a terrorist and more Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who arrived in Kolkata from Jharkhand last night, is set to address four election rallies in West Bengal today.

auroras illuminated the skies over various regions for the second consecutive night on Saturday, following an awe-inspiring showcase. This captivating celestial phenomenon results from a potent solar storm, which may persist into Sunday, offering breathtaking views of the “northern lights" that typically grace the far northern latitudes of the planet. This celestial phenomenon raises the question of why we get auroras on Earth after eruptions occur on the Sun.

Berlin in 1949 marked a significant turning point in the early stages of the Cold War. The blockade had begun in June 1948, when the Soviet Union, in response to the introduction of a new currency in West Berlin, cut off all land and water routes into the city, effectively isolating West Berlin from the Western Allies. The blockade led to the Berlin Airlift, a massive humanitarian effort by the United States, United Kingdom, and other Western allies to supply West Berlin by air.

acquisition of Reliance Capital’s life, general and health insurance businesses on condition it will not pledge shares of the companies, said people with knowledge of the matter. The Hinduja Group is yet to receive the approval of the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the Competition Commission of India (CCI) for the deal to be concluded, the people said. IRDAI gave its approval on Friday evening, adding that “the shares of the insurer shall not be pledged or encumbered” without the regulator’s approval, according to one of the persons cited.

Apple’s chip game to power data centres and new iPad This year, Apple will roll out some of its AI features through data centres integrating its own AI chips. It is putting its AI chips into cloud computing servers to process advanced AI features that will be rolled out in its devices. Apple also introduced the M4 chip, its next generation silicon, in the new iPad Pro upgrade. It said this makes the new iPad Pro “an outrageously powerful device for artificial intelligence”. It said that the neural engine in the M4 chip is more powerful than any neural processing unit in any existing AI PC (personal computer). Further, the iPadOS has advanced frameworks that help developers leverage the neural engine to run powerful diffusion and generative AI models on device. Meta launched new GenAI tools for advertisers

ALSO READ: International Space Station now visible to naked eyes across India. Details here The super-Earth planet orbits its star at one-25th the distance between our solar system's innermost planet Mercury and the sun. The 55 Cancri e is among the few rocky planets outside our solar system with a significant atmosphere, wrapped a blanket of carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide.

negligence, Pakistan International Airlines staff left behind at the airport here the body of a six-year-old boy which was to be sent to Pakistan-occupied Gilgit Baltistan on a flight on which his parents travelled, a media report said on Saturday. The deceased was receiving treatment at a hospital in Rawalpindi for a tumour when he passed away on Thursday, the Dawn newspaper reported. His body was to be transported on Friday through a PIA flight to his native village of Katshi in the Pakistan-occupied Gilgit Baltistan region for burial.

Insurance sector regulator IRDAI has conditionally approved Hinduja Group's IndusInd International Holdings Ltd (IIHL) for the acquisition of debt-ridden Reliance Capital. «We are happy to acknowledge the receipt of approval from IRDAI yesterday (May 10, 2024) on the auspicious occasion of Akshay Tritiya. The approval is subject to certain 'regulatory, statutory, and judicial' clearances/compliances,» PTI quoted an IIHL spokesperson as saying. IIHL stands committed to working towards obtaining the same as soon as possible and aims to close this transaction by the NCLT's stipulated date of May 27, 2024, the spokesperson added.

ALSO READ: The Taliban warn journalists and experts against cooperating with Afghanistan International TV The World Food Agency said it was distributing fortified biscuits to the survivors of one of the many floods that hit Afghanistan over the last few weeks. In Baghlani Jadid alone, over 1,500 homes were damaged or destroyed, and more than 100 people died, Mohammad Fahim Safie, the National Programme Officer leading IOM's emergency response, said, citing government figures.

India carried out targeted killings in Pakistan? Report alleges link to PM Modi's office, sleeper cells Laying the blame on the BJP-led NDA for 'failing' to prevent the Pulwama attack, the Telangana CM said, “For Modi, everything is political. Everything is about winning elections. His way of thinking is not good for the country.

Rajya Sabha Harivansh on Saturday dispelled the opposition allegation that the BJP-led government would change the constitution if voted to power saying that the amount of work done in the last ten years to strengthen the constitution had never been done before. «Gandhi had said a person's work speaks for him… It is doubtful that the amount of work to strengthen the Constitution that has been done in this time was ever done before. When did the level of importance which has been given to Baba Ambedkar now accorded to him before? At the time, he did not even get a ticket from one of the most important political parties,» Harivansh said. «Someone should ask when did he (Baba Ambedkar) and Patel sahib receive the Bharat Ratna?» Harivansh added.

Modi 3.0 government, said eminent experts and diplomats at a conference here. “Russia will continue to be an important partner for India. There will be a summit meeting between Prime Minister Modi and President Putin in 2024,” Kanwal Sibal, India’s former ambassador to Russia and Chancellor, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), said at a conference held at JNU. The last annual summit between the leaders of India and Russia was held in New Delhi in December 2021.

Telangana CM Revanth Reddy on Saturday said that the country does not need PM Modi or the BJP as try to make everything political. He further added, ‘Classic examples would be - answering everything with 'Jai Sri Ram'. Pulwama incident’ CM Reddy said while speaking to ANI, “...For Modi, everything is politics, everything is about winning elections.

Microsoft must pay patent owner IPA Technologies $242 million, a federal jury in Delaware said on Friday after determining that Microsoft's Cortana virtual-assistant software infringed an IPA patent. The jury agreed with IPA after a week-long trial that Microsoft's voice-recognition technology violates IPA's patent rights in computer-communications software.

University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) and Rice University in Houston have been recognized by Forbes magazine as being among the top universities in the United States, similar to the prestigious Ivy League institutions. Forbes developed their own criteria for this ranking, excluding the traditional Ivy League schools and other well-known universities. Schools were evaluated based on factors like attracting high-achieving students, employer satisfaction, and admissions selectivity. UT Austin and Rice University are joined on the Forbes' list by other well-respected public universities like the University of Michigan and University of Virginia, along with private institutions like Johns Hopkins University and Carnegie Mellon University.

Jaishankar said in Amritsar on Friday that Indians have to pay a fee of USD 20 to visit Kartarpur Sahib, which was imposed by Pakistan, but no fee should be charged for it. Jaishankar said this during an interactive session in Amritsar. After attending the nomination filing of the BJP candidate from Amritsar Lok Sabha constituency, Taranjit Singh Sandhu, on Friday, Jaishankar clarified that 'Kartarpur is not only in our hands. We have to make an agreement with Pakistan, adding, «The USD 20 dollar fee that I remember, this was not implemented by us, it was by Pakistan.»