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Uttarkashi tunnel collapse: Oxygen supply continues, efforts underway to rescue trapped workers with steel pipe The authorities said that a platform is being prepared for an auger machine to drill horizontally and insert large 900 mm diameter MS pipes in between the debris so that the trapped workers can be taken out through the metal pipes. Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami on Monday conducted an on-site inspection of the rescue operations.

Piyush Goyal has visited the manufacturing facility of US-based electric vehicle major Tesla at Fremont, California and said that the company would be doubling its auto components imports from India. The minister is in the US on a four-day visit. The world's largest electric car producer Tesla Inc's chief Elon Musk met Prime Minister Narendra Modi in June in New York and after the meeting Musk had said that he planned to visit India in 2024.

Digital payments platform Razorpay plans to move its parent firm to India through a cross-country merger that may entail a tax payment of $250-300 million in the US, where it is currently domiciled, according to multiple people aware of discussions. The planned merger will be between the US-registered firm and its Indian arm, they said.

deepfakes as they cannot thwart their creation and original circulation, experts said, urging policymakers to step in to address the damage they cause. “Criminal provisions under the IT Act and the IPC only partially address the harms which arise from deep fakes,” said Siddharth Deb, manager – public policy, TQH Consulting. “Policymakers must identify interventions that address this and reduce the psychological impact on victims.”

Game Awards nominees, announced on Monday, highlighted the Dungeons & Dragons-inspired «Baldur's Gate 3» and the survival-horror sequel «Alan Wake 2,» both receiving eight nominations each, including the coveted Game of the Year award. A noticeable trend in the nominees for Game of the Year was the prevalence of sequels and new entries from beloved franchises. Notable mentions include Nintendo's «The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom» and «Super Mario Bros. Wonder,» Insomniac Games' «Marvel's Spider-Man 2,» and Capcom's remade «Resident Evil 4.» Voting is open online at TheGameAwards.com and on the Game Awards' Discord server until December 6 at 6 p.m. Pacific time. The award show will be streamed for free on major platforms such as YouTube, Twitch, X.com, Steam, and Instagram Live, starting at 7:30 p.m. Eastern time.

Canadian legal software provider Dye & Durham Ltd. has hired Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Canaccord Genuity Group Inc. to advise it on a potential sale of non-core assets, including its financial services division. The shares jumped.

Crypto news site The Block has been sold to venture capital group Foresight Ventures in a $70 million deal.

Tokenized secure note issuer Ondo Finance and Web3 cross-chain platform Axelar came together Monday, November 13th to unveil Ondo Bridge, a cross-chain mechanism designed to facilitate easy transfers of Ondo tokens across blockchains.

Crypto security analytics firm SlowMist has uncovered a new phishing scam in China that uses a fake Skype video app to target crypto users.

Crocs to introduce a collection of specially designed clogs. The fast food-themed collection will include three traditional Crocs designs and a Crocs sandal inspired by McDonald’s characters Grimace, Hamburglar, and Birdie, along with the iconic red and yellow color scheme of the chain. Not just the classic Crocs, also for sale there will be N number of McDonald’s-themed charms that can be attached to the clogs which will include french fries, the Big Mac, and the iconic Golden Arches logo.

shock return of Cameron, a former two-time UK prime minister, into the country's politics. While a detailed statement was not immediately shared, Jaishankar took to social media to note that the Ukraine conflict, along with the “situation in West Asia" – an apparent reference to the Israel-Palestine row – was discussed by the two leaders. A discussion around the “Indo-Pacific" also took place during the talks, the Indian foreign minister's post on social media platform X suggested.

Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Satya Nadella, and Sundar Pichai, have advocated for a unified global regulatory framework. On 1 November, 28 nations, including the US, the UK, China, and India, took the first step towards establishing common regulatory guidelines on AI. At the press briefing on 3 November, Rajeev Chandrasekhar, union minister of state for IT, said India intended to advance the global dialogue on AI at the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence Summit in Delhi in 2023.

KuCoin, a global cryptocurrency exchange, has recently disclosed a survey report, “Into The Cryptoverse: Understanding Crypto Users in the UAE”, which is the 17th edition in its report series. The survey engaged 597 cryptocurrency investors from the UAE, providing vital insights into the indispensable need for trust, security, and crypto education. The findings also reinforce the UAE's emerging recognition as a cryptocurrency hub, with a remarkable 72% preference for Bitcoin among the respondents.

Today marks the cessation of operations for Stelo Labs, in accordance with their earlier announcement on October 17, 2023. The termination affects all Stelo products, including the widely recognized Stelo Chrome extension, which will no longer simulate transactions henceforth. This step has been undertaken to avert the risk of potential phishing attacks on users. The firm had recommended users to transition to alternative secure platforms such as Pocket Universe, Fire, or Wallet Guard.

Mark Ruffalo, who is popularly known for his characters as Bruce Banner and the Hulk, has slammed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for declaring Palestinians are «collateral damage» during the Israel-Palestine war. It's been over a month that Israel and Palestine have been in a state of war.

Hackers stole more than $60 million worth of crypto in six months from Ethereum wallets with Create2, according to on-chain sleuth ScamSniffer.

The Financial Services Committee is holding a hearing on Wednesday, November 15th, to discuss “illicit activity in digital assets,” including money laundering, terrorist financing, and the role of law enforcement in crypto crime.

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Spain’s securities market regulatory body said it had begun investigating its inaugural case pertaining to a potential violation of regulations governing large-scale advertising campaigns for crypto assets.

Various CSOs, Meira Paibis, most powerful women organisation, NGOs, social activists, student bodies and politicians together under a single platform held a meeting at Akham Ground in Imphal West and asked the government to find the two missing youths — Avinash Maibam, 16 and Ningthoujam Anthony, 19 — by November 19. The public meeting also resolved to form a Joint Action Committee to spearhead the agitation against the missing or abduction of the two teenage boys. A spokesperson of the public meeting on Monday said ,«the government failed to find the two missing youths by November 19, then all CSOs, political parties, student organisations and all the participants of the public meeting would launch a massive agitation,” the spokesperson said. The security forces so far have arrested three suspects in connection with the reported abduction or disappearance of two teenage boys from the Imphal West district. The family members of the missing students said that the two boys had gone towards Sekmai on November 5 in the morning on a two-wheeler and did not return home. The family members also filed a missing complaint at the local police station.

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