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Narendra Modi has been continuously monitoring the Mpox (monkeypox) situation, the government said on Sunday. PK Mishra, Principal Secretary to the PM, chaired a high-level meeting to review the status of preparedness for Mpox in the country and related public health measures. The meeting was briefed that as of now there is no reported case of Mpox in the country. As per the current assessment, the risk of a large outbreak with sustained transmission is «low». The WHO has declared Mpox a health emergency of international concern.

academic institutions, including the Indian Institute of Technology received notices from goods and services tax (GST) authorities for non-payment of tax. «The ministry of education has taken up the matter with the finance ministry. It is looking into it, » said a government official, privy to the development. A host of academic institutions countrywide including IIT-D have been served show cause notice seeking explanation on non-payment of tax on funding support for research by GST authorities. Notices have been sent by the Directorate General of GST Intelligence for the period between 2017-2022.

Madhabi Puri Buch, Chairperson of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), is facing allegations of a conflict of interest. Documents reviewed by Reuters show that Buch continued to earn revenue from Agora Advisory Pvt Ltd, a consultancy firm where she holds a 99% stake, during her tenure at SEBI. This situation raises questions about potential violations of SEBI’s 2008 policy, which prohibits officials from holding other professional positions that could lead to a conflict of interest.

citizen scientists working with NASA's Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project has discovered a mysterious object, designated CWISE J124909.08+362116.0, speeding out of the Milky Way at about 1 million miles per hour. This object, detected in data from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) mission, presents a unique challenge for classification due to its low mass and metallicity, suggesting it could be one of the oldest objects in our galaxy. This discovery underscores the significance of infrared astronomy and the valuable contributions of amateur astronomers to scientific research. The discovery of CWISE J1249 was made by Martin Kabatnik, Thomas P. Bickle, and Dan Caselden, who were participating in the Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project. The project utilizes data from NASA's WISE mission, which mapped the sky in infrared light from 2009 to 2011. The citizen scientists spotted a faint, fast-moving object in the WISE images. Subsequent observations with several ground-based telescopes confirmed the object’s rapid movement. It is traveling at a speed of approximately 1 million miles per hour, which is so fast that it will eventually escape the Milky Way’s gravitational pull and enter intergalactic space.

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Foreign investors continued their relentless selling in the Indian equity markets in August, offloading shares worth Rs 21,201 crore due to the unwinding of the yen carry trade, recession fears in the US and ongoing geopolitical conflicts. This came after an inflow of Rs 32,365 crore in July and Rs 26,565 crore in June, data with the depositories showed. Foreign portfolio investors (FPIs) infused funds in these two months on the expectation of sustained economic growth, continued reform measures, better-than-expected earnings season and political stability.

Nifty managed to end with 1% gains in the holiday-shortened week, led by IT and consumer durables. When markets resume trading on Monday, a host of important domestic and global events lined-up during the holiday-truncated week are likely to impact them. On Friday, Nifty ended with an uptick of 400 points or 1.7% at 24,541.

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NIRF rankers IIT Delhi and Anna University, receiving GST show cause notices worth several crores over the last few days on their past research funding, the Union Education ministry is learnt to have stepped into the picture. ET has learnt that the ministry is closely examining the issue and may soon escalate the matter to the Finance Ministry and GST Council for reconsideration. IIT Delhi and Anna University apart, several state and deemed universities are among institutes that have received show cause notices earlier this week from the Directorate General of Goods and Services Tax (GST) Intelligence. Most institutes have been asked to respond to the notice within a month, failing which action would be taken against them.

Canadian employees, once calling the shots in a world of record high job vacancies, now believe the tables have turned and that employers have the upper hand when it comes to hiring, a new survey has found.

‘I am bored’ need not make parents recoil in horror Take, for instance, the Arthshila centres, run by the Takshila Foundation, which is helmed by the father-daughter duo of Sanjiv Kumar and Setika Singh. Envisaged as an immersive platform for artistic expression and creative experiences for people of all age groups, Arthshila has centres in Ahmedabad and Santiniketan, launched in 2021 and 2022, respectively, besides one other in Delhi, which was launched in January. These are open spaces, with curated programmes across disciplines, that hope to democratise art.

artificial intelligence services on cloud under the Rs 10,372-crore India AI mission, which was approved by the cabinet in March this year. The empaneled agencies, like data centers and cloud service providers, will have to provide access to high-speed computing AI infrastructure like graphics processing unit (GPUs), accelerators, Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), storage etc to academia, startups, researchers, government bodies among others at the lowest rate that will be discovered through the bidding process. Under the IndiaAI Mission, supercomputing capacity, comprising over 10,000 GPUs, will be made available to various stakeholders for creating an AI ecosystem. «With an objective to empanel service providers for making this possible, IndiaAI — an IBD under Digital India Corporation, MeitY has issued a RFE (request for empanelment),» Meity, Additional Secretary Abhishek Singh said in a social media post.

New-age stocks have made a strong comeback of late driven by robust revenue growth and improved profitability through reduced spending. Increased allocations by overseas funds and strong demand for recent public issues have further fuelled the rally. Analysts believe these stocks could continue to perform well so long as they sustain their growth momentum. The ET E-commerce Index, comprising 13 new-age companies, has surged 45% in the past six months, outperforming the 12% gain in the Nifty Index and the 8% rise in the Nifty IT Index.

tariffs slowed the influx of Chinese-made electric vehicles in July, as the bloc moved to protect its automakers from low-cost competition. The number of new EVs that Chinese automakers like BYD Co. and SAIC Motor Corp.’s MG registered in the EU last month fell 45% from June, according to research from Dataforce, which compiled results across the 16 member countries that have reported July figures to date. The drop may have been exaggerated by carmakers rushing to get EVs to dealers before the added levies took effect July 5.

EU on Friday formally requested that Meta detail steps it is taking on transparency after the Facebook and Instagram owner scrapped a widely-used tool for tracking disinformation online. Meta has been criticised on both sides of the Atlantic over the decision to shut down CrowdTangle — a feature considered vital by researchers tracking viral falsehoods — in a year of major election contests in the United States and elsewhere. Unavailable since August 14, CrowdTangle is to be replaced with Meta's Content Library — a technology researchers say offers nowhere near the same functionality.

₹15-20 lakh, depending on the complexity of the model," Sidak Singh Grewal, 20, a member of Team Vicharaka and currently a third year undergraduate student at IISc. For comparison, Nasa’s Perseverance rover mission, which landed on Mars in 2021, is projected to cost approximately $3 billion (around ₹25,200 crore). “We constantly try to minimise costs by cutting down on direct procurement and relying on customized and indigenously developed technologies," says Grewal.

artillery guns that will be designed, developed and manufactured in India. It requires 400 of these gun systems in the first phase though the demand could rise manifold in the coming years as legacy equipment is replaced. The estimated Rs 7,000 crore acquisition of new Towed Gun Systems is seeing keen interest from the private defence manufacturing sector that has invested heavily in the past few years to develop artillery systems. Contenders for the contract will include Larsen & Toubro, which has already manufactured and supplied K9 Vajra Self Propelled artillery guns to the army. Bharat Forge and Tata Advanced Systems Ltd, which have developed the Advanced Towed Artillery Gun System (ATAGS) in partnership with Defence Research and Development Organisation and are currently competing for an army order, will also be top contenders.

A recent survey of small business owners suggests many are making a fundamental financial mistake as they overestimate their ability to manage cash flow.

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The price of XRP has gained by 1% today, rising to $0.5699 as the crypto market as a whole falls by 0.8% in the past 24 hours.