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Febrio De-Zoysa murdered Ekanayake, her four children and a family acquaintance.The father, Dhanushka Wickramasinghe, suffered serious but not life-threatening injuries.De-Zoysa, who had been boarding with the Wickramasinghe family, is facing six counts of first-degree murder and one count of attempted murder.Sri Lanka’s High Commission in Ottawa confirmed to Global News that the two adult victims are Sri Lankan nationals.Neighbours and friends gathered in reflection and fellowship at a community park Saturday afternoon, just a block away from the home where the Wickramasinghe family were building their new life in Canada.On and around benches, community members laid heartfelt notes, teddy bears, bouquets of flowers and balloons among other items to pay their respects.Naradha Kodituwakku from the Buddhist Congress of Canada, spoke to the crowd.“Ottawa Sri Lankan community, I know you’re hurting and we are hurting with you,” he said as his voice cracked with emotion.A number of attendees at the vigil knew the mother, Dharshani, and her four children personally. Some brought photos and shared memories with others in the community.Neighbours of the family struggled with the senseless violence, including Rochelle LaChance, who lives just a few houses down from where the homicides occurred.“It’s been weighing heavy on a lot of us… it’s nice to see everyone together and have this space to grieve.

China has intensified efforts to block software that enables internet users to access banned websites during a top political meeting this week, a leading provider of firewall-leaping software told AFP. Beijing operates some of the world's most extensive censorship over the internet, with web users in mainland China unable to access everything from Google to news websites without using a virtual private network (VPN).

class sizes across Canada, a new study is suggesting “smaller class sizes” may not give students a boost after all.The study found minimizing the number of students in classrooms did not lead to better grades, and suggests it may even decrease their odds at achieving the best results. The study looked at data from Macau, China and Japan, of 2,700 “disadvantaged” secondary school students with class sizes of 15 or fewer pupils to more than 50.It notes the quantity of teachers didn’t increase the odds for students from what they deemed the poorest backgrounds.

Adhil Shetty, CEO & Co-Founder, BankBazaar.com, says that in any equity scheme which gives you the kind of return which an ELSS, or NPS in equity, giving, post tax, they are giving anything between 10% and 12%, I would say these are good returns. You are beating inflation irrespective of tax saving. Let us begin with the basics. NPS versus retirement mutual funds. How would you like to define both of these investment instruments where you get a tax benefit? Adhil Shetty: NPS has got a great regulator in the PFRDA. It is a very structured retirement savings scheme. So, typically, you are saving until you retire. At the age of 60, you get a lump sum and after that you start getting every year annual payout as an annuity. So, it is very structured.

Sudip Bandyopadhyay, Group Chairman, Inditrade Capital, says «there is a strong speculation that Tata Sons will get listed in the near future and the best way to play that will be probably through Tata Chemicals; that is the conventional thinking in the market and that led to this kind of massive rise in the share price of Tata Chemicals.» One cannot take eyes off the Tata Group names! With all the talk around Tata Sons, look at the move on Tata Power, Tata Chemicals, Tata Steel. All group companies are holding up.

This article is part of Global News’ Home School series, which provides Canadians the basics they need to know about the housing market that were not taught in school.

England, each Test lasting a shorter time than the previous one, will not put an end to Bazball. That school of thought and style of play will likely be in evidence till the Brendon McCullum-Ben Stokes pairing continues. But this series will emphatically lay to rest the claims that this is either the best way to play Test cricket, or indeed the only way. For some time now England have been evangelists, claiming that their brand of cricket is breathing fresh life into a format in decline. The sordid truth, though, is that winning matters more than playing bright cricket. Fans of any team do not like losing, and throughout this series, England have created opportunities and repeatedly fluffed them. India were just too good. And there’s a range of factors that allowed them to be so. SPIN THRILL

India will soon start making equipment for semiconductor manufacturing, IT minister Ashwini Vaishnaw said on Saturday. “The entire semiconductor ecosystem of fabs, ATMP units, chemicals, gases, substrate, consumables and equipment for semiconductor manufacturing will be made in India,” he said. He was speaking at the inauguration of American chip equipment supplier Applied Materials’ India Validation Centre in Bengaluru which was set up at a cost of $20 million.

Dharmendra Pradhan on Saturday launched 52 short textbooks in Indian non-scheduled languages, including tribal languages, for early childhood care and education, to provide young learners access to education in their mother tongue. «The 52 primers in Indian non-scheduled languages is going to be a transformational step for young learners, specially for early childhood care and education, providing them access to education in their mother tongue/local language. It will initiate an inspirational journey for young minds, paving the way for deeper understanding, lifelong learning, more familiarity and rooted beds in indigenous culture and greater success in academics and beyond,» he said. The primers — short books for introducing a subject to students — have been prepared by the NCERT in collaboration with the Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysuru.

financial assistance to students from Classes 9 to 12, for which the government has allocated Rs 1,650 crore in the state budget. Under its "Namo Lakshmi Yogana", the government will provide Rs 50,000 to girls studying in Classes 9 to 12 over four years, while Rs 25,000 will be given to both girls and boys who have opted for the science stream in Classes 11 and 12 under the "Namo Saraswati Vigyan Sadhana Yojana", a release stated. «These two significant schemes have been initiated this year to fulfil Prime Minister Narendra Modi's commitment to girls' education, encouraging girls to pursue secondary and higher secondary education and to promote science education,» the state government said in a statement. The chief minister launched the schemes from Gyanda High School in Ahmedabad, with around 35,000 students of primary and secondary schools and educators from across the state participating virtually in the online programme.

Melinda Pavek, Consul General at US Consulate General in Kolkata visited IIM Shillong to discuss prospective academic collaborations. Drawing upon her diverse background in both diplomatic and corporate spheres, Consul General Pavek shared her journey of her current position, highlighting key roles such as Counselor for Science, Innovation, and Development at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo and Deputy Chief of Mission in Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei. Her extensive experience, ranging from public service as a Foreign Service Officer to corporate roles at Johnson & Johnson, provided valuable insights into the intricacies of international relations. Prof D P Goyal, Director, IIM Shillong mentioned about various initiatives of IIM Shillong and highlighted the International Collaborations with the B Schools of US resulting in mutual exchange programme, joint research initiatives, and faculty collaborations between IIM Shillong and B Schools of US.

Navam Capital has announced the first close of Navam Venture Fund I with commitments totalling Rs 50 crore from family offices, corporates and ultra-high net worth individuals. “With a target fund size of Rs 250 crore, the fund aims to invest in intellectual property-rich ventures translating science and engineering breakthroughs into differentiated products and services,” Navam Capital said.

If you were paying attention to the news in the early 2000s, you’ve likely seen footage — desperate parents, exhausted and frightened by their troubled teen’s behaviour, pay to have their child abducted in the night and placed in a program that will scare them straight and reform them back into good behaviour.

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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman will return to the board of the company which is behind popular artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT. The development comes after a boardroom drama that saw Altman being fired in November last year. Altman will join the board with three new directors – Sue Desmond-Hellmann, former CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Nicole Seligman, former president of Sony Entertainment; and Fidji Simo, CEO of Instacart.

Yale hopped aboard. Brown joined them this week, and although other Ivies say they’re holding firm on keeping the SAT optional, news reports suggest that Penn, too, might soon be headed back to the future. It seems increasingly clear that the anti-SAT movement was just a fad. Like many fads, this one had people joining in without taking the time to think things through. The determination to do something about racial injustice was in the air and activists had been campaigning against standardized tests for years. They made an easy target — and once one or two schools dropped them, following along was the path of least resistance. It’s called the bandwagon effect — the tendency to do what other people are doing without pausing to figure out whether those others are right. The schools now reversing course acted too fast in dropping the tests, without the thoughtful consideration that higher education should exemplify.

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Sam Altman will return to the board of OpenAI, the company said on Friday, just months after a boardroom dustup that saw him fired and rehired by the company behind ChatGPT. Altman was also found to have been wrongly fired in an internal investigation that was launched in the days after his chaotic dismissal last year, the company said.

Mass shootings at schools have prompted a growing number of states to encourage digital mapping to aid emergency responders

graphic processing units (GPUs) that are deemed essential for the creation of artificial intelligence-based applications and models is a “good starting point” as it strives to stay apace with global leaders in the rapidly evolving area of AI innovation, top investors and technologists said. The Rs 10,372-crore Artificial Intelligence (AI) Mission, announced on Thursday, will operate on a public-private partnership model. It will extend GPUs as a digital public infrastructure that can offer AI-as-a-service.

Goldman Sachs has set up a facility in India to train both engineers and non-engineers in generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) to explore the usage of the technology in its businesses. Since 2006, Goldman Sachs has invested more than $7 billion in India. Starting off as a support function, the Indian operations have now become the second largest for Goldman Sachs globally.