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BNB Chain have caught the attention of users and investors alike. BNB Chain, a prominent blockchain network, experienced a noticeable lag in its BscScan and opBNB mainnet browsers. This issue was initially announced on social media platforms by the BNB Chain team, highlighting the challenges faced by the blockchain infrastructure.

Times of India report. After leaving their job, the employees first lured their boss on the social media platform Instagram to send his nude photos. Later, the two circulated the photos among his friends and family, including his wife.

Nitin Gadkari said the government has sanctioned Rs 1,170.16 crore for 29 road projects in Ladakh. In a post on social media platform X, Gadkari said Rs 1,170.16 crore has been sanctioned for 29 road projects, encompassing state highways and other major roads in the Union Territory.

Amit Shah's Instagram account has crossed the 1 crore mark in the number of followers. Social media pundits suggest that the latest buzz around his dexterity in steering seven historic bills across both houses amidst an explosive furore created by the opposition has much to do with his soaring popularity on social media platforms. As per the latest numbers, the Union Home Minister has as many as 34.1 million followers on X, 10.7 million on Instagram and 15 million on Facebook.

High Court of Karnataka has directed the state not to take coercive action against RSS leader Kalladka Prabhakar Bhat for his speech on December 24 in Srirangapatna, allegedly insulting Muslim women. The vacation bench of Justice Rajesh Rai, who heard the petition by Bhat, on Thursday issued notices to the state and the complainant in the case and directed the State Public Prosecutor not to take coercive action till the next date of hearing.

India's e-commerce industry is experiencing rapid growth, fueled by the country's digitization and expanding internet user base. Advancements in technology, such as artificial intelligence and virtual reality, are expected to revolutionize the online shopping experience. According to Google's latest report, India's internet economy is projected to reach a staggering $1 trillion by 2030, a sixfold increase from $175 billion in 2022.

12th Fail. Except that, this weekend offers several movies and web series on OTT platforms. Let’s have a look.

Ecommerce platform Meesho on Friday said its loss for the year ended March 31, 2023, narrowed by 48% to Rs 1,675 crore, while operating revenue for the period grew 77% to Rs 5,735 crore. The Bengaluru-based online marketplace, which drives a majority of its sales from non-metro markets, had reported an operating revenue of Rs 3,232 crore in FY22, while incurring a loss of Rs 3,247 crore. The FY23 financials pertain to Meesho's Indian entity called Fashnear Technologies. Its parent firm is domiciled in the US–Meesho Inc.

here. In September 2022, I wrote that Web3 as a concept had many positives—at least in theory. DeFi, or decentralised finance, to begin with, is likely to be the first killer app of Web3, which could dramatically increase the level of control borrowers have on their data.

Bhagavad Gita on his social media handle. The post triggered accusations of promoting caste divisions in the state. In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Sarma wrote, “As a routine, I upload one sloka of Bhagavad Gita every morning on my social media handles.

NPS contributions more accessible, efficient, and flexible. This initiative by PFRDA will empower NPS subscribers to take control of their retirement savings and benefit from the advantages of systematic investment planning. Under this new mechanism, subscribers can utilise the UPI QR Code to transfer their contributions.

diesel buses, more than a third of the total on roads, with electric ones over the next seven years. Apart from lowering vehicular emissions, this is also expected to catalyse investments in the electric vehicle (EV) ecosystem in the country. The replacement plan includes 200,000 electric buses for state transport undertakings (STUs), 550,000 for private operators, and 50,000 for schools and employee transportation by 2030, top government sources told ET. Designed to electrify the country's public transport systems, the plan is likely to replace the third leg of the Faster Adoption and Manufacturing Electric Vehicles (FAME) incentive programme and pitch India as a global manufacturing hub for EVs. To put the plan in context, about 138,000 electric buses were sold in China and 4,000 in Europe in 2022. «Replacing diesel buses with electric ones will not only address environmental concerns but also help create an ecosystem for electric vehicles,» said one of the persons cited above.

Pop star Cher has filed for a conservatorship of her son Elijah Blue Allman over claims that his life is “at risk” due to “severe mental health and substance abuse issues.”

NEW DELHI : The government plans to certify individuals who may not have the prescribed qualifications to be healthcare practitioners but bear knowledge gained from previous generations for certain treatments, such as for snake bites, jaundice, and bone-setting, two officials said. “They have the expertise and experience, but they do not have any qualification or formal degrees and it stands in the way of their social acceptance," one of them said.

Judges Luke Bryan, Katy Perry, and Lionel Richie have posted on their social media handles about the release date of the upcoming season.

It’s the end of December and my inbox is flooded with pitches for mocktails, apps and lifestyle gurus ready to help you sober up after the holiday excess. So-called ‘Dry January,’ initially just a public health campaign, is now as fully commercial as Christmas and New Year’s Eve [in the US]. But according to data from Morning Consult, fewer people in the US participated in Dry January in 2023.

In the recent state elections, incumbent governments in all except Madhya Pradesh lost. There are many factors that influence the electorate’s voting behaviour, with economic performance being important but not the sole one. So, drawing any conclusion on the relative performance of states based on election results is unlikely to yield fair conclusions.

Assam government will sign a peace accord with the pro-talks faction of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), aiming to end decades-old insurgency in the northeastern state, officials said. Union home minister Amit Shah, Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and more than a dozen top leaders of the pro-talks faction of ULFA, headed by Arabinda Rajkhowa, will be present during the signing of the peace agreement in the national capital. The accord will take care of a host of long-standing political, economic and social issues concerning Assam, besides providing cultural safeguards and land rights to the indigenous people, the officials said. The hardline faction of ULFA, led by Paresh Baruah, will not be part of the agreement as he has been consistently rejecting the olive branch offered by the government Two top leaders of the Rajkhowa group — Anup Chetia and Sashdhar Choudhary — have been in the national capital since last week and gave the final touches to the peace agreement along with government interlocutors, officials said. Those who have been talking to the ULFA faction from the government side include Intelligence Bureau director Tapan Deka and the government's advisor on the northeast affairs, AK Mishra. The Rajkhowa-led ULFA faction had begun unconditional talks with the central government in 2011, despite strong opposition from the hardline faction led by Paresh Baruah, who is believed to be residing at a place along the China-Myanmar border. The ULFA was formed in 1979 with the demand for a «sovereign Assam».

Manipur, the state government has set up a three-member panel to probe into the issuance of No Objection Certificate (NOC) by unauthorized persons/ officials to the Central board. Joint secretary of Manipur schools’ education department, Anjali Chongtham, in an order issued recently, said that CBSE had withdrawn the affiliation on the ground that the NOC submitted by the 25 schools from Kangpokpi and Churachandpur districts had not been issued by the state government’s authorized functionaries. According to an order issued on December 22 by the same officer, the inquiry committee should submit its report to the state government by January 5, next year. L Nandakumar Singh, director of Manipur schools’ education department, is the chairman of the probe panel, and the department’s additional director (valley), Bisheshwar Khumukcham is the member, while additional director (Hills) Dangmei Manglem is the member-secretary, said the order. The terms of reference of the committee is to find out officials “responsible for issuing the NOCs without due process,” “find out if signatures have been forged,” and recommend appropriate action against responsible officials. “In case of any evidence of forgeries, appropriate legal action to be taken by filing FIR, etc.,” said the order." The development leading to the constitution of the investigation committee came after one Lamtinthang Haokip had recently claimed on ‘X’, formerly twitter, that 16 schools from Kangpokpi and 20 from Churachandpur had been affiliated to CBSC. Manipur education department, reacting to it, clarified that no NOC for affiliation to CBSE had been issued by the state government to any institutions in the two districts since May this year. When the post

A Palestinian journalist posted pictures of Israeli tanks near a mosque in a built-up area of Bureij which had apparently advanced from orchards on the eastern outskirts. Further south, Israeli forces struck the area around a hospital in the heart of Khan Younis, the Gaza Strip's main southern city, where residents feared a new ground push into territory crowded with families made homeless in 12 weeks of war. Palestinian health authorities said 210 people were confirmed killed in Israeli strikes in the past 24 hours, raising the toll of the war to 21,320 dead — nearly 1 percent of the enclave's population. Thousands more dead are feared to be buried or lost in the ruins. Israel has escalated its ground war in Gaza sharply since just before Christmas despite public pleas from its closest ally the United States to scale the campaign down in the closing weeks of the year. It launched the war to destroy the Hamas movement that runs Gaza after fighters rampaged through Israeli towns on Oct.

Argentina’s newly elected government, led by libertarian Javier Milei, has unveiled its plans to simplify the process of legalizing cryptocurrency holdings, even for individuals who may not have accurately reported them for tax purposes.