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inclusion of Ramayana and Mahabharata in textbooks. The recommendation has been made by the NCERT panel in-charge of suggesting changes to the social sciences syllabus. The committee's chairperson, Professor CI Isaac, said it is essential to include the two ancient texts in the curriculum to develop a sense of patriotism, pride and love for the culture in students during their teenage years, the Hindustan Times reported.

(Reuters) — Car companies with production facilities in the United States are bumping up pay for their non-union workers after the United Auto Workers (UAW) secured record wage hikes and benefits for union workers at the Detroit Three automakers.

Ramayana and the Mahabharata should be included in social sciences textbooks and the Preamble of the Constitution written on classroom walls, a high-level NCERT panel has recommended, according to its chairperson C I Issac. The seven-member committee, which was constituted last year, has made several recommendations for its final position paper on social sciences, which is a key prescriptive document for laying down the foundation for the development of new NCERT textbooks. The National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has not taken a call on the recommendations yet.

What is the Hamas-Israel deal about? Here's are key conditions that the truce might include: 1. Freeing hostages: Negotiations to free hostages seized in Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel are at their “closest point" to a deal and have reached the “final stage," mediator Qatar was quoted by AFP as saying. Between 50 and 100 Israeli civilian and foreign hostages would be released, but no military personnel, sources were quoted by the report as saying.

PTI as saying on Tuesday evening. He said those appearing for NET will get sufficient time before its implementation. "The UGC will revise National Eligibility Test (NET) syllabus, candidates will get sufficient time before implementation," Jagadesh Kumar said, adding that the UGC will form an expert panel for the exercise.

United States next year, US President Joe Biden and Vice President joined Instagram’s Threads. The move of joining 'Threads' comes after the White House commented on recent Elon Musk’s antisemitic controversy where he shared a conspiracy theory on X.

OpenAI, Microsoft Corp. said it would hire Sam Altman to lead a new artificial intelligence research team. It was a stunning turn for Microsoft, which had bet big on OpenAI and its former chief executive officer, Altman.

ALSO READ: South Africa ‘nicely cleaned up’ by India: Jonty Rhodes’ hilarious remark after massive defeat Taking to X, Rhodes wrote, "When taxi driver at Bengaluru airport suggested stopping at his favourite restaurant for a roadside bite, because according to him: "traffic will be standing!" Grateful I took his advice. Excellent #mangalorebun and #Mysoremasaldosa, finished off with #masalachai #loveIndia" After he posted the tweet, it has garnered more than 373.6K views and nearly 10,000 likes. Apart from this, he also shared an image with the Bhagini Veg Restaurant's crew.

Galaxy Leader, was hijacked on Sunday in the southern Red Sea by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, reported AP. The vessel en route from Turkey to India is believed to be having 25 people on board. Houthi rebels, who control northern Yemen and its Red Sea coast, said the vessel was Israeli.

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Rahul Gandhi for calling Prime Minister Narendra Modi a “panauti (bad luck)". Speaking at a rally in poll-bound Rajasthan on Tuesday, Gandhi indirectly blamed PM Modi for the Team India's loss at ICC World Cup 2023. Gandhi said in the Barmer district of Rajasthan, "Our guys were playing well, they would have won the world cup.

Vital Block audited and approved. Bitcoin Spark redefines ICOs by aligning a major bonus event with its final ICO. The giveaway is much anticipated by enthusiasts who found out about Bitcoin Spark after the initial stages with much more discounted prices and more bonuses.

TruCap Finance is aiming to achieve a gold loan AUM (asset under management) of Rs 700 crore in the current financial year through expanding its business in tier 3 and tier 4 cities, which are largely underserved by the formal credit channels. TruCap has witnessed the maximum growth in MSME gold loan business in tier 3 and tier 4 cities with women borrowers in the age group of 31-40 years being one of their biggest customers. The growth in disbursal has been 108 percent till June 2023 as compared to the same period last year with 42% addition in new borrowers. Underlining its commitment to nurturing talent, TruCap has implemented a fast-track talent development program.

Systematic Lump Sum Withdrawal (SLW) from National Pension System (NPS) account may be extended up to 100 per cent so that the funds may remain under the NPS corpus for a longer tenure, PFRDA chairperson Dr Deepak Mohanty said at the NPS Chintan Shivir on Monday (Nov 20).

World Cup winning skipper Pat Cummins, by his own admission, has fallen in love with 50-over cricket all over again but the jury remains out on the future of the ODI format, whose relevance in modern-day cricket is being debated for some time now. India is the heartbeat of world cricket and near-packed stadiums for majority of World Cup games over the course of 45-day long event was expected at the spiritual home of the game.

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Congress leader Sachin Pilot has said that the manifesto released by the party on Tuesday for Rajasthan Assembly elections is «really good» as all the sections of the society of the state have been taken care of. Speaking to the reporters after the launch of the manifesto, the Congress leader said that the people of Rajasthan trust the promises made by the grand old party that will pave the way for it to form the government. «This is a really good manifesto. All categories have been taken care of.

Elon Musk has stirred the pot amid the very public back-and-forth between ChatGPT-parent OpenAI's ex-CEO, employees, investors, and board. With the situation seemingly unstable after CEO Sam Altman was removed, investors being blindsided, pressure on the board to reinstate Altman, and ultimate fall-through of discussions, Musk has continuously responded to posts on his social media site X, participating in the peanut gallery surrounding the fiasco.

Apple, IBM, Disney, Warner Brothers, Comcast/NBCU, Paramount, Discovery - that's only some of the major advertisers who have abandoned X (formerly Twitter) en masse in the past few days. Most of these companies say they have “paused" advertising on X, but this is the busy season and there's no timeline to suggest how long these pauses might last. It is estimated that ad revenues this year on X will drop at least 50% compared with 2022.

Elon Musk's X Corp is suing liberal media advocacy group Media Matters for allegedly manipulating the social media platform's algorithms and fabricating posts to drive away advertisers. Responding to a post mentioning the lawsuit against Media Matters, Musk said it was only the first of many to be filed against the advocacy group. Also Read| Elon Musk mocks Satya Nadella's message on Microsoft - OpenAI partnership, says ‘Now they will have to…’ A lawsuit filed by Elon Musk's X Corp in a US federal court in Texas was quoted by the New York Times as saying: “Media Matters has manipulated the algorithms governing the user experience on X to bypass safeguards and create images of X’s largest advertisers’ paid posts adjacent to racist, incendiary content, leaving the false impression that these pairings are anything but what they actually are: manufactured, inorganic and extraordinarily rare," Linda Yaccarino also launched a veiled attack on Media Matters after a lawsuit was filed by X Corp.

UFO was spotted in the skies, officials told PTI. The disruption caused delays for three flights and led to the diversion of two planes before services were normalised after three hours, they added. The Indian Air Force Eastern Command at Shillong was also informed, as per the official.