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Elon Musk on Sunday announced that X will soon allow only verified, premium users to participate in polls across subjects, including political issues, on the platforms to avoid bots from swaying the results. When writer-entrepreneur Brian Krassenstein posted that X has to make the option to only allow for blue checkmarks to participate in polls, Musk said it is coming soon. «We're changing polls to allow votes only by verified users. That's critical to avoid polls getting bot-spammed on controversial issues,» the billionaire said. «We shut down a lot of bots this week,» the tech billionaire added. X earlier announced that it would permit political advertising on its site from political parties and candidates in the US and expand its elections and safety team before the 2024 presidential election. The social media network said it will increase its teams to combat «emerging threats» and content manipulation.

Chandrayaan 3's rover 'Pragyaan' has completed its assignments on the lunar surface and has been set into sleep mode to withstand the night on the Moon, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has said. «The Rover completed its assignments. It is now safely parked and set into Sleep mode. APXS and LIBS payloads are turned off. Data from these payloads is transmitted to the Earth via the Lander,» the space agency said in an update on social media platform X. According to ISRO, the battery of the rover is fully charged, and its solar panel has been oriented to receive the light at the next sunrise which is expected on September 22, 2023. «The receiver is kept on. Hoping for a successful awakening for another set of assignments! Else, it will forever stay there as India's lunar ambassador,» ISRO added. On Saturday, ISRO chief S. Somanath said the lunar mission's rover and lander, 'Pragyaan' and 'Vikram', respectively, were functioning well.

Sanatan Dharma is upholding humanity and human equality," Tamil Nadu Minister for Youth Welfare Udhayanidhi Stalin said while clarifying that he had not called for "genocide". «I never called for the genocide of people who are following Sanatan Dharma. Sanatan Dharma is a principle that divides people in the name of caste and religion.

Pushkar Singh Dhami on Sunday interacted with the public in the Garur village of Uttarakhand's Bageshwar district. According to official sources, CM Dhami lent a patient ear to the villagers as they opened up on their issues. He also informed the locals of what his government was doing for their betterment. The bypoll in Bageshwar was necessitated after the Assembly segment fell vacant following the death of sitting MLA Chandan Ram Das, who was also the minister for Transport and Social Welfare in the Dhami government. Das passed away on April 23 after a sudden cardiac arrest. He represented the Bageshwar constituency for four consecutive terms since 2007. Upon his demise, the state government declared three days of official mourning. The chief minister, according to sources, is also likely to expand his council of ministers after the bye-election. The Uttarakhand CM is on a tour of the Bageshwar district. Earlier, on Saturday, he held a roadshow for Parvati Das, the widow of the departed MLA and the BJP's candidate for the bypoll, in Bageshwar's Garur. Addressing the roadshow, the CM said, «I have no doubt that we will win with more votes than we did last time.» «This election, however, is being held under difficult circumstances as Chandan Ram Das is no longer with us.

₹7.85 crore in advance bookings on the first day. “India Wide, All Theatres, SOLD Tickets - 2,32,900, Gross - ₹7.85 cr," Vijayabalan wrote in a post on X (formerly Twitter). On Friday, the ticket prices have soared as high as ₹2,400, but that's not deterring King Khan's loyal fans.

UK opposition leader Keir Starmer likes to put his Labour Party front and center in his social media messaging. For Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, it's all about himself. The British premier is more than 25 times likelier to use the word «I» than name his own Conservative Party in posts on the social media site X, formerly Twitter, according to research by Bloomberg.

Russia, Belarus and Iran not to attend this year’s Nobel Prize award ceremonies as the Nobel Foundation has withdrawn its invitation following “strong reactions" from the Swedish lawmakers. Earlier today, several Swedish lawmakers said they would boycott this year’s Nobel Prize award ceremonies in Stockholm, after the private foundation that administers the prestigious awards changed its position from a year earlier and invited representatives of the three countries to attend, saying it “promotes opportunities to convey the important messages of the Nobel Prize to everyone." Some of the lawmakers cited Russia's war on Ukraine and the crackdown on human rights in Iran as reasons for their boycott.

INDIA on Saturday made some additional appointments in some of the committees set up at its Mumbai meeting to get battle-ready for the Lok Sabha polls.

Chandrayaan-3 on the South Pole of the Moon, a historic first. Somanath received a handmade model of the Vikram lander model from a very young neighbour. ISRO scientist PV Venkitakrishnan shared the news of the heart-warming gesture on microblogging site ‘X’ (formerly Twitter).

Uday Kotak has stepped down as the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Kotak Mahindra Bank, the bank he started in 1985, which is India's third-largest private lender by market value. «An investment of ₹10,000 with us in 1985 would be worth around ₹ 300 crore today,» Kotak said. That's the measure of the miracle wrought by Kotak. Rarely in the world has such a vast financial services conglomerate come up within one generation.

Also Read: Aditya L-1 Mission: What next after the successful launch? In his tweet, he mentioned how setting such big goals were considered as “too much ambition", and said how ISRO set an example that people should lift their ambition. “Don’t fly too close to the Sun" comes from the Greek legend of Icarus who flew fatally near the sun, & is used to describe TOO MUCH ambition. Thanks to@Isro :“Let’s fly close to the Sun" will mean that we should lift our ambitions even HIGHER," tweeted Anand Mahindra on Saturday.

₹10,000 with us in 1985 would be worth around ₹ 300 cr today. I am confident that this Indian owned institution will continue to play an even more important role in India’s transformation into a social and economic powerhouse.

National Security Guard (NSG) on Saturday conducted an anti-sabotage sweep at different locations in the national capital ahead of the G20 Summit next month. The summit will be held over two days, on September 9 and 10. Earlier, on Saturday, Delhi Traffic Police conducted another full dress rehearsal as part of its preparations for the upcoming G20 Summit in the national capital on September 9 and 10. The two-day summit will draw leaders and delegates from 40 countries, including the 20 member states. The carcade rehearsals were carried out in the Pragati Maidan area of the national capital where the global event will be hosted next month, officials said. Speaking to on Saturday, Special Commissioner Of Delhi Traffic Police, SS Yadav said, «We have shared the travel guidelines with all the media houses. Newspapers have also published our releases and necessary information is also being shared on our social media handles.

Nitish Kumar on Saturday said that the opposition coalition INDIA will be holding country-wide programmes on the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti on October 2. Without revealing details of the proposed programmes, the leader of the JD(U), a constituent of INDIA, said that a decision in this regard was taken at the just concluded conclave of the opposition alliance in Mumbai. Kumar claimed that the BJP-led NDA was rattled by the «unity of the opposition» and, therefore, the central government has convened later this month a special session of Parliament, the agenda for which has not been revealed. «We have taken a resolution that the INDIA alliance will celebrate Gandhi Jayanti across the country. »The INDIA alliance has rattled the ruling BJP which has forced the Central government to explore the possibility of holding assembly and national elections simultaneously.

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So-called "legacy admissions" — long a standard practice at many prestigious American universities, including Harvard and Stanford — are coming under increased scrutiny, though it's unlikely they'll go without a fight, even in a country that extols success through individual merit. But cracks are beginning to form, galvanized by a recent Supreme Court case and an Education Department investigation sparked by a legal complaint aiming to take down what one university president called an «aristocratic» system unfit for a democracy. Legacy admissions don't guarantee entry into a particular university, but they do give hopefuls an edge: If a prospective student can boast that, in addition to having a solid academic record, they are the child or relative of an alumnus, that can tip the scales in their favor during the very competitive admissions process. Harvard University's acceptance rate for «legacy» students from 2014 to 2019 was 33 percent, according to the student newspaper — compared to its overall acceptance rate of six percent.

Aditya-L1 was launched today at 11:50 am from the Sriharikota launch pad in Andhra Pradesh by the PSLV-C57 rocket. Following the successful landing of a lunar lander on the moon's uncharted South Pole on August 23, ISRO shifted its focus to this solar space observatory mission. Aditya-L1 carried seven different payloads designed to study the sun in detail.

Pakistan Caretaker Prime Minister Anwarul-Haq-Kakar called the matter of inflated electricity bills, which have led to the countrywide protests, a «non-issue», Dawn News reported on Saturday.Kakar also said it was raised by some political parties and was a «tool» in their election campaigns. «It is not a very serious issue, but political parties are in election mode and using it as a social cause,» the interim prime minister told senior journalists and news anchors on Friday. «I realise their position. If I were to contest the election, I would have followed the same as well,» he added. As per the Dawn News, the caretaker PM also claimed that the security forces are not using a single unit of free electricity and are paying their bills with the allocated financial budget. He added that the Wapda employees were using free electricity units and their usage would be rationalised, especially for higher-grade officers, some of whom are getting huge amounts of free electricity. More people are joining the nationwide protest every day against excessive electricity prices.