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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday rode a motorcycle from Leh to Pangong Lake in the Union Territory of Ladakh on the eve of his father Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary, a party spokesman said. The former Congress president is currently on a tour of Ladakh — his first since the region was made a Union territory after being carved out of Jammu and Kashmir in August 2019 — and is likely to visit Kargil next week. The erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir was also turned into a Union territory and its special status under Article 370 of the Constitution was revoked. Gandhi reached Leh on a two-day visit on Thursday, later deciding to extend his stay in the region by four more days to cover Pangong Lake, Nubra Valley and Kargil district, Congress spokesperson and leader of opposition in Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC), Leh, Tsering Namgyal told PTI on phone. After covering more than 130 km on motorcycle, Gandhi will stay overnight at Pangong Lake where a token celebration will be organised in connection with the birth anniversary of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi on Sunday, he said.

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Elon Musk on Friday announced that microblogging site ‘X’, formerly known as Twitter would scrap the ‘block’ feature, saying that it ‘made no sense’. Replying to a tweet by Tesla Owners Silicon Valley, Elon Musk noted that block will be deleted as a feature, except for direct messages. The Block feature is used to restrict interaction with specific accounts on the microblogging platform.

National Cooperative Policy is almost ready, and a 47-member committee is in the process of submitting the draft to the central government, chairman of the panel and former Union minister Suresh Prabhu said. Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah had last year announced that a dedicated policy will soon be prepared to strengthen the cooperative movement in the country, and that Prabhu will head the national-level committee. The panel members include experts and representatives of the cooperative sector and officials of central ministries.

Tamil Nadu MLA S Ve Shekher who is facing cases for sharing a Facebook post in 2018 allegedly containing derogatory remarks against women journalists. The Supreme Court bench of Justices B R Gavai and P K Mishra dismissed Tamil Nadu MLA S Ve Shekher's petition.

Khan's life is still in danger and he can be poisoned in Attock jail, his wife Bushra Bibi has said as she demanded better prison facilities for the incarcerated former Pakistan prime minister. In her letter to the Punjab home secretary on Saturday, the 49-year-old wife of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman wrote that the court had directed the authorities concerned to shift her husband from Attock jail in Punjab to Adiala prison in Rawalpindi. «My husband has been imprisoned in Attock jail without any justification.

art that freezes moments in time, preserving them for generations to come. Every year on August 19, photography enthusiasts, professionals, and amateurs alike gather to honour the rich history, profound significance, and evolving techniques of this visual medium.

Narendra Modi has cited two research findings to assert that tax compliance and individual incomes have risen manifold in the last nine years. Uttar Pradesh has emerged as one of the top performers while the North-East states of Manipur, Mizoram and Nagaland have shown a 20 percent increase in filing of income tax returns. In a post on social media site Linked-In, Prime Minister Modi referred to the research pieces on the Indian economy by SBI Research and by senior journalist Anil Padmanabhan.

da Silva to engage with their regional audiences, garnering 200-300 likes per post on the app. "We can be social-media-as-a-service, according to your country, since there are problems of data misuse and interference in local affairs", he said on Koo's global plans and making reference to other social media companies.

After the success of the first edition of Krishi Mangal, a scale-up accelerator program launched in 2021, to propel agritech start-ups supporting smallholder farmers, global tech leader Cisco and Social Alpha, an innovation curation and venture development platform for science and technology start-ups, have finalized a new selection of start-ups for its second edition.

Edtech platform Unacademy, which is currently facing backlash for sacking one of its teachers who appealed to students to vote for educated candidates, is now embroiled in a new controversy. Netizens have dug out an old video of an Unacademy teacher who made an objectionable statement about the 'tribal community' and was not sacked. In the old viral clip of 14-second, educator Siddharth Singh could be heard saying in Hindi, “Tribal log jo hote hain hamare, dimaag toh hota nahi unke paas koi, nahi unke paas koi, you know, kanooni koi kagaaz hote hai zameen zaydad ke (Tribal people are stupid.

Manipur High Court for passing an interim order for extension of date of Income Tax Return Filing for the financial year 2022- 23 (assessment year 2023-2024) to December 31, 2023, due to prevailing situation in Manipur. The HC directed the Deputy Solicitor General of India (DSGI) to obtain necessary instructions and place a report before the court on August 24. Justice A.

social media and an apology will not be enough to waive criminal proceedings, the Supreme Court on Friday ruled. Dismissing the petition against actor and former Tamil Nadu MLA S Ve Shekher for sharing a post which made indecent remarks against women journalists, the court said that one has to be very careful while using social media. The 72-year-old actor had shared a post on Facebook which he later deleted after realising the mistake.

startups and innovation, is hosting the "Tamil Nadu Startup Thiruvizha 2023" at the CODISSIA Trade Fair Complex in Coimbatore on August 19 and 20, stated an official release on August 17. This inaugural two-day event aims to celebrate entrepreneurship in Tamil Nadu and showcase the government's support for startups and aspiring entrepreneurs at various stages of growth, ANI reported.

Washington state on Friday, burning some homes and prompting evacuation orders for thousands of people in small rural communities. One of the largest blazes, the so-called Gray Fire near Spokane in eastern Washington, began around noon and a few hours later had surged through 4.7 square miles (12 square kilometers) of grass, timber and wheat, pushed by 35-mph (56-kph) winds, according to the Washington State Department of Natural Resources. Level 3, or «Go Now,» evacuations were issued for Medical Lake, a community of about 4,800 people and some homes and other buildings had burned, authorities said, although it wasn't clear how many.

journalists and politicians, from entering the country due to their alleged involvement in «propaganda support of the activities of the (Ukrainian) Zelensky regime» and of being "Russophobic". «We would like to emphasise again that any efforts by London to further spin the anti-Russian sanctions flywheel will inevitably receive a decisive response from our side,» CNN quoted the Ministry as saying in a statement late Friday.

San Francisco has launched an autonomous shuttle service — less than a week after California regulators approved the expansion of robotaxis despite traffic and safety concerns. The free shuttle will run daily in a fixed route called the Loop around Treasure Island, the site of a former U.S. Navy base in the middle of San Francisco Bay.

National Commission for Women. "Pass a writ of mandamus under Article 32 or any other direction in the nature of writ and exercise its powers under 142 to decriminalize the law of statutory rape as applied to all cases of voluntary consensual sexual contact between any 16 to <18 adolescent with another similar age adolescent and with >18 adults...," the plea said.

Elon Musk has announced the removal of block feature on the social media platform. Musk was responding to a question from the Tesla Owners Silicon Valley account asking users about their preference between mute and the block feature. Musk noted via an X (formerly Twitter) post that blocking will be deleted as a feature expected for direct messages but users will still possess the ability to mute others.

ESGI Financial President and CIO Ed Siddell discusses the nation's consumer debt predicament and analyzes the gold trade on 'Varney & Co.'

In a recent meeting, China's Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission has emphasized the need for a systematic, legal, and source-based approach to combat overseas telecom network fraud and related criminal activities. The announcement was made on August 6, 2023, as reported by the Economic Daily.