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A horrific crash that killed six high school girls in Oklahoma two years ago has the head of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board urging parents to warn teenagers about the risk of driving after using marijuana

Stellantis is telling owners of more than 24,000 plug-in hybrid minivans to park them outdoors away from buildings, and to stop charging them due to the possibility of battery fires

Microsoft outage hit millions of internet users and almost all operations leading to digital payment, airlines, banks, stock markets and many more services came to an end, the question looming large at the world is whether this was predicted earlier. Has Brazilian fortune teller Athos Salome predicted the present internet outage? The astronomer, dubbed the living Nostradamus predicted «three days of darkness» in 2024. Did he mean this outage? The same person has also predicted the beginning of World War 3 this year. So what next?

services of airlines, brokerages, financial institutions, and even media houses worldwide, causing significant damage to businesses in terms of data loss, productivity loss, IT downtime, financial loss, and even reputation loss. Even as CrowdStrike, Microsoft, CERT-In, and cybersecurity companies put out advisories, it's fortunately an issue that can be fixed. A server hardware or software issue can cause a Blue Screen error, also known as black screen error or STOP code.

Investigation (CBI) is questioning a first-year MBBS student from the 2023 batch of RIMS in connection with the NEET-UG paper leak case, an official said on Friday. The student, who stays at the girls' hostel of Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS), formerly known as Rajendra Medical College and Hospital (RMCH), an autonomous institute under the Jharkhand government, was approached by the CBI earlier this week for questioning. «The CBI team is questioning a first-year student. The team contacted the hospital management on Wednesday saying they wanted to question her in connection with the NEET paper leak. The management extended full cooperation to the team. On Thursday too, they grilled her and said she will be questioned further,» RIMS PRO Rajiv Ranjan told PTI. The official said parents of the student had contacted the management and were briefed about the situation.

Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) is joined by Animoca Brands, Jingdong Coinlink Technology Hong Kong, RD InnoTech, and Hong Kong Telecommunications (HKT) in the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) sandbox.HKMA says participants were chosen after demonstrating "genuine interest in developing a stablecoin issuance business in Hong Kong with a reasonable business plan".Standard Chartered and other members can now carry out testing on their operational plans, benefiting from two-way communication on the proposed regulatory requirements.Those regulatory requirements are coming into focus as HKMA and the Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau set out their consultation conclusions on the legislative proposal to implement a regulatory regime for fiat-referenced stablecoin issuers.Following a public consultation with more than 100 submissions, the pair now plan to put forward a legislative proposal "as soon as possible".Eddie Yue, chief executive, HKMA, says: “We believe that a well-regulated environment is conducive to the sustainable and responsible development of the stablecoin ecosystem in Hong Kong.”

Indian edtech startups have been acquired in the past year, underscoring a challenging funding scenario for smaller firms and fuelling a wave of consolidation across the stressed industry. Google-backed edtech startup Adda247 acquired test prep firm Ekagrata Eduserv, Noida-based Schoolnet bought out Housing.com cofounder Advitiya Sharma's startup Genius Teacher, Allen Career Institute picked up Peak XV-backed Doubtnut, while mid-tier IT services firm Happiest Minds took over Macmillan Learning India, adding to the list of recently-closed deals.

₹7000-10,000. Local jams and a handful of pan-India events, by private organisers, keep the breakers going but they still don’t have enough avenues to test and tweak, learn and grow. Unlike other performance sports like gymnastics at the Olympics, where participants can practice and perfect their routines, a breaker has to improvise and jam in sync with the beats provided by the DJ.

Fibr, an artificial intelligence-powered personalisation platform, has raised $1.8 million in a funding round led by Accel. The round also saw participation from 2am VC and angel investors such as Cred founder Kunal Shah. Fibr will use the funds for enhancing its AI personalisation platform, expanding its customer base, and hiring talent including engineers, product marketers and sales and go-to-market (GTM) experts, top officials said.

Mint explains: Byju Raveendran, the maverick founder who held a tight grip on Byju’s, will lose control of the firm to an interim resolution professional (IRP). The IRP will begin the process of forming a committee of Byju’s financial creditors, and subsequently hand over control to them. Raveendran now stares at a tight deadline to settle with the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI), India’s powerful cricket board, out of court.

NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) reported that Indian-origin Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, who skyrocketed to space on Boeing's Starliner spacecraft on July 5, "continued exploring ways to effectively water plants in the weightless environment".The two NASA astronauts took turns in the "Harmony module", testing how root models and plants of various sizes would absorb water in microgravity.Harmony is a utility hub, providing air, electrical power, water, and other systems essential to support life on the station. It also provides international docking adapters on its space-facing and forward ports for commercial crew vehicles, NASA explains.Earlier, NASA's press release on July 16 said NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sunita Williams spent the majority of their day testing ways to water plants growing without soil in the weightless environment of microgravity."Williams first set up the Plant Water Management hardware in the Harmony module then tested a variety of liquid flow methods while video recording the results.

bill mandating reservation for Kannadigas in the private sector, sparking an uproar. The decision was taken at the Cabinet meeting held on Monday and was subsequently put on hold after backlash from business honchos and tech tycoons. Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah said in a post on X, “The bill approved by the cabinet to provide reservation for Kannadigas in private sector organizations, industries and enterprises has been temporarily put on hold.”

NEET-UG 2024 controversy said that re-examination can be done only if it is concrete that the entire test was affected, while noting that the case has social ramifications. «Re-examination has to be on concrete footing that the sanctity of the entire test was affected,» CJI DY Chandrachud said as the bench heard a clutch of pleas related to the controversy-ridden medical entrance exam NEET-UG 2024. On the issue of the ongoing probe, the bench said, «The CBI probe is on. If what the CBI has told us is revealed, it will affect the investigation and people will become wise.»

Airbus is set to expand its Safety Promotion Centres (SPC) to China, the USA, Germany, and the United Kingdom, added Nicolas Bardou, the product safety communications and aircraft accident crisis response advisor, during a discussion with ANI. The Safety Promotion Centre is a specialized facility focused on enhancing safety within the aviation industry. The SPC was introduced in 2023 as a strategic initiative to disseminate safety controls. Notably, in India, Airbus operates a satellite SPC located in Bangalore, furthering its global safety outreach.

Covid-19 is trending on social media after US President Joe Biden tested positive for coronavirus on Wednesday. He is exhibiting mild symptoms. Besides that many states in the US are reporting a surge in Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations. In India,Bollywood superstar Akshay Kumar had missed the wedding ceremony of Anant Ambani and Radhika Merchant due to a COVID-19 diagnosis. After testing negative, he joined the post-wedding celebration to extend his warm greetings to the newlyweds.

Catch all the LIVE Updates on NEET UG SC hearing hereThe Supreme Court is scheduled to hear on Thursday a batch of petitions related to the controversy-ridden medical entrance exam NEET-UG 2024 which was held on May 5.According to the cause list of July 18 uploaded on the apex court's website, a bench comprising Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud and justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra would hear more than 40 pleas, including those filed by the National Testing Agency (NTA) seeking transfer of cases pending against it in various high courts on the NEET-UG row to the Supreme Court to avoid multiplicity of litigations.

LAS VEGAS -U.S. President Joe Biden, under fire from fellow Democrats to drop his re-election campaign, tested positive for COVID-19 while on a trip to Las Vegas on Wednesday and is experiencing mild symptoms, the White House said. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre announced the positive test for the 81-year-old Democrat after the president of UnidosUS, a Latino civil rights organization, said Biden would not be able to speak at a scheduled event due to the diagnosis. «He is vaccinated and boosted and experiencing mild symptoms, Jean-Pierre said.

NASA is canceling a water-seeking moon rover because of cost overruns and launch delays

The total compensation and benefits for the 4,300 employees at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. in 2023 was – on average – $233,500 per worker, according to the self-regulatory organization’s annual report.

ABVP) wasted no time in organising a nationwide agitation on the NEET-UG paper leak controversy in June, the Shiksha Sanskriti Utthan Nyas has now raised questions over the «centralised» approach for the Central University Entrance Test (CUET). The Vidya Bharti — which runs a chain of schools — had earlier this month expressed «deep concern» over the NEET-UG leak. All these organisations are affiliated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). It is probably the first such instance during the tenure of the Narendra Modi government that these organisations have unanimously and strongly pointed out faults and gaps in the government-run exam system. All of these are also learnt to have communicated concerns and forwarded various suggestions to the Centre's high-powered panel on exam reforms under former Isro chairman K Radhakrishnan, ET has learnt.

Paris Olympics less than two weeks away, a question hangs over the Games: Will the Seine River be clean enough for athletes to swim in? Triathlon and marathon swimming are scheduled to take place in the Seine, where it has been illegal to swim for more than a century. Despite the city's efforts to clean up the long-polluted river, the water has tested unsafe for humans in recent weeks, and cleaner on other days. The Games run from July 26-Aug. 11. To clean up the river, Paris invested 1.4 billion euros ($1.5 billion) in building infrastructure to catch more stormwater when it rains — the same water that contains bacteria-laden wastewater that enters the river during periods of heavy rain and makes it unsafe to swim in. In May, Paris officials inaugurated a giant underground water storage basin next to the Austerlitz train station aimed at collecting excess rainwater and stopping wastewater from entering the Seine. The basin can hold the equivalent of 20 Olympic swimming pools of dirty water that will now be treated and is the centerpiece of major infrastructure improvements that the city has rushed to finish in time for the Games, but to also ensure that Parisians have a cleaner Seine in years to come.