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Many Americans think they're insulated from the effects of global warming. But climate change is already having negative and broad impacts on household finances, according to experts.

Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday announced a major raise in the pay of government employees with retrospective effect from July 1, 2022, after unions threatened to go on an indefinite strike. The revision will increase the basic salary and pension of employees by 58.50%, the chief minister said in a statement in the assembly. The hike in pay and pensions would mean an additional expenditure of Rs 20,208 crore per annum to the cash-strapped government which has been struggling to meet demands from both government and MLAs who have been lobbying hard for funds for their constituencies. The government has set aside the funds in the budget for 2024-25 to meet the revised pay and pension, the CM said. The revision is in line with the recommendations of the seventh pay commission, headed by former chief secretary K Sudhakar Rao. The commission, set up on Nov 19,2022, to address the demands for revision of pay, allowance, and pension of government employees, submitted its report on March 24, 2024.

trailer of the new Mammootty’s new thriller ‘Manorathangal’ is out now! As is apparent from the teaser, the film is going to be an anthology of different stories and narratives, which may merge at the end. The intriguing web series is based on a set of tales penned by Malayalam writer MT Vasudevan Nair has been directed by no less than 8 auteurs from Mollywood and stars many veterans from the South industry such as Mammootty, Mohanlal, Kamal Haasan, and Faahadh Faasil.

traditional passive funds that simply track an index, factor-based funds operate on predefined rules or criteria—related to fundamentals or stock behaviour—to select stocks. These funds don't have a fund manager making investment decisions, yet they aren’t as straightforward as index trackers. They rebalance at regular intervals, typically every six months, to ensure alignment with their specified factors.

The Bahnsen Group founder and CIO David Bahnsen surveys the real estate market as younger homebuyers struggle with the ongoing housing crisis. 

Malaria vaccine: Ivory Coast has become the first country to deploy a malaria shot developed by Serum Institute of India Ltd., the world’s largest vaccine maker, and the University of Oxford.The first doses of the R21 immunization were administered on Monday to children in Abidjan, the commercial capital of the West African country, the developers and their partners said in a statement — the second malaria vaccine to go into use.“The new vaccine has been authorized by Ghana, Nigeria, Burkina Faso and the Central African Republic, and many others are preparing to receive shipments," they said in the statement. A total of 656,600 doses have been received, which will initially vaccinate 250,000 children from newborns to 23 months across 16 regions of Ivory Coast.The vaccine was recommended in 2023 by the World Health Organization for use in Africa for children under five years old, the age group there that bears the brunt of a disease that kills more than 600,000 people per year.

Usha Vance. The wife of Sen. JD Vance of Ohio, Donald Trump's newly announced running mate, certainly has the credentials. A corporate litigator at a prestigious San Francisco law firm, Usha Vance has clerked for Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh when he was an appeals court judge, and earned degrees from Yale and Cambridge. It's a conspicuous resume for a woman whose husband gave a speech in 2021 titled «The Universities are the Enemy,» and rarely missed a chance to bash the establishment as he campaigned for the Senate in 2022, as The New York Times previously reported.

sequel to Twister has finally arrived, and viewers are keen to know where to catch Twisters online. Nearly three decades after the original blockbuster, which raked in a staggering $495 million, the franchise returns with a fresh installment. Headlined by Daisy Edgar-Jones and Glen Powell, alongside Anthony Ramos, Brandon Perea, and David Corenswet, the film plunges audiences into the heart of Oklahoma's storm-chasing adventure.

British scientists found the cure for Cancer that claims the lives of nearly 9,000 people every year in the UK alone? According to 'Express', the team led by Dr. Maria Hatziapostolou, from Nottingham Trent University's John van Geest Cancer Research Centre, has found a key gene that could be the answer to controlling one of the deadliest cancers known. In a major breakthrough, scientists have discovered that pancreatic cancer can deactivate specific molecules within the HNF4A gene, aiding its rapid spread and aggressive growth.

MCU) has finally provided clarity on Scarlet Witch’s fate in its latest trailer for "Agatha All Along". Since the dramatic events of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, fans have been speculating about Wanda Maximoff’s destiny. The trailer for the new Disney+ series puts an end to those speculations.

Donald Trump announced Ohio Senator J.D. Vance as his running mate for the upcoming U.S. presidential election. Vance, once a vocal critic of Trump, has since become a staunch ally, marking a significant turnaround in their political relationship. Trump made the announcement via his social media platform, Truth Social, during a Republican Party convention in Milwaukee, which was heightened by the recent attempt on Trump's life. Born James David Bowman in 1984 in Middletown, Ohio, Vance's upbringing in the struggling Appalachian coal country shaped his perspective. After serving in the Marines and earning degrees in political science and philosophy from Ohio State University and Yale Law School, Vance gained national attention with his memoir "Hillbilly Elegy."

moon. It is at least 150 meters deep and could be an ideal base for humans to build a permanent base on the lunar surface.The Scientists said the underground cave appears to be accessible from an open pit in the Sea of Tranquility, just 250 miles (400 kilometres) from the site where the Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first set foot on the moon in1969.The finding, which first appeared in the journal Nature Astronomy, said that two Italian researchers--Lorenzo Bruzzone and Leonardo Carrer at the University of Trento—discovered the caves by analyzing the radar data collected by NASA’s lunar reconnaissance orbiter (LRO).The Italian researchers said the analysis of radar data collected by LRO established that the Mare Tranquillitatis pit leads to a cave which is 45 metres wide and up to 80 metres long.Analysis of radar data collected by Nasa’s lunar reconnaissance orbiter (LRO) revealed that the Mare Tranquillitatis pit, the deepest known pit on the moon, leads to a cave 45 metres wide and up to 80 metres long, an area equivalent to 14 tennis courts.

G20 task force on digital public infrastructure (DPI) has suggested that countries use plug-and-play models to deploy certain DPI while ensuring their sovereignty and data ownership, exhorting them to make their existing infrastructure universally applicable for common good. Releasing the task force's report on Monday, India's G20 sherpa Amitabh Kant said the country's fast-growing DPI has enabled it to achieve in nine years what would have taken it 50 years to realise without the DPI. India's push for interoperable DPI during its G20 presidency last year had faced resistance from developed countries, who feared it could undermine the growth of global private payments entities. The plug-and-play method mooted by the task force appears to be aimed at addressing this fear.

high efficacy" malaria vaccine co-developed by the Serum Institute of India (SII) and the University of Oxford was officially rolled out on Monday when Cote d'Ivoire in West Africa became the first country to begin administering R21/Matrix-M. The vaccine, which was granted World Health Organisation (WHO) approval last year, is said to have undergone a rigorous regulatory process and clinical assessment and was found to be highly effective and affordable. As a low-dose vaccine, it can be manufactured at speed and scale which is seen as critical to stemming the spread of the mosquito-borne disease. «Reducing the malaria burden is finally within sight. Today's start of the R21/Matrix-M vaccine roll-out marks a monumental milestone after years of incredible work with our partners at Oxford and Novavax,» said SII CEO Adar Poonawalla. «At Serum, we believe that it is every person's right to have access to affordable and essential disease prevention. That's why we have committed to producing 100 million doses of R21, which will protect millions of lives and alleviate the burden of this deadly disease for future generations,» he said.

China’s extraordinary growth over three decades was fuelled by exports and domestic capital spending. At the peak, it enjoyed an 8% net export surplus consistently, which led to an accumulation of massive foreign exchange. On the other hand, its very high domestic savings rate was deployed to build infrastructure and expand industry.

China’s ruling Communist Party is starting a four-day meeting that is expected to lay out a strategy for self-sufficient economic growth in an era of heightened national security concerns and restrictions on access to American technology

indie-pop brilliance. That's the sonic landscape of Belle and Sebastian's glorious song, 'I Want the World to Stop'. From the Scottish band's 2010 album, Belle and Sebastian Write About Love, the number opens with a guitar-driven melody that's as infectious as a bright cold day — bottled sunshine, actually. And just when you're swaying along, they throw in horns, strings and, yes, an organ. Because what could be more natural than to orchestrate your own joy? It's a plea for respite from life's chaos — 'Give me the morning, give me the afternoon,' Stuart Murdoch and Sarah Martin sing in tandem. Wrapped in 'sheets of milky winter disorder', they seek clarity in the middle of the world's noise. It's something we've all felt — the desire to hit pause, to let the world spin without us for a moment.

Gru and the minions are celebrating a second week in first place at the North American box office

From birth to adulthood, Sherri Jones’ life has been both unusual and rare.

National Testing Agency (NTA) has decided to conduct a retest for over 1000 candidates of CUET UG on July 19. The NTA had on July 7 released the provisional answer key of Common University Entrance Test (CUET)-UG 2024 and announced that it will conduct a retest for CUET UG candidates between July 15 and 19 if any grievance raised by students about the conduct of the exam is found to be correct. While the agency notified the retest schedule on Sunday, it remained silent on the declaration of the result which has already been delayed by over two weeks with the final answer key not yet notified. The delay in CUET-UG results comes amid a raging row over alleged irregularities in competitive exams, including NEET and NET.