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Fazilka, November 20 Following Team India’s disheartening defeat in the ICC World Cup cricket match against Australia on Sunday, the grandfather of India cricketer Shubman Gill, Didar Singh Gill, said that the defeat will be “avenged” in the future. “There was a lot of expectation from Team India but it could not live up to that expectation. There are many …

Mumbai, November 20 Equity benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty stayed on the back foot for the second straight session on Monday as investors offloaded auto, utility and commodity stocks amid fresh foreign fund outflows. In a volatile trade, the 30-share BSE Sensex declined 139.58 points or 0.21 per cent to settle at 65,655.15. During the day, it fell 246.93 points …

New Delhi, November 19 A plea has been filed in the Supreme Court for initiation of contempt proceedings against the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), alleging it has violated the timeline for completing the investigation and submitting its report on the allegations of stock price manipulation by the Adani group. An application has been filed by PIL petitioner …

Washington, November 20 Microsoft announced on Monday that it has hired Sam Altman and another co-founder of ChatGPT maker OpenAI after they unexpectedly departed the company days earlier in a corporate shakeup that shocked the artificial intelligence world. Microsoft Chairman and CEO Satya Nadella also tweeted that the major investor in OpenAI behind the chatbot that kicked off the generative …

THE wait for many people who have invested their hard-earned money and life savings into realty projects that promise dream homes in Punjab seems to be never-ending. Several private builders — mostly in Mohali — have defaulted on paying dues to the government worth a whopping Rs 700 crore, leading to hurdles in getting project clearances. In fact, these projects …

IT does not come as much of a surprise that the Punjab and Haryana High Court has quashed the Haryana law that provided for 75 per cent reservation for locals in private jobs fetching up to Rs 30,000 a month. The Haryana State Employment of Local Candidates Act, 2020, has been declared unconstitutional. A Division Bench ruled that it was beyond …

New Delhi, November 19 A study on mice has shown how gut-produced hunger hormones can influence decision-making and drive an animal’s behaviour. The researchers said that the findings demonstrate how the hunger hormone can cross the blood-brain barrier and directly impact the brain to drive activity, controlling a circuit in the brain that is likely to be the same or …

Muktsar, November 19 A philanthropist spent around Rs 3.75 lakh to provide 92 blood pressure and as many glucose monitors to government senior secondary schools in Muktsar district in May. However, the project to monitor blood pressure and glucose of Class XI and XII students, has so far remained a non-starter. Prof SPS Brar (retd) of Maha Badhar village said before …

New York, November 20 Researchers have identified a promising new strategy for glaucoma cell replacement therapy. Glaucoma is one of the leading causes of blindness worldwide, and vision loss, due to the loss of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs), cannot currently be reversed with any treatment. In the new study researchers at the Schepens Eye Research Institute of Mass Eye and …

New York, November 19 Researchers at Texas A&M University in the US are working to create a fully injectable continuous glucose monitor (CGM) so small it rivals a grain of rice and can be used with an external optical reader to measure sugar levels at any given time. Two faculty members from the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the university …