A few months ago at the Google I/O 2024, the tech giant unveiled Gemini 1.5 Flash, the newest member in the Gemini family of large language models that excels at “summarisation, chat applications, image and video captioning, extracting data from long documents and tables and more.” Google also claims that Gemini 1.5 Flash is its “fastest and most versatile multimodal AI model” with multimodal capabilities like GPT-4o mini. In the Gemini app and the web version of the AI-powered chatbot, the update changelog says that compared to the previous version,…
Month: July 2024
’25 people nearly died’: Pankaj Kapur recalls harrowing open lift sequence from Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro, says it got stuck mid-way to 26th floor | Bollywood News
Veteran actor Pankaj Kapur has revealed that a sequence in the 1983 cult classic film Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro, filmed on an open lift at a construction site, was so risky to shoot that at one point during the filming, at least 25 lives were at stake when the lift halted midway while ascending to the 26th floor. Revisiting the making of the Kundan Shah classic, Pankaj Kapur recalled the dangers involved in filming the open lift sequence with him, Satish Shah, Neena Gupta and Satish Kaushik. The actor said…
Have the Coronavirus (COVID-19) antibodies been discovered? What is the method for Prevention from Coronavirus
First, look where and when from spreading the Coronavirus through the Whole World:- Novel coronavirus (2019-n CoV, or COVID-19) epidemic first broke out in Wuhan and has been spreading in whole China and the World The numbers of new infections and deaths in Wuhan are still increasing, which have posed major public health and governance concerns A series of mandatory actions have been taken by the municipal and provincial governments supported by the central government, such as measures to restrict travels across cities, case detection and contact tracing, quarantine, guidance…
More Than 40% of Taxpayers Have Not Filed ITR Until Now, Huge Difficulties in I-T Portal
As the ITR due date is approaching various troubles on the tax filing portal and issues during the procedure have been encountered by the netizens at the time of filing the ITR. Nearly half the taxpayers have not filed their ITR. The percentage of assesses who have not filed Income Tax Returns till now is 49% as per the survey. It was revealed that 33% of the assesses have suffered or are likely to suffer challenges in the process of filing, with as many as 11% admitting that it shall…
A tanker plane crash has killed a firefighting pilot in Oregon as Western wildfires spread
Communities in the US West and Canada were under siege from raging wildfires on Friday, as a fast-moving blaze sparked by lightning sent people fleeing on fire-ringed roads in rural Idaho and a human-caused inferno forced evacuations in northern California. In eastern Oregon, a pilot was found dead in a small air tanker plane that crashed while fighting one of the many wildfires spreading across several Western states. More than 110 active fires covering 2,800 square miles (7,250 square kilometers) were burning in the US on Friday, according to the…
Ismael ‘El Mayo’ Zambada, alleged Mexican kingpin, pleads not guilty to US charges | World News
Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada, the notorious alleged co-founder of the Sinaloa Cartel, pleaded not guilty to US drug charges on Friday after he and a son of a Mexican drug lord were arrested in Texas in a dramatic achievement for US law enforcement that could usher in a seismic shift to Mexico’s criminal landscape. Court records showed that Zambada directed that a not guilty plea be entered on his behalf, which was accepted by US Magistrate Judge Anne Berton. At an initial court appearance in a Texas courtroom on Friday,…
ISRO opens school quiz, startup pitch contest for National Space Day
NewSpace India Limited (NSIL), a nodal agency of ISRO, will be conducting two student events in Karnataka as part of National Space Day celebrations. Prime Minister Narendra Modi has declared August 23, 2024 as its maiden edition to celebrate the launch of Chandrayaan-3, and the NSIL’s contests — a space quiz for high-schoolers, a startup pitching contest for colleges — are slated early for August 2. Both events will be held at the ISRO Headquarters in Bengaluru, with registration forms available on the @NSIL_India account on X (formerly Twitter): Join…
Former PWD official, 2 private firms’ owners arrested for Rs 200-cr ‘scam’ in Delhi hospitals | Delhi News
A retired Public Works Department (PWD) official and owners of two private firms were arrested by the Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) of the Delhi government in connection with a ‘scam’ uncovered during the Covid-19 pandemic. The Rs-200 crore ‘scam’ pertains to the approval and execution of work orders for eight Delhi government hospitals, said officials. PWD officials were found to have paid private firms and contractors for either no work or incomplete work using fake or forged bills, they said. Anil Kumar Ahuja, a former Assistant Director General of the PWD…
Private Banks not lending enough to corporates a concern: DFS Secretary | Business News
Private banks are not lending enough to the corporate sector and much of the loan disbursements are being undertaken by a handful of the Public Sector Banks (PSBs), Department of Financial Services (DFS) Secretary Vivek Joshi said in an interview with Ravi Dutta Mishra, Aanchal Magazine & Hitesh Vyas in New Delhi. Joshi said that the gap between deposit and credit growth is widening but the Current Account Saving Account (CASA) ratio for scheduled commercial banks is still at a healthy 41 per cent. However, the ratio should not fall…
Roof collapses on family in Southeast Delhi, kills 3-month-old | Delhi News
In the early hours of Friday, Shanu and his wife Shabnam, along with their three children, were fast asleep when the roof of their house suddenly collapsed — killing their youngest child, three-month-old Ikra. The incident took place at 3 am in Chhuriya mohalla in Tughlakabad Village, said police. “There were single-storey rooms situated in a very old building. The plaster of the room fell on the family members sleeping under the same roof,” said DCP (Southeast) Rajesh Deo. The family was taken to AIIMS for treatment where Ikra was…