Mazin Mansoor who scored 720/720 marks in the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test Undergraduate (NEET UG) 2024 had his ranks revised in the recently announced revised result. He now shares the all India rank with 16 others by obtaining 99.997129 percentile. His all-India rank for counselling in the June 4 result was 1.03, now his rank has improved to 1.03. It was the 17-year old’s first attempt at NEET UG this year. He comes from a family of doctors. His father, who is a paediatrician, is now working in a…
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Mehbooba Mufti urges Amit Shah to form panel of representatives from both sides of LoC | India News
PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday called for forming a panel of representatives of people from both sides of the LoC in Jammu and Kashmir to discuss the region’s issues. Speaking at the 25th foundation day function of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Mehbooba appealed to Union Home Minister Amit Shah to form a committee of 20 representatives on each side. “Amit Shah says he will bring back that Kashmir (Pakistan-occupied Kashmir) even as you tell us Muslims to go to Pakistan,” she said. “But I have a request for…
Delhi woman arrested for ‘murdering’ her nine-day-old baby | Delhi News
A woman, 22, was arrested for allegedly killing her nine-day-old daughter in West Delhi’s Tikri on Friday. The murder came to light on Thursday when the woman’s husband filed a complaint against her, reporting that he had come home to find his daughter’s lifeless body. When the police arrived on the scene, they found the child’s body with its throat slit in a room on the second floor of the house and the child’s mother in another room. The woman was subsequently arrested under Section 103 (murder) of the Bharatiya…
Google Gemini is now powered by 1.5 Flash, will soon support file uploads | Technology News
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,…
’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…
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…