Bhubaneswar, 14/3: As many as 184 officers joined the State Cooperation Department in various Cooperative Societies and the State Warehousing Corporation today. While 114 of them joined as Inspector Cooperative Societies, 55 joined as Auditors. Similarly, 15 officers joined the Warehousing Corporation as Assistant Managers, Superintendents and Assistant Superintendents. An orientation programme was…
Washington DC, 14/3: Google on Tuesday began letting some developers and businesses access the kind of artificial intelligence that has captured attention since the launch of Microsoft-backed ChatGPT last year. The tech giant’s cloud computing arm will provide testers with ways to “infuse generative AI” into apps or put them to work on Google’s…
Patna, 14/3′ A BJP MLA in Bihar was on Tuesday suspended for two days on account of unruly behaviour, triggering protests from his party colleagues who staged a walkout though the government praised Speaker Awadh Bihari Chaudhary for setting a “good precedent”. As Chaudhary announced the suspension of Lakhendra Raushan, the latter rose…
New Delhi, 14/3: Animal welfare group PETA has written to the presidents of the BJP and the Congress, urging them to include animal welfare-related policies in their respective election manifestos for the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. In the letters, the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals’ (PETA) India chapter has urged the…
Mumbai, 14/3: Professor Manoj Tiwari, the Director of the Mumbai-based National Institute of Industrial Engineering (NITIE) has become the first-ever researcher from India to be awarded the prestigious David F. Baker Distinguished Research Award from the Institute of Industrial & Systems Engineers (IISE). This prestigious award, given once a year, honours individuals who…
Tokyo, 14/3: Japan announced the official start of Tokyo’s cherry blossom season on Tuesday, 10 days earlier than usual and tied with a record early start seen only twice before. In past years the country’s meteorologists have linked the increasingly early blooms to climate change, and temperatures in Tokyo have been unseasonably mild in…
Kulgam, 14/3: In an early morning swoop, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) Wednesday carried out raids at multiple locations across Kashmir in connection with an alleged terror conspiracy case. Reports said the probe agency sleuths accompanied by J&K police and CRPF personnel conducted raids at nine locations in Anantnag, Kulgam, and Pulwama districts…
Seoul, 14/3: North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea off its east coast on Tuesday, South Korea’s military said, the latest of several weapons tests as the South and the United States conduct their largest joint military drills in years. The missiles were fired about 7:40 a.m. (2240 GMT on Monday)…
Mumbai, 14/3: Equity benchmark indices Sensex and Nifty gained in early trade on Tuesday despite weak global cues. Amid volatile trading, the 30-share BSE Sensex surged 205.55 points or 0.35 per cent to 58,443.40 points while the broader NSE Nifty rose 44 points or 0.26 per cent to 17,198.30 points. In the…
Washington DC, 13/3: US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer announced Monday that it had reached a deal to buy biotech firm Seagen, specializing in innovative cancer treatment, for $43 billion. Pfizer is offering $229 per share in cash, and the companies expect to complete the transaction later this year or in early 2024, they said…
