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September 1, 2023 2:44 PM

Kerala to Host Inaugural Zayed Charity Marathon in 2024

The Higher Organising Committee of the Zayed Charity Marathon has announced that the inaugural edition of the marathon in India will be held in Kerala in 2024.The marathon will be held in collaboration with the authorities in Kerala State and the Indian community in the UAE. The exact date and locat...

September 1, 2023 8:43 AM

Army officers of Gabon named Gen Brice Oligui Nguema as the new leader

Army officers who seized power in a coup in Gabon on Wednesday have named Gen Brice Oligui Nguema as the country's transitional leader. Gen Nguema was earlier carried triumphally through the streets of the capital Libreville by his troops. The deposed President, Ali Bongo, has appeared in a ...

September 1, 2023 8:37 AM

Claire Coutinho gets promotion as new Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary

Claire Coutinho, a close aide of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, got a big promotion as his new Energy Security and Net Zero Secretary in a mini reshuffle yesterday. Ms Coutinho, 38, becomes the second Goan-origin minister after Home Secretary Suella Braverman in the Sunak Cabinet, and has a tou...

September 1, 2023 7:19 AM

Nine soldiers killed and 20 injured in a suicide bombing in Pakistan

In Pakistan, nine soldiers were killed and  20 others injured in a suicide bombing in the Mali Khel area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Police sources said that the attack took place while a suicide bomber riding a motorbike targeted a convoy of security forces. A motorcycle-borne suicide bomber explod...

August 31, 2023 8:40 PM

Sri Lanka: World Sanskrit Day is being celebrated in Colombo

World Sanskrit Day was celebrated in Colombo by the cultural arm of High Commission of India, Swami Vivekananda Cultural Centre (SVCC). The event was organized in collaboration with 12 universities and institutes of Sri Lanka. The event marked the silver jubilee of SVCC and featured a collaborative ...

August 31, 2023 7:19 PM

Jais, the World's Most Advanced Arabic Large Language Model, Released

Inception, a unit of Abu Dhabi AI company G42, has released 'Jais', the world's most advanced Arabic large language model . Jais is a bilingual Arabic-English model that has been trained on a massive dataset of text and code. It can be used for a variety of tasks, such as machine tran...

August 31, 2023 6:48 PM

UK PM Rishi Sunak appoints Grant Shapps as new Defence Minister

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Thursday appointed Grant Shapps as the new Defence Minister. The development comes after former Defence Secretary Ben Wallace resigned due to personal reasons. Shapps has previously served as Transport Secretary,  energy secretary and Home Secretary. The new pos...

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