Новости за 24.06.2024

United Nations, United States (AFP) June 20, 2024
Four in every five people want their country to strengthen its commitments to addressing climate change, according to a global poll of 75,000 participants published on Thursday. The survey by the UN Development Program, Oxford University and GeoPoll posed 15 questions by randomized telephone calls to people in 77 countries representing 87 percent of the world's population. The key findin

Paris (AFP) June 24, 2024
Europe is lagging behind both the United States and China when it comes to technology and innovation, top executive with US firm Meta Nick Clegg has told AFP. Clegg, president of global affairs at the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, said Europe had a "real problem". "We are falling very rapidly behind the US and China," said Clegg, who was promoting a scheme to mentor

Paris, France (SPX) Jun 17, 2024
Thales (Euronext Paris: HO), Spire Global (NYSE: SPIR), and European Satellite Services Provider (ESSP) have signed a Memorandum of Cooperation to introduce global satellite-based surveillance services for the air traffic management (ATM) industry and broader aviation market. These services will use a constellation of over 100 satellites to collect Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS

Utrecht, Netherlands (AFP) June 23, 2024
Advances in artificial intelligence are poised to drive a "massive" boom in online grocery deliveries, according to the head of Picnic, a Dutch app-only supermarket rapidly expanding into Germany and France. Picnic has disrupted the Dutch supermarket landscape with its offer of free delivery in a time window of 20 minutes - made possible by squeezing efficiency out of huge amounts of data.

Toronto, Canada (AFP) June 23, 2024
For a few days, AI chip juggernaut Nvidia sat on the throne as the world's biggest company, but behind the its staggering success are questions on whether new entrants can stake a claim to the artificial intelligence bonanza. Nvidia, which makes the processors that are the only option to train generative AI's large language models, is now Big Tech's newest member and its stock market takeoff

As the public sphere brims with buzzwords like “AI” and “Crypto,” the national security community is still grappling with the implications of how the United States wields them as tools of statecraft.

Lagos [Nigeria], June 24 (ANI): The Indian contingent ended their campaign at the World Table Tennis (WTT) Contender Lagos with a total of nine medals, including three golds, a silver medal and five bronze medals. Paris 2024 Olympics-bound, star paddler Sreeja Akula on Sunday scripted history as she won the World Table Tennis (WTT) Contender singles title in Lagos, becoming the first Indian to win the singles crown. In th

Washington DC (UPI) Jun 22, 2024
After numerous delays, NASA said Friday that the Starliner crew would return to Earth in July The agency said in a blog post that it delayed Starliner's Tuesday departure from the International Space Station so it doesn't conflict with a series of planned ISS spacewalks. The extra time also would afford Starliner astronauts Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Sunita "Suni" Williams more ti

Lok Sabha pro tem Speaker sworn in amid row over seniority

Climate change impacts - including harsher heat, drought and floods - pose a major emerging threat to food security in India and elsewhere, accelerating diverse efforts to introduce crops that are better able to withstand shifting conditions.

If you're fed up with scrubbing away at your drains, it might be time to try something different

According to the Ministry of Education, the seven-member high-level panel will review the entire examination process and propose ways to enhance system efficiency

An X user recently shared an inspiring weight loss journey of a Gujarati businessman, who managed to shed 23 kilograms in 10 months without hitting the gym or following a fancy diet.

Arrow McLaren 2024 Firestone Grand Prix of Monterey Race Report WeatherTech Laguna Seca Raceway Race date: Sunday, June 23rd Round: 9/18 Total laps: 95 Total race distance: 212.61 mi/342.16 km Length: 2.24 mi/3.60 km Number of turns: 11 Alexander Rossi, No. 7 VELO Arrow McLaren Chevrolet Starting position: P5 Finishing position: P3 Championship position: P7, 198 points “It was a great weekend for the

The search for dormant cells of militants is underway.

Seoul has informally decided to appoint Park Cheol-hee, the brains behind President Yoon Suk-yeol's diplomatic policies.

DAVAO CITY—A rocketry team composed of aerospace engineering students from Ateneo de Davao University (AdDU) successfully launched rocket “Sibol” at the Spaceport America Cup, the world’s largest student rocketry competition held in New Mexico, United States, on June 22. Fr. Karel San Juan, S.J., AdDU president, showed the video of the launch to more than

Pharmac welcomes the Government’s funding boost which will see about 175,000 more people receiving the medicines they need in the first year.

A year after Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar's murder, court cases in Canada and US are testing ties with India.

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The Indian contingent at WTT Contender Lagos secured 9 medals, including 3 golds. Sreeja Akula made history by winning the singles title, defeating Ding Yijie 4-1. In women's singles, Ayhika and Suthirtha Mukherjee settled for bronze. Sreeja and Archana won the women's doubles, while Harmeet Desai and Manav Thakkar clinched the men's doubles gold. India also secured 2 medals in mixed doubles at the event held from June 19 to 23.

The top US military officer said Sunday that an Israeli military offensive into Lebanon would risk an Iranian response in defence of Hezbollah, triggering a broader war that could put US forces in the region in danger. Israel's military said last Tuesday it had "approved and validated" operational plans for a Lebanon offensive amid escalating cross-border tensions between Israel and Hezbollah. Read our liveblog for all the latest developments.

The NSE Nifty index was trading 85.35 points down at 23415.75

Greta Gerwig, Hugh Grant, Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher were also spotted in the VIP area

SEPC aims to raise ₹200 crore by issuing 15.38 crore shares