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[ad_1] Suresh Kumar collecting plastic waste from the Vembanad backwaters. | Photo Credit: SURESH ALLEPPEY Suresh Kumar from Nehru Trophy ward in Alappuzha municipality is so proud to collect plastic garbage floating on Vembanad Lake and make a living by selling it to recycling firms. The 58-year-old man ventures out to the waterbody on a small fibre boat twice a day and returns with a melange of trash, including plastic bottles and sachets, glass beer bottles, containers and so on. “I have a lot of free time and what I am doing is a small effort to reduce plastic pollution…

[ad_1] The first aircraft to adorn Air India’s new livery — an Airbus A350 — is getting ready to be delivered to the Tata Group airline before this year-end. AI’s budget arm, AI Express, is also going to unveil its unique livery sometime the month. The mega LCC-in-the-works being created by merging AirAsia India into it has received two Boeing 737 MAX which are being painted in the new livery.AI is supposed to get 5-6 A350s by next March. There’s a bit of delay on the first one because some extra tests were needed on some of the seats by…

[ad_1] A worker clears leaves and branches of trees fallen by the road after Typhoon Koinu passed the southern tip of Taiwan, near Jinlun, Taiwan on October 5, 2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters China warned on October 7 of big waves, heavy rain and strong wind as Typhoon Koinu approaches the southern province of Guangdong and Hainan island.Waves of up to nine metres were expected in the South China Sea under the impact of the storm on Saturday and Sunday, the State Oceanic Administration said as it issued an orange alert, the second highest in a four-coloured warning system.Koinu, which…

[ad_1] Coach Dravid keeps fingers crossed on Shubman’s availability for India’s opener vs AustraliaCHENNAI: There was a cloud hanging over the MA Chidambaram Stadium on Friday. It probably reflected the mood in the Team India camp. It’s not easy losing your designated opener – and premier, in-form ODI player, who has been preparing specifically for this tournament – for the first game of a month-and-a-half long World Cup journey. That too against a team like Australia.With the dynamic Shubman Gill down with fever – suspected to be dengue – it is highly unlikely that the right-hander will be available on…

[ad_1] Witness Adam Yedidia answers questions during Sam Bankman-Fried fraud trial over the collapse of FTX, the bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange, at Federal Court in New York City, October 5, 2023, in this courtroom sketch.Jane Rosenberg | ReutersTwo of Sam Bankman-Fried’s former friends from MIT, who also worked at crypto exchange FTX while living with the company’s founder in the Bahamas, took the stand in a Manhattan courtroom this week to testify against their former classmate, confidant, and boss — a man who allegedly ran a crypto empire that defrauded thousands of customers out of billions of dollars.Gary Wang, the lesser-known…

[ad_1] The Snapchat application on a smartphone arranged in Saint Thomas, Virgin Islands, Jan. 29, 2021.Gabby Jones | Bloomberg | Getty ImagesSnap is under investigation in the U.K. over potential privacy risks associated with the company’s generative artificial intelligence chatbot. The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the country’s data protection regulator, issued a preliminary enforcement notice Friday, alleging risks the chatbot, My AI, may pose to Snapchat users, particularly 13-year-olds to 17-year-olds.”The provisional findings of our investigation suggest a worrying failure by Snap to adequately identify and assess the privacy risks to children and other users before launching ‘My AI’,” Information Commissioner…

[ad_1] MUMBAI: The RBI is concerned about the strong growth in some personal loans and is watching out for any stress in that segment, asking banks, NBFCs and fintechs to strengthen their surveillance mechanisms.”Certain components of personal loans are recording very high growth… These are being closely monitored by RBI for any signs of incipient stress,” RBI governor Shaktikanta Das said on Friday. He asked banks and NBFCs to address build-up of risks, if any, and institute safeguards. “The need of the hour is robust risk management and stronger underwriting standards,” he added.On an annual basis, personal loans contributed 37.7%…

[ad_1] India has been elected president of the Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD) General Conference (GC) for the third successive term, said the government on Friday. The Information & Broadcasting Ministry Secretary, Apurva Chandra, said this was a first in the history of AIBD. The move showed the confidence broadcasting organisations across the Asia Pacific and the world reposed in India. Established in 1977 under the auspices of UNESCO, the AIBD currently has 92 member organisations from across 44 countries, including 26 government members (countries) represented by 48 broadcasting authorities and broadcasters, and 44 affiliates (organisations) represented by 28…

[ad_1] Your Amazon order of internet satellite prototypes have shipped.More than four years since the tech giant announced its ambitious plan to invest heavily in building a global satellite internet network, Amazon on Friday saw the first pair of satellites for its Project Kuiper system launch into space.”We’ve done extensive testing here in our lab and have a high degree of confidence in our satellite design, but there’s no substitute for on-orbit testing,” Project Kuiper vice president of technology Rajeev Badyal said in a statement before the launch.United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying the first two demonstration satellites for…

[ad_1] Former U.S. President Donald Trump gestures while talking to the media during a break as he attends trial in a civil fraud case brought by state Attorney General Letitia James against him, his adult sons, the Trump Organization and others in New York City, October 4, 2023.Mike Segar | ReutersA New York appeals court on Friday refused to stay the ongoing civil business fraud trial of Donald Trump and his company, but did halt a judge’s order to cancel the business certificates of Trump’s companies in the state.The ruling came after Trump’s business fraud trial ended its first week…