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Last updated: August 12, 2024 9:45 pm ISTThe teenagers obtained a shotgun stolen from the Sardarpur police station and decided to make a TikTok video. (representative picture)An 18-year-old man recorded a TikTok video with his friends using a gun stolen from Faridpur police station.An 18-year-old boy named Palash Hossain was shot dead while recording a TikTok video with three friends using weapons stolen from the Sardarpur police station in Faridpur.According to Bangladeshi news website Prothom Alo, the incident occurred on August 6 in a room at his grandfather's house.Palash succumbed to his injuries while undergoing treatment at the Intensive Care…

Publisher: Surbhi PathakLast updated: August 12, 2024 10:34 pm ISTThe government may reconsider controversial provisions of the Broadcasting Services Regulation Bill that have raised concerns among online content creators as it seeks to unite them with OTT or digital news broadcasters.The bill was released for consultation in November last year and the new draft has been circulated among selected stakeholders to seek their views.An official said the government may be willing to review certain provisions of the bill as it has prompted a strong reaction from some media representatives.Representatives of the DigiPub News India Foundation and the Editors Guild of…

planner: Surbhi PathakLast updated: August 12, 2024 11:09 pm ISTJunior doctors protested against the alleged rape and killing of a trainee doctor at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Badhaman. (Image source: PTI)The West Bengal government on Monday appointed Dr. Debasish Halder as the new director of the Department of Health Services (DHS).Amid protests over the rape and murder of a doctor at a Kolkata hospital, the West Bengal government on Monday appointed Dr Debashish Halder as the new director of health services, officials said.Halder, who in his previous assignment held joint DHS (non-communicable disease screening) duties, succeeds Dr.…

Junior doctors at RG Kar Medical College and Hospital on Monday questioned why West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has set a seven-day deadline to resolve the graduate student rape-murder case and claimed that they will continue the strike until their demands are met satisfy.Banerjee earlier in the day claimed that her government would hand over the case to the Central Bureau of Investigation if the police failed to solve it by next Sunday.Despite Banerjee's promise of a transparent investigation, protesters criticized the delay and demanded a judicial inquiry, the death penalty for the culprits and full compensation for the…

Tropical storm warning flags flew from Guadeloupe to Puerto Rico ahead of Potential Tropical Cyclone 5 on Monday. Tropical Storm Ernesto will strengthen near Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands early Wednesday. By later this week, Future Ernesto could become an intensified hurricane that could threaten Bermuda and possibly Canada's southeastern coastal provinces. As of 11 a.m. ET Monday, PTC 5 is a large but unorganized tropical wave with widespread showers and thunderstorms (convection) but without the organized central circulation needed to form a tropical depression. With maximum sustained winds estimated at 35 mph, PTC 5 is located approximately 435…

Science is science because it has the ability to correct itself. This means that when researchers hit a dead end, they turn around and look for another path. [emphasis, links added] However, in highly politicized situations, science may face obstacles to self-correction, meaning that when science goes off track, it may be more difficult to change direction. This is especially true when bad science becomes politically important. This is where climate science will be in 2024. at the same time, The climate science community seems to have lost its collective ability to point out bad science and get things back…

Publisher: Surbhi PathakLast updated: August 12, 2024 11:14 pm ISTThe Jammu and Kashmir police arrested eight terrorist ground workers involved in facilitating the infiltration of foreign militants into the country, officials said on Monday.The terror group was busted in Kathua district, where it was providing assistance to terror activities in Doda, Udhampur and upper Kathua districts along the Indo-Pak border.More than 50 local residents are under investigation for their links to the terrorists and for providing them with food, shelter or communications assistance, a police spokesman said on Monday.On June 26, three terrorists who attacked security forces were neutralized during…

Favorable weather conditions for tropical storm formation will occur within the next 48 hours. This will be the fifth storm of the season and will be named Ernesto. With the help of warm ocean temperatures, it could reach hurricane status, but that's not certain yet. A tropical storm watch has been placed for Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and the Leeward Islands.arrive, and the Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis, Anguilla, Montserrat and Guadeloupe. As of 06:00 Monday morning, the potential tropical cyclone was located approximately 1,040 kilometers east/southeast of Antigua. PTC 5 remains unchanged, but the “center of mass”…

Intelligence sources claim that the ideology of Rizwan Ali and Shahnawaz Alam comes from the Islamic State, which believes that Kafirs (non-believers) should not be spared. (PTI image used for representation)Top intelligence sources tell CNN-News18 that both Alam and Ali are part of a major global conspiracy hatched by the Islamic StateThe National Investigation Agency (NIA) and Delhi Police arrested a man named Rizwan Ali, an IED expert and a close associate of Shehnawaz Alam, the mastermind of the Pune-based ISIS module, on the eve of Independence Day. A major arrest by the security services before.Top intelligence sources told CNN-News18…

Andy May and Marcel Crocker An anonymous reviewer commented on our recent paper “CO2 and a warming climate is not a problem,” published online on May 29, 2024, American Journal of Economics and Sociology. In the introduction to his critique, Phytophthora destructor writes: “The authors and the sources they cite may have underestimated anthropogenic global warming. We have no estimate of the anthropogenic contribution to global warming.” All we have done is point out that if some of the observed warming is a natural phenomenon, then the IPCC AR6 estimates of anthropogenic global warming would be too high. This is…