Frantic searching in Turkey, Syria after quake kills 4,600
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Frantic searching in Turkey, Syria after quake kills 4,600

Rescuers raced Tuesday to rescue survivors from the rubble of thousands of buildings brought down by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake and multiple aftershocks that struck eastern Turkey and neighboring Syria, with the discovery of more bodies raising the death toll to 4,600. Countries around the world dispatched teams to assist in the rescue efforts, but…

Stop humiliating people, stop bulldozer policy, PDP stages protest in Srinagar
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Stop humiliating people, stop bulldozer policy, PDP stages protest in Srinagar

Peoples Democratic Party Tuesday staged a massive protest march in Srinagar against what they say ‘bulldozer policy’ initiated by LG administration. The protesters including PDP leaders and activists marched from PDP office near Municipal Park towards traffic headquarters and raised slogans against BJP and LG administration. They were carrying placards in their hands that read…

Elderly man charred to death in fire incident in Srinagar
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Elderly man charred to death in fire incident in Srinagar

An elderly man was charred to death in a fire incident in Qamarwari area of Srinagar on Tuesday. An official told The that a fire incident was reported at the residential house of Bashir Ah Dar (65) at Qamarwari chowk. He said soon after the fire incident where in he used to live alone, police…

Residential House Gutted in Overnight Fire Mishap in Lolab

Residential House Gutted in Overnight Fire Mishap in Lolab

Residential House Gutted in Overnight Fire Mishap in LolabA two-storey residential house was gutted in a massive fire mishap in Devar area of Lolab in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district, last night. Reports reaching said that a fire broke out in a house belonging to one Nazir Ahmed Khan at Kakkad Pati Lolab at around 4…

Punjab vigilance arrests former minister Dharamsot in assets case

Punjab vigilance arrests former minister Dharamsot in assets case

The state vigilance bureau (VB) on Monday arrested former minister and Congress leader Sadhu Singh Dharamsot for amassing assets disproportionate to his known sources of income. Dharamsot, out on bail in a corruption case, was arrested from his house in Amloh by VB sleuths in the evening hours. Following an inquiry, a case under sections…

Doda land subsidence: IIT Jammu team visits Nai Basti

Doda land subsidence: IIT Jammu team visits Nai Basti

Even as government awaits report from a two-member of the Geological Survey of India (GSI) team on the root cause of land subsidence in Nai Basti village, another team of experts from Indian Institute of Technology in Jammu reached the village on Monday. The IIT team comprising professor Anurag Mishra from the department of civil…

Meet ‘Bard’, Google’s ChatGPT-like conversational AI chatbot | 5 points

Meet ‘Bard’, Google’s ChatGPT-like conversational AI chatbot | 5 points

Google has introduced ‘Bard,’ its conversational artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot, with CEO Sundar Pichai explaining the concept in a series of tweets, and also on the Google blog. Bard will be a direct rival to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which, since its launch in November last year, has taken the internet by storm. “Coming soon: Bard, a…

China’s Baidu to launch ChatGPT-style AI bot called ‘Ernie’. Details here

China’s Baidu to launch ChatGPT-style AI bot called ‘Ernie’. Details here

China’s Baidu Inc said on Tuesday it would complete internal testing of a ChatGPT-style project called “Ernie Bot” in March, joining a global race as interest in generative artificial intelligence (AI) gathers steam. Ernie, meaning “Enhanced Representation through Knowledge Integration,” is a large AI-powered language model introduced in 2019, Baidu said. It has gradually grown…

Some Adani shares rise from Hindenberg crisis, after group’s market losses hit $110 billion

Some Adani shares rise from Hindenberg crisis, after group’s market losses hit $110 billion

Shares of some listed Adani group companies, including its flagship, rose in early trade on Tuesday while others fell further as the reverberations from a U.S. short-seller’s critical report on the Indian conglomerate continued to be felt. The sell-off was unabated in some companies even as the group announced it is pre-paying $1.11 billion of…

In opening session, Sensex climbs to 60,616; Nifty in green at 17,801

In opening session, Sensex climbs to 60,616; Nifty in green at 17,801

Domestic equity market started on a positive note on Tuesday, with Sensex rising 109 points and Nifty trading with moderate gains amid positive cues from other Asian markets. Investors in Asia seemed to be more positive even as the US market declined on Monday after strong data on jobs last week renewed worries about Federal…