A video interview with Minister and AIADMK candidate for Avadi ‘Ma Foi’ K. Pandiarajan ‘Ma Foi’ K. Pandiarajan is a Tamil Nadu minister and the AIADMK’s candidate for Avadi in the upcoming assembly elections. When he came to this constituency in 2016, he was an outsider. But now he is one among the people. In an interview, he spoke about the AIADMK’s chances of winning, what he has done for Avadi and the challenges ahead. Source
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President Alvi made the comments while addressing the military parade at the parade avenue in Islamabad to commemorate Pakistan Day. Underlining that peaceful coexistence is the cornerstone of Pakistan’s foreign policy, President Arif Alvi on Thursday said that Islamabad desires peace, security and development in the South Asian region.President Alvi made the comments while addressing the military parade at the parade avenue in Islamabad to commemorate Pakistan Day. The parade was held two days after it was postponed on March 23 due to “inclement weather”.Prime Minister Imran Khan was unable to attend as he is currently in quarantine after testing…
Security forces sought to break up some of the protests by force. Protesters against last month’s military takeover in Myanmar returned to the streets in large numbers on Thursday, a day after staging a “silence strike” in which people were urged to stay home and businesses to close for the day.Security forces sought to break up some of the protests by force. Social media accounts and local news outlets reported violent attacks on demonstrators in Hpa-an, the capital of the southeastern Karen state, as well as the eastern Shan state’s capital of Taunggyi and Mon state’s capital of Mawlamyine, also…
Tableau’s tool can help create models, make predictions, frame what-if scenarios, run other analytical methods – all using clicks, not code. (Subscribe to our Today’s Cache newsletter for a quick snapshot of top 5 tech stories. Click here to subscribe for free.)Tableau has introduced a new class of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered analytics to enhance data science techniques and enable business users to take decisions faster.The Salesforce-owned firm said in a blog post, its solution will allow people to determine what they need for their use case with control and flexibility. Further, with guided AI experiences in the hands of domain…
Thirty Assembly seats across five districts of south and western parts of the State will go to polls on March 27. Thirty Assembly seats across five districts of south and western parts of West Bengal will go to polls on March 27, beginning the staggered eight-phase Assembly elections in the State. The campaign bells for the high-pitched polls for the first phase fell silent on Thursday evening.Except a few seats of Purba Medinipur district, most of the seats that go to the polls in Pashchim Medinipur, Jhargram, Purulia and Bankura fall in the State’s Junglemahal region that was once a…
In February, the Biden administration introduced an ambitious immigration bill in the Congress which among other things proposes to eliminate the per-country cap for employment-based green cards. President Joe Biden is keen that the U.S. Congress should quickly fix America’s “broken” immigration system, for which he has already sent in a legislation, the White House has said.In February, the Biden administration introduced an ambitious immigration bill in the Congress which among other things proposes to eliminate the per-country cap for employment-based green cards.The U.S. Citizenship Act of 2021 proposes a pathway to citizenship to 11 million undocumented workers, elimination of…
Heat waves, excessively hot weather accompanied by high humidity during the summer season of April and May are increasing and causing unprecedented number of deaths across the country in recent years. Researchers now claim that it could be due to the Arctic region warming up like never before and at an alarming rate with temperatures increasing more than twice as fast as the global average.Arctic warming or increased surface temperatures is a result of “global warming” and a recent study involving researchers from India and Brazil published a research article entitled “Large-scale connection to Deadly Indian Heatwaves.” Here they state…
In delegating the matter to Ms. Harris, President Biden is seeking to replicate a dynamic that played out when he served as President Barack Obama’s Vice President. President Joe Biden has tapped Vice President Kamala Harris to lead the White House effort to tackle the migration challenge at the U.S. southern border and work with Central American nations to address root causes of the problem.Mr. Biden made the announcement as he and Ms. Harris met at the White House on Wednesday with Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandra Mayorkas and other immigration advisers to discuss…
The Supreme Court on Wednesday flagged its concern that political parties could misuse crores of rupees received as donations through electoral bonds to bankroll violent protests or even terror.Hours after a gunman opened fire in a supermarket in Boulder, Colorado, U.S. President Joe Biden asked Congress to ban assault weapons and mandate stricter background checks for those buying guns. The House of Representatives had passed two laws earlier this month that would require more background checks for potential gun buyers — the Bills are yet to be passed by the evenly split Senate, where it would require a majority of…
The updated 76% efficacy rate compares with rates of about 95% for vaccines from Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna. AstraZeneca said on Thursday its COVID-19 vaccine was 76% effective at preventing symptomatic illness, citing a new analysis of up-to-date results for its major U.S. trial.U.S. health officials earlier in the week publicly rebuked the drugmaker for using “outdated information” when calculating that the vaccine was 79% effective.That marked a new setback for the vaccine that was once hailed as a milestone in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, but has been dogged by questions over its effectiveness and possible side-effects.AstraZeneca reiterated on…