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Hyderabad: Gaurika Bishnoi hit superb 3-under 68 to emerge joint leader with Jahanvi Bakshi who returned a successive card of 70, after two rounds in the 12th leg of the Hero WPGT at the Hyderabad Golf Club on Thursday.

Mark Zuckerberg wants us to believe he’s figured out how we’ll socialize in the future. On October 28, he outlined his vision for the metaverse, a virtual environment where we can hang out, shop, and work. Yet its realization depends on Facebook and various other companies jumping into the metaverse space to develop the technologies it will depend on, and requires the public to buy into a vision where we spend more time sitting at home with virtual reality headsets on instead of going out into the physical world.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Former Chief Minister of Kerala and senior Congress leader from the state Oommen Chandy’s much-hyped mission to Delhi has ended up in a fiasco.

The Union Ministry of Labour and Employment’s new push for finalizing draft rules for the four controversial labour codes has brought news concerns among workforce regarding their implementation in near future. It would make the worker’s protest even stronger than has been planned by the joint platform of the 10 central trade unions.

The year is almost at its end. Republic Day would bring back to us again the celebrations of democracy. As we revise our pledge on January 26 to abide by our Constitution, protect it and move ahead, the Government has been busy taking decisions and passing ordinances to subvert it. It has extended the tenure of the directors of the CBI and ED, and made it from two years to five years. With a nod from the President, the ordinances got clearance. The Parliament session is only few days away but the possibility of deterrents coming from the opposition was obviously not acceptable to the government, hence the hurry.

The McKinsey report on national wealth by end of 2020 released on Monday placing China as the largest economy surpassing the USA led me remember my visit to Shanghai in year 2000 when the entire global economy including China, was undergoing dot com bubble. I was covering an international conference on new technology organised by a leading American multinational which was having big business in China at that time.

Narendra Modi, while addressing an adivasi rally at Bhopal on the birth anniversary of the legendary tribal leader Birsa Munda on November 15, claimed that after independence, for decades, the adivasis were neglected. It was only his government that made adivasis partners in the country’s development and beneficiaries of various welfare schemes.

Thiruvananthapuram: A Kerala Cooperative sets a model for best co-op practices with research and development in disaster management. This model was put forth as a best practice for co-operatives at the Brainstorming Session on International Good Practices Platform for Co-operatives held at Sardar Patel Auditorium, LINAC Gurugram on Wednesday. Uralungal Labour Contract Co-operative Society (ULCCS) from Kerala was selected to give a presentation on "Best Practices by Primary Co-operatives" at the session. Chief Project Co-ordinator Kishore Kumar represented ULCCS at the session.

Thiruvananthapuram: The Travancore Devaswom Board has issued a statement that the campaigns against Aravana Payasam, the main offertory (prasadam) given to the devotees at Sabarimala, were false and factually incorrect.

Hyderabad: Playing steady golf, Jahanvi Bakshi, took a one-shot lead over her sister, Hitaashee in the first round of the 12th leg of the Hero Women’s Pro Golf Tour (WPGT) at the Hyderabad Golf Club here on Wednesday.