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AI & Big Data: 1.53 lakh candidates received training  in AP

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-08-16T12:12:34+00:00

As per the Union govt’s data, AP has scored the highest number of AI/BDA candidates completing or getting certified under FutureSkills PRIME among all states with 1,08,895 candidates completing certification out of1,53,783.

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Convertible, portable?

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-08-16T12:11:43+00:00

If you are likely to continually experience work-related relocation, then you must consider investing primarily in financial assets; buying land must be to park surplus cash, not to achieve life goal

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Your portfolio without you

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-08-16T12:00:53+00:00

Investors face risks of digital dependency, as a recent scenario highlights vulnerabilities in portfolio management amid potential disruptions and disasters

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Change visits all of us

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-08-16T12:00:27+00:00

Sometimes it arrives like a storm, leaving us with little choice but to surrender. Sometimes it slips into our lives, unnoticed until we suddenly realise that nothing is quite the same anymore. And only rarely does it arrive gently

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Florida sets record for sea turtle nests but Trump move could stall recovery

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-08-16T12:00:25+00:00

Loggerhead turtles abound this season but rollback of Endangered Species Act protections could threaten futureWildlife groups in Florida are celebrating record numbers of sea turtle nests this season, but experts warn Donald Trump’s recent gutting of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) could reverse decades of their recovery from the edge of extinction.With more than two months of the summer nesting season still to run, loggerhead turtles have already laid 13,770 nests, hundreds more than recorded in any previous year, along an 8.5-mile stretch of shoreline monitored by the Loggerhead Marinelife

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‘Why did it become personal?’: furore over plans to expand Kent oyster shack

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-08-16T12:00:24+00:00

James Green’s oyster company owns a chunk of Whitstable’s shoreline but success has not brought affection from residentsThe clink of glasses and the lapping of the tide was punctuated by giggling toddlers and the slurp of oysters at tables populated by people gently sizzling on a baking day on the Kent seaside.But James Green, of the Whitstable Oyster Fishery Company, had the demeanour of a man who had found grit in his mollusc. “I don’t like to use the term but it is nimbyism,” he said. “Why did it become personal? I don’t know really. Because we’re a family business, it’s a relatively small

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Vidéo : quatre semaine à bord d’un brise-glace, ces navires à la technologie de plus en plus convoitée

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-08-16T12:00:09+00:00

« Terre de glace » (1/4). Capables de traverser des zones maritimes entièrement glacées, ces navires sont devenus stratégiques, dans un contexte de conflit d’influences entre puissances dans l’Arctique. Notre journaliste, Léa Bello, embarque tout le mois d’août sur l’un d’eux à l’occasion d’une expédition scientifique exceptionnelle.

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Vidéo : quatre semaines à bord d’un brise-glace, ces navires à la technologie de plus en plus convoitée

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-08-16T12:00:04+00:00

« Terre de glace » (1/4). Capables de traverser des zones maritimes entièrement glacées, ces navires sont devenus stratégiques, dans un contexte de conflit d’influences entre puissances dans l’Arctique. Notre journaliste, Léa Bello, embarque tout le mois d’août sur l’un d’eux à l’occasion d’une expédition scientifique exceptionnelle.

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На Каховське водосховище вперше за 150 років повернулись пелікани: еколог назвав причину

Source: UNIAN (General) · Published: 2026-08-16T11:47:00+00:00

Червонокнижних рожевих пеліканів не було в цих краях останні 150 років, але тепер їх помітили в плавнях, що утворились після підриву Каховської ГЕС.

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На Каховське водосховище повернулись рожеві пелікани: еколог пояснив причину

Source: UNIAN (General) · Published: 2026-08-16T11:47:00+00:00

Червонокнижних рожевих пеліканів не було в цих краях останні 150 років, але тепер їх помітили в плавнях, що утворились після підриву Каховської ГЕС.

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Rare Renaissance paintings by Antonello da Messina stolen from Sicilian museum

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-08-16T11:42:52+00:00

Four works were taken during public holiday, the day after Italian police recovered paintings by Cézanne, Renoir and MatisseFour of the most important works of art by the 15th-century Renaissance master Antonello da Messina were stolen during a national holiday from a museum in the Sicilian port city of Messina.Thieves gained access to the regional museum of Messina, or MuMe, on Saturday evening, possibly capitalising on attention being focused on La Vara, a huge religious festival that takes place in the city on 15 August, when Italy marks the ferragosto national holiday. Continue reading...

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Жінка роками допомагала родині, але в день народження зрозуміла, ким її насправді вважають

Source: UNIAN (General) · Published: 2026-08-16T11:42:00+00:00

На 38-річчя жінка замість привітань отримала від брата номер банківського рахунку та прохання переказати гроші на подарунок батькам.

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Burnham urged to crack down on gig economy firms to protect 4m workers

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-08-16T11:29:41+00:00

Exclusive: Campaigners say millions are missing out on key rights including sick pay and protection against unfair dismissalAndy Burnham is being urged to protect 4 million gig economy workers by prosecuting companies that use widespread “bogus” self-employment practices to deny people their rights.As the prime minister fleshes out his agenda, the Fabian Society and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation have warned that millions of workers are missing out on key statutory rights including parental leave, redundancy pay and protection against unfair dismissal. Continue reading...

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Giappone, paradosso Takaichi: tetto per gli stranieri residenti in un Paese vecchio senza manodopera

Source: Repubblica Homepage · Published: 2026-08-16T11:28:51+00:00

La premier sta valutando misure di “contenimento dei flussi migratori”. Entro l’anno, potrebbe passare una norma che fissa il limite massimo di immigrati. Già pronte altre restrizioni: da ottobre, aumenterà la tassa per la domanda di residenza e per entrare servirà un reddito superiore a quello medio nipponico

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Man under threat of deportation to Jamaica wins right to rejoin his British family

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-08-16T11:27:22+00:00

Mark Nelson released from immigration detention on bail after lawyers challenge decision to remove himA Jamaican man who has lived more than half his life in the UK and was facing imminent deportation has been allowed to reunite with his British family after a legal challenge.Mark Nelson, 47, came to the UK in 2000 and later set up his own car-mechanic business. He has five British children and a British partner. He faced deportation in 2022 after serving a four-year prison sentence for possession with intent to supply a class B drug, abstracting electricity and two offences of racially aggrav

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Mahindra bets on SML acquisition; eyes 10-12% CV market share by FY31

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-08-16T11:12:39+00:00

Mahindra is counting on the new Blazo i-TRK and the SML acquisition to grow its share of India’s above-3.5-tonne commercial vehicle market and more than double revenue to ₹12,500 crore by FY31

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