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8:45 AM

G20 presidency: Rann of Kutch in Gujarat to host first Tourism Working Group meet

As part of India's G20 presidency, Gujarat will host the first Tourism Working Group (TWG) meeting at Dhordo Tent City in Rann of Kutch from Tuesday, officials said.

 

The three-day TWG meeting, which will be attended by Union Tourism Minister G Kishan Reddy, will be the second G20 event in the state after the 'Business 20 Inception' programme held in Gandhinagar last month, an official statement said.

8:35 AM

BJP parliamentary party meeting to be held today

A meeting of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) parliamentary party is scheduled to be held today in Parliament.

 

The weekly meeting of the BJP in the Parliament takes place every Tuesday when the House is in function.

8:23 AM

Google hopes its chatbot 'Bard' will outsmart ChatGPT, Microsoft in AI

Google is girding for a battle of wits in the field of artificial intelligence with Bard," a conversational service apparently aimed at countering the popularity of the ChatGPT tool backed by Microsoft.

 

Bard initially will be available exclusively to a group of trusted testers" before being widely released later this year, according to a Monday blog post from Google CEO Sundar Pichai.

8:23 AM

Steady rains set off mudslides, killing at least 36 in southern Peru

Landslides triggered by steady rains swept mud, water and rocks into several villages in southern Peru, killing at least 36 people, authorities said on Monday.

 

Wilson Gutierrez, a civil defense official in the Mariano Nicolas Valcarcel municipality in Camana province, told local radio RPP that 36 bodies had been recovered in a remote sector called Miski.

8:22 AM

China committed act of floating balloon as they are Chinese govt, says US President Biden

China committed such a brazen act of floating balloons across continental America because they are the Chinese government, US President Joe Biden said on Monday.

 

They're the Chinese government, Biden told reporters at the White House when asked why the Chinese would commit such a brazen act of floating across the entire continental United States.