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Sweden authorities charged climate activist #GretaThunberg with disobeying police during a June climate protest in southern Sweden.

Thunberg was charged post she refused to obey police orders to leave the site of a protest in the southern city of Malmo on 19 June, said the prosecutor.

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Insurance, retail, pharmaceutical, and healthcare companies are strictly enforcing extended notice periods, in contrast to the earlier trend to ensure adequate support to clients even during the transition period.



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Indian tomato prices are soaring due to adverse weather, triggering a wave of social media memes comparing the cost of the essential ingredient with anything from petrol to political influence.



Read here: https://www.livemint.com/news/india/a-445-price-jump-makes-tomatoes-more-pricey-than-gasoline-in-india-11688705785916.html
Tomato prices have surged in northern regions of #India, causing a decrease in consumer demand. McDonald's in #Delhi has announced it will not be serving products with tomatoes due to quality issues.

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The #SC also dismissed pleas filed by #Spicejet seeking an extension to pay ₹75 crore to #KalAirways and #Kalanithi, and observed that filing applications to seek extension is a delay tactic.



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#Twitter has initiated a potential legal battle against #Meta, accusing the company of stealing trade secrets to develop its new microblogging site, #Threads. Legal experts say Twitter would face challenges in pursuing such a lawsuit.

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Meta has spent more than $40 million on CEO Mark Zuckerberg's personal security in the past three years, while his family-run foundation has also donated millions of dollars to groups that want to ‘defund the police’.

Since 2020, PolicyLink, the organization behind DefundPolice.org, has received $3 million in donations from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, the report said, citing investigative report Lee Fang.

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In a total rejection of the idea of #AI taking away jobs from humans, Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar termed it as “nonsense, bakwas, and zero".

He reminded people of the 90's decade when people used to think that "Y2K will wipe out the world".

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#Paytm founder Vijay Shekhar Sharma expressed concern over #ChatGPT creator, #OpenAI's statement which says that it does not have a solution for steering or controlling a potentially superintelligent #AI, & preventing it from going rogue.

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