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The Bengal BJP chief tweeted samples of the question paper around 1:42 pm today. Exams were held from 12 pm to 3 pm. The Class 10 English question paper of the Bengal board was leaked, BJP claimed (Representational) By Suryagni Roy : Bengal BJP chief Sukanta Majumder alleged that the English question paper of the state board's class 10 exam was leaked from Malda on the day of the examination. On Friday, the students of class 10 of West Bengal's Madhyamik board sat for their English language examination. "We heard that the paper was leaked from the Malda district. This is not something new and has happened earlier as well. The board is so efficient that it is being called Madhya Leak not Madhyamik. I have heard that a TMC local leader from Malda has leaked the paper," Sukanta Majumder alleged. advertisement Majumder tweeted samples of the question paper around 1:42 pm today. Exams were held from 12 pm to 3 pm. Also Read | Kolkata metro station to be named after Bengali...

That Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and former chief executive of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX that recently filed for bankruptcy, was aggressively using campaign donations as part of a campaign to woo Washington toward his vision of cryptocurrency regulation was no secret — nor was it a secret that other FTX executives quickly became some of the country's biggest political donors to both Republicans and Democrats, especially those who work on financial regulation. But a new federal criminal indictment alleges that things may have been even simpler than they seemed: Bankman-Fried, federal prosecutors allege, was in charge of all of it and was using FTX customer money. According to figures compiled by Open Secrets, Bankman-Fried was the second-largest Democratic donor of the 2022 campaign cycle, with almost $36 million in donations, largely to Democratic groups and candidates. This put him ahead of megadonors like Peter Thiel or James Simons but behind George Soros or Ken Griffi...

NEW YORK -- A top political adviser to Glenn Youngkin insisted on Monday that there's room for the Virginia governor to enter the Republican presidential primary a day after the aide said the campaign was a "two-person race between Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis." Jeff Roe, a strategist for Youngkin, told The Associated Press that his weekend comments on Fox News were not a signal of Youngkin's intentions or future prospects. "The current field and the current race shows two strong front-running candidates, but politics changes and a year is a lifetime in politics," Roe said Monday. He called Youngkin "a unicorn in American politics," the first Republican in more than a decade to be elected governor of Virginia, and only a year after Trump lost there to Democrat Joe Biden by 10 percentage points. If Youngkin decides to run for president, "he will make a lane for himself," Roe said. "He doesn't need a lane created for him." Yo...

NEW YORK, Feb 23 (Reuters) - U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren sent the nation's top patent regulator a letter urging close scrutiny of Merck & Co's (MRK.N) requests for new patents on its blockbuster cancer treatment Keytruda, saying further efforts to protect the drug could be an abuse of the system. "It is not at all clear that Merck is doing anything other than extending its monopoly power over the drug," Warren wrote to Kathi Vidal, director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) in the letter sent on Wednesday and seen by Reuters. Senator Bernie Sanders, as well as Representatives Katie Porter and Pramila Jayapal also signed the letter. All four members of Congress are Democrats. They expressed particular concern over Merck's efforts to patent a subcutaneous version of the currently infused drug, which Reuters reported on late last year. They wrote that Merck's use of dozens of patents to fend off Keytruda competitors "appear(s) ...

One of the big perks of working in media is that you don't have to trauma dump on your friends and family, you can do it on the entire world instead. So here I go - are you in the right headspace to receive information that could possibly hurt you? Through a very specific and convoluted set of circumstances, I have lost all of my Hitman progress. My entire profile, my lifetime XP, all of my location mastery levels and unlocks, and my challenge progression - all gone, forever. Losing this hard-earned progress gave me a feeling I haven't had since I was a little kid fighting for memory card space with my siblings, and it's just as miserable as ever. I realize now I never learned how to deal with this particular kind of loss. I still have the game, I still remember the experience of playing it, but I've lost all the evidence of the time I've spent with it. It shouldn't matter at all, but it really, really does. Here's how it happened. I played the H...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un opened a major political conference dedicated to agriculture, state media reported Monday, amid outside assessments that suggest the country is facing a serious shortfall of food. South Korean experts estimate that North Korea is short around 1 million tons of grain, 20 percent of its annual demand, after the pandemic disrupted both farming and imports from China. Recent, unconfirmed, reports have said an unknown number of North Koreans have died of hunger. But observers have seen no indication of mass deaths or famine in North Korea. During a high-level meeting of the ruling Workers' Party that began Sunday, senior party officials reviewed last year's work on state goals to accomplish "rural revolution in the new era," the official Korean Central News Agency reported. The report said that the meeting of the party's Central Committee will identify "immediate, important" tasks on agricultural issue...

The Google Play Store provides access to countless apps for various purposes. However, with the convenience of having so many options comes the potential danger of some apps being identified as malicious as they contain harmful code, violating users' privacy, stealing their data, and other risks. Even though Google's Play Protect system monitors apps diligently, some of them may still be malicious and go undetected, which can leave users vulnerable. Research conducted by Cybernews has revealed an app on the Google Play Store through which hackers could steal user's data. The app in discussion is OyeTalk. With over 5 million downloads on the Google Play Store, OyeTalk is a popular voice-chat app which lets users host podcasts, interact with each other in discussion rooms and more. According to the report, the app had left its database unprotected, leaving users' private conversations and data exposed. Not sure which mobile to buy? Cybernews...

KOTTAYAM: Film director Manu James (31) passed away ahead of the release of his first Malayalam movie. He died while undergoing treatment for jaundice at Rajagiri Hospital, Ernakulam. Manu is the director of the film 'Nancy Rani' starring Ahana Krishna, Dhruvan, Aju Varghese and Lal. The post-production work of the film was going on. The unexpected demise comes just days before the release. In 2004, he acted as a child actor in the film 'I Am Curious' directed by Sabu James. While in the USA, Manu worked as an assistant director in around seven English films, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi films. He is the son of Kuravilangad native James Jose and Cicil James. Wife: Nainu. Adblock test (Why?)

It's no secret that inflation has driven up basic living costs. And though the pace of inflation has slowed, parents are still feeling the pressure. For many Americans, the rising cost of food staples has been one of the hardest items to budget around. Just think of the cost of eggs, for example. According to Consumer Price Index data, the average price of a dozen eggs more than doubled in 2022, going from an average of $1.78 per dozen to $4.25. The reasons for this explosion in price is myriad — inflation, supply chain challenges, and a bird flu. Some experts have even called on the Federal Trade Commission to look into whether egg manufacturers are engaging in price gouging. Either way, one thing is true: Eggs are expensive. But averages leave out the outliers, and some places across the United States have felt the heat of rising egg prices more than others. So are you lucky? Or are you clucked ? Luckily, there's an interactive map showing just how much a dozen eggs would cos...

State minister for youth and sports Zahid Ahsan Russel (C), Bangladesh Sports Press Association members and award recipients pose for a photo at the Max-BSPA Night at a city hotel on Friday. — Courtesy photo Channel 24 journalist Sadman Sakib won the BSPA Sports journalist of the Year 2021 award in a joyous ceremony held at a city hotel on Friday when the Bangladesh Sports Press Association awarded journalists in eight categories. Sadman also won the first prizes in three categories—Best Exclusive Report, Best Series Reports, and Best Television Interview. Bangla daily Kaler Kantho journalist Rehanur Islam won Best Interview in print media category. Maasranga television reporter Fariha Afsana Kanta won the Best Feature for television category, while New Age photo...

Two years before Google decided to take its Pixel handsets to another level in a bid to challenge Apple and Samsung, it was thought that the Pixel 4 series might do the same thing. After all, Google threw everything but the kitchen sink into the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL. There was a secure version of Face Unlock that used 3D facial recognition, a dot projector, a flood illuminator, and two infrared cameras similar to Apple's True Depth Camera used for Face ID. The Pixel 4 series models also had a 90Hz refresh rate and let's not forget the Motion Sense feature. Using Google's Soli radar chip, Motion Sense allowed users to control certain aspects of their Pixel 4 handsets by making a gesture. Unfortunately, the capabilities were very limited and Google never brought back the feature. With Motion Sense, a call or an alarm could be dismissed with a wave of the hand, and the phone would unlock automatically when picked up. The Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL failed to succeed in the market...

When Cyberpunk 2077 launched turbulently in December 2020, Google Stadia was arguably the best place to play. Now, as Google gears up to shutter its cloud gaming platform for good, developer CD Projekt Red is supporting those players: The studio announced one of the first official methods for players to rescue any Cyberpunk 2077 save files from the sinking Stadia ship. Stadia will close permanently on Jan. 18, 2023 (though not without offering refunds). For games that already allow for cross-progression, like Destiny 2 , there are built-in solutions for moving save data to a non-defunct platform. For others, though, Google more or less threw its hands up. In the wake of the news, video game publishers from Ubisoft to IO Interactive sketched intentions to figure out solutions for players. CD Projekt Red's method hinges on Google Takeout, a program that allows Google users to download archived versions of their data. Here are the full steps from the dev, lightly edited for clar...

Consumers Energy customers have one more opportunity to save on heating costs this winter from Consumers Energy. Consumers Energy is offering 30,000 Google Nest smart thermostats to "financially vulnerable natural gas customers" to help those facing high household heating costs, the release said. Smart thermostats help lower costs by allowing people to easily set and adjust temperatures at home or work. The smart thermostat initiative is another effort by Consumers Energy to help households facing financial challenges with heating costs, the release said. "Consumers Energy remains committed to helping our friends and neighbors, in the coldest days of winter and as the temperatures hopefully warm soon," Brian Rich, Consumers Energy's senior vice president and chief customer officer said. "We're excited to provide smart thermostats, which reduce energy waste, in addition to do...

Roads and Buildings Minister Vemula Prashanth Reddy said Telangana in a very short period had emerged as the most progressive State in the country Published Date - 08:01 PM, Sat - 21 January 23 ...