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With major airports already shutting down, gas stations running low on fuel, a spate of tornado warnings and bridges on the Florida Peninsula closing, authorities are warning residents in the path of Hurricane Milton that it may be too late to evacuate.”This is it, folks,” Kathy Perkins, Pinellas County’s emergency management director, said Wednesday morning. “I’m not saying this to scare you — I want you to be prepared.”As of noon Wednesday, Milton was a Category 3 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 145 mph. The monster storm was located about 160 miles west-by-southwest of Fort Myers and about 190…

As inflation slowly moderates, US consumers continue to feel the pinch of higher food costs. Value retailers are seeing more foot traffic as shoppers shift to store brands and cut back on non-food expenses. According to Circana, formerly IRI and The NPD Group, consumers are looking for ways to make their budgets stretch, from canceling subscriptions to favoring at-home meals over dining out.The Value of At-Home MealsDuring the 12 months leading up to March 2023, foodservice costs were 4.3 times higher than at-home meals. With the average retail meal costing just $1.78 compared to $7.48 at a restaurant, it’s no…

Identifying one faulty turbine in a wind farm, which can involve looking at hundreds of signals and millions of data points, is akin to finding a needle in a haystack.Engineers often streamline this complex problem using deep-learning models that can detect anomalies in measurements taken repeatedly over time by each turbine, known as time-series data.But with hundreds of wind turbines recording dozens of signals each hour, training a deep-learning model to analyze time-series data is costly and cumbersome. This is compounded by the fact that the model may need to be retrained after deployment, and wind farm operators may lack…

Hurricane Milton is threatening to overshadow presidential campaigning as it menaces Florida.The storm has already scrambled Donald Trump’s schedule. He put off a virtual event Tuesday night focused on health care and postpone a Univision town hall in Miami. He’s scheduled to be in Pennsylvania on Wednesday.Vice President Kamala Harris will virtually attend a briefing on the storm and the federal response that President Joe Biden is receiving Wednesday at the White House. Harris plans to head to Nevada and Arizona on Thursday. She spent Tuesday in New York taping interviews on ABC’s “The View,” with radio personality Howard Stern…

By Prathiba Raju and Abhijeet Singh New Delhi: Amid recent concerns regarding the classification of widely used drugs such as paracetamol and antibiotics along with 50 others, as spurious, the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has rejected those reports, calling them as a misinterpretation. The Central Drugs Standard Control Organization (CDSCO), which oversees drug quality and safety in India, clarified the situation in response to media queries on the sidelines of an event.Dr. Rajeev Raghuvanshi, Drugs Controller General of India (DGCI), addressed the controversy and said, “In the recent news which came about three weeks back, there was actually…

The National Cricket League (NCL) icons Suresh Raina and Pragyan Ojha visited Franklin D. Roosevelt High School in South Dallas, sharing their passion for cricket and the importance of sports with students. During an engaging lesson, students had the unique opportunity to learn the basics of cricket, participate in drills, and hear firsthand from the international cricket stars about the values of hard work, dedication, and discipline that have defined their careers. Raina a superstar in the world of cricket, emphasized how sports—especially cricket—can open doors and build character. They highlighted the growing popularity of cricket in the…

Ratan Tata (Credit: @RNTata2000)2 min read Last Updated : Oct 10 2024 | 12:11 AM IST Tata Sons’ Chairman Emeritus Ratan Tata was known as much for his business acumen as for his philanthropy. However, a lesser-known fact was his stellar track record when it came to startup investment. Tata had, over the years, invested in several successful startups, having famously said that he viewed these investments as a “learning experience”. Click here to connect with us on WhatsApp Over the last decade, the silver-haired tycoon backed the likes of Paytm, Ola and Snapdeal.  Starting out as…

An escalation of conflicts in the Middle East in recent weeks has triggered a sharp increase in oil prices, raising uncertainty about where costs will head in the final weeks before Election Day.Oil prices surged about 13% over an 11-day stretch ending on Monday. Prices fell markedly on Tuesday, however, as nearly a week passed without the onset of a widely anticipated Israeli counterattack on Iran.The rise of oil prices carries potential implications for the presidential election next month. A hike in the cost of crude oil typically raises the price of gasoline, which holds substantial sway over general consumer…

A law moving many town and county elections in New York to even-numbered years to align them with state and federal races was struck down by a state judge, providing a win to Republicans who claimed it was a partisan effort by Democrats to gain an electoral edge.Sponsors of the bill approved by the Democrat-led state Legislature last year said they wanted to shift elections for town supervisor, county executive and some other local posts from odd-numbered years to reduce confusion and increase voter turnout. Republicans denounced the law as an effort to move local elections to higher-turnout presidential election…

Nitish Kumar Reddy announced himself on the international stage with a flamboyant 74 as a youthful Indian side delivered yet another commanding performance to thrash Bangladesh by 86 runs in the second T20I in New Delhi on Wednesday. With the win, the hosts took an unassailable 2-0 lead in the three-match series. The 21-year-old Reddy (74 off 34 balls) played the most attractive innings of his nascent career while also taking a couple of wickets (2/23) with his seam bowling. Reddy combined with Rinku Singh (53 off 29), who too sizzled with a blistering fifty, to help India…