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Time of India
5 days ago
- General
- Time of India
‘Child of State' Neetika to receive Rs 4K per month assistance from govt
Kullu: Neetika, who lost all her family members in the June 30 disaster, has been included in the Mukhyamantri Sukh-Aashray Yojana as a 'Child of the State'. Under the scheme, Neetika will receive Rs 4,000 per month. The support will continue until she turns 27-years-old. Mandi deputy commissioner Apoorv Devgan on Friday said an amount of Rs 8,000 for the months of July and August has already been credited to Nikita's savings bank account. Neetika had a miraculous escape on the night of June 30 when a flash flood, triggered by a cloudburst, struck Talbara village of Gohar sub-division in Mandi district. While Neetika survived the gushing torrent, most of her family members were swept away, including her father Ramesh Kumar, mother Radha Devi, and grandmother Poornu Devi. Devgan said children who lost their loved ones in the recent natural disaster in Mandi district would be provided support through various welfare schemes of the state govt. He informed that five children from two families in Sanarli gram panchayat of the Karsog area, affected by the disaster, had been covered under the Indira Gandhi Sukh Shiksha Yojana. Lalit Kumar of Bhutti village in Sanarli lost his life in the disaster, and his three children — 14-year-old Kritika Verma, 10-year-old Anshika, and 8-month-old Raghav Thakur — will receive Rs 1,000 per month each from the state govt for their education, said the DC. Similarly, 15-year-old Paramjeet and 12-year-old Ranjeet, who lost their father Jeet Ram, a resident of Surmu village, in the disaster have also been covered under the scheme, he added. Each eligible child has been provided Rs 2,000 for the months of July and August. The financial assistance will continue until they turn 18. The aid will be disbursed through a joint bank account with their mother, said the DC. He further said eight other eligible cases had been identified in the Seraj region, and the documentation process for them was underway. These beneficiaries will also be granted aid under the Indira Gandhi Sukh Shiksha Yojana, Devgan added. MSID:: 122907884 413 |
Time of India
20-07-2025
- Business
- Time of India
Central team assesses damages in Himachal Pradesh's Thunag; DC says Rs 394cr lost
Kullu/Mandi: A central govt team visited the affected areas of Thunag sub-division in Mandi district on Sunday to assess the damage caused by floods and landslides, and was informed that the area suffered Rs 394 crore in damages. Led by G Parthasarathi, joint secretary, ministry of home affairs, the six-member team inspected the damage to houses and other properties in Bagsiad and the nearby village of Sharan. The team also inspected the Industrial Training Institute (ITI) and other damaged structures in the area. During a meeting with the visiting team, Mandi deputy commissioner Apoorv Devgan put losses suffered in the district at Rs 708 crore. Devgan said Karsog suffered a loss of Rs 55 crore and Dharampur of Rs 47 crore. At Fanyaar village, the team reviewed the destruction caused by a landslide and gathered information about the damage to a drinking water supply scheme on Chhadi Khad in Dhangudhar. Later, the team visited Thunag market and assessed the damage to homes, shops, and various institutions, as well as the impact of the severe flooding on the local economy. In Deji village, which was among the worst-hit areas, the team examined a road washed away by the flood and the damage to other public infrastructure. Devgan briefed the central team on the widespread damage in the region and also shared information about the ongoing restoration efforts. Local MLA and leader of the opposition Jairam Thakur also accompanied the central team and shared information about the disaster-related losses in the area. Special secretary (revenue and disaster management) D C Rana apprised the team of the relief and rehabilitation works being carried out by the state govt in the disaster-affected areas. Chairing the meeting, Kandarp V Patel, deputy secretary, ministry of finance, expressed sympathy with the people and said after receiving the final damage reports, the team will prepare a comprehensive report to be presented to the National Executive Committee on Disaster Management. Based on its recommendations, the final report will be submitted to the high-level committee chaired by the Union home minister. He urged all concerned departments to submit their damage assessment reports in line with the prescribed norms. BOXES DEPT-WISE LOSSES The DC also listed other losses caused in Mandi due to floods and landslides Department | Losses Public works | Rs 302 crore Jal shakti | Rs 190 crore Electricity | Rs 34 crore Other damages Fully damaged houses | 349 Partially damaged houses | 546 Shops | 241 Cow sheds | 755 393 still living in 15 camps There were as many as 1,155 livestock deaths, and around 700 people were provided shelter in 17 relief camps, said Mandi DC. At present, 393 people are still living in 15 camps, added the DC. 93 roads remain blocked After 19 days of the disaster that struck Mandi on July 1, 93 roads remain blocked in the district, with the highest 67 in the Seraj region. A total of 20 transformers are also non-functional, with 19 in Gohar sub-division of the district. Forty water supply schemes, 22 alone in Thunag sub-division, are still to be repaired. MSID:: 122797804 413 |
Time of India
06-07-2025
- Climate
- Time of India
75 dead, 31 missing as monsoon devastates Himachal Pradesh; IMD issues red alert, rescue operations underway
The death toll from the ongoing monsoon devastation in Himachal Pradesh has climbed to 75, with 31 people still reported missing, as search and rescue operations continue in full swing across flood-hit regions. Torrential rainfall, cloudbursts, flash floods, and landslides have battered the hill state since June 20, leaving a trail of destruction in multiple districts, especially Mandi. In its latest bulletin, the State Emergency Operations Centre (SEOC) confirmed 45 rain-related fatalities and 30 accidental deaths linked to road accidents, electrocution, and a gas explosion. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Japanese-Inspired Calm in a Singapore Flat squarerooms Read More Undo At least 288 people have been injured, while preliminary estimates place total losses at over ₹541 crore due to widespread damage to infrastructure and private property. Geography hampers relief Rescue teams are currently focused on Mandi district, where efforts to trace the missing continue despite challenging terrain and poor weather conditions. Deputy Commissioner Apoorv Devgan acknowledged the difficulty in reaching remote villages. Live Events "The main road of Thunag has been made motorable today. A few supply vehicles have also been placed there. Supplies have been sent with the help of mules also... The number of missing people is still 31. We have not found any missing persons. Special forces of around 250 State Disaster Relief Force-NDRF personnel are deployed. The whole administration is working 24*7," Devgan told ANI on Saturday. Highlighting the larger monsoon timeline, he added, "The relief work is challenging because of the geography. We are trying to reach habitations... this is just the beginning of monsoons. It is about to rain for the next three months. For us, the extra challenge is that we have to conduct the relief, rehabilitation and restoration program during the monsoons. We have full support of the government, providing all resources..." SDRF, ITBP teams on ground in worst-hit areas On Saturday, a team from the State Disaster Response Force (SDRF) conducted an outreach visit to Jarode panchayat, distributing relief kits and medical supplies to families in need. Several villagers received on-site treatment for minor ailments, and information was gathered on unmet needs to be relayed to the district administration. In Thunag — one of the worst-affected areas — personnel from the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) have joined relief efforts. Working alongside the NDRF and local officials, the ITBP is clearing debris, searching for the missing, and assisting displaced families. CM Sukhu directs 'war footing' response Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu has instructed Mandi district authorities to operate on a 'war footing' to ensure relief reaches all impacted residents. With continued rainfall expected, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a red alert for the state, warning of very heavy to extremely heavy rainfall over the weekend. The SEOC has urged residents in vulnerable zones to remain cautious and comply with evacuation or safety advisories issued by local authorities.
Vogue
04-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Vogue
What Exactly Is the Liquid Rhinoplasty? And Would It Work for Me?
Last fall, after decades of vision so poor I couldn't recognize my closest friends across a small room without glasses, I paid $10,000 for ICL surgery, a newish LASIK alternative in which permanent contact lenses are installed in one's eyeballs. Besides the somewhat daunting, monthlong course of prescription eye drops that followed, recovery was swift. I've had no major medical complications, only subtle psychological ones: Improving my vision, I realized, impaired the way I saw myself. For the first time in as long as I could remember, I looked in the mirror and saw only my face staring back at me. No brow-hiding frames, no eye-distorting lenses. And most crucially, perhaps, was my nose: bare, no longer horizontally bifurcated by a ridge of black acetate. In a good mood, on a good day, my nose is 'striking' or 'distinguished.' It has 'character,' to quote my mother. In a bad mood, on a bad day, it is simply crooked. 'I'm so glad she never fixed it,' a famous artist recently told a mutual friend, upon meeting me. Meant as a compliment, I, of course, interpreted it as insult. Should I have fixed it? A basketball to the face in middle school left a hairline fracture and with it a slight asymmetry I was always aware of without really caring about. But now the asymmetry shone (sometimes, especially in photographs, literally: reflecting a spot of glare back at the camera). My friends and family all called me crazy whenever I mentioned it, but their reassurances were of little value. It wasn't that I didn't believe them—I didn't care what they looked like either!—but I wanted a professional opinion. One drizzly spring morning, I entered the sprawling, multistory Park Avenue office of plastic surgeon Lara Devgan, MD, whose Instagram follower count approaches 1 million and whose proprietary skin-care fans include Kim Kardashian and Jennifer Aniston. Known for what she calls 'facial optimization,' Devgan tends toward an approach made up of 'tweaks,' as she refers to them—the facial equivalent of having an old dress tailored rather than getting a fabulous new one custom-made. 'So you have a 'deep radix,' ' she said, petting the depression at the top of my nose with her index finger. There was also, she went on, a 'widening of the dorsal nasal aesthetic lines': the bridge, in lay terms. There was 'some crookedness,' which she said was 'likely the site of prior trauma.' Lastly, I suffered from what she described as 'a little bit of a bulbous and slightly droopy nasal tip.' Finally, some honesty, I thought to myself. A good, old-fashioned rhinoplasty could, of course, make my nose smaller and less crooked. It would also cost close to $20,000, require general anesthesia, take up to a full year to see the final results, and turn me into a person who got a purely elective nose job at an age (37) that was, in my opinion, decades past the point of utility. But there were other methods. 'One of the hallmarks of modern plastic surgery is customizability,' Devgan said. Some well-placed injections of hyaluronic acid—which functions almost like a cartilage graft—at the top of the nose (to lessen the prominence of the bump) might 'optimize' my appearance, as she put it. 'We don't have to have you look textbook to be happy.' Devgan was describing, essentially, a nonsurgical nose job—or a 'liquid rhinoplasty'—a procedure that has been growing in popularity without being, in itself, new. (The practice of injecting the nose with various liquids dates back to the turn of the 20th century, when precarious substances including oils and waxes were used.) The first filler made of hyaluronic acid—which is also used topically for its moisturizing properties—was approved for cosmetic use by the FDA in 2003, and in the years since its effects can be seen everywhere from the enviably sculpted cheekbones of influencers to the trout-y mouths of the ladies populating Bravo and so many of the women who love to hate them.
Yahoo
28-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
$2M supercomputer powered by NVIDIA delivers 80X leap in chip and drug design
Cadence Design Systems has launched the Millennium M2000 Supercomputer, a powerful new platform built with NVIDIA's latest Blackwell architecture. Announced during CadenceLIVE Silicon Valley 2025, the system promises significant speed and energy efficiency gains for workloads across semiconductor design, life sciences, aerospace, and hyperscale computing. Designed for both cloud and on-premises deployment, the Millennium M2000 combines NVIDIA HGX B200 systems, RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs, and Cadence's full stack of solvers. The system delivers up to 80X faster performance and 20X lower power usage compared to CPU-based predecessors. By co-optimizing software and hardware, the platform enables simulations that previously required hundreds of CPUs and days to now complete in under 24 hours. Anirudh Devgan, president and CEO of Cadence, described the system as a milestone for accelerated design. 'The Millennium M2000 Supercomputer will drive the next leap in AI-accelerated engineering by leveraging our massively scalable solvers, dedicated NVIDIA Blackwell-accelerated computing and AI to help designers continue to push the limits of what is possible,' he said. One key advantage of the M2000 is its ability to handle large-scale simulations in semiconductor and 3D-IC design. The system supports advanced analysis of power, thermal, stress, and electromagnetic properties in a single unified platform. According to Cadence, engineers can now complete chip-level power integrity simulations in a single day, compared to the two weeks needed with traditional CPU clusters. Cadence and NVIDIA engineering teams used the company's Palladium and Protium platforms during the development of Blackwell, helping validate chip designs with faster turnaround times. 'This is years in the making,' Devgan noted. 'It's a combination of advancement on the hardware and system side by NVIDIA — and then, of course, we have to rewrite our software to take advantage of that.' Beyond chips, the M2000 enables high-fidelity modeling of complex systems, including autonomous machines and digital twin environments. Designers can now run precision virtual wind tunnels and simulate system behavior at scale, using Cadence tools integrated with NVIDIA's Omniverse APIs. The result is faster development of AI-powered systems in sectors like aerospace and robotics. NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang highlighted the growing demand for such infrastructure. 'AI is going to infuse into every single aspect of everything we do. Every company will be run better because of AI, or they'll build better products because of AI,' he said. 'The work that we're doing together recognizes that there's a whole new type of factory that's necessary. We call them AI factories.' In life sciences, the M2000 supercomputer accelerates molecular design through Cadence's Orion platform, which now integrates NVIDIA BioNeMo NIM microservices and Llama Nemotron models. Pharmaceutical researchers can explore more design variations faster, helping reduce the time required to identify viable drug candidates. Cadence said simulations that previously took days using massive CPU clusters can now be completed overnight. Using the Fidelity CFD Platform and GB200 Grace Blackwell Superchips, the company demonstrated complex fluid dynamics simulations running in under 24 hours. The Millennium M2000 is expected to cost around $2 million in its standard configuration, which includes approximately 32 NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs. It is available both via the cloud and as a standalone appliance. Early adopters include MediaTek, Boom Supersonic, Ascendance, Treeline Biosciences, and Supermicro. NVIDIA also announced plans to acquire 10 Millennium systems to accelerate its own chip design workflows. 'This is a big deal for us,' Huang said. 'We started building our data center to get ready for it.'
