Day: February 17, 2023

Indian-American Neal Mohan Is New YouTube CEO

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New Delhi: Indian-American Neal Mohan will be the new YouTube CEO, as current head Susan Wojcicki has announced to step down after 25 years at the Google-owned company. Currently chief product officer, Mohan became part of Google, the parent company of YouTube, in 2008. He is a Stanford graduate and earlier worked with Microsoft. Mohan and Wojcicki have worked together for nearly 15 years. He became YouTube’s chief product officer in 2015. “Today, after nearly 25 years here, I’ve decided to step back from my role as the head of…

NTCA Approves Odisha’s Proposal To Declare Debrigarh A Tiger Reserve

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Bhubaneswar: Here’s good news for wildlife lovers. The National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA) has accepted the Odisha government’s proposal to declare Debrigarh Wildlife Sanctuary in Odisha’s Sambalpur district a tiger reserve. In 2018, the Odisha government proposed to the NTCA to declare Debrigarh Wildlife Sanctuary as a tiger reserve. The demand became stronger when a group of tourists spotted a young sub-adult Royal Bengal Tiger at the sanctuary on December 1, 2022. Forest department officials had then claimed that tigers from forests in neighbouring Chhattisgarh often stray into Debrigarh and…

Sweta Utkal Death Case: Boyfriend Soumyajeet Sent To Jharpada Jail

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Bhubaneswar: Soumyajeet Mohapatra, the reported boyfriend of software engineer Sweta Utkal Kumari who was found dead in her apartment in the Infocity area of Bhubaneswar on August 19, 2022, was sent to Jharpada Jail here on charges of abetting suicide. Chandrasekhar Police had arrested Soumyajeet from his native house in Bansidhar Nagar in Odisha’s Sambalpur district in the wee hours of Thursday and brought him to Bhubaneswar yesterday. Following interrogation, he was produced in a court and subsequently sent to judicial custody after his bail plea was rejected. Police said…

BCCI Chief Selector Chetan Sharma Resigns Amid Sting Operation Row

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New Delhi: BCCI’s chief selector Chetan Sharma has resigned from his post following a sting operation conducted by a TV news channel, where he shared internal information about the team and selection process, sources told IANS. According to sources, he sent his resignation to BCCI Secretary Jay Shah who accepted it. Earlier, in a sting operation, the 57-year-old was heard saying that Indian players have their own doctors outside of cricket, who are always available for them. “If they are fit for only 85%… they tell us to let them…