6. Govt unveils free online visa for Sikhs from UK, US and Canada
Federal Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi has announced that Sikhs from the US, Canada and Britain will receive free online visas within 30 minutes upon arrival in Pakistan.
`You`re welcome to visit Pakistan up to 10 times a year. Each time, we will welcome you here. Applicants only need to fill out a form to receive a visa in 30 minutes,` he said during a meeting with a delegation of Sikh pilgrims from the United States on Thursday
7. Russia fines Google more than all money in the world
Russia has fined Google an eye-popping 20 undecillion rubles ($2.5 decillion) for removing Russian state-run and government YouTube channels in the wake of the country`s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
In other words, Google faces a $2.5 trillion trillion trillion bill from the country. Typed out in full, that figure is $2,500,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,00 0.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the huge sum, which he said he couldn`t pronounce, was symbolic
8. North Korea fires `most powerful` ICBM
The United States and South Korea held high-level talks on Thursday after North Korea test-fired one of its newest and most powerful missiles, demonstrating its threat to the US mainland days ahead of elections.
The weapons test was the first since North Korea was accused of sending troops to Russia to support the invasion of Ukraine, triggering alarm and warnings by Washington, Seoul and European countries
9. Israeli strikes kill 39 across Gaza, 47 in Lebanon
At least 39 Palestinians were killed in Israeli military strikes across the Gaza Strip on Thursday, mostly in the north where one attack hit a hospital, torching medical supplies and disrupting operations, the enclave`s health officials said.
Israeli airstrike on two houses in the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza strip killed at least nine Palestinians, medics said
10. OpenAI releases ChatGPT search engine
OpenAI on Thursday beefed up its ChatGPT generative AI chatbot with search engine capabilities, as the startup takes on Google`s decades-long dominance of finding answers on the web.
With the update, `you can get fast, timely answers with links to relevant web sources, which you would have previously needed to go to a search engine for,` OpenAI said in a blog post
Courtesy: Daily Dawn Epaper
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