News Highlights: 83% Indians would delegate as much work as possible to AI: Microsoft report

More than three fourth of people in India surveyed are willing to delegate as much work as possible to artificial intelligence, a Microsoft report said on Thursday.

According to Microsoft Work Trend Index 2023 report, 90 percent of Indian leaders say employees they hire will need new skills to be prepared for the growth of AI (artificial intelligence).

The research based on a survey of 31,000 people across 31 countries, including about 1,000 from India found that 74 per cent of Indian workers say they're worried AI will replace their jobs.

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, along with other leaders of the party including Punjab CM Bhagwant Mann, arrives in Ranchi.

He will meet Jharkhand CM and JMM's executive president Hemant Soren tomorrow, June 2.

Hero MotoCorp Total sales at 5.19 lakh units, including domestic sales of 5.08 lakh units and export of 11,165 units.

External Affairs Minister Dr S Jaishankar met Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on the sidelines of the BRICS Ministerial in Cape Town, South Africa.

The Ministers commended the dynamics of cooperation in the most important areas of the special and privileged strategic partnership between the two countries. Particular attention was paid to expanding the dialogue in the SCO, BRICS, and the G20, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia informed.

It added that mutual disposition was reaffirmed to continue the course of building a fair multipolar system of interstate relations, including the prevention and impede of the use of neo-colonial practices.

There was no respite from heatwave conditions in Bihar on Thursday as the mercury breached 40 degrees Celsius in at least 13 places, officials said.

Khagaria district recorded a maximum temperature of 42.2 degrees Celsius, while Bhagalpur was at 42 degrees Celsius, East Champaran at 41.5 degrees Celsius, Sheikhpura at 41.2 degrees Celsius, and Siwan at 41.4 degrees Celsius, they said.

State capital Patna sizzled at 40.9 degrees Celsius, they added.

Three labourers died after the advertisement board they were erecting on the roadside on the outskirts of Coimbatore's Karumathampatti fell on them. A case has been registered

In a joint operation, the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI), with the help of the Indian Coast Guard (ICG), Mandapam and Ramnad Customs, Preventive Division, intercepted two fishing boats and seized 32.869 kg of foreign origin gold valued at Rs 20.21 crore that was smuggled into India from Sri Lanka through the coast.

One of the suspected fishing boats was intercepted by a team of DRI officers and Coast Guard officers on the morning of May 30, 2023, after a chase in the sea. The contraband parcel containing 11.6 kg of foreign-origin gold valued at Rs. 7.13 crore was retrieved from the seabed.

On the night of May 30, 2023, a second suspected fishing boat was identified. Eight packets containing 21.269 kg of foreign-origin gold valued at Rs 13.08 crore were seized along with the boat and a two-wheeler used for smuggling the gold.

-- Atishi to also hold Public Relations Department in addition to the portfolio she is presently holding.

-- The Department was earlier handled by Kailash Gahlot.

-- No other changes made to the Delhi Cabinet.

-- Maruti to launch Jimny lifestyle SUV on 5th June.

-- To be sold only in the petrol-driven, 5-door version in the first half.

-- 30,000 units booked.

-- No plans to supply the badge-engineered version of this model to Toyota in the foreseeable future.

India's NHPC inks MoU with Nepal for development of Phukot Karnali Hydro-Electric Project.

India carries out successful training launch of Medium-Range Ballistic Missile, Agni-1 from APJ Abdul Kalam Island in Odisha. The missile is capable of striking targets with a very high degree of precision. The training launch successfully validated all operational and technical parameters of the missile, said A Bharat Bhushan Babu, Principal Spokesperson, Ministry of Defence.

US May S&P Global Manufacturing PMI final at 48.4 Vs 50.2 (MoM)

Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’, the Prime Minister of Nepal called on President Droupadi Murmu at Rashtrapati Bhavan today.

After the meeting, the President noted that India-Nepal bilateral cooperation has gone from strength to strength in recent years. Trade between the two countries was maintained even during the difficult times of the COVID-19 pandemic, the MEA informed.

The President said that the open border between India and Nepal has encouraged tourism from both sides. She emphasised the need of reviving the spiritual tourist circuit to promote people-to-people contact and tourism.

She said that Sister City Agreements and improvement in financial connectivity can also boost tourism between our two countries.