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  • Day after death of 16 in Chamoli, 5 injured moved to AIIMS-Rishikesh

    Express News Service

    DEHRADUN: After the death of 16 people due to electrocution caused by a transformer burst in Namami Gange Project in Chamoli, the remaining 11 seriously injured in this tragic accident have been airlifted and taken to AIIMS Rishikesh from Gopeshwar. While six more injured persons were sent till Wednesday night, the other five were sent to AIIMS on Thursday. The condition of four of the injured remains critical.

    Traders across the district, including Gopeshwar, Pipalkoti, Joshimath, Karnprayag and Gochar, kept their establishments closed as a mark of respect to the deceased. On Thursday, 11 people were cremated together on the banks of Alaknanda in Chamoli. The five bodies were cremated on Wednesday. 

    People from every class, region and community came to pay homage to the victims of this tragedy. “Prima facie investigation has closely observed that if a high current had passed through the meter, the meter would have burst, which is completely safe,” Uttarakhand Power Corporation Director (Operations) M L Prasad told this paper.

    DEHRADUN: After the death of 16 people due to electrocution caused by a transformer burst in Namami Gange Project in Chamoli, the remaining 11 seriously injured in this tragic accident have been airlifted and taken to AIIMS Rishikesh from Gopeshwar. While six more injured persons were sent till Wednesday night, the other five were sent to AIIMS on Thursday. The condition of four of the injured remains critical.

    Traders across the district, including Gopeshwar, Pipalkoti, Joshimath, Karnprayag and Gochar, kept their establishments closed as a mark of respect to the deceased. On Thursday, 11 people were cremated together on the banks of Alaknanda in Chamoli. The five bodies were cremated on Wednesday. 

    People from every class, region and community came to pay homage to the victims of this tragedy. “Prima facie investigation has closely observed that if a high current had passed through the meter, the meter would have burst, which is completely safe,” Uttarakhand Power Corporation Director (Operations) M L Prasad told this paper.googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); });

  • Google’s new open-source AI model understands Indic languages better

    Google’s various products, such as Search and Assistant, are already available in India in multiple local languages. The company is now turning to a new AI to potentially make more of its offerings accessible to Indic language speakers — more specifically, it’s using a technology called MuRIL.

    At its virtual event today, the Big G unveiled a new language model called Multilingual Representations for Indian Languages (MuRIL). This is the first model to support interoperation between 16 different Indic languages.  

    That includes Assamese, Bengali, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu, and Urdu.

    While MuRIL is based on Google’s own BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) model, researchers claim it’s more efficient for Indian languages.

  • Diwali in the dark in this village of Chhattisgarh, bad transformer has not changed since four months

    People of a village in Korba, Chhattisgarh have not been getting electricity for the last four months. It is not that they do not have electricity connection. It is being told that despite the power connection, the transformer has not been replaced yet due to rain and lightning.

    There has been a power failure in the locality between the village panchayat Labed in Korba for the last four months. The transformer here is bad, which the department has not replaced yet. This time the Diwali of the villagers here will also be in darkness.

    In this locality of Panchayat under Korba development block, people are forced to be deprived of electricity. The negligence of the field staff of the electricity department has often come to the fore, but the responsible system can be gauged when only the responsible officers do not take interest in solving the problem.

    In this locality of the village, bad transformers have not been repaired or replaced for four months. The reason is not known to any villager, but due to this, the Diwali of these villagers who have been living in darkness for almost four months, will also be considered in the dark. Villagers told that transformer is bad in the village since August, which was not replaced. There has been a dark shadow in the locality for four months, due to which the villagers are very angry.

    It is being told that the power distribution department has informed Kartala about the transformer failure, but due to departmental apathy no action was taken in this direction and the work of replacing the transformer has not been done yet. So far, his hands have not felt anything other than assurance.