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A drug currently sold under the name Zantac 360 uses a different active ingredient and contains no ranitidine3 min read Last Updated : Oct 10 2024 | 10:02 AM IST GSK has agreed to pay up to $2.2 billion to settle most lawsuits in US state courts claiming that a discontinued version of the heartburn drug Zantac caused cancer, the company announced on Wednesday.   The agreement with 10 plaintiffs’ law firms resolves about 80,000 cases, or 93 per cent of cases pending against the British drugmaker in state courts nationwide, the company said. GSK also said it would…

India’s retail inflation in September likely overshot the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) 4 per cent medium-term target.3 min read Last Updated : Oct 10 2024 | 9:18 AM IST India’s retail inflation in September likely overshot the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) 4 per cent medium-term target for the first time since July due to a persistent rise in vegetable prices and a lower year-ago base, a Reuters poll found. Food items, especially vegetables and other perishables, which make up a significant share of overall household spending in the country, saw an uptick in prices as heavy rains…

Smucker’s® Uncrustables® launched a new PB&J flavor – Uncrustables Peanut Butter & Raspberry Spread Sandwiches – marking the first new sandwich flavor for the brand in more than 10 years. Rolling out across the country this fall, the new flavor boasts Uncrustables unbeatably soft bread, creamy peanut butter and sweet, seedless raspberry spread – unlocking a new twist on a true lunchbox legend.Uncrustables Peanut Butter & Raspberry Spread Sandwiches are the newest lunchbox and on-the-go solution, with no prep and no mess. Debuting in time for back-to-school lunches, the Peanut Butter & Raspberry Spread Sandwiches go straight from the freezer…

ATLANTA — For the first time in over 10 years, Luci Harrell can vote in a presidential election.Around the time she graduated law school this year, Harrell completed two years of parole and became legally allowed to register.“It feels important to me…real and symbolic,” Harrell said. “For years I was required by the federal government to pay taxes and pay student loans, yet being denied the ability to vote.”Harrell is one of an estimated 450,000 people in Georgia with past convictions who are eligible to cast ballots. As get-out-the-vote efforts ramp up across the swing state, advocates have a hard…

The morning of Thursday, October 9, has turned out to be a record-breaking one for England batter Joe Root. As the 33-year-old became the first batter to score 5,000 runs in the history of the World Test Championship (WTC), he also went past a series of cricket legends in another list. Root brought up his 35th Test century, a figure that took him past India legend Sunil Gavaskar, Pakistan stalwart Younis Khan, Sri Lanka’s Mahela Jayawardene and West Indian icon Brian Lara. Root’s 35th Test hundred now puts him outright in sixth position when it comes to the…

The campaign office shared by Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign and the Democratic Party in Tempe, Arizona, was damaged by gunfire for the third time in less than a month on Sunday, police told ABC News on Wednesday.The Tempe Police Department provided new details in its investigation, including a picture of the suspect’s vehicle it says is possibly a 2008-2013 silver Toyota Highlander, and announced that Silent Witness was offering up to a $1,000 reward “for any information that leads to the arrest or indictment of the suspect(s) involved in this crime.”In this Sept. 25, 2024, file photo, bullet holes…

Ratan Tata (Credit: @RNTata2000)4 min read Last Updated : Oct 10 2024 | 8:52 AM IST The US on Wednesday mourned the death of veteran industrialist and philanthropist Ratan Naval Tata, remembering him as someone who drove India to greater prosperity and development. Tata, the former Tata Group chairman who transformed a staid group into India’s largest and most influential conglomerate, breathed his last at south Mumbai’s Breach Candy Hospital at 11.30 pm on Wednesday. He was 86. My last meeting with Ratan Tata at Google, we talked about the progress of Waymo and his vision was…

TEMPE, Ariz. — A Democratic National Committee campaign office in suburban Phoenix has been struck in a third shooting in recent weeks, police said Wednesday. No one was inside the building in Tempe, Arizona, and no injuries were reported in any of the shootings. The latest incident occurred Sunday, when someone fired shortly after midnight at the door and windows of the office. A $1,000 reward has now been offered for any information leading to the arrest or indictment of those responsible. Police did not provide any other new details in the latest update. The most recent shooting came days…

The phrase “practice makes perfect” is usually reserved for humans, but it’s also a great maxim for robots newly deployed in unfamiliar environments.Picture a robot arriving in a warehouse. It comes packaged with the skills it was trained on, like placing an object, and now it needs to pick items from a shelf it’s not familiar with. At first, the machine struggles with this, since it needs to get acquainted with its new surroundings. To improve, the robot will need to understand which skills within an overall task it needs improvement on, then specialize (or parameterize) that action.A human onsite…

Entire India went into a state of mourning as Ratan Tata, Chairman Emeritus, Tata Sons, died at Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai aged 86. He was among India’s most respected and loved industrialists, who took Tata Group to new heights and touched the fabric of the nation through his contributions across different areas including philanthropy. Even sports stars, including Olympian medallist Neeraj Chopra, Test and ODI captain Rohit Sharma, and India’s T20I skipper Suryakumar Yadav, took to social media to pay their tributes to Ratan Tata after hearing the saddening news of his death. “A man with a…