Neuralinkpatient moves mouse with thought Neuralink’s first human patient with a brain chip is able to control a computer mouse using thoughts, founder Elon Musk said on Tuesday. “Progress is good, and the patient seems to have made a full recovery, with no ill effects that we are aware of,” Musk said in a Space event on X. “Patient is able to move a mouse around the screen by just thinking,” he added. Last month, Neuralink’s implant was given to the first human patient and initial results showed promising neuron spike detection. HUBBALLI WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 21, 2024 `9.00 PAGES 18 CITY EDITION CHENNAI ■ MADURAI ■ VIJAYAWADA ■ BENGALURU ■ KOCHI ■ HYDERABAD ■ VISAKHAPATNAM ■ COIMBATORE ■ KOZHIKODE ■ THIRUVANANTHAPURAM ■ BELAGAVI ■ BHUBANESWAR ■ SHIVAMOGGA ■ MANGALURU ■ TIRUPATI ■ TIRUCHY ■ TIRUNELVELI ■ SAMBALPUR ■ HUBBALLI ■ DHARMAPURI ■ KOTTAYAM ■ KANNUR ■ VILLUPURAM ■ KOLLAM ■ TADEPALLIGUDEM ■ NAGAPATTINAM ■ THRISSUR ■ KALABURAGI AAP’s Kuldeep Kumar after the SC declared him Mayor | PTI SC overturns C’garh Mayoral poll verdict, raps returning officer S U C H I T R A K A LYA N M O H A N T Y @ New Delhi THE Supreme Court on Tuesday declared AAP candidate Kuldeep Kumar the winner of the Chandigarh Mayoral polls, setting aside the January 30 poll verdict on the BJP victory . A three-judge bench comprising Chief Justice of India D Y Chandrachud and justices J B Pardiwala and Manoj Misra found presiding officer Anil Masih guilty of defacing eight ballots, which were cast in favour of the AAP-Congress candidate. The court considered the defaced ballots valid and transferred them to Kuldeep Kumar. The judges ordered the prosecution of returning officer Masih for making a false statement before the court. However, setting aside the election process itself would not be proper since the issue is only when the presiding officer made the counting, the bench observed. The SC in its order said the conduct of Masih has to be deprecated at two levels. One, he unlawfully altered the course of mayoral election. Two, he made a solemn statement before the court on February 19, which was a lie. Farmer build-up begins; HC says ‘no’ to tractors Protest to resume today; Court says tractors can’t run on highways H A R P R E E T B A J W A @ Chandigarh BATTLE lines were drawn along the Punjab-Haryana border with farmers bringing in heavy machinery including hy, draulic cranes and earth movers, to break the police barricades as they resume their Dilli Chalo march on Wednesday as , day after they rejected a formula floated by the Centre. In a new twist later in the day, the Punjab and Haryana High Court said tractor trolleys cannot run on highways as per the Motor Vehicles Act. It advised farmers to use buses or public transport to go to Delhi instead. A bench of Acting Chief Justice G S Sandhawalia and Justice Lapita Banerji also orally directed the Punjab government to ensure that farmers do not gather in large numbers. Briefing the media on the talks with the Centre, farmer leaders said they had suggested a special session of Parliament to pass a legislation on legal guarantees to the minimum support price (MSP) mechanism for crops. Sarwan Singh Pandher, general secretary of the Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee, said: “We have three major demands: legal guarantee on MSP for all crops; the implementation of the C2+50% formula as recommended by the Swaminathan Govt under fire over compensation to jumbo attack victim in RG’s Wayanad EXPRESS NEWS SERVICE @Bengaluru THE State Government’s decision to pay Rs 15 lakh as compensation to a person killed in an elephant attack in neighbouring Kerala’s Wayanad district has come under sharp criticism from opposition BJP and JDS leaders. While some forest officials have also expressed concern, angry villagers of Hebbanahalli in Hassan district have questioned the government’s ‘generosity’ towards the family of the victim in Kerala while the family of an earlier victim from their own village in Karnataka was paid Rs 7.5 lakh and has been waiting for a full compensation of Rs 15 lakh for over a year. The Opposition BJP termed this as “misuse of Karnataka taxpayers’ funds to curry favour with Congress leader and Wayanad MP Rahul Gandhi”. BJP state chief BY Vijayen- EXPRESS READ Karnataka all ready for 2nd PU, SSLC exams Farmers with an excavator modified to shield the agitators from police rubber bullets, at the Punjab-Haryana Shambhu border in Patiala district on Tuesday. Their Dilli Chalo agitation will resume on Wednesday | PTI BOTH BJP & AKALIS BLAME IT ON MANN Both the Punjab unit of the BJP and the Shiromani Akali Dal blamed Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann for breakdown of talks. Punjab BJP president Sunil Jakhar said, “since Mann acted as the lawyer for farmers during the talks, the negotiations were destined to fail.” Senior SAD leader Prof Prem Singh Chandumajra said Mann’s double-speak during negotiations failed the farming community and forced them on the path of agitation Commission; and loan waiver.’’ He said as per government reports, farmers have a total debt of `18.5 lakh crore. “Prime Minister Narendra Modi could make a pre-poll announcement that all farm loans would be waived; a mechanism to do so could be worked out later,” he suggested. At the Shambhu inter-state border, sources said the number of agitators is swelling. There is heavy police deployment in and around Rajpura to manage traffic movement as hundreds of tractor trolleys are rolling towards Shambhu. Govt collecting samples of cotton candy for tests Bengaluru: The state government is geared up for the smooth conduct of the 2nd PU examinations on March 1 and SSLC between March 25 and April 6. As many as 6,98,624 students will appear for 2nd PU exams and 8,96,271 will attempt the SSLC board exams | P7 Bengaluru: Taking a cue from Puducherry and Tamil Nadu where the production and sale of cotton candy has been banned, the Karnataka government has started collecting samples of cotton candy from across the state to detect the prescence of Rhodamine-B, a carcinogen | P7 PRESS IMPACT RELIEFOFFOR JYOTI ASSURED PIECE LAND FOR NEW HOUSE Hours after this daily reported hockey player Jyoti Chhetri’s ordeal, local government officials visited her home, which is likely to be demolished, in Rourkela & offered her a piece of land to get a new house constructed | P17 dra said: “Illegally allocating state fund of Rs 15 lakh to a deceased individual from Rahul Gandhi’s Wayanad constituency falsely blaming an elephant , from Karnataka is an appalling betrayal.” Vijayendra posted Forest Minister Eshwar Khandre’s letter (dated February 19) to Rahul, on social media, which stated that compensation was announced as per Rahul’s advice conveyed to him by AICC General Secretary KC Venugopal. P6 Modi: Art 370 stymied J&K development F AYA Z W A N I @ Srinagar THE BJP-led government at the Centre removed Article 370 because it was the biggest hurdle to the development of Jammu and Kashmir, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Tuesday as he launched multiple development projects worth over `32,000 crore. The PM also opened the longest transportation tunnel of the country on the Udhampur-Srinagar-Baramulla Rail Link. “J&K has suffered a lot due to dynastic politics for decades. They are only concerned about their families and their own interests and not about the interests of people,” PM Modi said while addressing a public rally at Maulana Azad Stadium in Jammu.
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