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France-based Kashmiris J&K forum condemns Indian ban on 25 books on Kashmir’s freedom struggle

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MIRPUR (AJK), Aug 20 (APP):Paris-based Chairman, Jammu and Kashmir Forum France, Chaudhry Naeem Akhtar, has strongly condemned the ban imposed by the occupying Indian forces on 25 prominent authors’ books on Kashmir in the Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) state.

In a statement released to the media, he stated that censorship and restrictions on democratic freedoms continued in the region.

He expressed these views during a media talk.

Terming the ban on books as irrational, unfortunate, and contrary to democratic values, he said, “We fail to understand what it is in these books that threatens the occupying Indian forces.

He questioned, If the situation was truly normal, then why resort to censorship? He further added that history bears witness that bans on books often lead to their increased popularity. Ideas that are suppressed tend to become more deeply ingrained in public consciousness.

Akhter also stated that this decision to ban books was a tyrannical attack on democratic rights and intellectual freedom. Particularly, the fact that this ban was imposed on the day marking six years since the abrogation of Article 370, makes it yet another symbol of injustice towards the Kashmiri people.

He remarked that banning books was a failed attempt to erase history.

Democracy thrived on the free exchange of ideas, he lamented.

“Imposing a ban on books cannot erase history—it only fuels further division and alienation,” he said.

He concluded by saying: Censorship does not silence ideas; it amplifies their echo”.

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August 20, 2025
Trump says US may provide air support to Ukraine as Nato leaders prepare to meet – Ukraine war live | Ukraine
Donald Trump says US may provide air support as part of peace deal to end Russia’s war in Ukraine

The US president, Donald Trump, said on Tuesday his country may provide air support to back a Ukraine peace deal. Trump ruled out putting US troops on the ground in Ukraine, but said he might provide air support as part of a deal to end Russia’s war in the country. It comes a day after Trump pledged security guarantees to help end the war at an extraordinary White House summit. The path to peace remained uncertain as the US and allies prepared to work out what military support for Ukraine might include.

“When it comes to security, (Europeans) are willing to put people on the ground. We’re willing to help them with things, especially, probably … by air,” Trump said in an interview with the Fox News “Fox & Friends” program.

Nato military leaders were expected to meet on Wednesday to discuss Ukraine, with US Gen Dan Caine, the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, expected to attend virtually, officials told Reuters.

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Putin has said Russia will not tolerate troops from the Nato alliance in Ukraine. He has also shown no sign of backing down from demands for territory, including land not under Russia’s military control, after his summit with Trump on Friday in Alaska.

Later, in an interview with radio host Mark Levin, Trump characterised his negotiating style in trying to end the war as “probably instinct more than process.”

Following Monday’s meeting, Russia launched its biggest air assault in more than a month on Ukraine, with 270 drones and 10 missiles launched, the Ukrainian air force said. The energy ministry said the strikes caused big fires at energy facilities in the central Poltava region, home to Ukraine’s only oil refinery.

Oil is flowing to Slovakia again via the Druzhba pipeline, the Slovak economy ministry said late on Tuesday, after a Ukrainian drone strike on an oil pumping station in Russia’s Tambov region cut off supplies. Ukraine has stepped up attacks on Russia’s energy infrastructure, a key conduit for generating money for Kremlin’s war efforts, with oil and gas sales accounting for a quarter of Russia’s total state budget proceeds.

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Russia launched a “massive drone strike” on the southern Ukrainian region of Odesa, injuring one person and causing a large fire at a fuel and energy facility, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service said on Wednesday.

Administration of the Izmail district in the Odesa region said on social media that port infrastructure in the city was damaged.

A firefighter works at the site of a fuel storage facility hit by a Russian drone strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Odesa region, Ukraine August 20, 2025. Photograph: State Emergency Service Of Ukraine/Reuters

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Russia’s air defence units destroyed 42 Ukrainian drones overnight, Russia’s RIA news agency reported on Wednesday, citing data from the Russian defence ministry.

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Donald Trump says US may provide air support as part of peace deal to end Russia’s war in Ukraine

The US president, Donald Trump, said on Tuesday his country may provide air support to back a Ukraine peace deal. Trump ruled out putting US troops on the ground in Ukraine, but said he might provide air support as part of a deal to end Russia’s war in the country. It comes a day after Trump pledged security guarantees to help end the war at an extraordinary White House summit. The path to peace remained uncertain as the US and allies prepared to work out what military support for Ukraine might include.

“When it comes to security, (Europeans) are willing to put people on the ground. We’re willing to help them with things, especially, probably … by air,” Trump said in an interview with the Fox News “Fox & Friends” program.

Nato military leaders were expected to meet on Wednesday to discuss Ukraine, with US Gen Dan Caine, the chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, expected to attend virtually, officials told Reuters.

Also:

Putin has said Russia will not tolerate troops from the Nato alliance in Ukraine. He has also shown no sign of backing down from demands for territory, including land not under Russia’s military control, after his summit with Trump on Friday in Alaska.

Later, in an interview with radio host Mark Levin, Trump characterised his negotiating style in trying to end the war as “probably instinct more than process.”

Following Monday’s meeting, Russia launched its biggest air assault in more than a month on Ukraine, with 270 drones and 10 missiles launched, the Ukrainian air force said. The energy ministry said the strikes caused big fires at energy facilities in the central Poltava region, home to Ukraine’s only oil refinery.

Oil is flowing to Slovakia again via the Druzhba pipeline, the Slovak economy ministry said late on Tuesday, after a Ukrainian drone strike on an oil pumping station in Russia’s Tambov region cut off supplies. Ukraine has stepped up attacks on Russia’s energy infrastructure, a key conduit for generating money for Kremlin’s war efforts, with oil and gas sales accounting for a quarter of Russia’s total state budget proceeds.

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August 20, 2025
AI ‘immune system’ Phoebe lands backing from Google arm | Money News

An AI start-up which claims to act as an ‘immune system’ for software has landed $17m (£12.6m) in initial funding from backers including the ventures arm of Alphabet-owned Google.

Sky News has learnt that Phoebe, which uses AI agents to continuously monitor and respond to live system data in order to identify and fix software glitches, will announce this week one of the largest seed funding rounds for a UK-based company this year.

The funding is led by GV – formerly Google Ventures – and Cherry Ventures, and will be announced to coincide with the public launch of Phoebe’s platform.

It is expected to be announced publicly on Thursday.

Phoebe was founded by Matt Henderson and James Summerfield, the former chief executive and chief information officer of Stripe Europe, last year.

The duo sold their first start-up, Rangespan, to Google a decade earlier.

Their latest venture is motivated by data suggesting that the world’s roughly 40 million software developers spend up to 30% of their time reacting to bugs and errors.

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Financial losses to companies from software outages are said to have reached $400bn globally last year, according to the company.

Phoebe’s swarms of AI agents sift through siloed data to identify errors in real time, which it says reduces the time it takes to resolve them by up to 90%.

“High-severity incidents can make or break big customer relationships, and numerous smaller problems drain engineering productivity,” Mr Henderson said.

“Software monitoring tools exist, but they aren’t very intelligent and require people to spend a lot of time working out what is wrong and what to do about it.”

The backing from blue-chip investors such as GV and Cherry Ventures underlines the level of interest in AI-powered software remediation businesses.

Roni Hiranand, an executive at GV, said: “AI has transformed how code is written, but software reliability has not kept pace.

“Phoebe is building a missing layer of contextual intelligence that can help both human and AI engineers avoid software failures.

“We love the boldness of the team’s vision for a software immune system that pre-emptively fixes problems.”

Phoebe has signed up customers including Trainline, the rail booking app.

Jay Davies, head of engineering for reliability and operations at Trainline, said Phoebe had “already had a real impact on how we investigate and remediate incidents”.

“Work that used to take us hours to piece together can now take minutes and that matters when you’re running critical services at our scale.”

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August 20, 2025
Tidal Forces and Orbital Evolution of Habitable Zone Planets

How do tidal forces determine a planet’s orbital evolution, specifically planets in the habitable zone? This is what a recently submitted study hopes to address as an international team of researchers investigated how tidal forces far more powerful than experienced on Earth could influence orbital evolution of habitable zone planets with highly eccentric orbits around low-mass stars. This study has the potential to help researchers better understand the formation and evolution of exoplanets, specifically regarding where we could find life beyond Earth.

For the study, the researchers used a series of computer models to simulate tidal forces on Earth and three exoplanets: Proxima Centauri b, GJ 3323b, and TRAPPIST-1e, which are located approximately 4.24, 17.5, and 40 light-years from Earth, respectively. As noted, the researchers analyzed data from planets orbiting low-mass stars, and the mass of each planet’s star compared to our Sun is 0.12, 0.17, and 0.08, respectively.

Additionally, the observed eccentricities of the planets are approximately 0.35, 0.23, and 0.0051. For context, Earth’s observed eccentricity is 0.0167. One of the most important aspects of these planets is their semi-major axes (the distance from its star) are each much smaller than the Earth at 0.0485, 0.0328, and 0.0282 astronomical units (AU), respectively. For context, Earth is 1 AU from our Sun.

In the end, the models revealed that tidal force energy exerted on planets with eccentric orbits could result in their orbits being manipulated 1-2 orders of magnitude greater than Earth. Along with manipulating orbital evolution, the increased tidal forces could also influence planetary surface geography.

The study notes in its conclusions, “Under this condition, it is likely that all continents above the sea level would be easily eroded away by ocean tides, leaving no continent such that the planet would be more like an aqua-planet if the planet still has oceans. These tides may dramatically influence orbital evolution, climate, habitability, and observational features. The strong ocean tides can induce large tidal energy dissipation and can also enhance deep ocean mixing, oceanic overturning circulation and thereby equator-to-pole ocean heat transport. For asynchronously rotating planets with small eccentricities, the ocean tides would be much weaker but is still nonnegligible and comparable to that on Earth.”

The reason tidal forces have been studied for exoplanets is because the former is a common occurrence throughout our solar system, most notably between the Earth and its Moon. While Earth is approximately 81 times as massive as the Moon, the latter is large enough and orbits close enough to exert its gravitational pull on the former. This results in daily water bulging on opposite sides of the Earth, which is used primarily by the boating and fishing industries to determine the most opportune times for launching and recovering ships.

Beyond the Earth, tidal forces are observed between Jupiter and two of its Galilean moons, Io and Europa. As the much smaller Io orbit the much more massive Jupiter, for former’s eccentric orbit takes it closer and farther from Jupiter, resulting in Jupiter’s gravitational pull being greater and weaker, respectively. Over millions of years, this constant flexing and compressing of Io results in frictional heating of its interior, resulting in Io being the most volcanically active planetary body in the solar system.

Like Io, Europa’s orbit is also eccentric, but it is also receiving a gravitational pull from Ganymede, which orbits beyond Europa. These tidal forces result in Europa possessing a large liquid water ocean, which has become a target for astrobiologists with NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft currently en route to Europa to better understand the moon’s habitability.

As this study demonstrates, the phenomenon of tidal forces extends far beyond our solar system, potentially influencing how planets form and evolve and the plausible life that could exist there. As the number of known habitable zone exoplanets continues to increase, so will our knowledge about their formation and evolution, and whether they have the ingredients for life as we know it.

What new discoveries between tidal forces and habitable zone planets will researchers make in the coming years and decades? Only time will tell, and this is why we science!

As always, keep doing science & keep looking up!

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August 20, 2025
Charging infrastructure needed to support India’s full transition to battery electric trucks by 2050 – International Council on Clean Transportation
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August 20, 2025
Fluminense goalkeeper Fabio breaks Peter Shilton appearance record

Brazilian goalkeeper Fabio Deivson Lopes Maciel has broken the record held by former England international Peter Shilton for most competitive appearances in world football, says his club Fluminense.

The 44-year-old made his 1,391st appearance in the last 16 of the Copa Sudamericana – the South American equivalent of the Europa League – beating America de Cali 2-0 at the Maracana.

Fabio made his professional debut in 1997 and has spent his entire career in Brazil, representing Uniao Bandeirante, Atletico Paranaense, Vasco da Gama, Cruzeiro and Fluminense.

Most of his appearances came at Cruzeiro (976) between 2005 and 2022 while he made 150 for Vasco da Gama and 30 for Uniao Bandeirante.

His record-breaking outing on Tuesday was his 235th match for Fluminense.

According to the Guinness Book of Records, Shilton held the record with 1,390 appearances but he claims he has played 1,387 (three fewer), external.

But Fabio, who has never played for his country despite winning the Under-17 World Cup in 1997, is only being recognised by his club as the outright record holder now that he has passed the 1,390 tally.

There were questions about the actual number Fabio was chasing.

Shilton, now 75, is recorded as having played 1,249 games in his club career and a record 125 England appearances, taking him to 1,374 appearances.

According to England Football Online, external, Shilton played 13 times for England Under-23s, which would take us to the 1,387 tally Shilton believes he has.

Whether the 13 should count as a senior appearance is up for debate but Fluminense have now claimed the record for their goalkeeper, external.

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August 20, 2025
Honda Establishes New Subsidiary in India for Retail Financing Services

TOKYO, Japan, August 20, 2025 – Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda) today announced the recent establishment of a new company in India, Honda Finance India Private Ltd., (“Honda Finance India”) that will offer customers retail sales financing services including loans and lease sales options for Honda products in India.

In India, where further growth of the motorcycle and automobile markets is expected, the number of customers using loans to purchase motorcycles and cars is also expected to increase. Until now, retail sales financing services in the Indian market have mainly been provided by local financial institutions. However, in light of market trends, Honda will further strengthen its business in India by offering its own sales financing services through a local subsidiary in India.

Honda Finance India Private Ltd. will apply for a Non-Banking Financial Company (NBFC) license to conduct financial services business in India. After obtaining the license, the company will begin offering retail sales financing services to help customers finance their purchase of motorcycles, automobiles and services provided by Honda.

Financial services business has been one of the main business areas of Honda, and the company has established local subsidiaries specializing in retail sales financing services in Japan and various countries in key regions such as North America, and Europe. With the establishment of the new company, India became the ninth country where Honda has a local subsiary to offer financial services.

Honda will work to establish long-term relationships with customers by offering flexible financial services tailored to the specific needs of customers in each region. Moreover, in anticipation of the global expansion of software-defined vehicle (SDV) sales in the future, Honda is looking into opportunities to offer new financial services designed to increase customer satisfaction and the value of the customer experience using various data from Honda SDVs. With such new services, Honda will further strengthen its financial services business not only in India but across the globe.

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August 20, 2025
Iga Swiatek sends US Open message and Jasmine Paolini’s response says it all

Iga Swiatek defeated Jasmine Paolini in the final of the Cincinnati Open to claim her first title at the event and the No. 2 ranking in the world, and the two exchanged kind words

02:28 ET, 20 Aug 2025Updated 02:29 ET, 20 Aug 2025

Iga Swiatek shared her feelings on Jasmine Paolini and the US Open(Image: X: @TennisChannel)

Iga Swiatek revealed her genuine emotions toward Jasmine Paolini and delivered a heartfelt message before the US Open, right after the Italian sensation was left stunned following a complaint to the umpire.

During the Cincinnati Open final, Swiatek defeated Paolini 7-5, 6-4 in a confident and impressive performance, to claim the title for the first time, propelling her to the No. 2 ranking globally while further establishing herself as one of tennis’s rising superstars.

The victory also marked her 11th career WTA-1000 championship, overtaking Victoria Azarenka for second-most in history and trailing only all-time great Serena Williams, who has 13.

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While the champion celebrated her latest triumph, she paused to praise Paolini, particularly following a challenging contest that awarded only a small portion of what Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz received.

“And congrats for the whole tournament. As usual, you’re playing great and hopefully we’re going to play the final of the US Open in the next two weeks.”

This comment sparked an enormous reaction from the audience, who applauded both players as they wound down from their battle.

Iga Swiatek won the Cincinnati Open in warm-up for the US Open(Image: Getty)

Swiatek continued: “But most importantly, thanks for being such a positive person in the locker room. There’s not many of us who are so positive on a daily basis, so it’s always good to see you and thanks for that. And congrats to your team for amazing effort and work. It was a pleasure.”

The 24 year old also expressed gratitude to her team for “forcing” her to become a superior player and for instructing her on how to compete on different surfaces. Swiatek was additionally “super happy” to receive backing from her family and friends worldwide, which made things easier for her.

“It’s really been amazing and as Jasmine said, everybody is so happy here and it makes the tour much, much better,” she continued. “It’s not easy to be a tennis player, but coming back to places like that, it’s always a pleasure. So for sure next year, we’re going to be super excited before the tournament.

“And yeah, thank you to my sponsors, everybody who believes in me and is constantly supporting me through ups and downs.”

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Despite losing to Swiatek in the championship match, Paolini also praised the Polish sensation for her outstanding performance. “I want to congratulate Iga,” she said, according to The Tennis Letter.

“You’re playing amazing. You really deserve this title. Congrats to you and your team.

“I want to say thank you to my team also…and the Italian tennis federation who supported me these two weeks and is supporting me throughout the year. I’m really glad. I’m kind of without a coach so Federico is here through the federation. I called them and told them I need support. They are there for me. Thank you very much.”

She expressed her gratitude, saying: “Special thanks to Sara Errani. She’s not here, she’s playing mixed doubles tomorrow at the U.S. Open. She supported me as well with Federico. I have learned so much from her. Thank you very much.”

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August 20, 2025
An updated systematic review and meta-analysis: correlation between circulating plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 levels and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease | BMC Gastroenterology
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