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Gunmen Kill 13 Passengers in Afghanistan: Officials

Gunmen Kill 13 Passengers in Afghanistan: OfficialsMAZAR-I-SHARIF:  Unknown gunmen today killed 13 passengers travelling in two vehicles in the usually tranquil northern Afghan province of Balkh, as President Ashraf Ghani convened an international donor conference in Kabul.

No group immediately claimed responsibility for the killings of ethnic Hazara minorities, which come as Taliban insurgents ramp up attacks amid a bitter leadership transition.

"The gunmen stopped two vehicles, lined up all the male passengers and shot them dead," said Jafar Haidari, the governor of Zari district, where the incident occurred.

"They spared the life of one women who was in one of the vehicles. All the victims were ethnic Hazara minorities."

Abdul Razaq Qaderi, the deputy police chief of Balkh, confirmed the fatalities, adding that officials were investigating the incident.

The killings came as Afghan President Ashraf Ghani implored international donors for their continued support, saying the "wounded country" faced a host of security and economic challenges.

"Rebuilding Afghanistan is going to be a long-term endeavour," Ghani said at a conference of donors in Kabul attended by Western delegates and non-governmental organisations.

"Afghanistan is a wounded country. Widespread unemployment, a violent insurgency, and the advance of extremism across the region are increasing the likelihood that (our) economic reform agenda will be undone by political unrest."

Taliban insurgents are stepping up their summer offensive launched in late April amid a simmering leadership succession dispute after the confirmation of longtime chief Mullah Omar's death.

Mullah Akhtar Mansour, a trusted deputy of Omar, was named as the insurgents' new chief in late July, but the power transition has been acrimonious.

Afghan security forces, stretched on multiple fronts, are facing their first fighting season without the full support of US-led NATO forces.

NATO ended its combat mission in Afghanistan last December and pulled out the bulk of its troops although a 13,000-strong residual force remains for training and counter-terrorism operations.

Alia Bhatt Priyanka Chopra, Sonakshi Sinha Sonam Kapoor to become the most followed celebrity on Instagram!

Looks like divas is ruling this app in Bollywood. guys, watch out!
 But the queen of this game happens to be Alia Bhatt who has beaten her good friend Varun Dhawan to become the most followed celeb on Instagram in India! Here’s taking a closer look at her Insta account along with other most followed stars on the app.
#1: Alia Bhatt, Priyanka Chopra

Alia and PC have tied at number one, as the most followed actresses on Instagram


Celebrity: Alia

Number of followers: – 2.9m

Celebrity: Priyanka Chopra

Number of followers: 2.9m

#3 Celebrity: Sonam Kapoor

Number of followers- 2.4 m

#4 Celebrity: Jacqueline Fernandez

Number of followers: 2.3m

#5 Celebrity: Sonakshi Sinha

1.6 Million followers!
#6 Celebrity: Anushka Sharma

Number of followers for the two: 1.2m

Number of followers of all three- 1.8m
#brothers #salmankhan #priyankachopra #bollywood#bollywoodactress #bollywoodnews #udtapunjab#shahidkapoor #shaandaar #varundhawan#shraddhakapoor #aliabhatt #deepikapadukone#aamirkhan #jacquelinefernandez #ranveersingh#akshaykumar #shahrukhkhan #tigershroff#kareenakapoor #anushkasharma #bollywoodmania#arjunkapoor #sidharthmalhotra #sonakshisinha#welcomeback #jazbaa #hero #singhisbling

Guess who's getting ready for a massive shootout! Are you excited to see #PriyankaChopra hit the television screen with #Quantico?

Hubble Survey Unlocks Clues to Star Birth in Neighbouring M31 

After analysing images of 2,753 young, blue star clusters in the neighbouring Andromeda galaxy (M31), astronomers with the help from "citizen scientists" have found that M31 and our own Milky Way have a similar percentage of new-born stars based on mass.

By nailing down what percentage of stars have a particular mass within a cluster called Initial Mass Function (IMF), scientists can better interpret the light from distant galaxies and understand the formation history of stars in our universe.

The intensive survey, assembled from 414 mosaic photographs of M31 taken by Nasa's Hubble Space Telescope, was a unique collaboration between astronomers and "citizen scientists," volunteers who provided invaluable help in analyzing the mountain of data from Hubble.

"Given the sheer volume of Hubble images, our study would not have been possible without the help of citizen scientists," said Daniel Weisz from University of Washington in Seattle.

This evidence also implies that the early universe did not have as many heavy elements for making planets, because there would be fewer supernovae from massive stars to manufacture heavy elements for planet building.

It is critical to know the star-formation rate in the early universe - about 10 billion years ago - because that was the time when most of the universe's stars formed.

Stars are born when a giant cloud of molecular hydrogen, dust and trace elements collapses.

The cloud fragments into small knots of material that each precipitate hundreds of stars.

Hubble's bird's-eye view of M31 allowed astronomers to compare the IMF among a larger-than-ever sampling of star clusters that are all at approximately the same distance from Earth, 2.5 million light-years.

To the researchers' surprise, the IMF was very similar among all the clusters surveyed.

Nature apparently cooks up stars like batches of cookies, with a consistent distribution from massive blue supergiant stars to small red dwarf stars.

"It is hard to imagine that the IMF is so uniform across our neighbouring galaxy given the complex physics of star formation," Weisz noted.

The Andromeda Project is one of the many citizen science efforts hosted by the Zooniverse organization.

"The efforts of these citizen scientists opens the door to a variety of new and interesting scientific investigations, including this new measurement of the IMF," Weisz pointed out in a paper that appeared in the Astrophysical Journal.

Facebook Trains Self-Help Groups in Telangana

Facebook on Friday launched a training programme for rural self-help groups (SHGs) in Telangana 

to equip them with technological knowledge to promote their products in the digital space.

The first batch of 10 SHG representatives were trained in basics of Facebook, and the various features of the platform, at Facebook's office here and given an overview of how to use Facebook to promote their products online.

The SHG representatives were given a step-by-step walk through of Facebook Page creation and also some tips on posting engaging content, said a statement.

"This programme is part of our continued investment in businesses, developers and the 132 million people who use Facebook in India. These events, which we are rolling out nationwide, will help entrepreneurs in rural India reach new customers and ultimately grow," said Ritesh Mehta, head of Economic Growth Initiatives for Facebook India.

Telangana's IT Secretary Jayesh Ranjan said that the SHGs would immensely benefit as they would now be able to market their products globally, with assistance from Facebook.

Elsewhere, in New York, a small team of Facebook engineers has been working together with a group of local educators on a project that's going to reshape learning through technology.

The Facebook team has chipped in to help create a classroom experience that is centred around students' ambitions at Summit Public Schools, Facebook Chief Product Officer Chris Cox wrote in a blog post recently. These schools have taken a very different approach to learning, with online classrooms and complete personalisation.