Naveed Ahmad

Pakistan-Born Saadia Zahidi appointed IATA’s first female Director General

GENEVA: Global aviation is set for a historic leadership change as Pakistan-born Saadia Zahidi takes charge as the next Director General of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), breaking a decades-old barrier by becoming the first woman to lead the world’s largest airline industry body. Zahidi will assume office on November 1, 2026, becoming IATA’s…

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Kelowna residents, enterprise house owners say Crime Severity Index not the complete image – Okanagan

Kelowna residents, enterprise house owners say Crime Severity Index not the complete image – Okanagan

Regardless of a decline within the severity of police-reported crime, many Kelowna, B.C., residents and enterprise house owners say they aren’t satisfied the town is changing into safer. Newly launched information from Statistics Canada’s annual Crime Severity Index present the amount and seriousness of police-reported crime within the Kelowna census metropolitan space fell 4.5 per…

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Army chief of general staff promoted, appointed Commander National Strategic Command – Pakistan

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has announced that Lieutenant General Aamer Raza, the chief of general staff of the Pakistan Army, has been promoted to the rank of a four-star general and appointed Commander National Strategic Command (CNSC), the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said on Friday. According to the PMO, the premier congratulated the newly promoted…

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New Birmingham Phoenix captain Ferreira upbeat despite losing key players ahead of opening game

South African all-rounder Donovan Ferreira, who will be leading Birmingham Phoenix in this year’s The Hundred, talks to the media at Edgbaston Stadium. — Reporter BIRMINGHAM: New Birmingham Phoenix captain Donovan Ferreira is full of praise for Pakistan’s mystery spinner Usman Tariq and remains upbeat about his team’s chances in The Hundred despite losing key…

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How to Build an End-to-End OCR Pipeline with Baidu’s Unlimited-OCR for High-Resolution Images and Multi-Page PDF Parsing

In this tutorial, we build a complete workflow for running Baidu’s Unlimited-OCR model on document images and multi-page PDFs. We configure the GPU environment, install the required dependencies, load the 3B-parameter vision-language model with automatic selection of bfloat16 or float16, and generate structured sample documents for testing. We then evaluate both the tiled Gundam inference…

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