Upgrade to node 24 (#1164)

* Upgrade to node 24

Upgrade ot node

* licence manual updates

* pckage.json version update

* version update

* update package-lock.json

* upgrade `actions/checkout` to v5 and `actions/setup-python` to v6 in README.md

* upgrade `actions/checkout` to v5 and `actions/setup-python` to v6 in advanced-usage.md

Updated GitHub Actions to use newer versions of checkout and setup-python actions.

* node-version update in the workflows

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Co-authored-by: Aparna Jyothi <aparnajyothi-y@github.com>
Co-authored-by: priya-kinthali <147703874+priya-kinthali@users.noreply.github.com>