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Google Aims To Win The AI Revolution By Building A Personal Assistant Into Everything

Google believes we are on the cusp a shift in computing as fundamental as PC to mobile. This time, the shift is away from physical devices themselves to where the killer app i...

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Meet The Former Refugee Who Is Now Somalia’s First Female Presidential Candidate

When I call FadumoDayib, she tells me she's in the middle of a school run and driving her car. Straight away I notice her way with words; the way she pauses to choose the righ...

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Mercury Is More Earth-Like Than We Thought

Mercury has been hiding an exciting secret: the closest planet to our Sun is perpetually shrinking, according to new data from NASA, which shows the appearance of new, tiny cr...

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Hurricanes Will Worsen As Planet Warms And Sea Levels Rise, Scientists Warn

Major storms such as Hurricane Matthew, which has slammed into Haiti and isnow headed towards the US, will grow in menace as the world warms and sea levels rise, scientists ha...

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Mirzya Wins Accolades At 60th BFI London Film Festival

Filmmaker RakeyshOmprakashMehra’s Mirzya got a thumbs up from the audience at the 60th BFI London Film Festival. Marking Bollywood debut of Anil Kapoor’s son Harsh...

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Different Strokes: 36 Railway Stations Get Colourful Makeover

Over the past week, about 25,000 volunteers have worked through the night to give Mumbai’s local train stations a colourful facelift, since October 2, as part of ‘...

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Ajay Devgn Becomes Goodwill Ambassador, Supports Women Issues

Apart from acting, directing and producing films, Ajay Devgn is now working on a social cause. The 'Shivaay' actor has become the goodwill ambassador for Smile Foundation, whi...

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Meet Anoyara Khatun, India’s Crusader For Children At The United Nations

By the tender age of 19, Anoyara Khatun has been to the United Nations twice – the voice of young girls from poor families in an obscure corner of India. It was an incre...

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Chris Pratt Attends Uso Screening Of The Magnificent Seven

In celebration of the service and sacrifice of today’s troops and military families, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and Columbia Pictures treated service members with an a...

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Non-Communicable Diseases Killed More Indians In 2015

In 2015, India, like other developed countries, had more number of deaths caused by non-communicable diseases. In the case of males, deaths due to non-communicable diseases (3...

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ALTERNATIVE ENTERTAINMENT: 50 YEARS OF GARM HAWA

On Balraj Sahni’s birth anniversary, Shantanu Ray Chaudhuri looks at the lasting l...

May 1 2024

GENDER: A WIFE'S HILARIOUS TALE DURING IPL FEVER

Monojit Lahiri hilariously recounts the rollercoaster ride of being an IPL victim, with ...

May 1 2024

FESTIVALS: OPENING AND CLOSING FILMS AT KASHISH 2024

KASHISH 2024 unfurls Diversity with Gender-Queer and Transman focused films as its Openi...

April 30 2024