Author: IANS

San Francisco, Feb 7 (IANS) Facebook and Microsoft-owned LinkedIn have joined Twitter and Google-owned YouTube to demand that law enforcement facial-recognition app maker Clearview AI must stop collecting images from their platforms. The controversial app uses over three billion images to find a match. These images have been sourced from[Read More…]

New Delhi, Feb 7 (IANS) It was on February 7, 1999 when legendary Indian leg-spinner Anil Kumble forced Pakistan team to bow before him at the Feroz Shah Kotla, now known as the Arun Jaitley Cricket Stadium. During the second Test of the two-match series, Kumble picked up all 10[Read More…]

San Francisco, Feb 7 (IANS) Uber has attracted more customers towards its ride-hailing service as well as Uber Eats, resulting in a 37 per cent increase in revenue (year-over-year) that hit $4.1 billion in the fourth-quarter of 2019. However, the company reported a net loss of $1.1 billion, which includes[Read More…]

Lucknow, Feb 7 (IANS) In a shocking incident in Uttar Pradesh, a class 8 student of a CBSE school in Kakori attacked his teacher with a kitchen knife, when the teacher asked him to sit on the front bench so that he could concentrate on studies. The teacher Shyam Gupta[Read More…]

Washington, Feb 7 (IANS) US President Donald Trump organised a “celebration” at the White House over his Senate acquittal in his impeachment trial with a vengeful speech in which he reviewed the attacks against him over the past few years. On Thursday, he repeated his longstanding criticisms of the impeachment,[Read More…]

Azamgarh, Feb 7: (IANS) The first Dalit seer to be appointed Mahamandaleshwar of Juna Akhara in six centuries, Mahant Kanhaiya Prabhunand Giri, is upset over not being ‘included’ by the Central government in the newly-formed Ram Temple Trust. The 32-year-old seer, who took a historic dip at Sangam during Kumbh[Read More…]

Washington, Feb 7 (IANS) US President Donald Trump has confirmed that Qasim al-Rimi, the leader the Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) terror group, was killed in an operation carried out by American forces in Yemen last month. “The US conducted a counterterrorism operation in Yemen that successfully eliminated[Read More…]

London, Feb 7 (IANS) Former Australia fast bowler and current Sussex head coach Jason Gillespie will join the England Lions coaching staff temporarily, spending 12 days with the red-ball squad during their upcoming tour of Australia that is scheduled to begin from February 8. Gillespie, who took over 400 international[Read More…]

Athens, Feb 7 (IANS) Greek Olympic shooting champion Anna Korakaki will be the first-ever woman to start the Olympic torch relay, the Hellenic Olympic Committee (HOC) has announced. The committee has unanimously decided that Korakaki will be the first torchbearer during the Olympic Flame Lighting ceremony for the Tokyo Olympic[Read More…]

Lahore, Feb 7 (IANS) A Lahore-based leader of the ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) has issued an apology after he came under fire on social media for putting up banners that contained text deemed offensive to Hindus, a media report said. The banners featuring the image of Akram Usman, the PTI[Read More…]

Bilbao, Feb 7 (IANS) Athletic Club Bilbao and Real Sociedad booked their places in the semifinals of Spain’s Copa del Rey after they knocked favourites FC Barcelona and Real Madrid out of the competition. Inaki Williams’ header in the 93rd minute of Athletic’s home game against Barcelona on Thursday night[Read More…]

By Vishnu Makhijani New Delhi, Feb 7 (IANS) Read about the need to save a deeply beloved place — Vrindavan — that many term the spiritual capital of India, from the ravages of modernity; pore over the hitherto untold account of the internment of 3,000 Chinese-Indians after the 1962 Sino-Indian[Read More…]

Mumbai, Feb 7 (IANS) Actress Bhagyashree’s son Abhimanyu will meet his mother’s former “Maine Pyar Kiya” co-star Salman Khan at the “Bigg Boss” house. The “Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota” actor will be joined by his “Nikamma” co-stars Shilpa Shetty and Shirley Setia. Excited about going on the show, Abhimanyu[Read More…]

Wuhan, Feb 7 (IANS) China’s Hubei Province has reported 2,447 new confirmed cases of novel coronavirus infection and 69 more deaths, local health authorities said on Friday. The provincial capital Wuhan on Thursday reported 1,501 new infections and 64 new deaths, and the cities of Xiaogan and Huanggang reported 255[Read More…]

Washington, Feb 7 (IANS) US President Donald Trump said that the US had conducted a counterterrorism operation in Yemen that killed Qasim al-Rimi, a founder and the leader of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP). “The United States conducted a counterterrorism operation in Yemen that successfully eliminated Qasim al-Rimi, a[Read More…]

Los Angeles, Feb 7 (IANS) Ahead of Valentine’s Day, Kim Kardashian and Kanye West were recently spotted showing PDA at an event. During the launch of Kim’s SKIMS line in New York City, the couple were clicked locking lips, reports dailymail.co.uk. Kanye can be seen wearing a denim jacket with[Read More…]

Rome, Feb 7 (IANS) World food prices rose for the fourth consecutive month in January, as prices for oils and sugar continued to grow, according to the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The overall index rose a modest 0.7 per cent in January compared to the previous month, putting[Read More…]

Santiniketan, Feb 7 (IANS) West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar on Thursday made a veiled attack on the Mamata Banerjee administration over the state’s peasants not getting the benefits of the PM Kissan Samman Nidhi and appealed to the government not to “do injustice” to farmers. Praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi[Read More…]

Wuhan, Feb 7 (IANS) Five children infected with the novel coronavirus have been cured and discharged from a hospital in Wuhan, capital of central China’s Hubei Province. According to Wuhan Children’s Hospital, the children are aged between two and 14, and will need to be quarantined for two weeks, Xinhua[Read More…]