Bengaluru: Four Indian manufacturers on Monday announced to launch new products like portable headsets, smart speakers and set-top boxes with the Amazon Alexa built-in. The hardware manufacturers are iBall, Sirena Technologies, boAt and MyBox who have integrated Alexa into their products with the Alexa Voice Service (AVS) which enables developers[Read More…]
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7 students missing after boat capsize in East Godavari
New Delhi: Around seven students are said to be missing after a passenger boat capsized in Andhra Pradesh’s East Godavari district today. The boat had 40 passengers in total out of which 30 have been rescued. Teams of the National Disaster Response Force and the State Disaster Response Force are at[Read More…]
Overloaded boat capsizes in UP’s Yamuna river; 22 killed, many feared drowned
An overloaded boat capsized in the Yamuna River on Thursday in Uttar Pradesh’s Baghpat, killing at least 22 people and many still feared drowned. The boat, which was carrying 60 people, capsized and 22 persons drowned, said district magistrate, Bhawani Singh. Officials have fished out 22 bodies while 10 others[Read More…]
Andhra Pradesh: 13 people drown in lake
At least 13 persons drowned in a lake in Guntakal in Andhra Pradesh’s Anantapur district when a round boat made of bamboo–overturned when they were returning after attending a local fair. 15 persons were on board the coracle when they started rowing from one end of the YT lake when[Read More…]
100 migrants feared missing after boat sinks off Libyan coast
Nearly 100 migrants were feared missing after their boat sank off the Libyan coast near Tripoli on Thursday, a coastguard official said. 23 migrants were rescued from the craft off Gargaresh, a western suburb of Tripoli, Coastguard spokesman Ayoub Qassem said. According to survivors, the inflatable boat had set off[Read More…]
Myanmar: 20 dead in wedding boat crash
At least 20 people were killed when a boat carrying scores of wedding guests collided with a river barge in Western Myanmar, authorities said on Saturday. The boat, called “Silver Star” in Burmese, sank Friday evening in a river near Pathein, a port city west of commercial capital Yangon, local[Read More…]
Over 42 drown, 150 rescued as migrant boat capsizes in Mediterranean off Egypt
More than 42 people have drowned after a migrant boat capsized off the Egyptian coast on Wednesday. Ferrying around 600 passengers, the boat capsized off the coast of Kafr al-Sheikh and around 150 people have been rescued till now, officials said. This incident comes after the head of the EU’s[Read More…]