Hangzhou (China), Sep 20 (IANS) China’s e-tail giant Alibaba on Thursday unveiled a robot that will serve guests in the country’s hotels soon. “The robotics industry is revolutionising the world and Alibaba Artificial Intelligence (AI)…
London, Sep 20 (IANS) Anna Burns, Esi Edugyan, Daisy Johnson, Rachel Kushner, Richard Powers and Robin Robertson were announced on Thursday as the six authors shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. The…
Srinagar, Sep 20 (IANS) A gunfight erupted between militants and the security forces in Jammu and Kashmir’s Bandipora district on Thursday, police said. Following specific information about the presence of militants in Sumlar village, security…
Balaghat (Madhya Pradesh), Sep 20 (IANS) Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Thursday accused Congressmen of forgetting the decorum and code of conduct expected in a democracy. Every political party has the right…
New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) Sales through social media platforms account for over 79 per cent of the total online selling of goods and services in India, a PayPal report said on Thursday. Growing digitisation…
Bhubaneswar, Sep 20 (IANS) The Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) on Thursday issued a cyclone alert for Odisha and Andhra Pradesh. The IMD in a statement said a depression over west-central and adjoining east-central Bay of…
New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) Terming the ‘triple talaq’ ordinance cleared by the Union Cabinet “undemocratic and uncalled for”, the CPI-M on Thursday said that it tantamounts to bypassing Parliament where a bill on the…
New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) The Congress on Thursday demanded Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s resignation accusing her of “misleading” the country after former HAL chief T.S. Raju refuted her claim that the defence undertaking did…
Kannur (Kerala), Sep 20 (IANS) The first trial flight operations began at the Kannur airport on Thursday which is slated to soon become Kerala’s fourth international airport. An Air India Express 737-800 flew in from…
Panaji, Sep 20 (IANS) Ten maulanas from various mosques in Goa conducted Quran Khawani, a ritualistic reading of the Quran, for quick recovery of ailing Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar, an official said on Thursday. “We…
New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) The NIA will produce Nashidul Hamzafar, an alleged Islamic State (IS) sympathiser who was deported from Afghanistan to India on Tuesday, in a Kerala court later on Thursday, an official…
Mumbai, Sep 20 (IANS) At least 30 passengers on a Jet Airways Mumbai-Jaipur flight suffered ear and nose bleeding due to low cabin pressure, creating an alarming situation during the aircraft’s ascent here on Thursday,…
New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) Samsung Electronics on Thursday joined the smartphone camera war, launching the affordable Galaxy A7 that comes with a powerful rear triple camera system. The Galaxy A7 — to be priced…
Tripunithura (Kerala), Sep 20 (IANS) The Kerala Police on Thursday began questioning Bishop Franco Mulakkal accused of raping a nun for the second consecutive day. On Wednesday, the bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese in…
New Delhi, Sep 20 (IANS) Terming Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman the “Rafale Minister”, Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Thursday demanded her resignation after former HAL chief T. Suvarna Raju refuted her claims that the state-owned…
Washington, Sep 20 (IANS) The number of deaths and attacks attributed to terrorism significantly decreased in 2017, according to a new report by the US State Department. “The total number of terrorist attacks worldwide in…
Pyongyang, Sep 20 (IANS) South Korean President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un embarked on a historic trip on Thursday to the summit of Mount Paekdu, a sacred mountain on the country’s border…
Washington, Sep 20 (IANS) A gunman who opened fire in a courthouse building in the US state of Pennsylvania and injured four people, has been shot dead by the police, authorities said. The gunman entered…
Washington, Sep 20 (IANS) President Donald Trump on Wednesday visited the two states most heavily affected by Hurricane Florence and promised that “a lot of money” will be coming from Washington and significant resources will…
Rome, Sep 20 (IANS/AKI) The United Nations World Food Programme on Wednesday called for “an immediate cessation of hostilities” in Yemen’s devastating three-and-a-half-year civil war, warning that “full-blown” famine loomed in the war-wracked country. “My…