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It's (not) alive! Google row exposes AI troubles
AFP, Published on 15/06/2022
» SAN FRANCISCO: An internal fight over whether Google built technology with human-like consciousness has spilled into the open, exposing the ambitions and risks inherent in artificial intelligence that can feel all too real.
Death of three sisters spotlights India dowry violence
AFP, Published on 07/06/2022
» JAIPUR, India: Before the three sisters and their children were found dead in a well, they left a message blaming the family they had married into.
Power cuts, forest fires in South Asia heatwave
AFP, Published on 30/04/2022
» LAHORE (PAKISTAN) - Power outages compounded the misery of millions of people wilting in a heatwave across India and Pakistan on Friday, with experts blaming climate change for an early onset of roasting summer temperatures.
Lightning strike deaths surge in India
AFP, Published on 03/09/2021
» JAIPUR, India: Faizuddin is still traumatised from the lightning strike that killed his three friends as they took selfies atop a 400-year-old fort in India, where climate change is making lethal strikes more common.
Covid aid lands in India as Canada, Brazil fight outbreaks: world update
AFP, Published on 02/05/2021
» NEW DELHI: India struggled to contain one of the world's worst coronavirus outbreaks with nearly 400,000 new infections reported Sunday, as more international aid arrived in the South Asian nation to help end the crisis.
India begins mega-rollout of Covid-19 vaccine
AFP, Published on 16/01/2021
» NEW DELHI: India begins one of the world's biggest coronavirus vaccine programmes on Saturday, a colossal and complex task compounded by safety worries, shaky infrastructure and public scepticism.
India's coronavirus cases pass 9m, hospitals, graveyards overflow
AFP, Published on 20/11/2020
» NEW DELHI: India's coronavirus cases passed nine million on Friday, as the world's second-worst-hit country saw hospitals in the capital New Delhi under pressure and graveyards filling up.
Taj Mahal to reopen even as virus rages in India
AFP, Published on 08/09/2020
» NEW DELHI: India's top tourist attraction the Taj Mahal is set to reopen more than six months after it was shut, officials said Tuesday, even as the vast nation battles soaring coronavirus infections.
India, China both deploy in 'large numbers' along border
AFP, Published on 26/06/2020
» NEW DELHI: India acknowledged for the first time that it has matched China in massing troops at their contested Himalayan border region after a deadly clash this month.
India says 20 troops killed in fight with China
AFP, Published on 17/06/2020
» NEW DELHI: Twenty Indian soldiers were killed during "hand-to-hand' fighting with Chinese troops in a disputed Himalayan region, India's military said, the first deadly clash between the nuclear powers in decades.