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San Francisco: Tech giant Microsoft has reportedly pulled a massive facial recognition database containing more than 10 million images of roughly 100,000 people from the Internet, however traces of the data trove remain online, the media reported. Microsoft released MS-Celeb-1M, a dataset of roughly 10 million photos from 100,000 individuals collected from the Internet in […]

New Delhi: Amid the ongoing controversy over M.S. Dhoni sporting an Army insignia during the ongoing World Cup, it has come to fore that the Pakistan team wanted to celebrate India’s wickets ‘differently’ when the two teams meet in Manchester on June 16. Saj Sadiq, editor of Pakistan site ‘Pak Passion’, on Friday tweeted that […]

Bhubaneswar: For the mandarins in the State Higher Education Department, the nagging fact to fore in the 2019 National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (UG) (NEET-UG) is when the number of students appearing for the coveted exam from Odisha were almost static (only 0.23 per cent rise), almost all the neighbouring States have posted a handsome growth of  […]

London: Actor Rajkummar Rao, who considers himself one of the biggest fans of Shah Rukh Khan, recreated the superstar’s iconic scene from his hit 1995 film “Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge”, with Patralekhaa. Rajkummar on Friday took to Instagram and shared a video in which he along with his lady love and actress Patralekhaa are seen […]

New York: In order to create viral YouTube ads, brands should arouse strong emotion, keep ads to a moderate length of 1-1.5 minutes and use authentic characters, a study has revealed. YouTube is a low-cost and flexible platform for sharing ads with a wide viewership. According to the study published in the Journal of Marketing, […]

New Delhi: Getting a leg-up from the demonetisation of Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 currency notes in November 2016, the share of e-Money in India’s payment systems grew to 21.5 per cent in 2017 from 0.8 per cent in 2012, according to a new report prepared by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI). With Rs […]

New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate on Friday said it has registered a case of money laundering against media personality Raghav Bahl on the basis of the Income Tax Department reports. Last month, Bahl had issued a statement, admitting his correspondence with the investigating authorities while vehemently refuting any intent for financial misconduct. “The agency has […]

New York: Researchers have identified a master cell that coordinates the body’s immune response in the early days of TB infection. According to the study published in the journal Nature, the researchers found that boosting the activity of such cells could help reduce the millions of new infections that occur worldwide every year. For the […]

New Delhi: Targeting enterprise customers, Dell India on Friday launched a 14-inch 2-in-1 laptop in its Latitude 7000 series at a starting price of Rs 1,35,000. The new Latitude 7400 2-in-1 comes with a proximity sensor enabled by Intel Context Sensing Technology. When in sleep mode, the sensor detects user presence, wakes the system, and […]

San Francisco: Facebook-owned photo-messaging app Instagram is now displaying lyrics with songs posted on Stories. Along with letting users edit the text style, animations and other aspects, the feature would also allow users to decide if they want to show lyrics or screen or post Stories the older way, with no lyrics, Engadget reported on […]

Rewari: Hundreds of people are visiting a village in Haryana’s Rewari district daily to get ‘miracle’ water that they believe is a panacea for several diseases, including diabetes. Even though the local administration has warned the public that the water they are getting from the tubewell in a farmhouse in Gujriwas village is unfit for […]

Mumbai: The Bombay High Court on Friday granted bail to television actor and singer Karan Oberoi, over a month after he was arrested on alleged charges of raping and blackmailing a woman. Granting a Rs 50,000 bail to Oberoi, Justice Revati Mohite-Dere came down heavily on the victim and police in the matter, said his […]

New Delhi: The Congress on Friday said that the BJP spent around Rs 28,000 crore of the total Rs 60,000 crore spent by all political parties during the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, and demanded that the BJP disclose the details of the source of the money. Addressing a press conference at the party headquarters here, […]

Mumbai: The much-awaited Salman Khan starrer “Bharat” earned Rs 31 crore on day 2 post its release on Eid. The film had raked in Rs 42.30 crore on its opening day. The actor on Thursday took to social media to thank his fans for giving him “career’s biggest opening ever”. “What made me the happiest […]

Kolkata: Former Kolkata Police Commissioner Rajeev Kumar was on Friday grilled by the CBI for over four hours the multi-crore Saradha chit fund scam, a CBI official said. Kumar, who headed the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the state police department that initially probed the scam, reached the Central agency’s Kolkata Office at the CGO […]