Deadly clashes took place across Venezuela disrupting an election for a controversial constitutional assembly called by President Nicolas Maduro which according to the opposition would turn the country into a dictatorship, the media reported. A key opposition leader Henrique Capriles has confirmed that at least 14 people were killed in the nationwide clashes that began […]
Days after Tesla CEO Elon Musk said that artificial intelligence (AI) was the biggest risk, Facebook has shut down one of its AI systems after chatbots started speaking in their own language defying the codes provided. According to a report in Tech Times on Sunday, the social media giant had to pull the plug on […]
A fire broke out at the Shastri Bhawan on Monday due to a short circuit in an air conditioner (AC), an official said here. “The fire broke out on the seventh floor of the building at 9.42 a.m. Five fire tenders rushed to the spot and it was doused,” the fire service official told IANS. […]
Ahead of crucial peace talks between the BJP-RSS leadership and the CPI-M to stem the violence here that led to a murder of an RSS worker, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Monday peremptorily asked the media to leave the venue. The meeting was being held at the state-owned Mascot Hotel here. The first to […]
Japan’s Defence Minister Tomomi Inada has stepped down from office on Friday taking responsibility for a data concealment scandal over the country’s Self Defence Forces (SDF) mission in South Sudan. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has accepted her resignation and will put Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida in charge of this post until August 3, when the […]
A Malaysian court on Friday announced that the trial for the murder of Kim Jong-nam, the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, will begin on October 2. Shah Alam High Court judge Justice Azmi Ariffin set the date for the trial, reports The Malaysian Star daily. He said plea from both the accused […]
Twitter has added zero users since first quarter, posting $574 million in revenue in the second quarter this year which is a decrease of five per cent YoY (year-on-year). Twitter now has 328 million monthly active users (MAUs) — the same number it reported in the first quarter of 2017. On the contrary, Facebook has […]
Indian Army chief General Bipin Rawat will arrive in Jammu and Kashmir on Friday to visit forward positions on the Line of Control (LoC), Defence Ministry officials said. General Rawat would also chair a security review meeting here. “After chairing the security review meeting, the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) is likely to visit some […]
As the BRICS security meet began here in Beijing on Friday, Indias National Security Advisor Ajit Doval said the “vital” issues discussed at the event and its outcome will have an “impact” on the main summit in September. “It is great we are discussing vital issues that will have an impact on the next summit […]
A small batch of 346 pilgrims left here on Friday to perform the ongoing Amarnath Yatra. Friday’s number of pilgrims is the lowest ever since the 40-day long yatra to the Himalayan cave shrine began on June 29. “Already over 2.50 lakh pilgrims have performed this year’s yatra which will conclude on August 7,” officials […]