Rajnish Singh(IANS)- Banned pro-Khalistan group Sikhs For Justice (SFJ) on Saturday launched its much-publicized online voter registration for ‘Referendum 2020’ for people in Punjab through a Russian portal. The Ministry of Home Affairs had in July last year banned the SFJ for advocating Referendum 2020, an online campaign to demand Khalistan, which seeks a separate […]
indica News Bureau- Individuals who fear to talk in front of a crowd could soon have a new tool to ease public speaking anxiety: their smart speaker. A team of researchers at Penn State has developed a public-speaking tutor on the Amazon Alexa platform. The tutor enables users to engage in cognitive restructuring exercise – […]
IANS- The dates clashed for good it appears. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who courted a big controversy by saying “CAA is just bad for India” at a tech event last month, begins his three-day India trip from Monday while US President Donald Trump has ensured that all the space across media outlets goes to him. […]
Ritu Jha- The Budget proposal to provide an outlay of Rs 8,000 crore for quantum computing will put India in the same league as China, the US and Europe says Arogyaswami J Paulraj, (Emeritus), Department of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, California. “Our current base in this technology is small and this massive […]
Arul Louis- India’s strategy of soaring high to take on global issues paid it diplomatic dividends in 2019 with a recognition as a leader in combating climate change and a victory in the battle against terrorism. It also received the unanimous endorsement of the Asia Pacific Group for election next year to a non-permanent […]
Partha Chakraborty- India teaches the world a lesson starting this week. Hope it learns one too. Bharatdas Darshandas is a famous man today. Do not feel bad if you never heard of him. He lives far, and far away from the nearest maddening crowd. Living alone deep inside Gir Forest, he emerges every four years […]
Bhavana Akella(IANS)- As the demand for disruptive technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data Analytics grows, shortage of a skilled IT workforce to run them is posing a challenge to the stake-holders, Nasscom, the industry’s apex body, has said. “There is an urgent need to re-skill about 50 percent of India’s IT workforce, as […]
IANS- The international community has strongly condemned the terror attack by the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) in Jammu and Kashmir that killed 45 CRPF personnel, with US President Donald Trump asking Pakistan to “end immediately” the support and safe haven provided to all terrorist groups operating on its soil. “The US calls on Pakistan to […]
Damodar Sahu Blockchain is currently one of the most widely discussed and hyped technologies. Many readers are familiar with Blockchain as the underlying enabling technology developed for Bitcoin, a cryptocurrency. Klaus Schwab, founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, provides this summary in his book on the Fourth Industrial Revolution. “In essence, […]
