African languages for AI: project that's gathering huge new datasetThe African Next Voices project, primarily funded by the Gates Foundation (with other funding from Meta) and involving a network of African...
19 Oct, 2025, 10.02 AM IST
Reasons, safety tips, key pointers as US faces deadly floods from Texas to New YorkUS Floods: Extreme rainfall caused deadly floods in America. Texas and New Jersey are affected. Rivers rose rapidly. Subway stations floode...
20 Jul, 2025, 12.12 PM IST
US aid cuts halt HIV vaccine research in South Africa, with global impactSouth Africa faces setbacks in HIV research. The United States withdrew funding, impacting trials. Researchers are devastated as crucial pr...
13 Jul, 2025, 09.37 AM IST
How Trump’s America is driving away the brightest minds in the worldThe US is facing a decline in international student enrollment due to stricter visa policies, increased scrutiny of social media, and campu...
13 Jun, 2025, 03.56 PM IST
Who is Miss Universe Nigeria Chidimma Adetshina, rejected by South Africa, Crowned in a Foreign LandChidimma Adetshina, a 23-year-old with Nigerian and South African heritage, has been crowned Miss Universe Nigeria after a controversial wi...
02 Sep, 2024, 11.40 AM IST
Meta removes 63,000 Instagram accounts in Nigeria over 'sextortion' scamsNigerian online fraudsters, known as "Yahoo boys," are notorious for scams that range from passing themselves off as people in financial ne...
25 Jul, 2024, 09.09 AM IST
New voices, new choices: Immigrant voters ready to shape Britain's futureVoting for the first time in a British election, immigrant voters like Prathesh Panjak are eager to participate in the July 4 ballot, hopin...
02 Jul, 2024, 03.11 PM IST
Indian students are turning away from UK universitiesIndian students are losing interest in pursuing undergraduate studies in the United Kingdom. Official statistics show a 4% drop in applicat...
16 Feb, 2024, 02.34 PM IST
New study identifies air pollution as greatest global threat to human healthAir pollution is the greatest external risk to human health, with its impact concentrated in six countries including India, according to a ...
29 Aug, 2023, 08.50 PM IST
India home to 18 of 20 cities with most severe increase in PM2.5 pollution: StudyThe report 'Air Quality and Health in Cities' combined ground-based air quality data with satellites and models to produce air quality esti...
17 Aug, 2022, 02.53 PM IST
India home to 18 of 20 cities with most severe increase in PM2.5 pollution: StudyIndia is home to 18 of the 20 cities with the most severe increase in fine particle pollutants (PM2.5) from 2010 to 2019, according to a co...
17 Aug, 2022, 02.44 PM IST
Around 25 mn kids around the world missed routine vaccinations because of Covid pandemicData showed the vast majority of the children who failed to get immunized were living in developing countries.
15 Jul, 2022, 01.03 PM IST
Monkeypox spreads in West, baffling African scientistsCases of the smallpox-related disease haven't previously been seen among people with no links to central and West Africa. But in the past w...
20 May, 2022, 07.03 PM IST
Nine techies who are leaving the Silicon Valley to join startups in IndiaSenior-level Indian engineers and executives are beginning to leave comfortable jobs in Silicon Valley to join startups in India.
19 Jun, 2015, 09.40 AM IST
Expect Infosys to perform better than TCS going ahead: Gaurang Shah, Geojit BNP Paribas Financial ServicesIf you actually recollect, with the kind of numbers that TCS has come out, there has been a little bit of better performance by Infosys.
26 Nov, 2014, 04.03 PM IST
1.4 million Indian children aged 6-11 years out of school: UnescoIndia and Pakistan were the countries with the largest cuts in aid to basic education between 2010-12.
07 Jul, 2014, 11.56 AM IST
Ex-naval officer Suresh Goswami wins acclaim in film-making & authoring books“My investments were generating an income of about Rs 20 lakh annually, but when boredom set in, I decided to get into writing,” Goswami sa...
06 May, 2013, 08.51 AM IST