At least 69 killed in thunderstorms, avalanches in India, Nepal, China by AFP Staff Writers Patna, India (AFP) April 12, 2025 At least 69 people were killed this week in unusually intense thunderstorms across eastern India’s Bihar state and in neighbouring Nepal, officials said Saturday. While flash floods and lightning kill
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Two old African elephants, Bully (left) and Susi, stand inside the Barcelona Zoo in Spain, March 27, 2025. | Photo Credit: AP At the Barcelona Zoo, a 40-year-old African elephant places her foot through the metal barrier where a zookeeper gently scrubs its sole — the beloved pachyderm gets her “pedicure”, along with apple slices
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Reports from the World Health Organization and the Commonwealth Malaria Report have indicated that India is set to eliminate malaria by 2030. The number of deaths from malaria has significantly fallen, with better surveillance and access to diagnosis and medicines, the reports add. Malaria, the WHO says, is a life-threatening disease spread to humans by
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US President Donald Trump’s administration has exempted smartphones, computers, and certain other electronic devices from ‘reciprocal’ tariffs, providing a big relief to America’s largest company, Apple, even if the move seems temporary. US Customs and Border Patrol published a notice on late Saturday (India time) explaining that the devices would be excluded from the 10
Representative image | Photo Credit: Getty Images The story so far: The preliminary findings of the GenomeIndia project, which attempted to study whole genomes of 10,000 healthy and unrelated Indians from 83 population groups, were published in the journal Nature Genetics on April 8. After excluding two populations, the published findings are based on the
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A study which examined the spatial rainfall trends across India has found that the amount of rainfall per day in certain parts of India has increased during the last decade 2011-2020 compared with the previous decade (2001-2010) while certain other parts have witnessed a reduction in the rainfall amount. The study has used the GSMaP-ISRO
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Released in 1997, Final Fantasy VII was a landmark game of its era, making waves across its own series, genre, and the entire medium. Over the years, fans turned that love into hopes for a remake or some kind of revisitation. Those hopes seemed to bear fruit in 2015, when Square Enix revealed at E3 that
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Trump’s action also excludes the specified electronics from his 10% “baseline” tariffs on goods from most countries other than China, easing import costs for semiconductors from Taiwan and Apple iPhones produced in India. Representational file image. | Photo Credit: AP The U.S. government has granted tariff exclusions for smartphones, computers and other electronics imported largely
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Diversity is central to one of the biggest questions paleontologists have about dinosaurs. Namely, were these ancient creatures already on the decline when that fateful asteroid came crashing out of the sky? A group of Earth scientists believes they probably were not. While it’s true that fossils from the final dinosaur era are comparatively rare
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“We have trained the models to make sure it keeps context. Emotional intelligence and memory continuity is built into it,” said Midhula Devabhaktuni, co-founder of Mivi, an Indian electronics brand. Mivi recently introduced Mivi AI, its human-like AI with a goal of redefining the way humans and AI interact. The company’s latest AI-powered earbuds, capable
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