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California shooters were of Pakistani origin, had links with extremists
World | Dec 04, 2015, 03:54 PM ISTSan Bernardino: Investigations have revealed that California shooters were of Pakistani origin and that at least one of them, Syed Rizwan Farook, had links with extremists. California gunman Syed Rizwan Farook had been in contact
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California shooting: President Obama does not rule out terror act
World | Dec 04, 2015, 09:45 AM ISTWashington: US President Barack Obama has not ruled out the terror angle in California shooting incident that killed 14 people even as he noted that investigators are yet to find the cause of the incident.In
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2 California shooting suspects identified as husband-wife
World | Dec 03, 2015, 11:36 PM ISTSan Bernardino (US): At least 14 people were killed after gunmen opened fire at a social service agency in the Southern California city of San Bernardino on Wednesday.A man and a woman suspected of carrying
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NASA's 'Chemical Laptop' to search for alien life
World | Nov 18, 2015, 05:39 PM ISTWashington: NASA engineers are working on a unique "Chemical Laptop" - a portable, miniaturised laboratory that can help astronauts analyse samples for presence of life on the spot as they enter the alien world.Being developed
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Panic among people after UFO like object spotted over skies in Los Angeles (Watch Video)
Blah | Nov 09, 2015, 09:45 PM ISTNew Delhi: A mysterious light that appeared in Los Angeles in the night sky on Saturday night spread fear and panic among the local people. Many local residents felt that the mysterious object could be
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Microsoft announces new partnerships, cloud start-up initiative
Nov 05, 2015, 04:53 PM ISTMumbai: US-based technology major Microsoft on Thursday announced a string of partnerships, programmes and products claimed to help Indian organisations and governments to explore unchartered business areas and enrich customer and citizen experiences.The newly launched
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Google's Project Loon internet balloons to circle Earth
Oct 29, 2015, 07:37 PM ISTWashington: Alphabet, parent company of tech giant Google, has announced tie-ups with three major Indonesian telecom operators to expand web connectivity in the country's remote areas using hundreds of net-beaming balloons.The initiative is part of
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First nano-satellite functional: NASA
World | Oct 13, 2015, 12:05 PM ISTWashington : A miniature satellite sent in the space aboard an Atlas V rocket from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on October 8 is working fine, NASA has announced.The Optical Communications and Sensor
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13-year-old Odisha's tribal girl wins Google Science Fair in California
India | Oct 05, 2015, 02:01 PM ISTBhubaneswar: Despite being a Class 9 student, she nourishes a passion for serving the society through scientific research of mass interest. For her, age is never a bar for quenching libido sciendi as if inspired
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Casual Silicon Valley goes formal for PM Modi
World | Sep 27, 2015, 03:59 PM ISTSan Jose (California): The red carpet that was spread for Narendra Modi came special delivery courtesy the state department to give a formal welcome to the prime minister in the notoriously casual Silicon Valley, local
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PM Modi tours Tesla Motors, meets Indian diaspora
World | Sep 27, 2015, 07:05 AM ISTSan Jose (California): Tesla Motors' iconic CEO Elon Musk on Saturday gave Prime Minister Narendra Modi a tour of the company's trend-setting electric car plant in Palo Alto as he arrived here for a tech
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Saudi prince arrested for sex crime, bleeding woman spotted in multimillion-dollar compound
World | Sep 25, 2015, 11:09 PM ISTNew Delhi: In a shocking incident, a Saudi prince in California has been arrested on suspicion of committing a sex crime.The 29 year-old Majed Abdulaziz Al-Saud is arrested for alleged forced oral copulation of an
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Watch: Google CEO Sundar Pichai welcomes PM Modi to Silicon Valley
World | Sep 24, 2015, 06:19 PM ISTNew Delhi: Sundar Pichai, the Indian-origin CEO of Google, welcomed Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Silicon Valley in a video message.Mr. Pichai said that he is feeling honoured to welcome the Indian Prime Minister and
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Apple to launch electric car by 2019
Sep 22, 2015, 09:44 PM ISTNew Delhi: Apple is planning to accelerate its efforts to launch an electric car in the automobile market by the year 2019.A 600-member team has been working on the project code-named 'Titan'. Project leaders have
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Indian couple in US sued over autistic son's behaviour
World | Sep 19, 2015, 08:32 PM ISTWashington: An Indian couple is being sued in California over allegations that their autistic son is a "public nuisance" and created an "as-yet unquantified chilling effect" on the otherwise 'hot' local real estate market", a
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California declares state of emergency
World | Sep 14, 2015, 01:00 PM ISTWashington: California Governor Jerry Brown has declared a state of emergency after wildfires forced thousands of people to flee their homes in the north of the state, the media reported on Monday.Brown said the fires
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Search engine Google unveils new logo
Sep 02, 2015, 04:17 PM ISTSan Francisco: Google is refining its famous logo as it prepares to become a part of a new holding company called Alphabet.The revised design unveiled Tuesday features the same mix of blue, red, yellow and
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Cooler weather helps crews battling California wildfire
World | Aug 04, 2015, 07:53 AM ISTLower Lake, California (AP): Cooler weather helped crews build a buffer Monday between a raging Northern California wildfire and some of the thousands of homes it threatened as it tore through drought-withered brush that
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NASA captures Earth flyby of 'space peanut'
World | Aug 02, 2015, 11:18 AM ISTWashington: NASA scientists have captured a peanut-shaped asteroid that approached close to Earth last weekend. The next time an asteroid will approach Earth this close will be in 2054.The asteroid named 1999 JD6 appears to
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Uber cabs fined $7.3 million in California
Jul 16, 2015, 10:25 AM ISTLos Angeles: A court in US' California state has imposed a fine of $7.3 million on Uber cab services for not providing regulators enough information about its service and operations, a media report said.Chief Administrative