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World Wildlife Day 2017: When is it, why is it celebrated and what is the theme this year? [VIDEO]

Find out how World Wildlife Day came to be celebrated, and what the theme for this year is.

Mar 3, 2017

China should pay more attention to India's growth in manufacturing sector, says Beijing-based Global Times

While pointing out the flaws in the Indian manufacturing sector, the editorial in Global Times also commended India for growing.

Mar 3, 2017

US Attorney General Jeff Sessions recuses himself from campaign probes

US Attorney General Jeff Sessions removed himself from any investigations into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election because he said he was involved with President Donald Trumps campaign. Let me be clear, I never had meetings with Russian operatives or Russian intermediaries about the Trump campaign and the idea that I was part of a continuing exchange of information during the campaign between Trump surrogates and intermediaries for the Russia government is totally false ... and that is the question I responded to, he said.

Mar 3, 2017

Bengaluru steel flyover may be people's victory, but public pressure can lead to disastrous results too

Two important industrial plans in Singur and Nandigram in West Bengal were cancelled after people resisted, leaving the state's economic prospects shattered.

Mar 3, 2017

Supreme Court-appointed SIT says Rs 70,000 crore black money unearthed; but is Rs 559 per Indian enough?

The recovered amount is much lesser than what would ensure putting Rs 15 lakh in the account of each Indian — something that Narendra Modi had promised in the run-up to the 2014 LS polls.

Mar 3, 2017

India news LIVE updates: West Bengal state assembly passes Clinical Establishments (Registration, Regulation and Transparency) Bill

To ensure transparent functioning of clinical establishments, the state assembly of WB has passed the Clinical Establishments (Registration, Regulation and Transparency) Bill.

Mar 3, 2017

Kerala Budget 2017 Highlights: FM Thomas Isaac's 8th budget ends in anti-climax

Kerala finance minister T.M. Thomas Isaac presents the 68th state budget in the Assembly.

Mar 3, 2017

Watch: Brown is the new Black? Indian woman harassed on New York train by African-American man [VIDEO]

An African-American man hurled racial slurs at Ekta Desai, who later tried to lodge a complaint with the relevant authorities, but failed.

Mar 3, 2017

Manipur Assembly Elections 2017: Phase 1 complete details and interesting facts

Thirty-eight constituencies out of the 60-member Legislative Assembly will go to polls in Phase 1 of Manipur Assembly Election 2017 on Saturday, March 4.

Mar 3, 2017

Kerala: 4 hurt as bomb thrown at RSS headquarters in Kozhikode; is Left-wing extremism on rise in state?

While four were hurt after a bomb was thrown at the RSS headquarters in Kozhikode, there have been several incidents of RSS and BJP men being attacked by CPI-M cadres in Kerala.

Mar 3, 2017

Watch outrageous sexist speech by Polish MEP Janusz Korwin-Mikke

A Polish MEP sparked outrage on 1 March when he claimed women must earn less than men in the workplace because they are weaker, smaller and less intelligent. Speaking at a debate about the gender pay gap in Europe Janusz Korwin-Mikke, a conservative and Eurosceptic politician from Warsaw, bizarrely pointed out that there are no women in the worlds top 100 chess players to make his case.

Mar 2, 2017

Several injured as entrance to Johannesburg hospital collapses

An entrance near a maternity ward in Charlotte Maxeke Hospital in Johannesburg, South Africa, collapsed on 2 March, injuring five people. Reports indicate that two were patients, two were construction workers, and one of the injured was a hospital staff member.

Mar 2, 2017

How data science helped to identify Londons most polluted parks

Speaking at the Newsweek’s AI and Data Science in Capital Markets conference, Dr. Aida Mehonic, data strategist and engagement manager, highlights how her U.K. startup, ASI Data Science, uses data science and analytics to do everything from identifying the most polluted parks in London to targeting the next underpriced sports stars to pinpointing overcrowded city housing.

Mar 2, 2017

The entire internet only matched the capacity of the human brain in 2010

Speaking at the Newsweek’s AI and Data Science in Capital Markets conference Dr. Stephen Roberts, director of the Oxford-Man Institute and professor of machine learning at the University of Oxford, tells Newsweek that the entire internet only recently matched the capacity of a single human brain.

Mar 2, 2017

Why proprietary data is not as valuable as it used to be

Speaking at the Newsweek’s AI and Data Science in Capital Markets conference  Michael Beal, CEO of London-based quantitative hedge fund Data Capital Management, talks about why he isnt a fan of using proprietary data, and how traders need to have the skill or the will to join Wall Streets rising wave of quantitative traders.

Mar 2, 2017