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Glacier-burst triggers avalanche in Uttarakhand Gaurav Talwar DEHRADUN: The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) post between Malari and Sumna regions along the Indo-China border in the Chamoli district of Uttarakhand witnessed an avalanche triggered by a glacier burst on Friday evening. © Getty Representational image Vivek Pandey, spokesperson, ITBP, said, “Although the exact details will come by Saturday morning, we can confirm that no damage was done to the ITBP post and the men posted there. The whole region has been witnessing heavy snowfall since (Friday) morning. The ...

Pakistani female aid workers shot dead by assailants Asad Hashim Islamabad, Pakistan – At least four female development workers have been killed in a targeted attack in the northwestern Pakistani district of North Waziristan, police say, the latest attack in an escalation of violence in an area that was once the headquarters of the Pakistani Taliban. The attack took place at 9:30am (04:30 GMT) on Monday near the village of Ippi, a few kilometres east of the town of Mir Ali, senior police official Shafiullah Gandapur told Al Jazeera by telephone. The workers’ vehicle was fi...

Romania’s Economy Outshines Rest of EU After Shunning Lockdown Bloomberg 16/02/2021 Andra Timu (Bloomberg) -- Romania’s economy outperformed the rest of the European Union last quarter as the government opted not to impose the kind of harsh lockdown that shuttered most of the continent. © Getty Representational image Output not only grew from the previous three months, but surged more than 10 times what analysts had expected. The expansion of 5.3% puts it ahead of all other EU members to have reported data so far. The fourth quarter was good for other parts of eastern...

Facebook says AI misled it, apologises to President Kenyatta Faustine Ngila If you torture your data too much it will confess to anything, and most often, your algorithms will make an undesired decision. Living in a world of Big Data, it may take you several days to realise that your Artificial Intelligence (AI) code erred on a matter of public interest. That just happened to Facebook when its algorithms flagged down President Uhuru Kenyatta's congratulatory message on Uganda's president Yoweri Museveni last Sunday. © Getty Representational image The social media behemoth w...

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