2014-08-27 India Spotlight

IS, Frankenstein's monster unleashed  The Hindu
U.S. President Barack Obama has labelled the jihadist juggernaut that calls itself the Islamic State a “cancer,” while his Defence Secretary, Chuck Hagel, has called it more dangerous than al-Qaeda ever was, claiming that its threat is “beyond anything we've ...

2014-08-27 India More Top Stories

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Chouhan's giant leap to national stage, made part of elite BJP board  Times of India
BHOPAL: Chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan on Tuesday was catapulted to BJP's highest decision-making body, the party's parliamentary board, even as BJP completed the generational shift by dropping party patriarch and Chouhan's mentor L K Advani ...

2014-08-27 India Health

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16 Indians from Liberia are Ebola-free, 1 quarantined  Financial Express
A passenger suspected of showing Ebola symptoms is taken away for quarantine from the IGI airport on Tuesday. Express photo: Tashi Tobgyal. SummarySeventeen Indians — part of a delegation of Afcons employees — who arrived in the capital from ...

2014-08-27 India Science

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Robotics researchers are turning the Internet into a giant robot brain  DigitalJournal.com
One of the biggest challenges in building useful robots lies in simply teaching them about our world. Robotics researchers at Cornell, Stanford, Brown, and UC Berkeley are building a compelling solution to this problem, and they're calling it Robo Brain.
Robo Brain to teach robots everything   Bangalore Mirror
Robots are starting to proactively learn the internet   Inquirer
RoboBrain¿ to power millions of machines around the world   Daily Mail
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Wildlife tracking system soon  Livemint
Prakash Javadekar said an alert system designed by the National Remote Sensing Agency would be utilized at the time of disasters like fire and floods. Photo: Pradeep Gaur/Mint. New Delhi: The environment and forests minister on Tuesday said that a ...

2014-08-27 India Sports

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2nd ODI: A cracking win over England need of the hour for India  IBNLive
With off-field matters taking precedence over on-field performance, Indian cricket is in need of a cracking show by its team at Sophia Gardens in Cardiff on Wednesday, where - weather permitting - the visitors take on England in the second ODI after a washout ...

2014-08-27 India Entertainment

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Breaking Bad beats Throne at Emmys  The Nation
Do you think the Pakistan-India water conflict must be taken off the talks-table and to the International Court of Justice? Yes. No. Don't know. Do you think the Pakistan-India water conflict must be taken off the talks-table and to the International Court of Justice ...

2014-08-27 India Technology

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Xiaomi's Hugo Barra expects Redmi 1S to be far more popular than Mi 3  Firstpost
After the successful flash sales of their Mi 3 devices, Xiaomi today announced another smartphone in the Indian market, the Redmi 1S. The 4.7-inch smartphone, with a 1.6 GHz Snapdragon 400 quad-core processor and an 8 megapixel rear camera will cost ...

2014-08-27 India Business

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Govt nails Finmeccanica, protects current contracts  Business Standard
Three days ago, Defence Minister Arun Jaitley promised a new policy that would punish dishonest vendor companies, without blocking Indian acquisitions and the flow of spares. On Tuesday, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) issued a directive on how it would ...

2014-08-27 India World

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US faces intelligence challenge in Syria  Zee News
Washington: US spy agencies face a difficult task in tracking Islamic jihadists in Syria, as Washington lacks a robust network of informants and faces threats to its drone fleet, experts and former officials say. If President Barack Obama opts to expand air strikes ...

2014-08-27 India India

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Model rape case: Mumbai DIG Sunil Paraskar suspended for at least 6 months  IBNLive
Mumbai: Deputy Inspector General of Mumbai Police Sunil Paraskar has been suspended over alleged charges of sexual assault. He has been suspended for a minimum period of six months. Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan signed the papers ...