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Mangalore, Sep 6: The students of D.K.Z.P. School Urumane selected Veera D’mello as their ‘Best Teacher’ in the opinion poll conducted by the Rotary Club of Mangalore Central as a part of Teachers Day Celebrations held at the school premises. Mrs. Veera D’mello was conferred with the Rotary Best Teacher Award at a function held on 05.09.14 at Hotel Moti Mahal, Mangalore. Rtn. Santhosh Shet in his...

New York, Sep 4: Tata Starbucks CEO Avani Davda is the only Indian featured in Fortune and Food & Wine's list of 25 "most groundbreaking" women who are changing the way people eat and think about food. Davda, ranked 13 on the 'The Most Innovative Women in Food and Drink' list, leads the joint venture between the American coffee giant and its partner Tata Global Beverages in India, "historically a...

Mumbai, Aug 25: In July, scientists from Cornell University led by Ashutosh Saxena said they have developed Robo Brain—a large computational system that learns from publicly available Internet resources. The system, according to a 25 August statement by Cornell, is downloading and processing about 1 billion images, 120,000 YouTube videos and 100 million how-to documents and appliance manuals...

I have no idea where the Islamic State/ISIS/ISIL or whatever name it uses came from, and I'm just as baffled by the roots of its violent ideology. While I never pretend to speak for the diverse community of Muslims living in Britain today, I reckon my views on this will be echoed by the majority who have watched with growing concern the unprecedented rise of this group. However, just as...

Mozilla"s Firefox OS as a smartphone operating system has had a negligible impact on the market, but all that could change very soon as the first Firefox smartphone has been announced for India. The Spice Fire One has predictable low-end specifications and a greatly attractive price tag. At Mobile World Congress, Mozilla unveiled plans to expand to additional markets in Latin America and eastern...

Udupi, Aug 24: The district committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) staged a dharna in front of the Clock Tower here on Thursday against the increasing atrocities on women across the country. CPI(M) leader Balakrishna Shetty said assaults on women, children and people with disabilities were being reportedly on a daily basis, he said. The fact that some adolescents were indulging in...

New Delhi, Aug 21: Notwithstanding a high savings rate of 16 per cent per annum, second only to China, around 78 per cent of Indian employees still believe they are not saving enough for a comfortable retirement, says a report by Towers Watson. According to the global professional services firm, a large number of employees are not confident of affording a long spell of retirement amid high...

Kasaragod, Aug 21: The police late on Tuesday seized more than hundred litres of Indian Made Foreign Liquor (IMFL) at Muliyar, near here, while being smuggled in a car into the State ahead of the Onam festivities. Two persons were arrested in connection with the incident. A team of shadow police, deputed by the Superintendent of Police, seized 135 IMFL bottles of 750 ml capacity in 11 boxes...

Tokyo, Aug 20: A 111-year-old retired educator from Japan who enjoys poetry has been recognized as the world's oldest living man. Sakari Momoi received a certificate from Guinness World Records on Wednesday. He succeeds Alexander Imich of New York, who died in April at the age of 111 years, 164 days. The world's oldest living person is also Japanese: Misao Okawa, a 116-year-old woman from Osaka...

Agra, Aug 20: More than 200,000 people visited the Taj Mahal in two days over the weekend, causing alarm among conservationists who feel the ever-increasing human load on the fragile white marble wonder on the banks of the Yamuna could prove detrimental to the health of the monument to love. Mughal emperor Shah Jahan wanted it to be a place of peace and tranquillity, but the 17th century Taj Mahal...