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Bengaluru, Mar 10: Karnataka Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy has promised to extend financial help to the families of the victims of the Monkey fever, also known as Kyasanur Forest Disease (KFD), which is found rampant in certain areas in Malnad region in the State. Speaking to newsmen, here on Sunday, he said that the State Government has released Rs 10 crore towards manufacture of vaccine as well...

San Francisco, Mar 10: YouTube is testing a fake content monitoring feature in India that pops up a "fact check" alert on searches for sensitive content. The feature will also highlight additional information on the subject from verified fact-checking partners of the platform. "These panels will show up on search result pages rather than on individual videos. Even though videos containing...

Washington, Mar 10: In a divided America where politics seems increasingly to get people's goat, a small town in Vermont has taken the concept to heart -- this week electing one as mayor. He may be a political novice but the goat's name, Lincoln, brings with it a storied pedigree. And the leading human official in Fair Haven -- population about 2,500 -- hopes the long-eared, three-year-old animal...

Mysuru, Mar 9: Swamy Sureshanandaji, senior monk and former Chairman of Sri Ramakrishna Ashrama and Ramakrishna Vidyashala here passed away on Friday night in the city. He was 90. He was ordained as a monk in 1960. From 1972 to 1989 he was the correspondent and the Chairman of the Ashrama from 1989 to 1997. Swamy Sureshanandaji has also worked in Chandigarh, Bengaluru and Nattarampalli (Tamil Nadu...

Mumbai, Mar 7: India's "ultra-high net worth individuals" (UHNWI) -- with assets worth $30 million and more -- prefer investing in equities and bonds rather than real estate and gold, a Knight Frank report said on Wednesday. According to the data provided by The Wealth Report 2019, around 30 per cent of investments by Indian UHNWIs went to equities and 28 per cent to bonds, followed by 24 per cent...

New Delhi, Mar 7: Joining the race to grab the attention of young children, Google on Wednesday launched the beta version of its "Bolo" app to help primary grade children improve Hindi and English reading skills, while ensuring that the app do not send out data on children. "Nothing is ever sent to Google through the app," Nitin Kashyap, Product Manager, Google India, told IANS, adding the app is...

Bengaluru, Mar 7: Indian Institute of Management Bangalore (IIMB) has signed two Memorandums of Understanding (MoU) with the Karnataka Government Commercial Taxes Department (CTD), on Wednesday to make tax administration more data driven and professional. The first MoU is aimed at capacity building programmes for the CTD officers for three years in IIMB and the second is a collaborative MoU for...

New Delhi, Mar 6: Tech giant Google Wednesday unveiled a new app 'Bolo' that aims to help children in primary school learn to read in Hindi and English. The free app, which is being launched in India first, uses Google's speech recognition and text-to-speech technology. The app features an animated character 'Diya', who encourages children to read stories aloud and helps if the child is unable to...

Mysuru, Mar 2: Actress Sumalatha, wife of former Karnataka and Union Minister late M H Ambareesh, who has decided to enter politics today said that no one from Janata Dal (Secular) had met him nor discussed about Lok Sabha election with her so far. Speaking to newsmen on Saturday after visiting Suttur Mutt and seeking blessings of Seer Shivaratri Deshikendra Swamiji. She said “Our family was known...

Mysuru, Mar 1: A 49-year-old farmer ended his life in Uyigowdanahalli, Hunsur talukcommitted suicide by hanging on Tuesday. Inability to settle his debts, which amounted to nearly Rs 2 lakh, has been cited as the reason for pushing Jayaramegowda to take the extreme step. The victim’s wife Poornima said that her husband was engaged in the cultivation of banana, cotton and tobacco in Kudineer...