On 31st March 2018, day 96 of Queens Baton Relay, Reena Augustine represented Australian & Indian community and carried the baton starting from 999 Brunswick Road, New Farm at 3pm.Reena came to Australia as a student, and now she is a proud Australian citizen. She works as a migration agent. Reena offers her service to the […]
Facebook believes the data of up to 87 million people was improperly shared with the political consultancy Cambridge Analytica — many more than previously disclosed. The BBC has been told that about 1.1 million of them are UK-based. The overall figure had been previously quoted as being 50 million by the whistleblower Christopher Wylie, BBC […]
A group of Asian-American was suing Harvard University, saying that admission files showed a pattern of discrimination against the community that goes back decades, the media reported. The group, Students for Fair Admissions, has demanded the varsity to publicly release admissions data on hundreds of thousands of applicants which challenges Harvard’s admissions policies, The New […]
Washington A rare signed photo of Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi fetched nearly $42,000 at an auction in US, while more than $53,000 was paid for an extremely rare letter penned by 19th-century German philosopher and communist theorist Karl Marx. The September 1931 photo, in which Gandhi is seen walking alongside Indian politician Madan Mohan […]
In a key development, Apple has hired John Giannandrea, Google’s Head of Search and Artificial Intelligence (AI), to lead the company’s Machine Learning (ML) and AI strategy. Giannandrea, who took the role of Senior Vice President of Engineering at Google from Amit Singhal in early 2016, will report directly to Cook. “Our technology must be […]
US President Donald Trump has said he wants to use the military to guard the country’s border with Mexico until his long-promised border wall is built. “We are going to be guarding our border with our military,” Trump told reporters on Tuesday during a lunch session at the White House with leaders of Estonia, Latvia […]
Attorney Alex van der Zwaan has been sentenced to one month in jail and ordered to pay a $20,000 fine for lying to the FBI about his contacts with the campaign of US President Donald Trump. Van der Zwaan is the first person to be sentenced in the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 […]
US space agency NASA has started to create a supersonic manned aircraft that may cause no eardrum-battering sonic boom. It announced plans on Tuesday to grant a $247.5 million contract to Lockheed Martin, an American aerospace and defence group to design and build a new plane, Xinhua news agency reported. In this Low-Boom Flight Demonstration […]
US President Donald Trump has showed mixed attitude toward Russia, emphasising his toughness on Moscow while expecting better bilateral relations. “Probably nobody’s been tougher to Russia than Donald Trump,” said Trump on Tuesday at the White House in a working luncheon with visiting leaders from three Baltic countries, Xinhua news agency reported. Meanwhile, Trump said […]
China strongly condemns and firmly opposes the US tariff proposals and is ready to take countermeasures on US products, the Ministry of Commerce (MOC) said on Wednesday. An MOC spokesperson made the statement after the US administration announced a proposed list of products subject to additional tariffs, which covers Chinese exports worth $50 billion with […]