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Apple chief executive Tim Cooks got a standing ovation Wednesday morning in Cupertino, when he announced the "next chapter in our story" at a special event that also launched the iPhone 6 in two sizes. The Apple Watch checked more than…
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Islamabad :The toll  in the mosque roof collapse in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore rose to 24 Wednesday even as rescue work continued in the area, media reported. The collapse happened Tuesday afternoon when around 30 to 40…
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Washington : Almost two-thirds of Americans feel that the current Congress is "the worst in their lifetime", and just 14 percent of those surveyed approve of the way lawmakers are doing their jobs, according to a survey released by…
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Bhubaneswar :  The cattle population in Odisha has declined by 5.59 percent to 11,621,272 against 12,309,000 in 2007, according to the latest livestock census, an official said Wednesday. "The decline is mostly due to farm mechanization,"…
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Riyadh :  A Pakistani has been executed in Saudi Arabia for smuggling large quantity of heroin. Kamran Ghulam Abbas was found guilty of smuggling drugs in the nation's Eastern province, the interior ministry said in a statement. He was…
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Kolkata : At a time when student union elections are open season for defacement of city walls and street furniture in many parts of the country, Kolkata's famed Presidency University, a heritage institution, has come up with mobile poster…
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Mumbai :  A benchmark index of Indian equities markets Wednesday was trading 136.43 points or 0.50 percent down as capital goods stocks dropped. Heavy selling pressure was seen in capital goods, banking, oil and gas, IT and auto sectors,…
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New York :  Do you know which book is the most loved one in the Facebook community? It is the Harry Potter series. This is the result of a meme that floats in your Facebook news feed where your friends list “10 books that have stayed with…
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Washington :  A series of tweets by the Islamic State (IS) have called for retribution against the micro-blogging site Twitter, threatening to assassinate its employees. In a first direct call for attacks on Twitter, the IS tweets asked…
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Washington :  The US space agency, NASA, is developing the Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) Lidar device to map forests on Earth in 3D and increase understanding of their role in the carbon cycle. The instrument will be the…
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