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DAINIK NATION BUREAU Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday said the digital revolution has offered new opportunities to the members of the BRICS grouping and other emerging economies and it is essential to invest in artificial intelligence and big data analytics to reap the benefits. Addressing the BRICS Outreach Session here, Modi called for more investment in the digital ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was accorded a warm welcome as he arrived here on a three-day visit to attend the BRICS Summit hosted by South Africa. Modi arrived here from Uganda’s capital Kampala, the first bilateral tour by an Indian prime minister since 1997. He will participate in the BRICS Summit, whose theme this year is ‘BRICS in Africa’. “Good ...

A driver of app-based cab service companies Uber and Lift has a live streaming of hundreds of passenger’s activities on the Video Platform Twitch. This incident belongs to the Missouri state of America. According to the law, it can be recorded only after the consent of any person. At the same time there are questions about the driver’s behavior after ...

A deadly heat wave in Japan this week has many residents in the Japanese capital questioning the wisdom of staging the Tokyo 2020 Olympics in July and August. Rescuers in Tokyo responded to more than 3,000 emergency calls on Wednesday as the heat wave continued to grip Japan. The 2020 Olympics will run from July 24 to Aug. 9 when ...

Russia was the target of almost 25 million cyber-attacks during the World Cup, President Vladimir Putin said, though he did not indicate who may have been behind the attacks. “During the period of the World Cup, almost 25 million cyber-attacks and other criminal acts on the information structures in Russia, linked in one way or another to the World Cup, ...

Despite persistent political debate in India on the issue of illegal black money in Swiss banks, even after three years of issuing notice to the inactive accounts of Indians in these banks, no claimant has been found. Switzerland for the first time released a list of some inactive accounts in December 2015. These accounts included the citizens of Switzerland as ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam have spent their first night in the high-security Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi and the two VIP convicts were provided “B” class facilities, media reports said on Saturday, a day after their arrest. The National Accountability Bureau officials took Sharif, 68, and Maryam, 44, into custody in the ...

British Prime Minister Theresa May will publish details of her long-awaited Brexit plan today to restart talks with the EU, after facing down a revolt by eurosceptic ministers that could still unseat her. In a policy paper, the government will outline proposals to allow Britain to maintain close economic and security ties with the European Union even after it leaves ...

An accountability court in Pakistan on Friday sentenced ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif to 10 years in prison in one of the three corruption cases against him in the high-profile Panama Papers scandal. The court delivered the verdict after postponing it for four times in the Avenfield corruption case — pertaining to the ownership of four flats in the posh ...

A heatwave in Quebec has killed at least 17 people in the past week as high summer temperatures scorched eastern Canada, health officials said today. Twelve of the dead were reported in the eastern province’s capital Montreal, said regional public health director Mylene Drouin. The Tribune newspaper said five of the deaths occurred in the past 48 hours in the ...