Technology, Mobiles tabs, 11th Sep 2020, News & Stories from India

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Drobo works faster than other RAID systems and it works regardless of what drives you are filling in it

How can you boost up your DROBO? These 5 tips have got your back!

Drobo plays an important role to resolve the three major storage issues in a device

11 Sep 2020 5:09 PM

Microsoft did not assess which foreign adversary poses the greater threat to the integrity of the November presidential election. The consensus among cybersecurity experts is that Russian interference is the gravest. (Photo | AP)

Microsoft warns of Russia, China hackers' attempts to influence US elections

Foreign activity groups have stepped up efforts targeting the election as had been anticipated, Microsoft corporate vice president Tom Burt.

11 Sep 2020 5:02 PM

Sonia Swaroop is paving new paths, and how!

Co-founder of Match My [Talent] Sonia Swaroop talks about the entertainment industry, its changing dynamics

11 Sep 2020 4:56 PM

Members of an organization sanitize a market place during the bi-weekly lockdown in the wake of coronavirus pandemic, in Nadia. (PTI)

India may have over 7 million coronavirus cases by October, become No 1 in world tally

The researchers are now working on refining their model based on advanced machine learning techniques to make long-term predictions

11 Sep 2020 4:31 PM

International salvage experts boarding the fire-stricken tanker, New Diamond, in the Indian Ocean off Sri Lanka's eastern coast. - International experts boarded an oil tanker stricken off Sri Lanka to begin salvage operations, the navy said on September 10, as firefighters looked to contain a large oil slick in the Indian Ocean. (Photo: Sri Lanka Navy / AFP)

Salvage team working to stop fuel leak from fire-hit supertanker

Authorities want to avoid damage to the coast line like that suffered by Mauritius after a bulk carrier struck a coral reef off the island

11 Sep 2020 4:02 PM

Ajay Maken moves Supreme Court seeking rehabilitation of slum dwellers in Delhi

On August 31, the top court has directed that the slum dwellings will be removed in a phased manner.

11 Sep 2020 3:03 PM

Healthcare workers in contact with confirmed cases of Covid-19 without adequate protection as analysed by IMA was 2.8 per cent. (AFP)

Death due to coronavirus higher among doctors, healthcare workers

In every one lakh people in India there are 4,969 cases of infected healthcare workers, 1,428 cases of infected doctors and 285 of others

11 Sep 2020 2:55 PM

A still from Tove, a Swedish-language film about an illustrator's life of tumult in the years after WWII.

TIFF Diary: Here at last, a film fest you can watch in your pajamas

The Toronto International Film Festival gets going with digital screenings and virtual red carpets

11 Sep 2020 2:45 PM

No restriction be imposed on inter-state movement of medical oxygen: Centre to states

Health ministry has reiterated the critical importance of oxygen in hospitals for management of critical COVID-19 patients

11 Sep 2020 2:41 PM

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny (centre). (AP File)

Russian police seek to question Navalny in Germany

Navalny's posioning case has prompted international calls for Russia to carry out a transparent investigation or risk sanctions

11 Sep 2020 2:17 PM

Oregon firefighters put out embers in Mill City, Oregon, on September 10, 2020, as they battle the Santiam Fire. - California firefighters battled the state's largest ever inferno on September 10, as tens of thousands of people fled blazes up and down the US West Coast and officials warned the death toll could shoot up in coming days.Oregon firefighters put out embers in Mill City, Oregon, on September 10, 2020, as they battle the Santiam Fire. - California firefighters battled the state's largest ever inferno on September 10, as tens of thousands of people fled blazes up and down the US West Coast and officials warned the death toll could shoot up in coming days.(AFP)

California teen learns to drive while escaping wildfire

"It's like a video game, Ruben," the teenager recalled his uncle Josh telling him

11 Sep 2020 1:55 PM

Narcotics Control Bureau officers take Bollywood actress Rhea Chakraborty, who has been sent in judicial custody till September 22 by a local court, to Byculla women jail, in Mumbai, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020. (PTI)

Sushant Singh Rajput death probe: Rhea Chakraborty denied bail in drugs case

Rhea's brother Showik was arrested by the NCB last week. He was denied bail too.

11 Sep 2020 1:26 PM

Pausing trials for COVID-19 vaccine of AstraZeneca due to safety concerns is nothing new, scientists said while pointing out that ‘trials’ are experiments which may or may not work. (AFP)

Trials will have ups and downs, say scientists

Adverse effects were noted on two human subjects who volunteered for the phase 3 trials of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine

11 Sep 2020 1:15 PM

A riot police officer is reached by a petrol bomb during clashes with demonstrators protesting against police brutality in Medellin, Colombia on September 10, 2020. - At least 10 people were killed and hundreds wounded after rioting broke out in the Colombian capital Bogota during protests over the death of a man repeatedly tasered by police, authorities said Thursday. (AFP)

Death toll rises to 10 in Colombia rioting over police killing

Recent video shows attorney Javier Ordonez pleading with police officers, who tasered him at least five times as he lay on the ground

11 Sep 2020 12:38 PM

The NEP seeks to restore the importance of the arts, humanities and social sciences in our education system.

NEP: Ambitious targets set for education sector

The New Education Policy should be valued for the way validated ideas have been seamlessly integrated with bold new ones

11 Sep 2020 12:33 PM

A health worker checks the temperature of people to protect against the coronavirus in Pyongyang, North Korea. (Korean Central News Agency/Korea News Service via AP)

North Korea issues shoot-to-kill orders to prevent virus: US

The impoverished country has not confirmed even a single case of coronavirus till now since it first emerged in China, North's key ally

11 Sep 2020 12:04 PM

Japanese MV Wakashio, a bulk carrier ship that recently ran aground off the southeast coast of Mauritius, can be seen from the coast of Mauritius. The oil spill disaster turned deadly this week when a tugboat leaving the shipwreck collided with a barge and sank, killing at least three sailors, police said Tuesday Sept. 1, 2020. (AP)

Mauritius oil spill ship operator to pay $9.4 million

More than 1,000 tonnes of oil is believed to have leaked from the ship, with the rest siphoned out before it spilled

11 Sep 2020 11:36 AM

Flames lick above vehicles on Highway 162 as the Bear Fire burns in Oroville, Calif., on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020. The blaze, part of the lightning-sparked North Complex, expanded at a critical rate of spread as winds buffeted the region. (AP)

10 now dead in massive Northern California wildfire

The weeks-old fire was about 50% contained when winds thrashed it into explosive growth on Tuesday

11 Sep 2020 11:01 AM

An activist from the Extinction Rebellion climate change group shows a message written on her hand as she is taken away in a police van after being arrested for locking herself to railings outside UK's parliament in central London on September 10, 2020 on the final day of their new series of 'mass rebellions'. - Climate change protesters have put on 10 days of demonstrations, held across the country by activist group Extinction Rebellion. (AFP)

Bare-chested women lock themselves to UK parliament in climate protest

On Saturday, protesters blockaded distribution of two newspapers they accuses of failing to accurately report on climate issues

11 Sep 2020 10:19 AM

Top ten books of the week

Here are the top ten books in fiction and non-fiction

11 Sep 2020 9:54 AM

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