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28/04/2023

“Pele," arguably the best footballer in history, is now also an adjective. On Wednesday, the word “pele" was added to the more than 167,000 words in the Michaelis Portuguese dictionary printed in Brazil. For the world’s 265 million-odd Portuguese speakers, “pele" can now be used to denote something or someone extraordinary — the sense in which it is already employed informally in Brazil.

19/02/2023

Brazil's glitzy carnival returns in full form after Covid-19 pandemic. The country expects 46-million people to join the festivities that officially began on February 17 and run through Wednesday. That includes visitors to cities that make Carnival a world-famous bash, especially Rio but also Salvador, Recife and metropolitan Sao Paulo, which has recently emerged as a hotspot.

08/02/2023

A Keralite transgender couple, who recently announced pregnancy, was blessed with a baby at a state-run hospital in Kozhikode on Wednesday, considered to be the first such case in the country.

"The baby was born by around 9.30 am through a Cesarean Section at the Government Medical college. Both Zahad and the child are doing well, Paval added.

14/01/2023

No matter what, dance your heart out. A video of two brothers dancing on a popular Bollywood song at the function has garnered a lot of views and is winning hearts on social media.

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04/01/2023

This is how China is building a parallel generative AI universe. The gigantic technological leap that machine learning models have shown in the last few months is getting everyone excited about the future of AI — but also nervous about its uncomfortable consequences. After text-to-image tools from Stability AI and OpenAI became the talk of the town, ChatGPT’s ability to hold intelligent conversations is the new obsession in sectors across the board.

27/12/2022

The video, which has gone viral on social media, features a Kerala bride playing the chenda while standing in the centre of a group. The ecstatic bride can be seen playing with enthusiasm. She moves in time with the music, and as the pace picks up, a man wearing a red kurta joins the group and begins to play the cymbal. According to the post's caption, the bride's father is a chenda master, and the daughter is playing the instrument with her dad.

13/11/2022

A rescue-dog-turned-police-mascot has become one of Brazil’s most beloved furry internet sensations. Dubbed “Corporal Oliveira,” the dog was taken in by Rio police officer Cristiano Oliveira, who found him in 2019 near his police station abandoned, injured and hungry. The dog – decked out in a police uniform with a toy gun strapped in and sunglasses – has become the official mascot of the Rio de Janeiro Military Police’s 17th batallion, patrolling alongside his officer and running beside motorbikes.

06/11/2022

Residents in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv snapped up a new postage stamp commemorating a blast that damaged a major bridge linking Russia to Crimea in a blow to the prestige of Russian President Vladimir Putin. "There isn't a corner of the world which hasn't asked us to send them (the stamp)," said Liudmyla Samoilova, among dozens of people who lined up to get the stamps when they went on sale at Kyiv's post office. "We've sent them to America, Australia," she said as she stuck the stamps to envelopes. "People are excited about these events and wait for the good news."

24/10/2022

Chinese scientists have achieved another record in the production of salt-tolerant rice, an essential move as China strives to ensure food security. The output of the “seawater rice” – a new species that grows in salty, alkaline soil – more than doubled in three years, according to researchers from Qingdao Saline-Alkali Tolerant Rice Research and Development Centre in the eastern province of Shandong.

17/10/2022

Pakistan has announced its first comprehensive animal welfare law which includes punishments for animal cruelty crimes and bans testing and surgeries on live animals. The reforms include tougher punishments for animal cruelty crimes. The offenders now face Rs 15,000 ($73) fine and jail term. The citizens would be able to report any act of cruelty toward animals through a hotline 1819 in Islamabad’s capital territory.

14/10/2022

China will establish the world's largest national park system with more national parks to be built, Chinese authorities said recently, which marked the first anniversary of the establishment of the initial batch of national parks in the country, during which period the number of wild animals in the territories have greatly increased.

06/10/2022

is undoubtedly growing. If one is to take a cursory look at the antecedents of the industry from then till now, one will see that there is a wide gap between both timelines. As they have grown in technological aspects, so have they grown story wise and have been able to produce much more compelling stories over the years. It has been argued this growth is a by-product of the ever increasing budget to make movies.

02/10/2022

Gandhara Independent Film Festival (GIFF) is ’s first . It was founded in 2020 and held successful digital festivals for three consecutive years. After the success of the 3rd Digital Edition held from the 9th to the 13th of September 2022, GIFF collaborated with NAPA to screen 15 official selections of the 3rd edition in a two-day physical event at Zia Mohyeddin Theatre, NAPA. This year’s festival included two Pakistani films.

25/09/2022

Chinese police rescue 150 cats headed for dinner tables

Nearly 150 cats bound for slaughterhouses have been rescued by police in eastern China, an international animal welfare organisation said.

22/09/2022

Amazon.com is expanding its renewable energy investments with 71 new energy projects around the world, including its first project in South America—a solar farm in —and its first solar farms in and . Once fully operational, ’s global renewable energy portfolio will generate 50,000 gigawatt-hours (GWh) of clean energy, which is the equivalent amount of electricity needed to power 4.6 million U.S. homes each year.

18/09/2022

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Featuring Farhan Akhtar, Jim and Ty. Hope you enjoyed the musical evening!

18/09/2022

Jalandhar-based Sikh man Amarjit Singh's happiness knew no bounds when he met his Muslim sister from Pakistan at Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Kartarpur, 75 years after he was separated from his family at the time of Partition. Singh was left out in India along with his sister while his Muslim parents migrated to Pakistan at the time of Partition.

17/09/2022

Prime Minister released eight - brought from Africa’s - in the Kuno National Park of .

14/09/2022

Details are in for the next series coming to Disney Plus next year. Iwájú, made by Disney Animation and Kugali, will explore "a futuristic version of Lagos, Nigeria," Disney announced at its D23 Expo in Anaheim. A first look from the series shows a world of vibrant colors, flying cars and charmingly offbeat creatures that look kind of like frogs, but also lizards?

08/09/2022

At a time when Prime Minister Hasina is on a four-day visit to the country, a consignment of about 60 metric tonnes of fish from the neighbouring country arrived in the markets of Kolkata. On Sunday, the Bangladesh Commerce Ministry gave clearance to 50 agencies in their country to export the huge consignments of Hilsa to .

01/09/2022

Women have officially attended a domestic league football match in Iran for the first time since the 1979 Islamic revolution, state media say. About 500 are thought to have been at the game at Azadi Stadium in Tehran recently.

28/08/2022

In the shared by Indian Police Services officer HGS Dhaliwal on Twitter, Indian Army personnel are seen enjoying the song by and late .

The video shows Indian soldiers performing bhangra steps to the music at an army post in a hilly region. As the camera zooms into the other side of the border, a soldier at the Pakistani post is seen waving to the Indian side.

20/08/2022

-A Caucasian woman was recently reunited with an elderly black woman who was her nanny when she was still young
-They have been apart from each other for 25 years, and luckily, they bumped into each other at a mall
-In an emotional video making rounds online, the duo were captured hugging each other very tightly

09/08/2022

Iran makes first import order worth $10mn using cryptocurrency

-The order is the first step towards allowing the country to trade through digital assets
-This bypasses the dollar-dominated global financial system and trade with other countries similarly limited by US sanctions
-By the end of September, the use of cryptocurrencies and smart contracts could be widely used in foreign trade with target countries



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Iran has registered its first official order for importing $10 million worth of goods in cryptocurrency this week, the semi-official Tasnim agency reported on Tuesday quoting an official from the Ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade.

30/07/2022

The 'Kingdom of Bicycle' China returns as fuel price, coronavirus bring two-wheelers back in vogue. The recent rise in fuel prices, coupled with coronavirus restrictions hindering commutes, plus increased government support, are proving to be a boon for bicycling. The proportion of people travelling by bicycle in central Beijing hit a near-decade high of 47.8 per cent last year, with some spending up to 100,000 yuan (US$14,800).

27/07/2022

Between January and July 2022, Brazil has seen 44.7 million passengers, led by LATAM Airlines Group, Azul Linhas Aéreas, and GOL Linhas Aéreas. In 2022, Brazil has been quickly recovering its pre-pandemic traffic figures. In the first six months, the country had 44.7 million passengers, a 77.5% recovery compared to the traffic figures in 2019 when it had 57.6 million travelers.

25/07/2022

Good news from world's most depressed nations

One of the most influential figures in the AI field is Andrew Chi-Chih Yao, whose education and professional life have straddled the world’s two biggest economies. China-born and Harvard-trained, Yao is his country’s only recipient of the Turing Award, computer science’s equivalent of a Nobel Prize. After almost 40 years in the US, he returned to China in 2004. Now he teaches a prestigious yet little-known university class that has shaped some of the country’s biggest AI startups, informed government policy and molded a generation of academics.

22/07/2022

Good news from world's most depressed nations

The first female climbers from Pakistan and Iran on Friday reached the top of K2, the world’s second-highest peak, at 8,611 meters above sea level known as the “savage mountain.” Two Pakistanis, Samina Baig and Naila Kiyani, Iranian Afsaneh Hesamifard, and Lebanese-Arab Nelly Attar, were among the four women who achieved the milestone, said a spokesman for the Alpine Club of Pakistan. Reportedly, they are also the first Muslim mountaineers to have scaled K2.

21/07/2022

Good news from world's most depressed nations.

Bangladesh has invited Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma to visit Dhaka, the Chief Minister's Office in Guwahati has confirmed. In a letter written on July 5, Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dr. A.K. Abdul Momen praised Mr. Sarma's "innovative ventures" and said that the visit would provide both sides a better understanding of the developmental work that are taking place in Bangladesh.

In a letter written on July 5, Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dr A.K. Abdul Momen praised Sarma's "innovative ventures" and said that the visit would provide both sides a better understanding of the developmental work that are taking place in Bangladesh.

20/07/2022

Good news from world's most depressed nations.

Scientists in the US have developed a new COVID-19 vaccine that offers superior immune protection against two viral subvariants of Omicron than standard mRNA shots. The vaccine, called Omnivax, increased neutralising antibody response against the BA.1 and BA.2.12.1 Omicron subvariants in pre-immunised mice 19-fold and eight-fold, respectively, compared with standard mRNA vaccines.