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Backing up your brain. One little app at a time

Starting with a telephone directory to new digital platforms like Facebook, Google and Outlook calendar, apps like Rememeberthemilk and programs like Basecamp we have started to slowly outsource our brain.

Rohingya refugees look forward to Supreme Court verdict on 9 April, hope to get favourable ruling

Rohingya refugees await in anxiety as the Supreme Court decides on their fate on 9 April.

Devendra Fadnavis govt faces farmers' ire as huge procession threatens to take over Mumbai on 12 March

In what could be a strong message from the afflicted farmers, the congregation is also likely to surround the state legislature to press for their demands before the Fadnavis government.

SC to pronounce triple talaq verdict today: A primer on the practice and positions of parties

As Chief Justice JS Khehar demits office this week, the Supreme Court has geared up to deliver the judgment on triple talaq before the next CJI takes over.

Jio soft launch by end-April, full roll-out by December: UBS

Amid speculation over the actual date of the roll-out of Reliance Jio 4G telecom services, a top global financial services firm, UBS, said while soft launch was expected by the end of this month, the full commercial offering was expected by December.

California Textbooks: ‘Editing out India is bizarre! We must fight back because this concerns all Indians, not just Hindus’

Led by hundreds of high school students, teachers, parents of Indian kids in American schools and “outraged” grandpas and grandmas, more than 20,000 people have signed off on a stinging letter protesting the recommended changes to California state textbooks from Grade 6 - 10 that could eliminate crucial historical references to India.

Fast Radio Bursts: Now in bulk and mysterious as ever

An FRB is a transient radio pulse that flashes for only a few milliseconds at a time and occurs outside the Milky Way.

After #JNURow, it's Jadavpur University as students raise slogans praising Afzal Guru

Amid the row over anti-India slogans at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, slogans eulogising parliament attack mastermind Afzal Guru and demands for "azadi" echoed in Jadavpur University here on Tuesday.

Indian artist Nasreen Mohamedi to headline New York museum circuit's new darling - the aspirational Met Breuer

Indian art is the toast of a potentially blockbuster launch of New York’s Met Breuer museum in the first week of March even as prime minister Narendra Modi speaking in Mumbai made a strong push for Indian art and its place in the world’s public square.

Now, Pakistan wants the Kohinoor, lays claim to being 'legitimate owner'

The Lahore High Court will today (Thursday) start hearing a petition claiming that the 105-carat diamond, which once sat on Queen Victoria’s crown and is now on public display at Tower Of London actually belongs to Pakistan, on the ground that the region of Punjab from where it was “stolen” by Britain’s colonial rulers 167 years ago is now part of Pakistan.