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London, Oct 11: Scientists have for the first time put a figure on how many faces people actually remember -- a staggering 5,000 on average. Researchers from the University of York in the UK tested participants on how many faces they could recall from their personal lives and the media, as well as the number of famous faces they recognised. Humans have typically lived in small groups of around one...

Bengaluru, Oct 10: The employees of Defence PSU Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL) on Tuesday contributed Rs 50 lakh to the Karnataka Chief Minister’s Relief Fund for relief work in flood-hit areas of Karnataka. Mr M V Gowtama, CMD, BEL and Mr R N Bagdalkar, Director (HR), BEL, handed over the cheque for Rs 50 lakhs to Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy.

Bengaluru, Oct 9: National Confederation of Human Rights, Karnataka Chapter organized the State Council meeting on 7th Oct 2018 at Hameed Sha Complex, Bengaluru for the new term of 2 years. S Balan, Senior Advocate, Karnataka High Court was elected as the president again for the new term. While addressing the gathering he stated that atrocity on Dalits, minorities women has only escalated day by...

NASA's Voyager 2 probe is approaching interstellar space and has detected an increase in cosmic rays that originate outside our solar system, the US space agency said. Launched in 1977, Voyager 2 is a little less than 17.7 billion kilometres from Earth, or more than 118 times the distance from Earth to the Sun. Since 2007 the probe has been travelling through the outermost layer of the heliosphere...

Moscow, Oct 3: Russia may bring an Indian astronaut to the International Space Station (ISS) on board a Soyuz spacecraft for a short training mission in 2022, a source in the Russian space industry said. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced in August this year that his country would send a national crew to space on board domestically-developed Gaganyaan spacecraft by 2022, when...

Amreli, Oct 2: The Forest department of Gujarat, after a seemingly futile attempt to cover-up the death of Gir lions due to a suspected outbreak of some infectious disease in a particular range of Gir, the sole abode of Asiatic lions in the world, has finally confirmed the deaths of total 21 lions. In a statement issued on Monday evening, the Forest department said that after the death of 11 lions...

Bengalore, Oct 1: Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) sleuths have caught redhand Ravikumar, Surveyor, Yeswanthpura Hobli, here, while accepting bribe of Rs 50,000 for showing official favour. After receiving a complaint from a resident that the Surveyor demanded Rs 1,50,000 bribe for issuing Tatkal podi for his land, the ACB team today laid a trap and arrested him while accepting bribe amount Rs 50,000...

San Francisco, Sept 29: Facebook on Thursday confirmed that advertisers were privy to phone numbers given by members of the social network for enhanced security. A study by two US universities, first reported by news website Gizmodo, found that phone numbers given to Facebook for two-factor authentication were also used to target advertising. Two-factor authentication is intended to enhance...

New Delhi, Sept 23: Under pressure to clamp down on sinister messages, WhatsApp has appointed a grievance officer for India and detailed out the process for users to flag concerns and complaints, including those around fake news. Meeting one of the key demands that India had put on WhatsApp to curb fake messages that triggered mob killings, the Facebook-owned company has updated its website to...

Kasaragod, Sept 20: The district has registered another death attributed to leptospirosis, also known as rat fever. The fresh case was reported on Tuesday as B. Koran, 55, a resident of Badur colony at Thayannur , some 15 km east of Kanhangad, passed away at the Pariyaram Medical College where he was shifted with suspected leptospirosis symptoms on Friday. Mr. Koran had undergone treatment at the...