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Press Trust of India (PTI) is India's premier news agency, with a reach that covers every corner of India. It employs more than 600 journalists and 800 stringers to cover almost every city and town in India. PTI was registered in 1947 and started functioning in 1949.
Press Trust of India (PTI) is India's premier news agency, with a reach that covers every corner of India. It employs more than 600 journalists and 800 stringers to cover almost every city and town in India. PTI was registered in 1947 and started functioning in 1949.
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Google unveils game streaming platform called Stadia at GDC 2019
Google also unveiled a new controller that can be used to play cloud-based individual or multiplayer games
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Google tweaks search engine results to placate EU antitrust regulators
The effort to placate the Europan Commission comes as the EU executive is set to slap the tech giant with a fresh fine over unfair competition practices
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Disney closes $71 billion deal to acquire Fox's entertainment assets
Among other things, it paves the way for Disney to launch its streaming service, Disney Plus, due out later this year
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Facebook to block housing, job and bank ads that are age, gender specific
The changes to Facebook's advertising methods which generate most of the company's enormous profits are unprecedented
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No users reported New Zealand attack live streaming, says Facebook
Sonderby says in a blog post that Facebook removed the video "within minutes'" of being contacted by police
Ship with 14-member Indian crew capsizes in Iran port during cargo loading
The report says only one Indian seaman aboard the Comoros-owned LS Star was injured in the foot in the incident on Monday
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Karen Uhlenbeck becomes first woman receipient of Abel Prize for maths
Uhlenbeck, 76, is a visiting senior research scholar at Princeton University, as well as visiting associate at the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), both in the US
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Pramod Sawant to be new Goa CM, Sardesai and Dhavalikar to be deputy CMs
Sardesai, Dhavalikar to be deputy CMs as BJP reaches a new deal with allies
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UK prime minister Theresa May makes last-minute push to win Brexit support
Parliament has rejected the agreement twice, but May aims to try a third time this week if she can persuade enough lawmakers to change their minds
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Boeing suspends 737 MAX deliveries as France probes black boxes
The MAX has been grounded worldwide following the Ethiopian Airlines crash that killed all 157 passengers and crew
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A mind full of hate: Why mosque attacker selected New Zealand as his target
Though he claimed not to covet fame, the gunman whose name was not immediately released by police left behind a 74-page document posted on social media under the name Brenton Tarrant
Global news organisations' coalition to highlight threatened journalists
Members of the One Free Press Coalition will publish on their platforms each month a "10 Most Urgent" list of journalists who have been jailed, threatened or attacked for their work
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Ethiopia plane pilot asked for permission to return 'in panicky voice': NYT
An airline spokesman has said the pilot was given permission to return. But the plane crashed minutes later outside Addis Ababa, killing all 157 on board
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3 astronauts aboard Soyuz craft reach International Space Station
The rocket blasted off without incident from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and docked at the ISS less than six hours later, more than 400 kilometers (249 miles) above the Earth at 05:31 I
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Global Facebook outage forces millions to taste life without social media
The outage began on Wednesday afternoon and triggered a flood of gripes on downdetector.com
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Etihad Airways loses $1.28 billion in 2018 in third year of losses
The airline reported revenues of $5.86 billion in 2018, down from $6 billion in 2017. It flew 17.8 million passengers last year, down from 18.6 million the year prior
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Naresh Goyal, Etihad must salvage cash-strapped Jet Airways: Lenders
The Jet Airways' resolution plan has to be put to work this month itself
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US Senate admonishes Donald Trump, votes to end border emergency
But opponents warned that Trump's move smacked of executive overreach
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US human rights report faults Saudi Arabia in killing of Jamal Khashoggi
The State Department annual global human rights report said The Washington Post columnist was killed by agents of the kingdom, a close US partner, while he was inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul
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Facebook rules out cyber attack after its family of apps suffers outage
According to the website downdetector.com, outages were heaviest in North America and Europe, but some users appeared to be affected in other regions