In what could put automation in full swing in the field of journalism, Google is providing Press Association, the British news agency, $805,000 to build a software that will gather, automate and write nearly 30,000 local stories a month.


Google grants UK news agency $805,000 to automate writing local news


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The Delhi High Court on Friday sought response from the Centre on why facilities for the differently abled persons in the Indian Railways were beyond their access.


Why railway facilities beyond access for disabled, asks HC


Two Iraqi journalists were killed and a third was injured while covering fierce clashes between the Islamic State militants and Iraqi forces in Salahudin province on Friday, a security source said.


Two Iraqi journalists killed by IS


In a bid to improve visual conversations among users through its messaging tool 'Direct', photo-sharing app Instagram has added the feature to reply to users' 'Stories' with photos or videos.


Instagram lets you reply to 'Stories' with photos or videos


Doctors and nurses across UK's health service are increasingly using WhatsApp and Snapchat -- popular social media applications that are banned under its guidelines -- to share information about patients, the media reported.


'Prohibited' WhatsApp is extensively used by NHS doctors: Report


In a bizarre turn of events, a man suspected of rape and kidnapping in the US commented on the police's Facebook post requesting information about none but himself.


Rape suspect comments on 'wanted' post about self on Facebook


In a boost to Twitter's effort to reveal more about surveillance requests from the US government, a US judge has ruled that the microblogging site can move forward with a lawsuit over the discussion of national security letters.


Twitter's lawsuit over surveillance can move forward: US judge


A boy named Hal Warden, 16, successfully divorced his wife, who was 13. They had been married a year.


Keep the weird news coming or we may be forced to be serious (The Funny Side)


Global dating app "happn" on Thursday announced the launch of a new feature that may provide yet another opportunity to boost chance encounters.


Dating app 'happn' may soon launch new feature


The Delhi High Court on Thursday sought a response from the CBI on a plea filed by NDTV seeking the quashing of a FIR registered against the channel and its founder over allegations of defrauding a bank.


HC seeks CBI response on NDTV plea


A Sri Lankan court imposed on Wednesday death sentence on a man convicted of murdering journalist Melicia Gunasekara in 2014.


Sri Lankan court imposes death sentence on journalist's killer


A court here on Wednesday adjourned the 2G spectrum allocation case for August 25. Former Telecom Minister A. Raja and DMK Rajya Sabha member Kanimozhi are being tried in the case.


Court defers 2G spectrum case for August 25


A court here on Tuesday adjourned to July 15 the hearing of arguments on the quantum of sentence against Utsav Bhasin who was convicted in the BMW hit-and-run case in south Delhi in 2008.


Court defers hit-and-run case's punishment arguments to July 15


Actress Shraddha Das says her journalism lessons in college helped her play her part of a news reporter with ease and to perfection in the upcoming Telugu action drama "PSV Garuda Vega".


Journalism lessons came handy for '...Garuda Vega': Shraddha Das


Amid rising tensions over their border row, China has cancelled the upcoming visit by a group of Indian journalists to Tibet.


Border row: China cancels Indian journalists' trip


Lending his voice against the recent incidents of lynching, President Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday took a broadside against the administration asking "are we vigilant enough proactively to save the basic tenets of our country".


President lends his voice against lynchings


The UN Human Rights said that the demand by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Bahrain for Qatar to close its al-Jazeera television channel as a condition for normalizing relations is an unacceptable attack on freedom of expression and opinion.


UN calls demand for Qatar to close al-Jazeera channel unacceptable


A Pakistani journalist was arrested in the city of Quetta earlier this week for allegedly writing against "national security institutions" on social media, the media reported.


Pakistani journalist arrested over social media comments


Indrani Mukerjea, one of the prime accused in the Sheena Bora murder case and ex-media baron, on Wednesday informed a Special CBI Court that she was beaten up and threatened with sexual assault during the violence in Byculla Jail last Saturday.


Court records Indrani Mukerjea's statement on Mumbai prison riot


Accusing Kolkata police of harassment in the name of interrogation, Narada News CEO Mathew Samuel on Wednesday claimed that the case against him was "planted and fabricated".


Narada CEO complains of harassment by Kolkata police


Editors of two Kannada tabloids on Tuesday filed a joint petition in the Karnataka High Court, seeking a stay on the state assembly order to jail them for writing allegedly derogatory articles against three ruling Congress lawmakers.

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