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Indian benchmark equity indices rose to new highs on Monday as investor sentiments were lifted on account of a positive trend across most leading Asian markets and a recovery in the rupee against the dollar. The 30-share Sensex gained 330.87 points or 0.87% to close at a new high of …

Dodgy lip sync dubbing could soon become a thing of the past as researchers have developed an Artificial Intelligence-based system that can edit the facial expressions of actors to accurately match dubbed voices. The AI system, called Deep Video Portraits, can also be used to correct gaze and head pose …

Scientists have discovered a beetle trapped in amber that dates back to 99 million years, a finding that may help better understand the relationship between ancient flowering plants and pollinators. A group of unusual evergreen gymnosperms, known as cycads, may have been the first insect-pollinated plants. A study published in …

Robots that can diagnose diseases, play badminton and wow audiences with their musical skills are among the machines China hopes could revolutionise its economy, with visitors to a Beijing exhibition offered a glimpse of an automated future. The popular stars of this year’s World Robot Conference, which ended on Sunday, …

At Google, there are thousands of projects, supported by machine learning. They are impacting so many products from Gmail, Smart Reply, autonomous driving, Google Assistant to cloud AI functions. Google has been pushing forward a few core aspects related to AI. The first is data, it is so important to …

The ‘clean banking’ drive has started showing results with public sector banks (PSBs) increasingly adopting prudent business approach, replacing aggressive lending practices, said Financial Services Secretary Rajiv Kumar. “The NPA crisis brought an opportunity for the introduction of responsible and responsive banking. All the PSBs, which [collectively] have about 75% …

With the rupee recently weakening past Rs. 70 to a dollar and hovering about that level since, concerns over the impact of the devaluation on economic indicators are intensifying. Here is what happens when the rupee falls: What happens to inflation? One of the first visible effects of currency depreciation …

India’s current account deficit (CAD) will widen to 2.5% of the GDP in the current fiscal due to the higher oil prices that has been accentuated by rupee depreciation, Moody’s and other experts said. The rupee last week slid to a record low of 70.32 to a U.S. dollar as …

India’s economic growth seems to be back on a recovery path and the country will be on a firm 7.5%-plus growth track this fiscal, former Chief Economic Adviser (CEA) Arvind Virmani said on Sunday. He further said the U.S.-China tariff war provides an opportunity to increase India’s exports to the …

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan said on Sunday that six health officers would be deployed in each panchayat to ensure that there was no outbreak of communicable diseases as the flood waters receded and the focus shifted to relief and rehabiliation. The State government would distribute 36 lakh textbooks free …