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Robotaxi fleets 10 years away, Lucid CEO says: ‘a mountain to climb’

By Loknath Das
October 17, 2021
in :  Car Reviews
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SAN FRANCISCO — It is likely to take a decade before self-driving taxis will be deployed on roads, the chief executive of electric car startup Lucid Group Inc, Peter Rawlinson, said on Thursday. “I think we’re 10 years out before we see fleets of robotaxis. They ain’t coming anytime soon even with the most advanced sensing systems in the world,” Rawlinson, a former chief engineer at Tesla …

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PM Modi, Ministers spend Rs 393 cr on foreign, domestic travel in 5 years

By Loknath Das
May 11, 2019
in :  Travel
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A Right to Information (RTI) query has revealed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Council of Ministers incurred an expenditure of Rs 393 crore on foreign and domestic travel in last five fiscal years. City-based RTI activist Anil Galgali had filed an RTI query with the PMO seeking the total Foreign Travel Expenses (FTE) and Domestic Travel Expenses (DTE) …

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You have at least 2 years to revive a lapsed policy

By Loknath Das
March 7, 2018
in :  Finance
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Let us say you miss paying the premium on your life insurance policy, and as a result, your policy has lapsed. For people who may find themselves in situations like this, life insurance companies offer a small window of opportunity to revive the policy during the revival period. The rules state that insurers need to offer a revival period of …

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10% back-to-back fee hike for three years in IISERs, students demand rollback

By Loknath Das
June 9, 2017
in :  Education
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The Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) decided increasing their fees by 10% each year till 2019. But these colleges will still remain far less expensive than private institutes or universities abroad offering similar degrees. The hike will be only for students taking admission this year. These freshers will have to pay Rs 27,500 for each of the …

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‘Don’t get me started about the testing’: Teachers reveal how education has changed over the past 20 years

By Loknath Das
May 25, 2017
in :  Education
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Across the US, thousands of college graduates are taking the final steps in their education. A lot has happened since they were born in the mid-1990s, and perhaps no one has seen the effects of those changes on future generations than teachers. Business Insider spoke with a handful of elementary, middle, and high school teachers to get a sense of …

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‘We got Christmas back’: readers mark 25 years since fall of Soviet Union

By subhadip
January 3, 2017
in :  News
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After years of food shortages, rising nationalist movements and an attempted coup, Mikhail Gorbachev, the president of the Soviet Union, resigned on Christmas Day 1991. His resignation 25 years ago was the final nail in the coffin of the USSR. To mark the anniversary we asked our readers across the region to share their memories of the monumental events, and …

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Hacker who stole film scripts jailed for five years

By subhadip
December 8, 2016
in :  Technology
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A hacker who stole sexually explicit videos and unpublished film and TV scripts from celebrities has been sentenced to five years in jail. Alonzo Knowles hacked email accounts, from the Bahamas, to steal the images and scripts, which he tried to sell. Knowles used viruses and fake security notifications to obtain passwords. He was caught when he travelled to the …

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EC celebrates 25 years by inspiring young Maltese

By subhadip
September 15, 2016
in :  Education
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hosted a variety of keynote and panel speakers, using a TED talk format, including opera singer Joseph Calleja and Alfred Pisani, chairman and CEO of hotel chain Corinthia Group. Guests shared their experiences to inspire young, ambitious entrepreneurs and their business goals. Andrew Mangion, executive chairman of EC, told The PIE News they found people to participate “from all walks of …

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Drug Treatment Could Add Years To A Dog’s Life

By subhadip
August 15, 2016
in :  Technology
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A trial to extend the lifespan of pet dogs has shown promise – with marked improvement in heart health. Anti-rejection medicine rapamycin was given to dogs in phase one trials by evolutionary geneticists at the University of Washington, the Daily Telegraph reports. It is usually given to humans who’ve had a kidney transplant, but was found to extend the life …

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Four out of five teachers ‘have thought about quitting’ – with one in four saying they would go within two years

By subhadip
April 6, 2016
in :  Education
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A poll of almost 900 teachers found that 80% of them had thought of qutting Alamy More than four in five teachers have considered leaving the profession because of pressure of work, according to a new survey out today. The poll of almost 900 teachers by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers revealed 83 per cent were considering quitting – …

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