Pakistan has said that it will continue trade
with India despite tensions along the border as no country can improve its
external relations without doing business with others. “The vision of our
government is that we must trade with our neighbours, including India, despite
border tensions,” Commerce Minister
Khurram Dastagir said addressing a consultative trade meeting on Friday.
GSAT-16, the next national communications satellite, reached French Guiana this
week and is on its way to the space port near Kourou ahead of an early December
flight, European launch service company Arianespace has said. The 3,150-kg satellite is scheduled to be
flown on an Ariane-5 launcher numbered Flight VA221. Built at the ISRO
Satellite Centre in Bangalore, GSAT-16 was sent on a chartered cargo plane
to the French Guiana capital of Cayenne.
The Darjeeling Zoo, the highest
altitude zoological garden in India, housing rare Himalayan animals such as
red panda and snow leopard, has over 200
species of trees, shrubs, climbers, medicinal herbs, fungi and micro flora,
says a study.
In a major boost to the Navy, grappling with dwindling submarine
strength, the Defence Acquisition
Council (DAC) has approved of a proposal to build six conventional diesel-electric submarines indigenously.
The project cost has been estimated at Rs. 50,000 crore.
Technology giant Google is teaming up with
Oxford University to advance research on artificial intelligence to ultimately
enable machines to better understand human users. The
partnership will focus specifically on the fields of image recognition and
natural language, Demis Hassabis, vice president of engineering at Google,
wrote on the Google Europe Blog. Hassabis
is also the co-founder of DeepMind, a UK-based company that Google acquired in
January. Google DeepMind will be working with two of Oxford’s cutting edge
artificial intelligence research teams. Google has also hired seven co-founders
of the two artificial-intelligence groups, which had also formed startups,
‘cnet.com’ reported.
Ace India shuttler Saina Nehwal crashed out of
the French Open Super Series after going down to World No. 2 Shixian Wang of
China in a hard-fought quarterfinal contest on Friday. Seeded
fifth, Saina posed quite a challenge to her Chinese rival but in the end it was
a case of so near yet so far for the Indian who lost 19-21, 21-19, 15-21. The
battle lasted an hour and 10 minutes.
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