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US dismisses charges against Indian diplomat

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New York (AFP) - A US judge has thrown out charges against an Indian diplomat whose New York arrest and strip-search sparked a bitter diplomatic row with Delhi.</div>
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Devyani Khobragade was arrested on December 12 outside her children's New York school, accused of defrauding her Indian housekeeper's visa application.</div>
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An outraged India claimed full diplomatic immunity on her behalf after Khobragade said she was subjected to a cavity search while in custody.</div>
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Employed at the Indian consulate in New York, she acquired in January the full diplomatic immunity granted to diplomats at the Indian mission to the UN.</div>
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It was on grounds of immunity that she petitioned a US court on January 9 to drop the case.</div>
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US District Judge Shira Scheindlin dismissed the indictment Wednesday on grounds that Khobragade was granted full diplomatic immunity on January 8.</div>
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"Even if Khobragade had no immunity at the time of her arrest and has none now, her acquisition of immunity during the pendency of proceedings mandates dismissal," Scheindlin wrote.</div>
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"Khobragade's conditions of bail are terminated, and her bond is exonerated... It is ordered that any open arrest warrants based on this indictment must be vacated."</div>
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Khobragade in January returned to India in January, leaving behind her two daughters and husband, a US citizen.</div>
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Khobragade told an Indian newspaper of her anguish at being separated from her seven- and four-year-old girls and their father, an academic.</div>
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US prosecutors, disputing her immunity, accused Khobragade of sometimes forcing her Indian maid to work 100-hour weeks, even when sick and often without a day off, for pay as little as $1.22 an hour.</div>
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The diplomatic row between the two countries, which had embraced each other as strategic partners, strained ties and fanned resentment on both sides.</div>
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US dismisses charges against Indian diplomat

New York (AFP) - A US judge has thrown out charges against an Indian diplomat whose New York arrest and strip-search sparked a bitter...

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Obama Sits 'Between Two Ferns' with Zach Galifianakis

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In a bid to get young people to sign up for health care, President Barack Obama became the first sitting president in U.S. history to appear on “Between Two Ferns,” Funny or Die’s intentionally awkward interview series hosted by comedian Zach Galifianakis.</div>
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Seated between two ferns, Obama — identified on screen as “Community Organizer” — fielded interview questions he likely has never faced in the White House briefing room.</div>
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“In 2013 you pardoned the turkey,” Galifianakis began. “What do you have planned for 2014?”</div>
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“We’ll probably pardon another turkey,” the president replied. “We do that every Thanksgiving.”</div>
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The deadpanning continued from there.</div>
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“So how does this work: Do you send Ambassador Rodman to North Korea on your behalf? I read somewhere that you’ll be sending Hulk Hogan to Syria, or is that more of a job for Tonya Harding?”</div>
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“He’s not our ambassador,” Obama replied. “Zach, why don’t we move on.”</div>
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“I have to know,” Galifianakis said later. “What’s it like to be the last black president?”</div>
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“Seriously?” Obama replied. “What’s it like for this to be the last time you ever talk to a president?”</div>
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White House senior adviser Dan Pfeiffer told the New York Times that the president’s Funny or Die appearance is part of a push to promote the March 31 deadline for young people to sign up for health insurance on HealthCare.gov.</div>
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“We have to find ways to break through,” Pfeiffer said. “This is essentially an extension of the code we have been trying to crack for seven years now.”</div>
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Obama Sits 'Between Two Ferns' with Zach Galifianakis

In a bid to get young people to sign up for health care, President Barack Obama became the first sitting president in U.S. history to...

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Google to unveil Nexus 8 in July: report

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<b>It is reported that Google will stop making the 7-inch Nexus tablet.</b><br />
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up in the month of July as per the new rumors, these rumors also says 
that Google will be launching its Android 4.5 also along with this 
device according to the reports from Android Geeks.<br />
It is also reported that Google will stop making the 7-inch Nexus tablet, probably due to increased competition in the segment.<br />
Also, the line between large smartphones and tablets is getting too 
blurred and a 7-inch display is not much bigger than a 6-inch one.<br />
In the 8-inch tablet segment, Google’s Nexus would potentially 
compete with the Galaxy Note 8.0, LG G Pad 8.3 and also the reigning iOS
 7 based iPad mini.<br />
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Israeli air strike kills three Palestinians in Gaza

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GAZA CITY (AFP) - An Israeli air strike killed three 
Palestinians in the southern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the territory s 
Hamas-run health ministry said.<br />

"Three martyrs have died in a Zionist (Israeli) strike," ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra told AFP.<br />

The three were members of the Al-Quds Brigades, a statement from the group said.<br />

It said they had been killed after firing mortars in a bid to try and prevent "an Israeli incursion east of Khan Yunis."<br />

A witness confirmed Israeli tanks and bulldozers had tried to enter the area.<br />

The Israeli military confirmed it had carried out an air strike, targeting Islamic Jihad militants who had fired at troops.<br />
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"Moments ago, terrorists affiliated with the Palestinian Islamic 
Jihad in the southern Gaza Strip fired a mortar shell at IDF (army) 
forces. An IAF aircraft responded immediately in order to prevent 
further attacks on Israeli civilians and targeted the terrorist squad," 
it said.<br />

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The air strike came just hours after an unmanned aircraft of the sort
 Israel uses for surveillance and missile strikes crashed in the same 
area, just east of Khan Yunis.<br />

It was unclear if the two incidents were related.<br />
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Elephants recognise human voices

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Elephants are able to 
differentiate between ethnicities and genders, and can tell an adult 
from a child - all from the sound of a human voice.</div>
This is according to a study in which researchers played voice recordings to wild African elephants.  <br />

The animals showed more fear when they heard the voices of adult Masai men.   <br />

Livestock-herding Masai people do come into conflict with 
elephants, and this suggests that animals have adapted to specifically 
listen for and avoid them. <br />

The study is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. <br />

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<li> African elephants are the largest living land animals</li>
<li> Until recently there was one species of elephant in Africa - 
but they are now classified as either forest or bush (or savannah) 
elephants</li>
<li> Forest elephants, as the name suggests, are found in equatorial forests and have straighter trunks and rounded ears</li>
<li> Bush elephants are more widespread, mostly south of the Sahara in a range of habitats including savannah, swamps and deserts</li>
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Prof Karen McComb and Dr Graeme 
Shannon from the University of Sussex, who led the study, explained that
 in previous research they had used similar playback experiments to 
reveal that elephants could tell - from the sound of a lion's roar - 
whether the animal was a female or a more dangerous male. </div>
Other studies have shown that elephants respond with fear to the scent and even to the red colour of the Masai clothing. <br />

"I've experienced that," explained Prof McComb. <br />

"If you give a Masai man a lift in your car, you can see the elephants behave in a different way around you. <br />

"They're much more wary of the car and you see a lot of smelling and listening." <br />

Prof McComb wanted to find out if the animals used their very
 acute sense of hearing to identify a potential threat from humans. <br />

The scientists recorded Masai men, women and children saying,
 in their own language, "look, look over there, a group of elephants is 
coming". <br />

They also recorded Kamba men saying this phrase. <br />

While cattle-herding Maasai people often encounter 
free-ranging elephants, which can result in violent conflict, the Kamba 
people's more agricultural lifestyle does not generally bring them into 
aggressive contact with the animals. <br />

When the team played recordings of these different voices 
through a camouflaged loudspeaker, they found that elephant family 
groups reacted more fearfully in response to the voice of a Masai man, 
than to a Kamba man's voice - retreating and bunching together 
defensively.<br />

And the adult male Masai voices triggered far more of these defensive reactions than the voices of women or boys.<br />

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       An additional and unexpected finding was that when the 
researchers changed the pitch and frequency of the voices - making a 
male Masai voice sound more female - the elephants would still react in 
the same way as they did to the original recording. <br />

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"That suggests they're using completely different cues [to us] in order to attribute gender," said Prof McComb. <br />

Frans van der Waal from the Yerkes National Primate Research 
Center at Emory University, a researcher and the author of several books
 on animal behaviour, wrote in an accompanying article in PNAS that this
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He added in an interview with BBC News: "Making these kinds of fine distinctions in human voice patterns is quite remarkable."<br />

Prof McComb said the research showed that elephants were "trying to adapt" to human threat<br />
s.  <br />

"Humans are undoubtedly the most dangerous and versatile predators the elephants are face<br />
d with these days," she said.  <br />

Prof de Waal added: "The more we understand about how 
elephants navigate their physical and social worlds, and how their 
behaviour continues to adapt to ever-changing threats, the better able 
we will be to effectively work to protect them in the wild."<br />
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BankIslami Launches Pakistan’s First Cardless Biometric ATM Service

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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">BankIslami Pakistan Limited has officially launched Pakistan’s first 
cardless biometric ATM service to facilitate its customers. This service
 will use customer’s thumb impression for his/her identity and no pin 
code will be required.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">This service will be especially helpful for Pakistan’s rural 
population for whom it is difficult to remember pin codes due to low 
literacy rates.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">BankIslami first launched biometric enabled ATMs in Pakistan back in 
2006. In December 2012 BankIslami had a soft launch of the cardless 
service at selected ATMs. However, now the service has been activated 
throughout the nation across a network of 201 branches in 77 cities.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">BankIslami currently has 160 ATMs, which are biometric enabled. The 
bank aims to add another 40 ATMs across Pakistan by the end of this 
year.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The biometric ATM service is limited to Bankislami customers only; 
however, customers of other banks can continue using BankIslami’s 
regular ATM service with their ATM cards and pin numbers.
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Kazi Abdul Muqtadir and Saeed Ahmed, Deputy Governors State Bank of 
Pakistan (SBP) inaugurated the unique service at a ceremony held at 
BankIslami’s Head Office. Hasan Aziz Bilgrami CEO BankIslami, Asad Alim 
Head Information System, George Flouros Area VP MEA NCR, Muhammad Faisal
 Shaikh Head Products & Business Development were also present 
during the launch ceremony.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">To enable the usage of this service BankIslami customers will be 
asked to register his/her biometric identification against CNIC while 
opening an account. Customer’s left and right thumb will be used for 
registration purposes. After approval of the customer’s account opening 
request, his/her thumb impressions/biometric record will be linked with 
the account through CNIC.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">During the launch of this service Mr Hasan Aziz Bilgrami, CEO of 
BankIslami reiterated that this biometric technology has been adopted to
 make banking transactions more secure. He further stated that now 
Bankislami customers can use ATM facility with just a single thumb 
impression.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">On the occasion NCR Corporation’s representative George Flouros said 
that with the successful launch of biometric ATM, now NCR can export 
this technology from Pakistan.</span></span><br />
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</span></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The NCR Corporation is a US-based computer hardware, software and 
electronics company that provides products and services that enable 
businesses to connect, interact and transact with their customers.</span></span><br />
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