Author: Vikas Ratanjee

Could 2024 be the year of Machine Learning and AI? - Asiana Times

With several setbacks to world economies and more efficiency in machine learning and AI-driven models, is it the next big thing? As we usher in 2024, we know that there have been constant hiccups in world economies, which have led to several losses of businesses resulting in companies thinking about cutting their costs so their businesses could still thrive. We are faced with a tight labor market situation in which even a recession might not help ease the situation. With technologies improving by leaps and bounds, could machine learning and AI be the answer for the pending miseries of companies?…

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Afghan Women's education, an alarming end of road - Asiana Times

The Taliban’s disallowing of women in the country from university education, although on expected lines, is heart-wrenching in a country where women had begun to rise again. Taliban’s education ban On Tuesday, the Taliban Education Minister Nida Muhammad Nasim said that the Taliban government would halt all women’s higher education in colleges and universities until further notice. They gave no reason as to why they were doing it, according to the English news channel Al Jazeera, which tried to reach them for information. As reported by some Afghan women students, the Taliban blocked the gates of some prominent universities as…

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Can India weather the massive COVID storm raised from China successfully? - Asiana Times

With the world particularly China is in the eye of a fresh COVID storm, it has raised questions about how India would be affected, as we brace ourselves for the next few months The World Health Organisation indicated last month that the end of COVID was near, but the reality seems different, and the biggest example is what’s happening in China. The country has been reporting an increased number of infections since last month, and the number keeps getting bigger and bigger each day. In the past few days there has been news of dead bodies piling up everywhere in…

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Donald Trump faces a tumultuous coming week - Asiana Times

The coming week will culminate in a lot of controversies around actions taken in the past by Former President Donald Trump, with some important decisions on the anvil. The world is watching as things unfold There has been drama galore around former US President Donald Trump in the past five years, with questions put at him; allegations made on him, and eyebrows raised. But the coming week will be the most torrid of all for him as he faces decisions on these actions that he has taken. What does Trump’s coming week look like? On Monday, the House committee which…

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sinusitis problem depiction in a man

Do you suffer from sinusitis that has been bothering you for a long time, and has been constantly nagging you? It can be a nightmare, which doesn’t make you feel good. It upsets almost anything you want to do until you can’t do it anymore. Anyone can get sinusitis, but those with nose allergies, polyps, asthma, or abnormal nose structures, can get it more than others. What is Sinusitis? We have four pairs of cavities in our head that make all the mucous drain out through channels in our nose.The drainage helps clean the bacteria from our nose, but when…

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5 super ways to make your cold go away for good - Asiana Times

It’s that time of the year now, when the weather can become cold, and you want to get into a blanket quickly, wear warm clothes, and have those piping hot bhajiyas, Elaichi Adrak Chai. In other words, you want to do everything that keeps you warm. It’s also a time when, wherever you go outside, you find everyone around you coughing and sneezing, whether you are going to a provision store to buy the groceries, or you are travelling to your office by bus, or you are in your office.You are bound to encounter someone or the other having a…

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China’s Zero COVID-19 Policy And Its Dangerous Ripples - Asiana Times

Covid-19 cases in China are dramatically surging, leaving the Chinese government with no choice, but to ease restrictions, because of widespread protests. What can happen now is intriguing. The protests The protests began as a mere show of mourning for the ten people killed in a fire in a building in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang region, as strict COVID-19 rules hindered their rescue, which led to their death. Since then, the protests have started gathering steam until they are spreading across China, as a growing national dissatisfaction against the authoritarian stance of the Chinese regime. These protests, as we speak, have no…

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