Articles by Bhaswati Guha Majumder

Japan plans to resume commercial whaling; Australia opposes its decision

Australian Environment Minister says her country is committed to IWC and acknowledges its role as the pre-eminent international body.

Dec 21, 2018

Russian scientists are set to create digital system to help human hearing process

This study may help in cochlear implantation, the creation of new bioinspired approaches for speech processing, separation of sound sources, recognition and computational auditory scene analysis.

Dec 21, 2018

Singapore: Tree falls in Sembawang Park, injures 14 during intense thunderstorms

Parks also said that the incident happened when the northern part of the island was witnessing intense thunderstorms with heavy winds.

Dec 21, 2018

Google denies altering YouTube code to break Microsoft Edge allegation by ex-Microsoft intern

Microsoft Edge is a graphical age browser which replaced Explorer as a default web browser in Windows.

Dec 20, 2018

ICA introduces new e-services: Passport and NRIC applications to be done online by 2020

There are 15 new e-services, which are introduced by ICA and are now available on its MyICA website.

Dec 20, 2018

ICA says bomb hoax, car breakdowns and queue cutting cause heavy traffic jam at Causeway

Singapore's Immigration and Checkpoints Authority is expecting heavy traffic jams until the end of the year.

Dec 20, 2018

NASA cyber-attack: Many employees' personal information at risk

NASA discovered the breach on October 23 and stated that personal information about former and current employees may have been stolen.

Dec 19, 2018

NTU and AMD will launch Data Science and AI Lab to train aspiring tech leaders

From next academic year, NTU undergraduates will be eligible to intern at AMD's Shanghai Research and Development Center (SRDC) and the Singapore Product Development Center (SPDC).

Dec 19, 2018

Education Artificial intelligence

Singapore: Police arrest man for stealing jewellery worth $35k from Yew Tee Square shop

If convicted the accused could face seven years of imprisonment and a fine for committing a crime under Section 380.

Dec 19, 2018

Education: SUTD signs a broad collaboration agreement with Finland's Aalto University

This agreement is expected to increase student exchanges, boost staff and faculty, as well as, advance innovation and entrepreneurship.

Dec 17, 2018

Education

Singapore court allows gay man to adopt surrogate son

The previous appeal to adopt the surrogate sun was rejected in December 2017 but a year later the gay man allowed to adopt the child in landmark ruling.

Dec 17, 2018

Singapore: Man who sexually assaulted two sisters faces 20 years' preventive detention

The paedophile a medical history of schizophrenia including personality disorder and suffered from high cholesterol, hypertension and spine degenerative illness.

Dec 17, 2018

Singapore crime

Scientists claim Machine Learning can help to predict infection risk from hospital bug

Here are the quick facts about Staphylococcus epidermidis, which is a Gram-positive bacterium and a source of serious infections.

Dec 16, 2018

Near the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy some 200 thousand light-years distant, lies the young star cluster NGC 602.

Astronomers discover unique star forming like a planet

Astronomers said that the star and disc they have observed is so massive that, rather than witnessing a planet forming in the disc, they saw another star being born.

Dec 16, 2018

Space Universe

Singapore: Travellers face long queues and traffic jams at Tuas and Woodlands Checkpoints

Some of the travellers had to wait for almost eight hours in the queues to drive into their respective destination.

Dec 16, 2018

'Brightest Comet' to pass earth on Sunday; You can watch it without telescope

The phenomena will be one of the 10 closest comet flybys of the earth in 70 years and people can watch it with nacked-eye.

Dec 15, 2018

Asteroid Nasa Space

Google's AI technology will help to detect diabetic retinopathy

In many cases, diabetic retinopathy often goes undetected because people do not always get screening.

Dec 15, 2018

Artificial intelligence Diabetes

Singapore editor faces defamation charge for publishing controversial letter

The Online Citizen editor faces a jail term up to two years and a fine, or both for defaming ministers.

Dec 15, 2018

Singapore crime

FAO says increased soil contamination is now threatening our food security

Growing cities are responsible for producing tons of waste materials that end up in landfills and enter the soil.

Dec 6, 2018

Singapore: 175 people fell sick after mass food poisoning events at Mandarin Orchard Hotel

More than 40 people were affected after eating food at Mandarin Orchard Hotel between December 1 and 3.

Dec 6, 2018

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