Aug 21 Watson goes to Asia as hospitals use supercomputer for cancer treatment By Ike Swetlitz, STAT The goal is to use Watson’s natural language processing to mine the medical literature and a patient’s records to provide treatment advice. Continue reading
Aug 04 Watch 6:49 Preserving what's left of a once-thriving Jewish community in India By PBS News Hour The coastal Indian city of Cochin was once home to a thriving Jewish community; immigrants came for the spice trade and ended up settling there. But in 1955, the community largely vanished as its residents departed en masse to the… Continue watching
Aug 03 Tensions bubble in disputed Kashmir ahead of regional summit By Kulsoom Khan Protests and diplomatic tensions are on the rise along the border of India and Pakistan as government officials from several Southeast Asian countries met in Pakistan on Wednesday for a regional summit. Continue reading
Aug 02 Watch 3:10 News Wrap: Obama renews case for TPP; more DNC resignations By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Tuesday, President Obama renewed his case for the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a trade deal both presidential candidates have disavowed. Also, the Associated Press reports that the Democratic National Committee’s chief executive has resigned and that other staff… Continue watching
Jun 22 Watch 4:29 Teen scientist's revolutionary speech device could grant language to the voiceless By PBS News Hour At age nine, Arsh Shah Dilbagi asked his parents for a puppy; they gave him a Lego kit instead. Undeterred, Arsh used it to construct a dog. Now 17, the tech prodigy is still building his dreams from scratch. His… Continue watching
Jun 15 Polio strain found in India two years after virus declared eradicated By Kulsoom Khan Two years after the World Health Organization declared India polio-free, an active strain of the virus has been found in samples of sewage water in the southern city of Hyderabad. Continue reading
Jun 08 Modi says India, U.S. have overcome 'the hesitations of history' By Matthew Pennington, Associated Press Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a joint meeting of Congress today after years of being shunned in Washington over religious violence in his home state. Continue reading
Apr 18 Watch 6:17 In cow-worshipping India, beef stirs up vigilante violence By PBS News Hour The cow is considered sacred to Hindus, who make up 80 percent of India's 1.2 billion people. Recently, allegations of the consumption of beef have sparked a spate of violent incidents, raising alarm about intolerance again the significant Muslim minority. Continue watching
Apr 13 Watch 6:17 Can water ATMs solve India's water crisis? By PBS News Hour About 76 million Indians don’t have regular access to clean drinking water, the most of any country in the world. But a new nationwide experiment aims to address the water crisis with “water ATMs,” machines that purify water on site… Continue watching
Apr 10 Fireworks explosion in India kills more than 100 attending religious festival By Kamala Kelkar More than 100 people were killed and hundreds more injured in Kerala, India on Sunday morning from a blaze that swept through a Hindu temple during an unauthorized fireworks show for a local new year festival. Continue reading