In the past two years, India has shown a marginal increase of 0.21 percent forest, adding 6,778 sq km in area, with Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Odisha and Telangana increasing their green footprint. BCCL While overall green cover, including tree patches outside recorded forest areas, reported an incremental 1% increase (8,021 sq km) over the …

US President Donald Trump has unveiled a $4 trillion annual budget for the fiscal 2019 beginning October 1. Of the proposed budget, $256 million were proposed to civilian assistance and $80 million in military aid to Pakistan. The proposal of aid to Pakistan comes weeks after Trump administration suspended nearly $2 billion in security assistance to Islamabad due to its …

For the family of Rifleman Nazir Ahmad, the army doctors were none other than angels sent from heaven. Ahmad’s wife was injured in a gunshot during the terror attack in Sunjuwan. She along with 11 others, was shot in the lower back when Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorists attacked civilians at the family quarters of the Army camp. ANI The woman woman who …

Disney entertainment will flow into China. Buena Vista International, a subsidiary of The Walt Disney Co., has signed a multi-year licensing deal with the media and entertainment arm of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba. The deal will bring more than 1,000 episodes of animated Disney series to the Youku video-streaming platform and other platforms, Alibaba said Monday in a statement. The deal …

“Facebook is for old people” has long been a mantra in my teenage-filled household. But now eMarketer has proved how that statement is evidence of an ongoing trend. The research firm released a forecast Monday saying that Facebook is losing younger users at an even faster pace than previously expected. And even though the social network has been able to …

LG wants to make your phone smarter, and it’s jumping on the AI train to do it. Ahead of Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this month, LG announced Monday it will bring artificial intelligence to its smartphone lineup in 2018, starting with this year’s version of the LG V30. Vision AI will bring image recognition to the V30’s camera, while …

Apple is changing the way it develops features, Bloomberg reported Monday. Engineers will now be able to push back the release of features they believe need more work. In the future, that could mean fewer bugs as the focus shifts somewhat from an annual update schedule, the news service said. Apple didn’t immediately respond to CNET’s request for comment. Bloomberg also reported …

Google’s next version of Android may be designed for phones that look a lot more like the iPhone X than they do like the Pixel 2 XL. Android P — the rumored follow-up to Google’s Android Oreo OS — is said to be optimized for phones with new design types, Bloomberg reported Monday. This includes phones with notches  like the iPhone X, multiple …

Facebook is renovating itself to increase users’ “time well spent” there, but the company’s head of News Feed said the social network itself is still figuring out what that means.  “We’re trying to figure out how to best measure and understand that,” Adam Mosseri, Facebook’s head of News Feed, said at the Code Media conference in Huntington Beach, California. The …

Verizon is taking an extra step to protect its phones.  The nation’s largest wireless carrier said Monday that it would begin locking the phones it sells to consumers, which will prevent them from using a SIM card from another carrier. Initially, the phones will be unlocked as soon as a customer signs up and activates the service. But later in …