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US-based Cognizant has acquired Strategic Vision Consulting (SVC), a leading management and technology consulting firm with over 60 employees serving the media and entertainment industry.

Washington - At least 10 people have died in severe flooding after rivers in the US states of Wisconsin, Indiana and Iowa burst their banks, the New York Times reported Tuesday.

Washington, June 10: A leading US think-tank has said that Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Frontier Corps have failed to root out Afghan insurgents based in Pakistan and some individuals from these organizations have provided direct assistance to groups like the Taliban and Haqqani network.

If Taliban sanctuary bases in Pakistan are not eliminated, the US and its NATO allies will face crippling long-term consequences in their effort to stabilize and rebuild Afghanistan, according to a RAND Corporation study.

The study, funded by the U. S. Department of Defence, finds that every successful insurgency in Afghanistan since 1979 enjoyed safe haven in neighbouring countries, and the current insurgency is no different, said the report.

Washington, June 10 : Studying an unusual case of a Dutch woman, who retained an essentially normal brain function until her death at the age of 115, experts have come to the conclusion that the as

Washington, June 10 : Lack of evidence has led researchers to confirm that the Caribbean monk seal is now officially extinct.

According to a report in Discovery News, the Caribbean monk seal was last seen in 1952 on a small group of reef islands between Jamaica and Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula.

Covered in brown fur tinged with gray, and with a yellow belly, the animal was easy prey for European settlers in the 1600s and 1700s, who killed it for meat, oil, and to seal the bottoms of boats.

Several seal sightings were reported in the Caribbean between 1952 and the present, but until the 80s and 90s - when people began carrying cameras and cell phones - it was difficult to verify whether those sightings really were Caribbean monk seals.