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Alibaba revamps flagship AI app Quark for enhanced user experience

Hangzhou, Mar 13 (UNI) Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba on Thursday released a new version of its Quark application, a comprehensive AI assistant powered by Alibaba's Qwen-based advanced reasoning model.
Quark is the first within Alibaba's general user-facing businesses to fully leverage its proprietary foundation models, marking an important milestone in Alibaba's strategy to integrate AI across its businesses.
The revamped Quark offers advanced capabilities such as AI chatbot, deep thinking, deep research and task execution into an easy user interface. It aims to perform functions ranging from academic research to document drafting, image generation, presentations, medical diagnostics, travel planning and problem solving.
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Polls will be a defining moment for Bangladesh's democratic future: BNP leader

20 Jan 2026 | 9:17 PM

Dhaka, Jan 20 (UNI) Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has said the coming polls will mark a defining moment for the country's political history, remarking that the outcome would determine if Bangladesh will continue to exist as a secular, pluralist, and liberal democracy, or descend into radical religious extremism.

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David Beckham speaks out after son Brooklyn's Instagram outburst

20 Jan 2026 | 8:36 PM

Los Angeles, Jan 20 (UNI) British Soccer icon David Beckham has spoken publicly in the wake of his son Brooklyn Beckham's controversial Instagram post, which accused his parents of meddling in his personal life and damaging his marriage.

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Nearly 900,000 security personnel to be deployed for Bangladesh's 13th parliamentary elections

20 Jan 2026 | 6:33 PM

Dhaka, Jan 20 (UNI) Ramping up security ahead of the 13th polls, almost 900,000 personnel of Bangladesh's security forces, including military and paramilitary services, will be deployed nationwide to maintain law and order during the 13th National Parliament elections, according to Lt Gen (Retd) Home Affairs Advisor Md. Jahangir Alam Chowdhury.

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MQM-P's Farooq Sattar blames apathetic misgovernance of PPP govt for deadly Gul Plaza fire in Karachi

20 Jan 2026 | 6:20 PM

Islamabad, Jan 20 (UNI) Muttahida Qaumi Movement–Pakistan (MQM-P) leader Dr Farooq Sattar on Tuesday launched a scathing attack on the ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Sindh government, over its two decades of alleged "inaction, apathy and corruption" which he said, was responsible for the deadly Gul Plaza fire in Karachi.

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Putin Envoy to discuss Ukraine with US delegation at Davos

20 Jan 2026 | 5:33 PM

Moscow, Jan 20 (UNI) The Kremlin has confirmed that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s special envoy, Kirill Dmitriev, plans to hold discussions with representatives of the US delegation on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos.

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