New Delhi, June 26: Aviva Life Insurance on Tuesday launched a chatbot named "ALISHA" in partnership with Findability Sciences -- a cognitive and artificial intelligence (AI) solutions company.

The chatbot is powered by IBM Watson's Conversation application programming interface (API) and fulfils Aviva's objective of providing meaningful insurance guidance anytime, anywhere. 

"ALISHA is Aviva's answer to the needs of today's customers who desire to get in touch with us anytime, anywhere. Our one of a kind chatbot serves as an impartial advisor," Anjali Malhotra, Chief Customer, Marketing and Digital Officer, Aviva Life Insurance, said in a statement. 

The chatbot, also called Aviva Life Insurance Self Help Assistant, is among India's first few Natural Language Processor (NLP)-powered Conversational Computing Solutions. 

It is able to interpret customers' questions and direct the flow of the conversation to guide and assist them, much like the way people interact and respond.

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Kalaburagi: Four men have been arrested in Kalaburagi on charge of hacking a man with lethal weapons and pelting stones at him under the limits of Station Bazaar Police Station recently.

According to police sources, Anand Jalak Shinde (34), Ashitosh Jalak Shinde (30), Imran Mehboob Sheikh (28) and Sohaib Anwar Qureshi have been arrested. The men are accused of the brutal murder of Syed Mehboob, a resident of Station Bazaar Upper Line Hamalawadi in the city.

An FIR was filed by the Station Bazaar Police Station based on a complaint given by Syed Ismail, father of the deceased Syed Mehboob.

Following quick probe, the police team successfully arrested the suspects within 24 hours. The arrested men were produced in court and have been sent to judicial custody.

The City Police Commissionerate has appreciated in an official release the police team’s quick solving of the murder case and arrest of the four men accused of murdering Syed Mehboob.