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Nobel winner slammed for calling male Siri more trustworthy | Nobel Prize-winning economist Sir Christopher Pissarides has been slammed online after he said he preferred the voice on Apple's digital assistant Siri to be male because that made it more trustworthy. Apologising for his comments, Pissarides said, "But the audience was laughing." The comments were made at the Starmus ... |
Airline crew to perform 3-act play in the sky | Icelandair crew members are set to perform a three-act play on board a flight from London to New York via Iceland. The company has partnered with a theatre group to coach its flight crew, who will learn singing and dancing. The initiative was launched after Icelandair surveyed 9,000 passengers, and found that 52% end u... |
Bus drivers win right to wear shorts on turning up in skirts | French male bus drivers have won the right to wear shorts at work after turning up in skirts as a protest. The drivers were protesting having to wear trousers in the extreme heat in the city of Nantes, while their female colleagues were allowed to wear skirts. The drivers complained the temperature behind the wheels of... |
Chinese school smashes confiscated phones with hammers | A Chinese school has gone viral for destroying students' confiscated phones by soaking them in water before smashing them with hammers in front of all the students. An official said, "It's a school rule," adding that parents knew about the policy. She added, "We've repeated this a lot of times, and there is nothing mor... |
Italian airport lifts liquids ban for famed pesto sauce | Italian city Genoa has granted an airport waiver for passengers wanting to take home its pesto sauce. Passengers who donate at least 50 cents to charity will be allowed to carry 500 grams of pesto and will be exempt from the 100 ml rule for liquids in carry-on baggage. Genoa airport has raised â¹36,000 within 20 days ... |
Essar Oil's â¹86,000cr sale to Rosneft cleared by all lenders | Essar group has received approval from all 23 lenders to complete the sale of Essar Oil to Russia's state-owned oil firm Rosneft. The lenders also include LIC, to which the company owes around â¹1,200 crore. LIC had earlier refused to give its approval. The â¹86,000 crore deal, which was signed in October 2016, marks... |
Ambani drops gas price challenge against govt after 3 years | Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries and British partner BP have withdrawn a legal challenge they initiated three years back against the government over delay in gas price revision. This follows Reliance and BP's plan to invest $6 billion in new fields. The withdrawal of the arbitration will entitle the companies to p... |
Billionaire Buffett's airline stocks add â¹490 crore in a day | Billionaire investor and world's fourth richest person Warren Buffett's firm Berkshire Hathaway saw its stake in airlines rise by $76 million (â¹489 crore) on Thursday. This came after Qatar Airways expressed desire to buy 10% stake in American Airlines, in which Buffett is a major investor. Notably, Buffett's firm ha... |
Saif Ali Khan's Kaalakaandi to release on September 8 | Actor Saif Ali Khan's upcoming film 'Kaalakaandi' will release on September 8. It is a dark comedy which revolves around six characters from different sections of Mumbai. Actors Deepak Dobriyal, Kunal Roy Kapoor, Shenaz Treasury and Neil Bhoopalam will also star in the film. 'Kaalakaandi' marks the directorial debut of... |
Varun, Taapsee, Jacqueline practise for Tan Tana Tan remake | A video which has surfaced online shows actors Varun Dhawan, Taapsee Pannu and Jacqueline Fernandez practising a dance sequence for their film 'Judwaa 2'. They're seen dancing to the song 'Tan Tana Tan', which featured in the original 1997 film Judwaa. Their upcoming film is a remake of the 1997 film, which starred Sal... |
USA Cricket Association expelled from ICC after 52 years | USA Cricket Association was expelled from ICC at the Council's AGM in London on Thursday, 52 years after being inducted as a member. This comes after three suspensions given to USACA since 2005, since the body did not "genuinely exercise authority over the sport in USA". ICC CEO David Richardson said they would be read... |
Kuldeep 1st male Chinaman bowler to represent India in ODIs | Kuldeep Yadav became the first male Chinaman bowler to represent India in ODIs, making his debut in the first ODI against West Indies on Friday. Yadav, who made his Test debut against Australia in March this year, is the 217th ODI cricketer to represent India. The 22-year-old was part of the Indian team at the 2014 ICC... |
Man killed on train for 'carrying beef', cops say seat fight | Several passengers on board a Mathura-bound train allegedly stabbed a man to death and injured two of his cousins on suspicion that they were carrying beef. However, the police said that a heated dispute broke out between the two groups near Okhla station over seats. The victim was returning home to Haryana's Ballabhga... |
New York judge duped of â¹6.8 crore through email scam | A New York State Supreme Court judge has been scammed out of over â¹6.8 crore in an email scam. The incident took place as the judge was selling a property and purchasing a new one. The scammers sent an email to the judge posing as her attorney and asking her to send the money to a bank account. |
Hotel offers 24-carat gold bedding for suite costing â¹4 lakh | The five-star TownHouse Galleria Hotel in the Italian city of Milan has furnished its â¬5,500-a-night (approximately â¹4 lakh) presidential suite with 24-carat gold bedding. The limited-edition bedding sets can also be purchased for â¬200,000 (â¹1.4 crore). The luxury suite also features a large dining area with a ... |
Russian sells photos on Delhi streets to travel across India | A Russian national was selling his photographs in Delhi to earn money and continue travelling across India. Kola sat in Connaught Place next to a placard saying, "Hello. I'm from Russia. These photos are from my travel. Price up to you. Support my trip." Kola was staying in a hostel, and wished to visit Kashmir. |
Ford India recalls over 39,000 Fiesta Classic, old Figo cars | Ford on Friday recalled 39,315 units of Fiesta Classic and previous-generation Figo in India to rectify faulty power assisted steering hose. The recall will affect units of the two models made at the Chennai plant between 2004 and 2012. Ford conducted one of India's largest recalls in 2013, when it asked for as many as... |
Scientists uncover origin of Sun's grass-like plasma jets | A NASA-funded study has uncovered the origins of Sun's swirling spicules, grass-like plasma jets which can go upto 10,000 km from the Sun's surface. Scientists simulated the short-lived jets and found they are formed when charged particles bound by magnetic fields are hit by neutral particles. Scientists believe the sp... |
All Indian passports from now on to be in English & Hindi | External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Friday announced that all passports from now on will be in English and Hindi languages as against the existing passports which are only in English. Swaraj also announced a 10% reduction in passport fee for applicants who are under 8 years of age and for those over 60 years of ... |
Watch how musician Raghav Meattle outruns normal | Giving up a stable career to follow your dreams against all odds is not easy. When singer-songwriter Raghav Meattle moved to Mumbai after leaving a lucrative career in marketing to become a musician, he had to find a way to tune out the noise. Raghav believes that running helps him unwind, discover new ideas and leave ... |
Neerja's kin moves HC accusing makers of criminal conspiracy | The family of late flight attendant Neerja Bhanot, on whose life the Sonam Kapoor starrer 'Neerja' is based, has moved the High Court accusing the film's makers of criminal conspiracy over profit-sharing. Neerja's family has accused the makers of not sharing 10% of the film's net profit and the fixed compensation of â... |
New trailer of Sridevi's 300th film Mom released | A new trailer of Sridevi's 300th film 'Mom' has been released. The revenge thriller also stars Akshaye Khanna, Pakistani actors Sajal Ali and Adnan Siddiqui with Nawazuddin Siddiqui in a special appearance. Directed by Ravi Udyawar with AR Rahman as the music director, the film is scheduled to release on July 7. |
Chandan Prabhakar rejoins Kapil Sharma's show after 3 months | Comedian Chandan Prabhakar has confirmed that he'll rejoin The Kapil Sharma Show after a three-month gap. Prabhakar hadn't shot for the show following Kapil's brawl on a flight with Sunil Grover in March. "It's okay if I reacted then...I can't stretch it for life. We're like family...two brothers fight but that doesn't... |
17 dead after oxygen supply cut, hospital calls it 'routine' | As many as 17 people died after the oxygen supply in Indore's Maharaja Yashwant Rao Hospital was allegedly cut on Thursday for 15 minutes. However, the hospital officials have denied negligence and one of them was reported saying that patient deaths were "routine" in a big hospital. Notably, the logbook of oxygen suppl... |
Kavita Devi first Indian woman wrestler to compete in WWE | Former powerlifter Kavita Devi will become the first Indian woman wrestler in WWE, after getting selected for the company's first-ever tournament for women, Mae Young Classic. Kavita, who trained at The Great Khali's wrestling academy in Punjab, appeared at the WWE Dubai tryout this year where she was selected. She wil... |
Digital currency price tanks from â¹20,600 to â¹6.4 in seconds | Digital currency Ethereum plummeted from around $320 (â¹20,600) to just 10 cents (â¹6.45) in a matter of seconds on Wednesday. The "flash-crash" was triggered by one investor placing a multi-million dollar "sell" order. The slippage resulted in 800 stop-loss orders, an automatic order to sell if the price falls below... |
Passport fee cut by 10% for applicants under 8, over 60 yrs | The government has announced a 10% reduction in passport fee for applicants in age groups of under 8 and over 60 years. Further, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj, while addressing an event to mark 50 years of the Passport Act, said passports will now be in both Hindi and English. Personal details on passports ar... |
Hyderabad man arrested for live-streaming sex with wife | A man from Hyderabad was arrested for live-streaming himself having sex with his wife, over Skype to another man. He was arrested after his wife found that her videos and pictures, taken without her consent while she was bathing, sleeping, changing clothes and having sex with him, were shared with another man residing ... |
Female Uber employee writes post in support of Ex-CEO Travis | A female Product Manager at Uber has written a Facebook post in support of the ride-hailing startup's ousted CEO Travis Kalanick. She explained that she left her job at Facebook because she was labelled as an "aggressive woman", but was encouraged to speak up at Uber. "Thank you for creating a place where no idea was t... |
News about money from government in accidental deaths fake | A fake news update is being shared on WhatsApp, which claims that the government provides compensation in case of death due to accident. It claims that if a person dies in an accident, and has been filing his income tax since the last three years, the government will provide a compensation equivalent to 10 times his av... |
Google removing people's medical records from search results | Google has started removing private medical records from its search results, after adjusting its policy regarding personal information. In 2016, an Indian pathology lab mistakenly leaked names and HIV blood test results of over 43,000 patients. The last change to Google's removal policy was made to cover "revenge porn"... |
B'luru startup reaches Elon Musk-backed Xprize's semi-finals | Bengaluru-based startup Chimple, which builds tablet-based solutions to help children learn better, has advanced to semi-finals of the $15 million (â¹97 crore) Global Learning XPrize, backed by Elon Musk. The 11 semi-finalists, selected from a field of 198 teams, are competing to make software that will let children i... |
Billionaires' Row mansion with indoor pool listed for â¹300cr | A waterfront mansion on a Canadian street called Billionaires' Row is on sale for $48 million (over â¹300 crore), a record listing for a residential single-family home in the area. The five-bedroom Vancouver mansion features gallery halls for private concerts, an indoor pool and a six-car garage. It is owned by a busi... |
Harley-Davidson looking to buy rival Ducati: Reports | US motorcycle maker Harley-Davidson is one of the bidders for its Italian rival Ducati in a deal that could be worth $1.67 billion (over â¹10,700 crore), according to reports. Ducati has also garnered interest from Bajaj Auto among others. Ducati is being put up for sale by German carmaker Volkswagen, which bought it ... |
India has won Olympic hockey golds most number of times | India has won eight gold medals in hockey at the Olympics, which is highest among all nations. India has won a total of 11 Olympic medals in the sport, including one silver and two bronze, which is the third-highest in the world. Indiaâs gold medals came in six editions from 1928-1956, and two more in 1964 and 1980. |
Tatas the better candidate to buy Air India: Airtel's Mittal | Bharti Airtel's Sunil Mittal has said if Air India is to be privatised, then Tatas will be one of the better candidates to buy stake in the airline. His response came after reports suggested that Tata Group was interested in buying a controlling stake in the airline. Notably, Air India was originally owned by Tata befo... |
Trump administration is business-friendly: Infosys' Sikka | Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka has said US President Donald Trump's administration is business-friendly and entrepreneurial, and offers tremendous opportunities to do innovative work. He refuted reports that Indian IT firms are facing challenges under the administration, saying, "I donât feel that way". âAs long as we ca... |
Govinda's pic from sets of Jagga Jasoos surfaces online | A picture of Govinda from the sets of the upcoming Ranbir Kapoor and Katrina Kaif starrer 'Jagga Jasoos' has surfaced online. Reports suggest that Govinda shot for a cameo in the film, but later walked out of it citing irreconcilable differences with director Anurag Basu. Govinda was reportedly cast as a detective who ... |
Man jailed for dangling toddler out of window for FB 'likes' | A court in Algeria has sentenced a man to two years imprisonment for dangling a toddler out of a window. The man captioned a picture of the incident, "1,000 likes or I will drop him," following which Facebook users reacted with shock and anger. The toddler's father asked the court to pardon the man, saying it was a gam... |
Police officer lynched in Srinagar outside a mosque | Deputy Superintendent of Police Ayub Pandit was lynched by a mob outside Jamia Masjid in Jammu and Kashmir's Srinagar on Thursday. While the exact reason was not revealed by the authorities, several reports claim that the incident took place after he was seen filming outside the mosque and opened fire at a group of peo... |
TV channels blacked out in Darjeeling over Gorkhaland issue | Amid the protests and clashes over demands for separate state Gorkhaland, local and regional television channels have been blacked out in Darjeeling after the suspension of internet services. Citing public emergency, District Magistrate Joyoshi Dasgupta said that these restrictions will be valid till June 27, unless re... |
Pak cricketers a role model for hockey players: Hockey Chief | Pakistan Hockey Federation secretary-general Shahbaz Ahmed has said the country's cricket team is a "role model" for their hockey players, following their Champions Trophy win over India. "Their exploits are being showcased to the hockey team and you never know what result it could produce," said Ahmed. Pakistan's hock... |
Phone screen coating to let people read in bright light made | Researchers at the University of Central Florida have developed an anti-glare film that could allow people to read from their smartphones and tablets even in bright sunlight. The coating is inspired by the nanostructures that cover moth eyes and prevent light from reflecting off them. The flexible, self-cleaning coatin... |
Scientists challenge 100-year-old data storage problem | Switzerland-based researchers challenged a fundamental law formulated in 1914 and found that more information can be stored in resonant systems than previously thought. According to the law, a resonator can either store data for a long time or have a broad bandwidth. However, researchers created asymmetric resonators t... |
Darjeeling unrest: 43 GJM members resign from GTA | At least 43 Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM) members on Friday resigned from the Gorkhaland Territorial Administration. GJM chief Bimal Gurung resigned and said, "Indefinite strike to continue. All-party meeting postponed to June 29. We will burn GTA agreement on June 27." Gurung demanded a CBI inquiry into alleged inciden... |
Punjab's Navdeep Singh tops NEET 2017 exam | Punjab student Navdeep Singh has topped this year's National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET), the results of which were announced today. He got the AIR-1 with a score of 697 out of 720. Notably, three students in the top 10 hail from Punjab. The exam, conducted by the CBSE, was taken by over 11 lakh students. |
Uttarakhand HC bans state govt from buying cars, cellphones | The Uttarakhand High Court has banned the state government from purchasing "luxury items" like cars and cellphones over its failure to provide basic amenities in state-run schools. The Court observed that a government which cannot provide basic amenities to children has no moral right to spend money on luxuries. This c... |
When did Test nations play their first-ever Test matches? | The first-ever Test match was played between England and Australia in 1877. South Africa became the third Test-playing nation in 1889 while India debuted in 1932. In 2000, Bangladesh became the fourth Asian country and tenth overall to play a Test. ICC awarded Test status to a nation after 17 years on Thursday, grantin... |
Canadian sniper breaks longest kill record with 3.5 km shot | A Canadian elite special forces soldier has broken the world record for longest sniper shot by killing an Islamic State insurgent within 10 seconds from a distance of 3,450 metres during an insurgency operation in Iraq, according to reports. The world record was previously held by a British sniper who shot a Taliban gu... |
Remark on daughter Jhanvi's marriage misunderstood: Sridevi | Sridevi has said that her earlier statement about being happier if elder daughter Jhanvi Kapoor gets married instead of acting was misunderstood. She added, "What I meant...was I'd prefer if my daughters didn't lead the...hectic life that comes with this business..." Sridevi added she doesn't believe that girls should ... |
SRK, Suhana, Iulia attend Tubelight screening | Actor Shah Rukh Khan along with daughter Suhana Khan and Salman's rumoured girlfriend Iulia Vantur attended the screening of the film 'Tubelight'. Preity Zinta, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Sonakshi Sinha and Anil Kapoor were also spotted at the premiere. The film's cast and crew, including director Kabir Khan and child actor ... |
Free electricity connection for BPL families announced in UP | The Uttar Pradesh government will be providing free electricity connections to all urban Below Poverty Line (BPL) families, as part of its 'Power For All' scheme. "This falls under the scheme to provide electricity to entire Uttar Pradesh", State Cabinet Minister Shrikant Sharma said while making the announcement. He a... |
Arnabâs Republic TV is harassing my family, says Activist | Anti-nuclear activist SP Udayakumar, in a letter, has accused journalist Arnab Goswami's news venture Republic TV of deceiving and harassing him and his family. His complaint comes after Republic TV carried out a âsting operationâ against him, which the channel claims exposed his "willingness to accept money from a... |
'Don't belong to any political party': Ram Nath Kovind | NDA's presidential candidate Ram Nath Kovind today said that he doesn't belong to any political party ever since he became the Governor of Bihar. Making his appeal for support, he said he "will try his best to maintain the dignity of the post". Kovind filed his nomination in the presence of PM Narendra Modi and BJP's t... |
Mark Zuckerberg sets a new mission for Facebook | Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday set a new mission for his company to "Bring the world closer together." He added, "For the past decade, we've focused on making the world more open and connected. We're not done yet and we will continue working on that." He said Facebook will empower people to build communities ... |
Apple builds giant MacBook-like roof for new Chicago store | Apple's new store in Chicago, US, will feature a giant rectangular roof with a logo on its middle, meant to replicate a MacBook Air laptop. The 20,000 sq ft store will have all-glass walls and a thin, carbon fiber roof to give the look of a MacBook Air. Apple has not indicated when the new Chicago store will open. |
US man faces â¹775 crore fine over 9.6 crore spam robocalls | A Miami man is facing a record â¹775 crore fine for spamming people with 9.6 crore automated phone calls. He used 'neighbour spoofing' technique, in which people are more likely to answer calls that appear to come from local numbers. The calls attempted to fleece consumers by promising them "too-good-to-be-true" vacat... |
Ex-Tesla exec Satish Jeyachandran joins Google spinoff Waymo | American electric carmaker Tesla's former Director of hardware engineering Satish Jeyachandran has joined Google's self-driving spinoff Waymo. He will lead Waymo's hardware team, overseeing the development and integration of cameras, radar, lidar, and computer vision. Jeyachandran spent nearly seven years at Tesla bef... |
Mark Zuckerberg shares Iftar picture with Somali refugees | Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Friday shared a photograph of himself having an Iftar dinner for the first time with a group of Somali refugees in Minneapolis. In the caption, Zuckerberg praised the refugees' resilience for building a new life in an "unfamiliar place," adding that they are a "powerful reminder of why t... |
Bitcoin startup raises â¹257 crore led by Google, Lakestar | London-based Bitcoin wallet startup Blockchain has raised â¹257 crore led by venture capital firm Lakestar and Google's investment arm GV. Existing investors like Lightspeed Venture Partners and billionaire Richard Branson also participated in the round. The funding represents one of the largest investment rounds in U... |
Tilted asteroid orbits hint Solar System has a 10th planet | Tilted orbits of asteroids in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune give evidence of an unknown "planetary mass object" far beyond Pluto, according to a US-based research. This object would be different from and much closer than the yet-to-be-found hypothetical Planet Nine, researchers said. They hope the Large Synoptic Surve... |
11 dead in Balochistan bombing, Pak blames India for attack | At least 11 people were killed and 20 others wounded in a car bomb attack near the office of the provincial police chief in the Pakistani city of Quetta in Balochistan today. The explosion, which was reportedly heard across the city, shattered the windows of nearby buildings and damaged several cars. The Quetta governm... |
Man visits Disneyland for 2,000 days in a row | A man has visited the Disneyland theme park in California, United States for 2,000 days in a row. Jeff Reitz marked the milestone on Thursday, using his Disneyland Resort annual pass which has allowed him to visit every day since January 1, 2012. Disneyland spokesperson John McClintock said Reitz usually shows up after... |
Shiv Sena MPs, MLAs pledge a month's salary to farmers | Shiv Sena Minister Diwakar Raote has announced all MPs, MLAs, corporators and panchayat samiti members of the party will donate one month's salary to farmers as relief. Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray will also contribute â¹10 lakh, but the amount will not go to the Chief Minister's Relief Fund. Shiv Sena has 21 MPs in bo... |
Hundreds of farmers protest over airbase land, 15 cops hurt | Hundreds of farmers protested against a proposed defence airport in a defunct World War II-era airbase on the outskirts of Mumbai, clashing with the police and setting alight four police vehicles on Thursday. Twenty-nine people, including 15 policemen, were injured. The land was reportedly taken from the farmers during... |
Madhya Pradesh witnesses suicides of 21 farmers in 2 weeks | With four more farmers killing themselves in last 24 hours in Madhya Pradesh allegedly distressed over debts, the state has witnessed a total of 21 farmer suicides in the last two weeks. Reacting to the situation, senior Congress leader Kamal Nath said, "The farmers were being forced to end their lives due to the anti-... |
Mithali Raj snaps at scribe asking her about male cricketers | India women's cricket team captain Mithali Raj snapped at a reporter who asked her who her favourite male cricketer was at a pre-Women's World Cup event in London on Thursday. "Do you ask the same question to a male cricketer? Do you ask them who their favourite female cricketer is... You should ask them that," Mithali... |
Why is Olympic Day celebrated on June 23? | Olympic Day is celebrated on June 23 annually across the world to promote participation in sport regardless of age, gender or athletic ability. It was introduced in 1948 to commemorate the birth of the modern Olympic Games on June 23, 1894 in Paris. Sporting and cultural activities such as runs, exhibitions, music and ... |
Etihad starts auctioning 'neighbour-free' empty seats | Etihad Airways on Thursday said it is allowing economy passengers to bid on up to three neighbouring seats as part of its new "neighbor-free seat" option. Economy passengers can pay $250 for access to business-class lounges in Abu Dhabi. Etihad can keep ticket prices "as low and as competitive as possible" by charging ... |
NASA spots ancient 'dead' galaxy shaped like Milky Way | Scientists using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found the first observational evidence that some ancient "dead" galaxies, where star formation stopped, evolve from a Milky Way-shaped disk into elliptical galaxies. The galaxy was captured using a phenomenon called gravitational lensing, where light from a distant ga... |
Scientists study how eggs got their shapes | An international team of scientists characterised eggs from about 1,400 bird species and found their shape was determined by the membrane, not the shell. The shape correlates with flight ability and amount of calcium in diet, researchers said. It could explain why two different species, albatross and hummingbird have s... |
BJP youth wing leader arrested for circulating fake currency | BJP's Kerala Yuva Morcha leader Rajesh Erachery was arrested by the police on Thursday over possession of fake currency notes along with the printing machine. The police recovered fake currency of nearly â¹1.5 lakh from Erachery's house in denominations of â¹20, â¹50, â¹500 and â¹2000. It was a raid as part of the... |
Salman Khan's movie Tubelight hits the theatres | Salman Khan-starrer movie 'Tubelight' that hit the theatres on Friday, has "Salman's man-child act slightly over the top, but his fans will like it," according to Hindustan Times. "Stunning visuals. But Tubelight is body beautiful, minus soul," tweeted movie critic Taran Adarsh. The movie was rated 3/5 (TOI), 1.5/5 (Th... |
ISRO successfully launches 31 satellites in one go | India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) in its 40th flight today successfully launched 31 satellites in one go into a 505 km polar Sun-Synchronous Orbit. The ISRO-made rocket carried a 712-kg Cartosat-2 series Earth-observing satellite and 30 co-passenger satellites together weighing 243 kg. The co-passenger sate... |
EU citizens living in UK for 5 yrs can stay after Brexit: PM | UK PM Theresa May has told European Union leaders that any EU citizen living in UK for five years will be given "UK settled status" after Brexit. The new immigration status would grant EU citizens the right to stay in the UK and get health, education and other benefits. May also demanded same rights for UK citizens in ... |
NASA launches KalamSat satellite developed by Indian teen | NASA on Thursday launched satellite 'KalamSat' which is developed by Indian teenagers hailing from Tamil Nadu. Made of reinforced carbon fibre polymer, the 64-gram satellite named after former Indian President APJ Abdul Kalam is reportedly the smallest and lightest satellite in the world. It is reportedly the first tim... |
Which parties have extended support to Meira Kumar? | After the Congress-led Opposition named former Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar as its presidential candidate, 17 parties have extended their support. The major parties include Samajwadi Party (SP), Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)), Rashtriya Janata D... |
CBSE declares medical entrance NEET 2017 results | The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has declared the results of this year's National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET). Over 11.3 lakh students had taken the entrance test for admission to medical colleges, on 7 May 2017. Students can check the results at cbseresults.nic.in and cbseneet.nic.in after ente... |
Jadhav's new video just 'manufactured facts': India | India has dismissed the second confessional video of Indian national Kulbhushan Jadhav released by Pakistan. âManufactured facts can't alter reality, and do not detract from the fact that Pakistan is in violation of its international obligation to India and Mr. Jadhav,â the statement said. It also asked Pakistan to... |
Who is Opposition's Presidential candidate Meira Kumar? | Meira Kumar, the Congress-led Opposition's presidential candidate, was the country's first woman Speaker of the Lok Sabha, serving from 2009 to 2014. She is a five-term MP and has been a Union Minister twice. Kumar completed her MA in English Literature, qualified for Indian Foreign Services and served at Indian embass... |
Trivandrum tops new list of Smart Cities, Naya Raipur second | The government on Friday released a new list of 30 cities to be developed as smart cities under the Smart City Mission. Kerala's Trivandrum has topped the list, while Chhattisgarh's Naya Raipur and Gujarat's Rajkot bagged the third spot. Urban Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu said that 45 cities competed for 40 slot... |
Times Now behind Republic TV by 1%, ahead in 3 categories | News channel Times Now is behind its former Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami's Republic TV by 1% in market share, according to the weekly data released by the Broadcast Audience Research Council (BARC). Republic TV's market share between 10 June-16 June was 34.8%, while Times Now's was 33.8%. Moreover, in urban India, Tim... |
Delighted, grateful to Sonia Gandhi: Prez candidate Meira | After she was nominated by the Congress-led Opposition as its Presidential candidate, former Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar on Thursday said, "I want to express my gratitude to the Congress President (Sonia Gandhi) and all the 17 parties for selecting me." Meira, who will contest the elections against BJP-led NDA's cand... |
Maha govt urges employees to donate dayâs salary to farmers | The Maharashtra government on Thursday appealed to its employees to donate a dayâs salary to financially assist families of farmers in the "suicide-prone" regions of the state. The money will reportedly also be used for educating farmers' children. Notably, the state government recently agreed to waive loans of small... |
Shastri to apply for coach only if post guaranteed: Reports | Former cricketer Ravi Shastri has reportedly said he will apply for the post of Indian cricket team's head coach only if he is guaranteed selection. This comes after Shastri underwent the selection process last year, but did not get the job. BCCI has invited more applications for the coach's post after Anil Kumble refu... |
4 Tamil Nadu cities, 3 from UP, Gujarat in smart cities list | The new list of 30 cities to be developed under the Smart City Mission, released by the government on Friday, has four cities from Tamil Nadu and three each from Uttar Pradesh and Gujarat. Tamil Nadu's Tiruppur, Tirunelveli, Thoothukudi and Tiruchirappalli were selected. Further, Uttar Pradesh's Jhansi, Allahabad and A... |
Premji's PremjiInvest objects $30 mn for Snapdeal Founders | Wipro Chairman and billionaire Azim Premji's family office PremjiInvest, an investor in Snapdeal, on Wednesday objected $30 million payout proposed for Snapdeal Co-founders Kunal Bahl and Rohit Bansal as a part of Snapdeal-Flipkart merger. It also said that the $60 million payout proposed for Snapdeal's early investors... |
Private jet booking startup accused of not paying employees | JetSmarter, a Florida-based startup that lets users book private jets, has been sued by former employees who allege that the startup failed to pay them for thousands of hours of overtime. They claim they worked 65 hours a week and sometimes as many as six or seven days a week. However, they were never paid for those ex... |
Uber hires law firm to probe Indian rape victim's claims | Uber has hired law firm O'Melveny & Myers to investigate the claims of a woman who was raped in India by a driver in 2014 and later sued Uber alleging it obtained and mishandled her medical records. It will probe how the records were obtained and whether any bribes were paid. Uber has already fired the executive who ob... |
Over 1,000 employees demand Travis Kalanick's return to Uber | More than 1,000 Uber employees have signed a letter demanding ousted Uber CEO Travis Kalanick's return and handed it to the startup's board of directors. The employees have demanded that Kalanick should be brought back to Uber "in an operational role." The employees who have signed the letter represent close to 10% of ... |
Only 50.12% students pass Bihar board Class 10 exam | The Bihar School Examination Board (BSEB) on Thursday declared results of the Class 10 board exams, with 50.12% students passing the exam. The overall pass percentage was marginally higher than the 46.6% in 2016. This year the BSEB had introduced the provision of grace marks to students and also carried out physical ve... |
Two Bengaluru men brutally assaulted for urinating in public | Two youths were brutally assaulted for urinating in public on June 15 in Bengaluru. "While we were urinating seven men came and started hitting us with wooden sticks, iron rodsâ¦abusing us for urinating," said one of the victims. The police have booked cases against the seven accused under 11 sections, including rioti... |
0001 car number sells for record â¹16L in govt auction | The "0001" car registration number sold for â¹16 lakh in a Delhi government e-auction recently, breaking previous records in the capital. The "0001" series sold for â¹12.50 lakh in 2014 while fetching â¹12.10 lakh in 2015. The Delhi government began auctioning registration numbers in 2014 to increase revenue, as the... |
Rihanna gives break-up advice to fan in message on Instagram | A fan of singer Rihanna has tweeted abut how she gave him advice on how to handle his first break-up after he reached out to her via a message on Instagram. The singer has advised the fan to take "the heartbreak" as a gift in itself while assuring him that it will not last forever. |
Fitness blogger killed by exploding whipped cream dispenser | A 33-year-old French fitness blogger passed away last week after a whipped cream dispenser exploded into her chest and caused a heart attack, her family has said. The deceased, Rebecca Burger wrote about fitness and travel online and had over 1.5 lakh Instagram followers. There have been roughly 60 reports of injuries ... |
Kiran Bedi tries to cut Puducherry CMâs financial powers | Puducherry Lieutenant Governor Kiran Bedi has issued an order withdrawing the financial powers of Chief Minister V Narayanasamy, according to reports. The order transfers the powers to the Chief Secretary, who until now has no say in financial matters. The order was issued three months ago and is waiting for approval f... |
Telangana govt sets up 1000 free Wi-Fi hotspots in Hyderabad | The Telangana government has set up 1000 free Wi-Fi hotspots under the 'Hyderabad City Wi-Fi' project and plans to launch 2000 more within the next two months. The project offers 30 minutes of free Wi-Fi with an assured bandwidth of 5-10 Mbps. It will be extended to three more districts based on its performance, Telang... |
Truck carrying LPG cylinders explodes on Badrinath highway | Multiple explosions occurred on the Rishikesh-Badrinath highway on Friday morning after a truck carrying LPG cylinders burst into flames. A video of the incident has emerged, which shows at least eight explosions occurring in the truck. The Char Dham Yatra has been affected but no injuries have been reported, while the... |
Trump's 5-year-old real estate prediction proves right | US President Donald Trump's call to buy housing 5 years ago has proven right. "Now is the time to buy housing, before values have fully recovered. In 5 years, remember I told you so," Trump had tweeted in 2012. Notably, the House Price Index data collected from the US Federal Reserve shows consistent growth during the ... |
Prices revealed for Myntraâs âEnd of Reason Saleâ from June 24-26 | Sale Prices have now been revealed on India's Biggest Fashion Sale, Myntra End of Reason sale with over 3.3 Lakh+ styles on 50-80% OFF. This time itâs bigger than bigger with 22 million people shopping together. Users can avail extra 15% discount over and above all existing discounts for next six months through Myntr... |
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