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Indian entrepreneurs launch new social networking app

Indian entrepreneurs Gurnam Sunny and Inderdeep Bassi have come up with a social networking app which they claim has a lot of semblance to Facebook

SEBI bans Karvy Stock Broking from primary market activities for a year

Indian securities market regulator, SEBI, today barred Karvy Stock Broking Ltd from undertaking new primary market assignments for a period of one year

Ex-Servicemen launch hunger strike for OROP

Scores of ex-servicemen today launched an indefinite relay hunger strike here over the delay in implementing the One Rank, One Pension (OROP) scheme for them and threatened to intensify their agitation

Vistara's Bengaluru-Delhi/Mumbai flights from Tuesday

Tata Sons-Singapore Airlines joint venture's full-service carrier Vistara will connect Bengaluru with New Delhi and Mumbai from Tuesday, a company official said today

SC scraps AIPMT; 37k from State affected

In a major verdict, the Supreme court on Monday scrapped the All India Pre Medical Entrance Test (AIPMT) for the year 2015-16 following the leak of its question paper and circulation of their answer keys through electronic devices at different examination centres in 10 states across the country

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Mastermind of Assam's tribal massacre arrested

A top Bodo militant, allegedly one of the masterminds behind the massacre of at least 80 people in Assam in December last year, was arrested by the army and Assam Police on Monday, officials said

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Kohli drops out of top-10 Test rankings

A day after India dropped a place to be fourth in Test rankings, their captain Virat Kohli also slipped a position to be 11th in the batsman rankings of the five-day game, the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced today

Salman's plea against conviction adjourned till July 1

The Bombay High Court today adjourned till July 1 Bollywood actor Salman Khan's appeal against his conviction by a lower court in the September 2002 accident case

Pigs as smart as chimps!

Scientists have found that pigs have excellent long-term memory and can solve problems just as good as chimpanzees

Reliance Communications, Sistema Shyam in merger talks

Industrialist Anil Ambani-led Reliance Communications today said it has entered into exclusive talks with the Russia-based Sistema for a potential merger of its Indian arm through a stock swap

Lady Gaga to wear simple dress on wedding

Los Angeles: Singer Lady Gaga and actor Taylor Kinney are planning a “traditional” wedding, and the bride will wear a “simple and elegant” dress. Gaga is known for her outlandish sense of style and unusual outfits, but when she marries Kinney, she is going for a low-key look to prove she is taking her big […]

Sushma in row over helping Lalit Modi with travel documents

New Delhi: External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj on Sunday admitted she had helped former IPL chief Lalit Modi procure documents to travel to Portugal last July on “humanitarian grounds” for treatment of his cancer-afflicted wife. Sushma Swaraj, in a series of 14 tweets, said she helped Lalit Modi, who has been staying in London since […]

NASA lander to carry tiny spacecrafts for Mars fly-by

Washington: When NASA launches its next mission on the journey to Mars – a stationary lander in 2016 – the flight will include two revolutionary CubeSats. CubeSats are a class of spacecraft based on a standardised small size and modular use of off-the-shelf technologies. Several such CubeSats have been made by university students and dozens […]

What made Twitter look beyond 140 characters?

New Delhi: What could have made Twitter grow beyond being just a micro-blogging, social media site and relent on its strict 140-character limit – at least for direct messaging services? Come July twitteratis can send direct messages on the platform as long as 10,000 characters. But why this sudden decision? With growing popularity of direct […]

Your social media activity reflects your personality

New York: Your social media activity reveals much more about you than you can imagine. A new study by Fractal Analytics and BuzzStream — both digital analytics platforms – establishes the connections between gender, education, political leanings, and preferred publications of Facebook users, adweek.com reported. It found that across all publications studied, from the BBC […]

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