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The bedside lamp lights up gradually 30 minutes before your morning alarm is set to go off. After being roused from your sleep, you say “Good Morning” and the bathroom lights turn on immediately. As you get dressed for work in front of the mirror, it recognises who you are and starts displaying newsfeed customised Read More…
Indian Dairy major Amul has slapped a legal notice on Google India over the search engine allegedly earning revenues from fake websites carrying its trademark. It asked Google to “cease and desist” from displaying fake and fraudulent websites. Acknowledging the notice a spokesperson for Google said it is investigating the issue. According to Read More…
Jadavpur University professor Kanak Sarkar who had made controversial remarks in a Facebook post has been divested of his duties with immediate effect, according a notice issued by the Department of International Relations of the university. As students and teachers of Jadavpur University (JU) and a large section of people across Bengal fumed at Read More…
Four of the five nuns, who back their colleague who alleged she had been raped by Bishop Franco Mulakkal, have been asked to leave the Kuravilangad convent immediately by the management of the Missionaries of Jesus congregation. They have been asked to join other convents of the congregation in other parts of the country, Read More…
More than Millions of people have taken to the waters at the confluence of India’s sacred Ganges and Yamuna rivers as part of the Kumbh Mela festival – humanity’s largest gathering. Approximately 15m people could have bathed on Tuesday. They expect about 120m visitors over 49 days. Hindus believe bathing at the rivers Read More…
The BEST bus strike in Mumbai , which is now on its sixth day, will continue indefinitely as talks fail between the employee union and the high powered committee appointed by the Bombay High Court. The committee, comprising Chief Secretary DK Jain, Principal Secretary (Transport) Ashish Singh and Principal Secretary (Urban Development) Manisha Mhaiskar Read More…
A 31-year old Indian was sentenced to 13 years in jail and 12 strokes of the cane after he pleaded guilty to one charge of sexual assault of a minor and two charges of attempted statutory rape, according to a media report. Udhayakumar Dhakshinamoorthy, a minimart worker, courted a 12-year-old girl with Read More…
India’s unemployment rate shot up to 7.4 per cent in December 2018. This is the highest unemployment rate we’ve seen in 15 months. The rate has increased sharply from the 6.6 per cent clocked in November. The climb to 7.4 per cent also indicates that the small fall in the unemployment rate seen in Read More…
At the inauguration of the 106th Indian Science Congress at Lovely Professional University on January 3, 2019 Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the event . The 106th Indian Science Congress, runs from 3-7 January. Some academics at the annual Indian Science Congress dismissed the findings of Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein. Hindu mythology and religion-based Read More…
Bluefin tuna of 612-pound (278-kilogram) sold for a record 333.6 million yen (Rs 21 crore) in the first auction of 2019, after Tokyo’s famed Tsukiji market was moved to a new site on the city’s waterfront. Last year’s auction was the last at Tsukiji before the market shifted to a new facility on a Read More…