Reliance Jio on Monday launched new “all-in-one” plans which promise better data benefits. With subscriptions starting at Rs 222, the new plans are cheaper than the older 2GB per day data plans as well. One of the main highlights of Reliance Jio’s new plan is Interconnect usage charges for 1,000 minutes of […]
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Vodafone Idea teams up with Red Hat to revamp data centres
Open source solutions provider Red Hat on Monday announced a partnership with telecom major Vodafone Idea Limited (VIL) to transform its distributed network data centres to open standards, open interfaces based “Universal Cloud”. VIL will be rapidly transforming its over 100 data centres across a “Universal Cloud,” where a shared […]
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Huawei says absence of Google apps hurting the company
Chinese smartphone maker Huawei has confirmed that the US sanctions were hurting it badly, especially the absence of Google’s core Android software, Play Store and popular apps like Search and Maps on its devices. According to a Financial Times report quoting a senior Huawei executive, the company hasn’t been successful in finding […]
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Facebook to soon launch a dedicated news tab on its platform
Facebook has reportedly worked out deals with top media houses to introduce a dedicated news tab on the social networking platform. According to the Wall Street Journal, publications like News Corp, Dow Jones, New York Post, the Washington Post and others will help the social networking platform ramp up its […]
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54.53 pc polling till 5 pm in Maharashtra Assembly elections
In Maharashtra 54.53 per cent voters voted till 5 pm on Monday after polling for the 288 Assembly seats. It began at 7 am, poll officials said. Voting has been completed at 6 pm. The Congress-NCP combine is seeking to dislodge the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance government in the state in […]
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Chile: protests rage as president extends state of emergency
Protests and violence continued in Chile overnight despite the president cancelling a rise in subway fares that has prompted violent demonstrations. Officials in the Santiago region said three people had died in fires at two looted supermarkets early on Sunday. Sixty Walmart-owned outlets were vandalised, and the company said many stores did […]
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Chile Unrest Spreads, With 8 Deaths Reported in Violence
Violence and looting continued to rock Chile on Sunday, resulting in at least eight deaths as stores and other establishments were set alight despite the imposition of a state of emergency in at least six cities. The demonstrations started over a subway fare increase two weeks ago, which President Sebastián […]
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Boeing says it regrets concerns over internal messages
Boeing says it regrets concerns raised about internal communications it recently handed over to Congress and federal regulators that are investigating two deadly crashes of the company’s 737 Max airplanes. The company said in a statement Sunday it’s unfortunate that messages between co-workers it turned over last week weren’t released […]
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Longest direct flight arrives in Sydney from New York, marks new aviation milestone
The longest non-stop passenger flight touched down in Australia Sunday morning after more than 19 hours in the air, a milestone journey from New York that Qantas hopes to parlay into commercial success. Qantas flight QF7879 took 19 hours and 16 minutes to fly direct from New York to Sydney […]
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‘American dream’ shattered, horror of heavy debt haunts Indians deported from Mexico
Sandeep Singh alias Deep, 23, from Moonak town in Sangrur district, had left for America from New Delhi on June 13 this year to make a better life for himself. Little did the Punjabi youngster know that his American dream would soon lay shattered, as Mexican immigration authorities deported him, […]
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Local BJP leader, wife shot dead in front of their kids in Jharkhand
A local BJP leader who was a deputy village headman was shot dead along with his wife in front their children by unknown assailants in Jharkhand’s Maoist dominated Khunti district, around 50 km from the state capital, police said on Sunday. The man was identified as Sheetal Munda, who was […]
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DU teacher found dead on railway lines, mom found hanging 30 minutes later
A 27-year-old adhoc assistant professor of Delhi University’s St Stephen’s College was found dead at the railway tracks near Sarai Rohilla station on Saturday afternoon. Around half-an-hour later, the man’s 55-year-old mother was found hanging at their flat in northwest Delhi’s Pitampura, the police said. Police said the mother-son duo […]
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Air quality back in ‘moderate’, Gurugram least polluted in NCR
A day after Gurugram’s pollution levels exceeded that of neighbouring Delhi, its air quality on Sunday improved to ‘moderate’ category, making it the least polluted among major cities in the national capital region (NCR). On Sunday, Gurugram scored 185 (‘moderate’) on the Central Pollution Control Board’s daily air quality index (AQI) bulletin, down from […]
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Shahid Kapoor’s Kabir Singh obsession with Preeti gets real-life expression and Kiara Advani can’t stop laughing
One of actor Kiara Advani’s fans has found a cool hack to keep their cell phone charger safe from others. Their funny ‘jugaad’ amused Kiara no end. The fan named their charger ‘Preeti,’ based on the name of Kiara’s character from her latest film Kabir Singh. ‘Ab koi mera charger touch […]
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James Gunn on Coppola calling Marvel films ‘despicable’: ‘Not everyone can appreciate them, even some geniuses’
Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn has reacted to The Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola’s harsh words against Marvel films. Adding to Martin Scorsese’s stand against superhero movies, Coppola went a step further and called them ‘despicable’ in a recent interview. James, who has directed both the volumes of beloved Guardian of […]