Nikita Venkatesh

A new survey has revealed that trusting co-workers would be a tough task after knowing that 53 per cent people said that they would sacrifice a work friendship if it meant getting a promotion.

According to the research ‘Relationships@ Work’ conducted by LinkedIn 80 per cent of people aged between 18 to 24 years would sacrifice a workplace friendship, compared to the more loyal young boomers, of which only 37 per cent would not betray their colleagues, News.com.au reported.

After matching steps with Salman Khan in a special song from the upcoming film `Kick`, model-actress Nargis Fakhri says she was bowled over by the superstar`s personality and energy.

The 34-year-old beauty said she was nervous initially to shake a leg with the `Dabangg` star. “It was ecstatic to work with Salman but at the same time I was nervous because he is one of the biggest stars of the industry and I thought I would mess-up everything on the set.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley provided a sum of Rs. 7060 crores in the current financial year for developing 100 smart cities.

Delivering his maiden general budget Speech in Parliament, Jaitley said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has a vision of developing one hundred ‘Smart Cities’ as satellite towns of larger cities and by modernizing the existing mid-sized cities.

Jaitley said that with development reaching an increasingly large number of people, the pace of migration from the rural areas to the cities is increasing.

Centre proposed to launch a pan India Programme called “Digital India” to further bridge the divide between digital “haves” and “have-nots” here on Thursday.

This would ensure Broad band connectivity at village level, improved access to services through IT enabled platforms, greater transparency in Government processes and increased indigenous production of IT hardware and software for exports and improved domestic availability.

Three naxals have been arrested in separate operations in naxal-hit West Singhbhum district, police said Thursday.

Acting on information, the district armed police and CRPF launched a search operation in Goirabeda jungle under Manoharpur police station and intercepted two persons travelling on a motorcycle yesterday, Superintendent of Police N K Singh said.

Government has introduced a new scheme called Beti Bachao, Beti Padhao, which will help in generating awareness and improving the efficiency of delivery of welfare services meant for women with an initial corpus of Rs 100 crore.

Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced in his maiden Budget Speech that government would focus on campaigns to sensitize people of this country towards the concerns of the girl child and women.

He said that the process of sensitization must begin early and therefore the school curriculum must have a separate chapter on gender mainstreaming.

An angry lawmaker, Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) has sent a letter to Federal Trade Commission (FTC) requesting them to fully explore the potential ramifications of Facebook’s experiment.

Facebook has reportedly apologized for altering 700,000 users’ news feeds as part of a psychology experiment in 2012 but a lawmaker is still angry because of the experiment and he is hoping that Facebook will have to answer to the FTC

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has ended the presentation of his maiden General Budget for the year 2014-15.

Jaitley, who began presenting the budget proposals for fiscal 2014-15 with the permission of Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan at 11 a.m. on Thursday, ended the presentation at 1.15 p.m.

Soon after ending the presentation of the General Budget proposals for fiscal 2014-15, Lok Sabha Speaker Sumitra Mahajan adjourned the House till 11 a.m. on Friday.

The 9-hour Rohtas district bandh, called by BJP and LJP to protest the police firing at Akbarpur in which two persons were killed on Tuesday, hit the normal life today.

Shops were closed and vehicles did not ply. The protesters blocked traffic in various places in Sasaram town and adjoining areas, police said.

Scores of BJP and LJP workers and their supporters moved in various places in the district enforcing the bandh and demanded Rs 10 lakh compensation for the families of the victims by the administration.

A new computer model by NASA has found that friction from tides could help some distant Earth-sized planets, traveling in dangerous orbits, to create habitable situations.

The findings were consistent with observations that Earth-sized planets appear to be very common in other star systems. Although heat could be a destructive force for some planets but the right amount of friction, and therefore heat, could be helpful in surviving.

An Indian youth, Shemshar Singh, died in a Sharjah hospital while returning home from war-torn Iraq.

Shemshar, 24, who belonged to Gurdaspur District of Punjab, was returning from Iraq with 11 other colleagues on June 22, when he fell seriously ill and was admitted to a Sharjah hospital in Dubai city.

Succha Singh, Shemshar’s father, said that his son was working in Iraq as a labourer as he had volunteered to provide financial assistance to the family.

A new study has shown the first snapshots of photosynthesis in action as it splits water into protons, electrons and oxygen, the process that maintains Earth’s oxygen atmosphere.

Petra Fromme, lead author of the research said that this study is the first step towards their ultimate goal of unraveling the secrets of water splitting and obtaining molecular movies of biomolecules.

MIT scientists have developed a new system that can protect your privacy by allowing you to pick and choose what data to share with websites and mobile apps.

Newly downloaded cell phone apps routinely ask to access your location information, your address book, or other apps, and even websites like Amazon or Netflix track your browsing history in the interest of making personalised recommendations.

Recent studies have shown that it’s shockingly easy to identify unnamed individuals in supposedly “anonymised” data sets, even ones containing millions of records.

Apple iPhone 6 is rumored to get a sapphire crystal display cover glass, which is currently used for small surface parts only.

At present the sapphire crystal cover glass has only been used selectively, the iPhone 5S home button uses a sapphire cover.

Sonny Dickson, a source of past Apple rumors, was one of the first to post a video showing a 4.7-inch flexible sapphire crystal display cover glass, CNET reported.

Researchers have discovered a variety of factors like impulsivity, hopelessness, sensation-seeking traits, lack of conscientiousness, with 70 percent accuracy that determines that kids will become binge drinkers.

Patricia Conrod of the University of Montreal and CHU Sainte-Justine Hospital Research Centre said that the personality dimensions that were shown to be highly predictive of behaviour were assessed using a scale that was currently being used in schools across Montreal to provide targeted prevention to youth at risk of substance misuse.

Sri Lanka defeated South Africa by 87 runs in their second ODI clash on Wednesday to level the three-match series at 1-1.

Sri Lankan all-rounder Tillakaratne Dilshan starred with both the bat and the ball scoring 86 off 90 balls and claiming three wickets for 40 runs to set the stage for his side’s victory in the day-night match at the Pallekele International Stadium.

Paceman Lasith Malinga chipped in for Sri Lanka’s victory with a valuable 4-24 as South Africa were bowled out for 180 off 38.1 overs while chasing Sri Lanka’s 267 all out, Sport24 reported.

Armed militants killed five security personnel in Pakistan’s southwestern province, Balochistan, said officials.

Gunmen attacked a check post of the Frontier Corps paramilitary force in resource-rich Dukki area of Balochistan. The gunmen were armed with automatic weapons, said a security official.

The official said that an FC soldier sustained serious bullet wounds during the incident. The attackers immediately escaped from the spot in their vehicles, he added.

The injured soldier was hospitalized within minutes, reports the Dawn.

Rush of hill water and heavy rains have generated flash floods in vast regions of Bangladesh’s Sunamganj region.

The Surma River was flowing 57cm above the danger mark near the district, said the FLOOD Control Cell of Sunamganj Water Development Board (WDB).

Floodwater swallowed low-lying areas in Sunamganj, Sadar and Tahirpur sub-districts or upazilas, leaving 500 families stranded, reports the Daily Star.

Biswambharpur, Doarabazaar and Jamalganj upazilias were also hit by the floodwaters five days back.

A US court has denied a request made by a Sikh rights group to file an amended complaint against Congress party president Sonia Gandhi in connection with the 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.

Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) had written to US District Judge Brian Cogan requesting “leave to further amend the complaint” against Gandhi was denied by the judge?who said in his order that since the case against Gandhi was dismissed last month, there is no basis for SFJ to seek further amendment of the complaint.

U.S. spy agencies pried into e-mails of five Muslim Americans in order to identify threats to NATIONAL SECURITY, reveal documents leaked by ex-NSA contractor Edward Snowden.

According to reports on the intercept, A LAWYER, professor and a political operative were among the targets.

The NSA and FBI however claimed that they had only spied on Americans since they had had a probable cause.

All five American Muslims have denied association with any terrorist groups.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday presented the Union Budget for fiscal 2014-15 in the Lok Sabha.

The highlights are as follows:

Government to print CURRENCY notes with braille-like signs to help the blind

GST to be introduced soon; legislation process to be completed this year

Slum development to be included in CSR activities

Rs. 3600 crore for National Rural DRINKING WATER programme

Rs.500 crore fund will be set up for price stabilization

15 model rural health research centers for rural health issues

NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft has discovered part of the outer layer of the Sun that is sending out modestly energetic subatomic particles called fast neutrons, which flowed past Mercury into space.

The researchers said that such charged particles twirl and gyrate around the magnetic field lines created by the vast magnetic systems that surround the Sun and Earth. Neutrons, however, not being electrically charged, travel in straight lines from the flaring region and can carry information about flare processes unperturbed by the environment through which they move.

E-visa facilities will be introduced at nine airports in the next six months to attract more tourists.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced this while presenting the first national budget of the Narendra Modi government.

He said tourism helped in job creation and e-visas would encourage more tourists to visit India,

During the past year, India has relaxed its visa regime and expanded the Visa-on-Arrival (VoA) scheme to include more countries.

………PTI

Indian-American Nagi Naganathan, an alumnus of the National Institute of Technology at Tiruchirappalli, has been appointed interim president of the University of Toledo.

Naganathan, 58, has been at University of Toledo since 1986, first as a professor and later as chairman of the department of mechanical, industrial, and manufacturing engineering. Board members unanimously approved his appointment.

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Thursday presented the Union Budget for fiscal 2014-15 in the Lok Sabha.

The highlights are as follows:

Government proposes to spend Rs.150 crores on new scheme to improve safety of women in big cities

Government to launch ‘Beti Bacahao Beti Padahao Yojna’ – Rs.100 allocation

Government to focus more on health sector and will set up institute of excellence

Government to set up national level institute for mental health to be set up

Shyama Prassad Mukherjee Rozgar mission to be launched