Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad on Saturday said that the report on net neutrality would be out once the TRAI report is out.
“Report of net neutrality will be out soon. But as I said in the Parliament, I will have to await TRAI report also. We are expecting that the RBI will give license for payment bank to the Department of Post by August,” said Ravi Shankar.
China is reportedly proceeding with the construction of artificial islands on at least two reefs, which are claimed by the Philippines, despite Beijing promising to end some work soon.
Mayor Eugenio Bito-onon of Kalayaan Islands, which falls under Philippine’s control, said that he saw Chinese land reclamation activity going on in ‘full swing,’ with many dredgers and huge cranes visible near Subi Reef, reports The Guardian.
He noted that it was ‘full-blast, massive and incredible’ construction and added that it would take months before the Chinese completed the work.
Kendall Jenner is flying high as she recently broke her sister Kim Kardashian’s record of having the most liked picture on Instagram.
The 19-year-old model posted a picture of her showing her looks shaped like hearts, in May, which received whooping 2.48 million likes, and defeated Kardashian’s record-breaking pic of her wedding with husband Kanye West, People Magazine reported.
Jenner tweeted “Take that Kimye!” and later added that she still has a lot to learn from her superstar elder sister especially in cosmetics. (ANI)
Dispelling doubts about any cracks in the unity of three NDA constituents, their chiefs today said they would jointly campaign for next month’s elections to 24 seats of the Bihar Legislative Council, which is being seen as the semi-final for the Assembly elections later this year.
“Workers of the three parties have been working together to ensure victory of NDA nominees on all seats,” BJP’s Mangal Pandey told a joint press conference which was also attended by Pashupati Paras and Arun Kumar of LJP and RLSP (Rashtriya Lok Samata Party), respectively.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper may have made Canadian history by inviting leaders of the Canadian Muslim community to break the Ramadan fast.
The Iftar, held last Monday, was the first one hosted at the prime minister’s official residence. He welcomed 40 members of the Muslim community into 24 Sussex Drive, Ottawa to break their Ramadan fasts alongside members of his government.
Leader of Opposition in Legislative Council Mohammed Ali Shabbir on Saturday demanded that the State Government immediately clear dues to ensure re-opening of mess in the Osmania University.
Telangana IT Minister K.T. Rama Rao charged AP Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu of degrading the image of the people of his own state by trying to impose on them his “dirty tricks” for selfish political ends.
Interacting with the media after his meeting with Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in New Delhi on Saturday KTR said that it was unbecoming of a leader of his stature (AP CM) to create hatred and bad blood among the people with his utterances. As for as the cash-for-vote issue is concerned the law would take its own course of action, he observed.
Now government employees, pensioners and their families can utilize the outpatient (OP) and diagnostic services in the Nizams Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) and MNJ Cancer Hospital from July 1. At present, the govt employees, pensioners and their families are eligible to secure inpatient services only.
The decision was taken in a meeting with the Minister for Health Dr C Lakshma Reddy had with Principal Secretary for Health, NIMS director, Director Medical Eeducation and other officials of Health Department on Friday.
People who have high blood pressure face lower risk for Alzheimer’s disease, claims a new study.
Associate Professor, and co-author of the study John Kauwe at Brigham Young University, said that it was likely that the protective effect was coming from antihypertensive drugs.
The study analysed genetic data from 17,008 individuals with Alzheimer’s and 37,154 people without the disease. Data came from the Alzheimer’s Disease Genetics Consortium and the International Genomics of Alzheimer’s Project.
French police are reportedly still questioning a man suspected of carrying out an attack on a factory near Lyon, in which a man was found decapitated.
Yassin Salhi, 35, caused an explosion by ramming his car into an area containing flammable liquids, the BBC quoted prosecutors in Lyon, as saying.
His boss, the owner of a delivery firm, was found beheaded alongside Arabic inscripted flags.
Taylor Swift and beau Calvin Harris have been ranked the highest-paid celebrity couple by Forbes.
The business magazine detailed that the ‘Bad Blood’ singer and her DJ boyfriend, who dethroned Beyonce and Jay-Z for the top spot, annually rake in 146 million dollars, People Magazine reported.
Notably, Swift’s empire doesn’t only include her albums and world tours as the 25-year-old songstress endorses Keds, Diet Coke and Sony.
A Delhi court has allowed former TERI director R.K. Pachauri to travel abroad from June 29 – July 9 to attend the last rites of a relative.
Pachauri was questioned yesterday for the second time by Delhi Police in connection with the alleged sexual harassment case lodged against him by a research associate working in his office
On May 21, a local court had declined to allow Pachauri to enter his office while noting the slow progress in the probe against him and asked police to complete it by July 17.
The Samajwadi Party (SP) on Saturday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of politicising the Uttar Pradesh Police’s anti-riot drill which involved the usage of saffron flags.
“The BJP wants to make this a political issue when it’s not. We will give orders to the police to keep such things in mind next time,” said SP spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia.
Mock rioters had waved saffron flags during an anti-riot drill at reserve police lines in Allahabad on Friday. The incident had angered BJP leaders, who termed it an insult to crores of Hindus.
A child has died and six others fell ill on Saturday in Bihar’s Vaishali district allegedly after being administered polio drops.
The incident occurred in Shahpur village near Hajipur, district headquarters of Vaishali, about 25 kilometres from Patna, where children aged upto five were administered polio drops on Friday.
Vaishali civil surgeon Ramashish Kumar has ordered a probe into the incident.
Further details are awaited. (ANI)
Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to come clean on the fracas involving former IPL chief Lalit Modi and Rajasthan Chief minister Vasundhara Raje.
“All this shows everything isn’t good in BJP, they are saying something to people, doing something else. The Prime Minister should open his mouth and state what the truth is, when he goes abroad he has a lot to say, what happened now?” Kharge said.
Smartphone users spend over 85 percent of their time using native applications, but most of their time is spent using just five non-native apps they have installed from the App Store, a new study reveals.
Those five apps may vary from person to person.
The new data on app usage comes from a Forrester Research study that analysed 2,000 US smartphone owners to better determine how users engage with the apps they have on their phones, TechCrunch reported.
A new combination therapy for a rare, deadly leukemia can send the disease into remission even in patients whose standard therapy has failed, researchers have found in a pilot study.
The new approach to battling T-cell prolymphocytic leukemia combines immunotherapy — boosting the body’s immune system — with epigenetics, the manipulation of gene activity.
Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam on Saturday alleged that Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis’s hurry to give a clean chit to state Women and Children Development Minister Pankaja Munde on Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) schemes suggested that he might have received some kickback as well.
Facebook will soon make its Instant Articles programme live, with publishers like NBC News and the New York Times already in the fray.
Other early-stage partners include the Guardian, BBC News, Spiegel Online and Bild. Facebook would host the content on its servers so that it loads faster than regular article posts on mobile phones.
Publishers are ready to ramp up content distribution on Instant Articles, with some newsrooms preparing to post a few dozen stories a day, the Wall Street Journal reported.
At a time when global warming is threatening the very survival of coral reefs, some coral populations already have genetic variants necessary to tolerate warm ocean waters, a new study says.
Humans can also help to spread these genes by mixing and matching corals from different latitudes may boost reef survival.
Worldwide, coral reefs have been badly damaged by rising sea surface temperatures.
Demanding the removal of Anti-Corruption Branch (ACB) chief Mukesh Kumar Meena, AAP said that if the central government and the Lt. Governor interfere in their work, the party will set up several anti-corruption units here.
“Many small anti-corruption units will be established in different wards of the state,” party leader Kumar Vishwas said at a press conference.
He accused the central government and Lt. Governor Najeeb Jung of interfering in the proper functioning of the ACB.
Scientists have identified a “decoy” molecule that can help sharply reduce the risk of flu death.
The flu virus can be lethal, but what is often just as dangerous is the body’s own reaction to the invader. This immune response consists of an inflammatory attack, meant to kill the virus, but if it gets too aggressive, this counterattack can end up harming the body’s own tissues, causing damage that can lead to death.
Repeated snacking even in the absence of hunger may put you at risk of unhealthy weight gain, says a new study.
“Eating too frequently, especially when we are not hungry, is a major potential cause of weight gain,” said study author Stephanie Fay who conducted the study at Queensland University of Technology in Australia.
“Excessive portion size and energy-dense foods are often blamed for weight gain but the frequency of eating is a significant contributor too,” said Fay, now based in London with the World Cancer Research Fund.
India’s High Commissioner to New Zealand Ravi Thapar on Saturday said he was not leaving the country because of assault allegations against his wife but because he wanted to take care of his mother living in India.
Thapar’s wife has been accused of physically assaulting a domestic help at their residence. He has denied the allegations and said his wife was an “experienced diplomatic spouse” incapable of assaulting an “able-bodied man”.
The White House was lit up in rainbow colours on Friday night in celebration of the Supreme Court’s decision to lift same sex marriage bans across the country.
A White House official said that it was done to demonstrate the White House’s unflinching commitment to progress and equality in America and around the world. He added that the pride colours reflected the diversity of the LGBT community and added that the colours that lit up the White House building celebrated a new chapter in the history of American civil rights, reported ABC News.