Miscellaneous

Gadchiroli (Maharashtra), Sept 29: The residents of Amdeli village here had a long wait for 70 years before they could see their homes lit up with electricity and commute in public buses. Amdeli, surrounded by forest and having a population of around 200 people, all of whom are Telugu speaking, is a remote village in Gadchiroli district on the border of Maharashtra and Telangana. It is located in

Orlando, Sept 26: Aadhaar's identity system rivals the growth of other platform innovations like Windows, Android or Facebook, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has said. Nadella, in his book 'Hit Refresh', which was released during the ongoing Microsoft Ignite 2017 conference, has praised India's leap forward in the digital and technological arena. "Aadhaar now has scaled to over one billion people

San Francisco, Sept 26: Instant messaging service WhatsApp has been largely blocked in China, the media reported. The Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI), a global observation network for detecting censorship, surveillance and traffic manipulation, suggested on Monday night that Chinese internet service providers started blocking access to WhatsApp on September 23, reports. Public

Coimbatore, Sept 24: A 60-year-old man in Coimbatore has been collecting cinema tickets of every single movie he was been watching since 1979. After 10 years (1979-1989) of collecting movie tickets, he has more than 1000 such pieces. Calling the hobby his only passion, Mum Murthy, popularly known as the 'Movie Ticket Collector', said, "I have more than 1000 cinema tickets, ranging from 50 paisa to

New Delhi, Sept 22: Liliane Bettencourt, the world's richest woman and heiress to the L’Oreal cosmetics fortune passed away at the age of 94. Confirming the news, her daughter Françoise Bettencourt-Meyers in a statement, said that she died in the early hours of Thursday at her home in Paris. "She would have been 95 on 21 October," she added. "My mother left peacefully," the Independent UK quoted

Washington, Sept 20: The world's oldest living person and the last living subject of Queen Victoria, Violet Mosse- Brown, has passed away at the age of 117 in Jamaica. Brown is also the first verified supercentenarian from Jamaica. In 2015, she was given a letter by Queen Elizabeth II in honor of her 115th birthday. Brown was born on March 10 in 1900, 67 years before Jamaica was founded, when it

New Delhi, Sept 19: Ford Motor and India's Mahindra Group have announced they will work together in a fresh partnership as the US giant looks to boost its presence in one of the world's fastest growing auto markets. The two, who parted ways from a tie-up in 2005, will co-operate for three years on a number of areas including electric vehicles and sourcing. "Ford is committed to India," said Jim

New Delhi, Sept 18: The internet search giant Google launched its UPI- based digital payment application,Tez, on Monday. The application allows its users to make payments for the goods and services and even person-to-person transactions, both online and offline. Google's Tez is almost same as the NPCI's BHIM app. Google has lately been working with the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI)

London, Sept 14: Scientists have developed a cloaking technology that can make opaque materials invisible by using light waves from lasers, paving the way for novel ways of camouflaging objects. A completely opaque material is irradiated from above with a specific wave pattern - with the effect that light waves from the left can pass through the material without any obstruction. The technique can

Cupertino, Sept 13: “One more thing.” With that phrase, Apple paid homage to its late co-founder Steve Jobs on the 10th anniversary of the iPhone at Cupertino in California on Tuesday when it unveiled its latest and almost certainly most expensive new version of the device, the iPhone X. CEO Tim Cook called it “the biggest leap forward” since the first iPhone. (“X” is pronounced 10, not the letter