New Delhi, Jan 6: New Year's eve saw a whopping 14 billion messages being sent on WhatsApp in India as more people opted to send season's greetings through the instant messaging platform than traditional routes like SMS and greeting cards. India is the largest market for the Facebook-owned company, accounting for about 160 million of its over 1 billion users. According to data shared by WhatsApp...
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Kasaragod, Jan 6: Communist Party of India (CPI) nominee won the by-election in ward No. 11 (Majbayal) of the Meenja grama panchayat wresting the seat from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Shantarama Shetty won by 133 votes where BJP nominee Yashoda Alva had won the seat by seven votes in the 2015 polls. UDF nominee Hassan Kunhi of the IUML relegated to the third spot, garnered a mere 17 votes...
Kasaragod, Jan 5: The police have banned demonstrations and public meetings by political and social organisations for three days in the district with effect from Wednesday. The regulations, under provisions of the Kerala Police Act 78 and 79, have been enforced as per the orders of Superintendent of Police Thomson Jose in view of widespread violence reported during the day-long BJP district hartal...
Kasaragod, Jan 5: Yashmitha, a class XI student of Sri Annapoorneswari Higher Secondary School at Agalpadi, near Badiadukka here, brought laurels for the nation by winning the Asian Junior Throwball Championship held in Kuala Lumpur recently. The 16-year-old Yashmitha, hailing from the backward Marathi community, was accorded warm reception as she arrived at the railway station here and was...
Washington, Jan 4: Scientists using data from a NASA probe have unveiled 3D subsurface images of Mars polar ice caps, showing previously obscured layering, larger volume of frozen carbon dioxide and bowl-shaped features that may be buried impact craters. The information will help scientists better understand Martian climate changes and may allow them to determine the age of the polar caps without...
Beijing, Jan 4: Chinese smartphone vendors last year captured about 40 per cent share in India, the second largest smartphone market in the world, the official media here reported. Among all, Lenovo saw its shipment volume rise to the second only after Samsung in the third quarter last year, state-run China Daily quoted global research firm International Data Corporation (IDC) survey as saying...
New Delhi, Jan 4: Google CEO Sundar Pichai is all set to address domestic technology market with a focus on small and medium businesses on Wednesday. Union Minister for Information Technology Ravi Shankar Prasad will join Pichai and other senior leaders from Google, which is expected to begin at 11 am. At the event, Pichai is expected to make announcements regarding the company's new initiatives...
Washington, Jan 2: A rare comet discovered by NASA scientists will be visible using just binoculars to skywatchers on Earth this week for the first time, before the object heads back into outer reaches of the solar system for an orbit lasting thousands of years. The comet, C/2016 U1 NEOWISE, "has a good chance of becoming visible through a good pair of binoculars, although we can't be sure because...
London, Jan 1: The real reason for Titanic's tragic sinking that claimed over 1,500 lives in 1912 was a fire in the ocean liner's boiler room and not simply a collision with a giant iceberg, a new documentary has claimed. The Titanic's hull was fatally weakened by a fire that had been smouldering in the coal bunker in the boiler room since she left the shipyard in Belfast, Irish journalist and...
New Delhi, Dec 30: The district court has acquitted the MIM leaders who were allegedly involved in openly abusing the District Collector. The case was struck down as there was no evidence. According to Nizamuddin, lawyer of the MIM leaders, his clients were acquitted as the government pleader had failed to produce evidence. MIM Lok Sabha member Asaduddin Owaisi and others had staged a dharna on...