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Nov 27: The social media giant says it is trying to provide an affordable internet service in the rural parts of the country. Facebook is now testing a new way of offering public Wi-Fi access in rural parts of the country, PTI reported on Sunday. This comes months after the social media giant received flak for allegedly violating net neutrality with its Free Basics scheme in India. On Facebook"s...

Washington, Nov 27: A 13-year-old boy in the US has set a new Guinness World Record for the world's largest Afro - a head of hair that measures a whopping 25.4 centimetres (cm) high, 22.9 cm wide and 177 cm in circumference. Previously the largest natural male Afro on record was 14.6 cm in height, 21.6 cm in width and 154.3 cm in circumference. "It's changed my life because I realise that I'm a...

Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro passed away on Saturday. Here is a look at his life and work in Cuba. BIRTH DATE: Officially listed as Aug. 13, 1926, in Cuba's Oriente province, although some say Castro was born a year later. TITLES: Former president of Council of State and Council of Ministers, first secretary of Communist Party of Cuba, commander in chief of Cuba's Revolutionary Armed Forces...

Mangaluru: Scholarships worth Rs 4.25 lakh distributed among 35 deserving and meritorious students by Social/Educational Welfare Association (SEWA), a wing of South Kanara Muslim Welfare Association (SKMWA), Muscat, at a recently held programme at Jamiyyatul Falah hall in Mangaluru. Speaking as chief guest P C Hashir, correspondentof Badria Educational Institution and chairman of PC Group of...

Nov 21: Consumers who were victims of cybercrime within the past year often continued their unsafe behaviour, reveals the India findings from the 2016 Norton Cyber Security Insights Report. For example, while these consumers were equally likely to use the same password for every account, they were over twice as likely to share their password with others, said the annual report that was released on...

Nov 20: WhatsApp rolled out video-calling feature for Android, iOS and Windows users earlier this week. The feature was long anticipated and can be downloaded via update available to all users. However, the rollout of this popular feature has led to scamsters circulating malicious links inviting people to download video-calling. Interestingly, these links also invite users to download group...

New Delhi, Nov 19: The next time you visit a nearby automated teller machine (ATM) to take out cash, be carefully as the keypad may be full of germs, says a study. The keypad may be loaded with bacterias from spoiled food to parasites that may also cause sexually transmitted disease (STDs), researchers say. Automated teller machine (ATM) keypads represent a specific and unexplored microhabitat for...

New Delhi, Nov 17: Popular Front Chairman KM Shareef condemned the five year ban enforced by central government on Islamic Research Foundation saying that the move is an assault on religious freedom guaranteed by the Constitution. The move is yet another example of the ongoing infringement of the civil rights of minorities and this ban is intended to hinder the constitutional rights of religious...

Washington, Nov 17: Scientists have discovered a “great valley” in the southern hemisphere of Mercury, providing more evidence that the small planet closest to the sun is shrinking. Scientists used images from NASA"s Messenger spacecraft to create a high-resolution topographic map that revealed the broad valley — more than 1,000 kilometres long — extending into the Rembrandt basin, one of the...

Beijing, Nov 16: For the eight consecutive year, China has retained the top spot in the list of the world's fastest supercomputers for its 'Sunway TaihuLight' which can perform 93 million billion calculations per second, media report said today. TaihuLight, the massive supercomputer, built entirely using processors designed and made in China has been crowned as the world's fastest, state-run...