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Consider what's faced by people who want to end their TV subscriptions — what's known as cutting the cable cord. There are multiple streaming services and bills to juggle. And there are numerous streaming gadgets to choose from. So to make moving away from cable cords easier, we teamed up with the Wirecutter, the product recommendations website, to compile the definitive guide to cord-cutting. The...

Bengaluru, Oct 23: BJP?national president Amit Shah will attend a convention of other backward classes to be held here on November 27. BJP?MLC?and former minister B?J?Puttaswamy said the convention will be held at Palace Grounds and will highlight the support of the OBCs to the BJP. Puttaswamy, who is also the chairman of the BJP?OBC?Morcha, said the party was trying to mobilise two lakh people...

Mangaluru Oct 22;: Fr. Muller Medical college Mangaluru duo team comprising of Miss Sandhya Rao and Miss Swathi secured 70 points and emerged as winners and claimed the prestigious. Mediquiz -2016 Trophy. KMC Mangaluru team comprising of Mr. Suraj Kumar and Miss Sanjana Rai secured 60 points and were declared as Runners up. It was a very closely contested competition. and a nail biting finish...

Moodbidre, Oct 22: “Teaching is a noble profession which makes change in a very systematic way. Teachers carry the utmost responsibility in constructive society. Hence teachers should be paid like IAS officers,” said eminent counselor and academician Dr. P.V. Bhandary. He was speaking after inaugurating the Faculty Development Programme organized by commerce department of Alva’s College...

Udupi, Oct 22: Yakshagana artiste Airody Rama Ganiga (98) passed away at a private hospital in Koteshwar late Thursday night. Though hailing from Airody village, Ganiga had settled down in Kumbashi village for the last four decades. He began his career as a “bhagavatha” (singer-director) in Yakshagana puppetry shows and later went to do “bhagavatike” for Yakshagana performances. He also served as...

Oct 21: Self-driving cars hold the promise of saving thousands of lives each year on US roads. But does pointing out flaws with the technology effectively put people in danger? That claim was put forth Wednesday by Tesla Motors CEOElon Musk, who criticised the media for harping on the relatively few crashes involving Tesla's semi-autonomous driving system called Autopilot, while saying little...

Kasaragod, Oct 21: The body of a man who jumped into the Chandragiri river from a bridge near Melparamba two days ago was traced on Thursday. The body of Bhaskara, 41, son of Janardhanan, a resident of nearby Mannipady, was fished out by the Fire and Rescue Services personnel and the police nearly a kilometre from the bridge. He had jumped into the river around 5.15 p.m. on Tuesday, the police...

Paris, Oct 20: Some 300 wild mammal species in Asia, Africa and Latin America are being driven to extinction by humanity's voracious appetite for bushmeat, according to a world-first assessment released today. The species at risk range from rats to rhinoceros, and include docile, ant-eating pangolins as well as flesh-ripping big cats. The findings, published in the journal Royal Society Open...

New Delhi, Oct 19: Dissatisfaction with job is on the rise and employees blame poor work-life balance for this state of affairs, with a whopping 80 per cent of them looking for a change, says a TimesJobs survey. The findings of the 'Job Satisfaction 2016' survey by TimesJobs.com revealed that 60 per cent employees are not satisfied with their current job, while 80 per cent said they are looking to...

Oct 19: Apple has consistently taken digs at Google by comparing the adoption rate of the latest versions of both iOS and Android at its launch events. It seems the slow adoption rate is one of the key reasons why a large chunk of Android users are still not safe from dated malware. Ghost Push, the malware that had infected over 900,000 Android devices till last year, continues to wreak havoc on...