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Hassan, Nov 21: A man and his son were arrested by the police for killing an injured deer for its meat and hide at Baachenahalli in Arasikere taluk on Thursday. Police gave the names of the two men as Shankaregowda and his son Lokesh, residents of Baachenahalli. On Thursday morning, a milk van hit a deer which was crossing the road near the village. According to the police, the driver, before...

Nov 21: The L.A. Auto Show kicked off Tuesday with press days focused on the technology of the "connected car," which will eventually help lead to self-driving cars, like those that Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) and recent auto-tech IPO Mobileye (NYSE:MBLY) have been working on. Volvo, for one, showcased in a news conference Tuesday that, like Google, its cars can drive themselves now — following lanes...

Nov 18: Last week, WhatsApp introduced a feature which allowed users to view whether their messages were read or not with the help of two blue ticks. Some people found it interesting while the rest, were freaking out. A single tick indicted that the message was sent; two ticks indicated that it was delivered and two blue ticks proved that your massage has been read by the opposite recipient. It...

Coimbatore, Nov 15: As part of an awareness campaign of the ‘Awakening Conference’ being organized by National Women’s Front on Sunday, an exhibition was inaugurated on Saturday at Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. The theme of the exhibition is “Women’s rights and issues”. It was formally inaugurated by Popular Front of India Tamil Nadu state president A.S. Ismail at 11:30 am. NWF national president...

New Delhi, Nov 10: Banking consumers will have to pay more if they are prolific with ATM transactions as State Bank of India (SBI) and its private sector peers HDFC Bank and Axis Bank have capped the free usage in six metros at three. The capping and additional fees on excess usage come following a recent circular by the Reserve Bank of India allowing banks to limit the number of free ATM...

London, Nov 7: Mobile messaging service WhatsApp has reportedly come up with a new "double blue tick" feature that allows users to know when their texts have been delivered and read. The blue tick appears as soon as the person at the receiving end has read the message. According to Daily Express, one grey tick means a message has been successfully sent, two grey ticks show it has been delivered...

Bangalore, Nov 4: The frequency of car recalls by Indian makers has increased in recent times. Many such recalls have been for faulty systems that are critical to safety of the passenger. Now, an independent crash test by a global car crash test watchdog, Global NCAP, has revealed that one of India"s most popular and high selling cars, the Maruti Suzuki Swift is unsafe in many aspects as it failed...

Bangalore, Oct 30: The Karnataka state government on Wednesday transferred four IAS?officers. According to an official press release, the following are their new postings: K?V?Thrilok Chandra as?Deputy Commissioner, Kolar district, Kolar; D?K?Ravi as?Additional?Commissioner of Commercial Taxes, Bangalore; R?Vinoth Priya as Additional Mission?Director, Sakaala, Bang-alore and K?S?Manjunath as Chief...

Mumbai, Oct 13: Private sector lender Kotak Mahindra Bank (KMB) today launched a Facebook-based instant fund transfer service wherein one can send money to friends on the social media network real time, for free. "This is a bank agnostic product, the sender and the receiver may not be our account holders. We have used the IMPS platform on the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) network...

London, Oct 12: Tata group's Land Rover has forayed into an elite club of world's 100 most valuable brands as the only Indian-owned entity, while iconic Apple has retained its top slot with nearly USD 119 billion valuation. Land Rover, an iconic British car brand owned by Indian conglomerate Tatas, has been ranked 91st with a brand value of USD 4.47 billion and is one of the five new entrants on...