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Mangalore, Sep 16: Online applications have been invited from students belonging to SC, ST and Minorities for financial assistance under Vidyasiri programme and scholarship for post-matric students. Apply on or before September 25. Log on towww.backwardclasses.kar.nic.in

Sep 15: YouTube will be going offline in the coming few weeks, allowing users to save videos, said company executive Ceaser Sengupta at the Android One launch event in Gurgaon today. According to Sengupta, YouTube offline will allow users on data network to watch the same videos over and over again withough having to bother about data charges. “Within the coming few weeks, much of YouTube will be...

Kochi, Sep 11: A woman who was an accused in a murder case was detained at the Cochin International Airport here on Wednesday morning. Immigration officials detained Periyamma, 30, of Tamil Nadu, as a lookout notice had been issued against her. She arrived here from Kuwait on Wednesday. The police said the woman was accused in the case of her brother-in-law’s murder in 2011 in Ramanathapuram...

Honnavar, Sep 10: A 21-year-old boy and a 28-year-old girl whose Facebook friendship led to deep love affair finally entered marital life in a traditional manner. Aditya Pramod Bevur (21), a youth of Kelaginur village in Honnavar taluk, married Poland’s Mikhalina (28) at Ishwar temple in Ramatirth near Honnavar. “We became acquainted through Facebook. We will be together till our last breath,”...

Sep 10: For the first time in years, Apple"s iPhones aren"t the star of the show. Apple unveiled a smartwatch on Tuesday, a wearable device that marks the company"s first major entry in a new product category since the iPad"s debut in 2010. The move is significant because of recent questions about whether Apple still has a knack for innovating following the 2011 death of co-founder Steve Jobs. The...

Sydney, Sep 8: Australian researchers are developing a smartphone app to stop the escalating rate of indigenous youth suicide. The app will facilitate referral of the young person to local liaison officers and other government or non-government support agencies. "We will design, develop and distribute an iOS and Android app through iTunes and Google's android market to support the implementation...

New Delhi, Sep 8: After five acid attack victims -- all women came forward for a designerwear fashion photoshoot by him, photographer Rahul Saharan is now chronicling their moving life stories in a new documentary film. The in-the-works film portrays lives of the six people - all who survived brutal acid attacks and their attempts to get their lives back on the track. "It does not matter from...

Mangalore, Sep 6: The students of D.K.Z.P. School Urumane selected Veera D’mello as their ‘Best Teacher’ in the opinion poll conducted by the Rotary Club of Mangalore Central as a part of Teachers Day Celebrations held at the school premises. Mrs. Veera D’mello was conferred with the Rotary Best Teacher Award at a function held on 05.09.14 at Hotel Moti Mahal, Mangalore. Rtn. Santhosh Shet in his...

New York, Sep 4: Tata Starbucks CEO Avani Davda is the only Indian featured in Fortune and Food & Wine's list of 25 "most groundbreaking" women who are changing the way people eat and think about food. Davda, ranked 13 on the 'The Most Innovative Women in Food and Drink' list, leads the joint venture between the American coffee giant and its partner Tata Global Beverages in India, "historically a...

Mumbai, Aug 25: In July, scientists from Cornell University led by Ashutosh Saxena said they have developed Robo Brain—a large computational system that learns from publicly available Internet resources. The system, according to a 25 August statement by Cornell, is downloading and processing about 1 billion images, 120,000 YouTube videos and 100 million how-to documents and appliance manuals...