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Apr 3: Since the 1970s, paying with plastic has been pretty standard everywhere: customers swiped their cards, signed receipts and took home their purchases. But after security breaches at Target late last year led to the loss of personal data from as many as 110 million customers, the financial industry is racing to adopt technologies that will alter that decades-old ritual. Driven largely by...

One of the states that the BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi is eyeing keenly is Assam, where the Congress has been in power since 2001. The ruling party is leaving no stone unturned to make sure that the Modi factor proves to be irrelevant in the General Election. In an interview with Ratnadip Choudhury, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi says that Modi is good at marketing himself, but...

Kasargod, Mar 26: The Excise Department sleuths seized 11,584 sachets of pan masala products and arrested two persons travelling in a Kerala State Road Transport Corporation bus at the border check-post of Manjeswaram on Tuesday.Stepping up search operations in view of the upcoming elections, a team of Excise officials led by Circle Inspector Sunil Kumara Pillai seized bags containing multiple...

Ingolstad (Germany), Mar 23: German luxury auto brand Audi will begin selling its premium A3 Sedan in India from middle of the year and the much-awaited car will be rolled out from the company's production facility in Aurangabad. The brand with the four rings said it has decided to assemble A3 in India from the launch stage itself expecting that it will become a driver of growth for the company...

Mangalore, Mar 22: On the occasion of International Forest Day, students from the Department of Mass Communication, St. Aloysius College staged a thought provoking street play on the issue of Netravathi River diversion, which held at St. Aloysius College campus at 3.30pm, gathered the attention of massive youth across the city. The educated Mangalorean youngsters were on full swing as they acted...

Mar 22: A class 12 Indian student hailing from Nainital, Rajesh Adhikari, has created a pair of shoes which lets users charge their phone while walking. The charger works on an ingenious spring and dynamo mechanism that powers the device connected to it via a simple cable. But you"ll need to walk for it to be of any use. Or get someone to walk in your shoes. Each time you lift a foot, the spring...

Mangalore, Mar 14: The Students of Journalism of St. Aloysius College, Mangalore took up the initiative of cleaning the Tannir Bavi beach strip on the 12th of March. The serenity of the beach was polluted by the disturbing sight of trash found at the shore. Trash collected included large amounts of plastic waste, cigarette packets, beer bottles, footwear and food items. At the end of the clean-up...

The February month cover story of the popular narrative magazine, The Caravan, published from Delhi, has already been discussed and debated a lot. Hindutva extremist Aseemanand, speaking to the magazine's journalist Ms. Leena Regunath, revealed that all the bomb blasts carried out by his team had been with the RSS leadership's knowledge and approval. Furthermore, the RSS's national leaders...

Mangalore, Mar 7: Encounter specialist Daya Nayak's brother-in-law allegedly committed suicide by jumping into the backwaters of Moodushedde dam here on Thursday. The deceased has been identified as Raja (54), a resident of Vamanjoor. He was married to Nayak's elder sister. The victim had called his friend before the act saying that he was going to commit suicide at Moodushedde dam and inform his...

Washington, Mar 5: A US girl's snarky Facebook post has cost her father USD 80,000 he had won in a legal settlement. Patrick Snay, 69, a former headmaster of Gulliver Preparatory School in Florida was set to receive the amount after settling a 2011 age discrimination suit with the school he once headed. However, his daughter, Dana ruined the USD 80,000 deal by blabbing about it on Facebook, the...