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Kundapura, Jan 6: A person was killed on spot and another sustained severe injuries when two motorbikes collided with each other here. The deceased has been identified as Vasanth Nayak(42) a resident of Nayakavadi. He is survived by wife and daughter. His wife, who was riding pillion has been hospitalized with critical injuries following the accident. A case has been registered at Kundapur police...

Mangalore: Jan 5: Corporation Bank launched a new product – Corp RuPay Aadhar Card on Friday. This product is primarily aimed at providing easy and hassle free banking services to the financially excluded and underprivileged sections of the society who have an Aadhar number. The card can be used at the conventional ATMs, at micro ATMs or the hand held machines used by Business Correspondents and...

RSS: Rapist Suraksha Sangh/Rapist Security Society The RSS supremo Mohan Bhagwat (or to call him out in the way he is referred to in the Sangh – Sarsanghchalak Param Pujya Shri Mohan-ji Bhagwat-ji) has now joined the pavilion of eminent Bharatiya moustachioed misogynists. In a breathtakingly revealing statement, he has told us that rapes happen in India, not in Bharat. What he means is that rape...

India is expected to have close to 165 million mobile Internet users by March 2015, up from 87.1 million in December 2012 as more people are accessing the web through mobile devices and dongles, a report by Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and IMRB said on Wednesday. According to the report, the number of mobile Internet users increased to 87.1 million by December 2012 from 78.7...

I'M NOT A light reader. I don't read fiction, for instance; only books on philosophy, religion, politics or economics. I was born in a city in the province of Sindh in Pakistan, where I went to the New Era School. My early reading happened there as a child, in the school library. Most of the books were by English authors. I came from an educated family — my father was a lawyer, so was my...

Bangalore, Jan 2: Union Government"s ambitious direct cash transfer scheme (DCTS)?was launched in Mysore, Tumkur and Dharwad on Tuesday. The State government has listed around 15 different welfare schemes to be brought under the scheme. Pension, subsidy and scholarship amounts will be directly credited to the bank accounts of the beneficiaries under the DCTS. The plan was to bring around 30...

Sometimes the most important ideas in tech are hiding in plain sight. In that spirit, here are three predictions for 2013 that are just waiting to happen. No 3D TVs, wearable computer or jet packs for me — at least not this year. The Kindle Offer You Can"t Refuse Demand is rapidly shrinking for e-ink e-book readers. IHS iSuppli predicts that when the books close on 2012 some 15 million will have...

London, Jan 1: Teens who have no access to internet and cellphones are educationally disadvantaged as the benefits of using such technologies far outweigh any perceived risks, a new Oxford study has claimed. The findings are based on a large-scale study of more than 1,000 randomly selected households in the UK, coupled with regular face-to-face interviews with more than 200 teenagers and their...

San Francisco, Jan 1: Facebook sidestepped a privacy gaffe by fixing a flaw that made it possible to snoop on private New Year's Eve messages sent using a "Midnight Delivery" service. Facebook took "Midnight Delivery" offline temporarily to patch a vulnerability pointed out by Britain-based blogger Jack Jenkins. The new feature, which lets people prepare digital messages in advance and have them...

Mangalore, Jan 1: Five members of the same family have sustained severe injuries after the Omni vehicle in which they were traveling fell into a ditch in Kannur on the outskirts of the city. The incident happened when the driver of the vehicle lost control and slipped down the road into a ten feet long ditch on Sunday. They were on their way to Mangalore from Panemangalur. The injured K Fathima...