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New Delhi, Sept 18: The internet search giant Google launched its UPI- based digital payment application,Tez, on Monday. The application allows its users to make payments for the goods and services and even person-to-person transactions, both online and offline. Google's Tez is almost same as the NPCI's BHIM app. Google has lately been working with the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI)...

Bengaluru, Sept 15: Income Tax officials on Thursday raided Kalyani Group in Bengaluru and other parts of the country. Simultaneous raids were conducted at eight premises, officials said. Several teams of I-T officials searched the premises belonging to the group in Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Chennai. The companies raided include, Kalyani Motors and Kalyani Developers. The directors of Kalyani...

London, Sept 14: Scientists have developed a cloaking technology that can make opaque materials invisible by using light waves from lasers, paving the way for novel ways of camouflaging objects. A completely opaque material is irradiated from above with a specific wave pattern - with the effect that light waves from the left can pass through the material without any obstruction. The technique can...

Cupertino, Sept 13: “One more thing.” With that phrase, Apple paid homage to its late co-founder Steve Jobs on the 10th anniversary of the iPhone at Cupertino in California on Tuesday when it unveiled its latest and almost certainly most expensive new version of the device, the iPhone X. CEO Tim Cook called it “the biggest leap forward” since the first iPhone. (“X” is pronounced 10, not the letter...

Udupi, Sept 12: Abhinav Karaba K., a 7th semester Mechanical Engineering student of Sri Madhwa Vadiraja Institute of Technology and Management (SMVITM), Bantakal, won the ‘Best Student Award’ in the Karnataka section at the 14th ISTE State Level Student Convention 2017 at GM Institute of Technology, Davangere, on September 8

New Delhi, Sep 10: A new malware Xafecopy Trojan has been detected in India which steals money through victims' mobile phones, cyber security firm Kaspersky said in a report. Around 40 per cent of target of the malware has been detected in India. "Kaspersky Lab experts have uncovered a mobile malware targeting the WAP billing payment method, stealing money through victims' mobile accounts without...

Bengaluru, Sept 6: Not entirely happy with the performance of the five revenue-generating departments, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has asked them to pull up their socks. Siddaramaiah on Tuesday reviewed the progress of tax/revenue collection by the Commercial Taxes, Excise, Transport, Stamps and Registration and Mines and Geology Departments, after the implementation of GST. On learning that not...

New Delhi, Sept 6: Schoolteachers from Karnataka have won as many as 16 national awards for their outstanding contribution to education. Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu gave away the awards at a Teachers’ Day function here on Tuesday. The award carries a silver medal, a certificate and a cheque for Rs 50,000. Rathnamma B M got the national award for her contribution to increasing the enrollment in...

Bengaluru, Sept 6: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday recollected fond memories of his school teacher who persuaded him to rejoin school after he had dropped out. He was speaking at a programme organised by the department of public instruction on the occasion of Teacher’s Day. “If Rajappa master had not got me readmitted to school, I would not have been standing before you as the chief...

Madikeri, Sept 6: K K Pavana, wife of DySP M K Ganapathi, on Tuesday said that the family has got justice to some extent with the Supreme Court ordering a CBI probe into her husband’s suicide. “The family had demanded a CBI probe. But, we did not get enough support in the beginning. I will stand by my father-in-law M K Kushalappa and brother-in-law M K Machaiah in this fight,” she said. Pavana...