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New Delhi, Apr 10: Nokia phones might be making a comeback in a partnership with HMD Global, but the Finnish company is also investing heavily in networks and communications across the world, particularly 5G technology. Nokia had in March announced partnerships with Airtel and BSNL for preparing 5G networks in India, and now according to a report in Economic Times, the company has MOUs with both...

New York, Apr 8: In a tough challenge to team collaboration tool Slack, Facebook has announced to offer a version of Workplace for free. Workplace, Facebook`s messaging service for businesses, is one of the many products used by businesses to chat and share files within their select groups. According to a report in Fortune, the new free version announced by Facebook this week joins a previously...

Kasargod, Apr 7: A 10-year-old boy, who was suffering from physical deformities, died at his home at the hilly township of Rajapuram. Akshad Liju, whose name was included in the official list of endosulfan victims, passed away on Wednesday at the house of his mother Babitha, sources here said. Akshad’s father, Liju Joseph, serving in the Army near Mumbai, reportedly said that he lost his son as...

New Delhi, Apr 6: There is a great news for people who love sleeping the most. Exciting news for all such lazy lads out there! What if you get paid for doing the easiest task in the world – lying in the bed? Sounds too good to be true, right? But it"s true as there is a job offer which pays you €16,000 (£13,700 or $17k or Rs 11.2 Lakh) for spending two months or 60 days lying in bed. The offer...

New Delhi, Apr 5: In a first for the IPL, social media platform Twitter today unveiled special emojis for 30 of the league's biggest stars. "Fans can just Tweet using the designated player hashtag (i.e. #ViratKohli for Virat Kohli) and an emoji version of that player will automatically appear after the hashtag within the Tweet," the company stated in a press release. There will also be an emoji...

Manipla, Apr 5: Professor Madhu Veeraraghavan has been appointed as Director of TAPMI. Prof. Veeraraghavan joined the institute in June 2013 and holds the T. A. Pai Chair Professor of Finance. He obtained his B.Com from university of Mumbai and an MBA (Finance & Investments) and PhD (Finance –Asset Pricing) from Australia. Prof. Veeraraghavan was instrumental in setting up the Largest Finance Lab...

Kannur, Apr 5: The police investigating the attack on a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) functionary near here last month arrested three Social Democratic Party of India (SDPI) workers here on Tuesday. The arrested have been identified as K.P. Shiras (28), N.V. Muhammad Janfar (24), and Mahroof (20). The police said they were among the eight PFI and Campus Front workers directly involved in the attack...

Mumbai, Apr 4: Instant messaging app WhatsApp, owned by Facebook Inc, is mulling a foray into digital payment services in India, its first such offering globally, and has advertised to hire a digital transactions lead in the country. A WhatsApp move into digital payments in India, its biggest market that is home to 200 million of its billion plus global users, would replicate similar moves by...

New Delhi, Apr 4: An 18-year-old boy from Chennai has won the second prize in the grade 12 category of the NASA Ames Space Settlement Contest, 2017. Sai Kiran P earned the prestigious prize for his project, proposing an elevator from the Earth to the moon to make human settlement possible on the lunar surface. As per reports, his project proposal titled,Connecting Moon, Earth and Space' andHUMEIU...

Apr 3: Universe is large – like very large and we all know that. We cannot possibly fathom its total accumulation. However, you"d be shocked to learn that 68 per cent of universe doesn"t even exist. A new research hailing from the Eötvös Loránd University suggests that on the basis of simulation, 68 per cent of the universe hasn"t been existing. The study further suggests that it is the "dark...