India’s telecom regulator TRAI has issued its recommendations on Net Neutrality in India. The recommendations are largely along expected lines, and prevent telecom companies from slowing down the Internet to ease the traffic of their video apps, messengers and other ‘over-the-top’ services. The move comes even as an Indian-origin bureaucrat in the US is facing […]
Mahindra & Mahindra said Uber, the taxi company, will deploy ‘hundreds of electric cars’ from the company in Delhi and Hyderabad. The partnership will gradually be expanded to other cities, it said. Mahindra’s electric vehicles on the Uber platform will include the ezoPlus hatch and the eVerito sedan. “As part of this collaboration, both the […]
With the central government breathing down the necks of telecom operators to link all connections with Aadhaar numbers, Vodafone has launched Aadhaar verification vans in Rajasthan to ease the process. The vans were initially launched with the purpose of easing the 4G SIM upgrade process. Over the past 10 months, mobile vans have helped thousands […]
A report by the Border Security Force has flagged what it called increasing presence of Chinese military personnel on India’s border with Pakistan. While the presence of Chinese troop in the Gilgit Baltistan region near the trijunction of the three countries was already known, the activities of Chinese soldiers and engineers have now spread to […]
BJP leader Subramanian Swamy has come out strongly against right wing activists making violent threats against artists involved with the film Padmavati, saying that he could approach the courts if such threats continue. “In a democracy, everyone has the right to protest, but making threats against someone is against the law and cannot be tolerated,” […]
PVR, India’s largest movie chain, said viewers can now watch any movie they want — including oldies, small-time and independent flicks and documentaries — by voting for them on movie-on-demand app VKAAO from Bookmyshow. When a certain number of app users sign up for a screening at a particular time and theater, the movie theater […]
A youngster has ended up in the intensive care unit of a hospital struggling for his life after his attempt to mount an elephant like Baahubali went grievously wrong. The incident happened in Peringassery in the hilly district of Idukki in Kerala and was broadcast live on the victim’s Facebook. The incident took shape when […]
Real estate major DLF reported a sharp decline in its revenue and profit for the July-September quarter after it stopped taking new bookings due to the implementation of RERA in May. The company’s net profit fell by 94% to Rs 12.57 cr in July-September quarter from Rs 204.60 cr a year ago. Even in the […]
Hindu Janajagruti Samiti, an online organization that aims to bring back ancient Hindu rules in India, said it “won’t tolerate” mistakes in films, referring to errors in the film Padmavati. It did not specify what action it plans to take. Joining the protests by Rajput organizations of Rajasthan, the Samiti said it was outrageous to […]
The administration of the Jawaharlal Nehru University has fined its students Rs 6,000 for cooking and eating biryani in the administrative block during an overnight protest in June. The move, however, has taken a political turn as the action follows a campaign by the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad — the student wing of the BJP […]
A video has gone viral on social media claiming to show a shocking pileup that happened today on the Yamuna Expressway. The video shows the pile-up in action with more and more cars ramming into each other even as people stand on the sidelines watching. The accident was initially caused by a bus overturning, with […]
Largely along expected lines, the two warring allies within the Maharashtra government — the BJP and the Shiv Sena — are now reported to be wooing Sharad Pawar led Nationalist Congress Party. Shiv Sena head Uddhav Thackeray met with Pawar ten days ago, said CNN News18, and was reportedly told by the veteran politician to […]
Kamal Haasan today announced the launch of a new app called Mayyam or Whistle, in an attempt to organize people for a political movement, and said there was no question of turning back. “If I call such a huge press meeting and I say, I am still thinking about it, it would be unfair and […]
Fire has been reported from the eight floor of Arunachal Bhawan building in Sector 30, Vashi, New Mumbai. No casualties have been reported. However, there are four floors above the floor on which the fire has spread. Smoke can also be seen from the 9th floor, but it is not yet clear whether the floor […]
Inox Wind Limited, the most aggressive player in bidding for new wind power projects, said it expects almost 6 GW of new wind power projects to be auctioned in India over the next five months. In comparison, the country added 5.4 GW of wind power capacity on the ground in the last financial year that […]
Ashokan Mani, who has accused the Popular Front of India of trying to kidnap his daughter into Syria, today said he had no problems with his daughter converting to Islam or marrying a Muslim. Ashokan, who has been asked by the Supreme Court to produce the girl Fadiya by Nov 27, said his problem was […]
The Supreme Court today asked the government to produce Fadiya, previously known as Akhila Ashokan, before Nov 27 in the controversial ‘Love Jihad’ case from Kerala. In the petition filed by Fadiya’s ex-husband Shafeen Jahan, the court came to the conclusion that it would need to speak to the girl after conflicting allegations were leveled […]
Madrasas in Uttar Pradesh state of India will soon start teaching from science and maths textbooks printed by the NCERT, deputy chief minister Dinesh Sharma said today. “Madrasas will teach using NCERT text books. The board has started preparations,” Sharma said today. Science and maths have been made mandatory from high-school level in all schools. […]
Taking a jibe at Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi’s ‘increasing love for Dalits’, Dalit leader Ramdas Athawale said the chronic bachelor and heir to the Congress Party should now get married to a Dalit girl. Speaking at a function in Akola in Maharashtra, Athawale said Gandhiji wanted to erase the scourge of caste from India […]
Former union home minister P Chidambaram today said India should ‘seriously consider’ giving autonomy to the state of Jammu & Kashmir. Chidambaram, who was in charge of maintaining law and order in the hill state for several years as part of his role as India’s home minister, is the head of his party’s standing committee […]
