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Dec 17: Many of us woke up today to notifications on our Facebook timeline where our friends showed their support for the free internet. In India, free means a lot. So if Facebook and activists both expect you to act to save the free Internet, who do you trust? Although the world also has two distinct meanings for the word free, in India both meanings matter a lot. In 1947, we got to know one side...

Jaipur, Sep 30: A simple attempt to drink water from a utensil in Rajasthan's Rajsamand put a leopard in an awkward situation. The leopard`s head got stuck inside the utensil when it tried to drink water. Only thing people in the area could do was to watch the big cat roam helplessly. Later, forest department officials came to the rescue of the leopard and removed the utensil from its head.

Sep 6: Micromax co-founder Rahul Sharma"s Yu Televentures has launched a new , called YUPix for Rs 6999, which is compatible with Android and iOS smartphones. YUPIX is a compact pocket sized printer, which converts smartphone photos into printed ones. According to YU, YUPIX has an image transfer speed which is 10 times faster than other pocket printers. It"s dimensions are 2.99 x 6.01 x 0.94...

Suman More's life has been a rags-to-recognition journey. As an illiterate, impoverished ragpicker from Pune, the 50-year-old could never have imagined that she would one day be the centre of attention at a conference held all the way in Geneva by the International Labour Organisation. Just the past fortnight, over 2,000 experts from all over the world listened enthralled, as she spoke about her...

London, Jun 15: An all-girls school in the UK has banned senior students from wearing short skirts, instructing them to wear "sober" suits and minimal makeup in bid to keep the pupils "committed to learning". St Margaret's School, a 28,500 pounds-a-year boarding school in Bushey, Hertfordshire, has banned A-level students from wearing short skirts. Rose Hardy, headmistress of the school, has...

New Delhi, May 6: Born with a silver spoon in his mouth, Salman Khan, 49, the eldest son of writer Salim Khan, has had an easy ride into Bollywood. Though he made his acting debut as a supporting actor in the 1988 film "Biwi Ho To Aisi", it was his charming boyish looks in the 1989 film "Maine Pyar Kiya" that helped catapult him to fame at the age of 25, and give him a strong female fan base. From...

Ahmedabad, May 2: Mauli Teli has people coming up to her often and asking what 'halal' has to do with cosmetics. "Are such cosmetics only for Muslims?" they sometimes enquire. Teli is not a Muslim, but the smart, suave, CEO of a company whose Iba product - India's first halal-certified cosmetic brand - is more than ready with her answers. Thanks to this, Iba's consumer base is growing steadily...

The PEW Research Center has released a report (2nd April 2015); which gives the projections of populations in times to come. It says that in India the population of Hindus will fall down from present 79.5 % to 76.7% and the Muslim population will rise up to 18% by 2050. The population of Indian Muslims will overtake the population of Muslims in Indonesia and Pakistan. Disturbed by these...

New York, Apr 5: After one year of acquiring mobile messaging service WhatsApp, Facebook has begun testing a new feature in its 'Facebook for Android' app that includes the first major integration of WhatsApp. The social networking site has added a 'Send' button with the familiar WhatsApp icon as a part of the status actions buttons that appear under each status update. The new button appears on...

Washington, May 2: Facebook has introduced a standalone app called Riff that has been designed as an evolving mix of clips that revolve around a specific topic. The app is meant to work like a video version of the Facebook chat thread, where users can make additions and make it go viral. According to the Verge, when users create a Riff video for the first time, they can tag a friend and make it...