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Pune, Jan 2: A hospital here founded by the doctor-son of a daily labourer and which celebrates the birth of every girl child will now set up a one-of-a-kind burns centre that will treat all women victims of acid attacks or burns free of charge. "Women who are targets of acid attacks or dowry and torture burns shall be given completely free treatment at this centre. However, if there are male...

New Delhi, Dec 22: A friend in need is a friend indeed: A hair-raising video that has surfaced on YouTube illustrates this proverb very well. In the video, a monkey could be seen trying to save another monkey lying unconscious on a railway track. The monkey in the video is surely impressing for its presence of mind and efforts to help its injured friend. One of the monkeys in the video fell...

Sirsi, Dec 5: A boy and a girl from Sirsi committed suicide by hanging themselves from a tree on the outskirts of Hubballi on Thursday. The police gave the names of the deceased as Raghu Hanumanthappa Bhovi of Ramanabailu and Mamata Shankar Kalabhag of Nilekani village near Sirsi. Preliminary investigation has revealed that while Raghu was working as a construction worker, Mamata was studying in...

Hassan, Nov 21: A man and his son were arrested by the police for killing an injured deer for its meat and hide at Baachenahalli in Arasikere taluk on Thursday. Police gave the names of the two men as Shankaregowda and his son Lokesh, residents of Baachenahalli. On Thursday morning, a milk van hit a deer which was crossing the road near the village. According to the police, the driver, before...

Nov 21: The L.A. Auto Show kicked off Tuesday with press days focused on the technology of the "connected car," which will eventually help lead to self-driving cars, like those that Google (NASDAQ:GOOGL) and recent auto-tech IPO Mobileye (NYSE:MBLY) have been working on. Volvo, for one, showcased in a news conference Tuesday that, like Google, its cars can drive themselves now — following lanes...

Nov 18: Last week, WhatsApp introduced a feature which allowed users to view whether their messages were read or not with the help of two blue ticks. Some people found it interesting while the rest, were freaking out. A single tick indicted that the message was sent; two ticks indicated that it was delivered and two blue ticks proved that your massage has been read by the opposite recipient. It...

Coimbatore, Nov 15: As part of an awareness campaign of the ‘Awakening Conference’ being organized by National Women’s Front on Sunday, an exhibition was inaugurated on Saturday at Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu. The theme of the exhibition is “Women’s rights and issues”. It was formally inaugurated by Popular Front of India Tamil Nadu state president A.S. Ismail at 11:30 am. NWF national president...

New Delhi, Nov 10: Banking consumers will have to pay more if they are prolific with ATM transactions as State Bank of India (SBI) and its private sector peers HDFC Bank and Axis Bank have capped the free usage in six metros at three. The capping and additional fees on excess usage come following a recent circular by the Reserve Bank of India allowing banks to limit the number of free ATM...

London, Nov 7: Mobile messaging service WhatsApp has reportedly come up with a new "double blue tick" feature that allows users to know when their texts have been delivered and read. The blue tick appears as soon as the person at the receiving end has read the message. According to Daily Express, one grey tick means a message has been successfully sent, two grey ticks show it has been delivered...

Bangalore, Nov 4: The frequency of car recalls by Indian makers has increased in recent times. Many such recalls have been for faulty systems that are critical to safety of the passenger. Now, an independent crash test by a global car crash test watchdog, Global NCAP, has revealed that one of India"s most popular and high selling cars, the Maruti Suzuki Swift is unsafe in many aspects as it failed...