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Bangalore, Oct 30: The Karnataka state government on Wednesday transferred four IAS?officers. According to an official press release, the following are their new postings: K?V?Thrilok Chandra as?Deputy Commissioner, Kolar district, Kolar; D?K?Ravi as?Additional?Commissioner of Commercial Taxes, Bangalore; R?Vinoth Priya as Additional Mission?Director, Sakaala, Bang-alore and K?S?Manjunath as Chief...

Mumbai, Oct 13: Private sector lender Kotak Mahindra Bank (KMB) today launched a Facebook-based instant fund transfer service wherein one can send money to friends on the social media network real time, for free. "This is a bank agnostic product, the sender and the receiver may not be our account holders. We have used the IMPS platform on the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) network...

London, Oct 12: Tata group's Land Rover has forayed into an elite club of world's 100 most valuable brands as the only Indian-owned entity, while iconic Apple has retained its top slot with nearly USD 119 billion valuation. Land Rover, an iconic British car brand owned by Indian conglomerate Tatas, has been ranked 91st with a brand value of USD 4.47 billion and is one of the five new entrants on...

Birmingham/England, Oct 11: Malala Yousafzai celebrated her Nobel Peace Prize where she always wished to be — in school. The Pakistani girl, once shot by the Taliban for daring to want an education just like the boys, celebrated being the joint winner of the peace prize on Friday with her classmates at Edgbaston High School for girls in Birmingham, the city in central England that she now calls...

HTC has introduced its new suite of imaging products at its event in New York. The new range consists of the HTC Desire Eye smartphone with two 13 MP cameras, HTC RE hand-held camera, HTC Eye Experience enhanced imaging software and Zoe collaborative video editing community. The Desire Eye smartphone sports a 13 MP camera on the front as well as on the back side armed with BSI sensors and comes...

Apple's iPhone 6 series devices are up for prebooking in India from October 7. The devices will be available in the country beginning October 17. The company hasn't officially disclosed the pricing of the new smartphones. However, NDTVGadgets claims the 64GB and 128GB variant of the 4.7-inch iPhone 6 will be priced at Rs. 62,000 and Rs. 71,500 respectively. The 64GB variant of the iPhone 6 Plus...

San Francisco , Oct 4: Facebook said today it has stepped up its battle against spammers who promise to deliver "likes" to its members, and warned users on using such scams. The world's most popular social network said that to date, it has obtained legal judgments of nearly USD 2 billion against fraudulent activities on Facebook. It was not clear how much of that was actually collected. Facebook's...

New Delhi, Oct 1: Looking for data on past tsunamis for a better understanding of the natural phenomenon, a team of researchers has come upon evidence which suggests that the Indian coast was hit by a sea surge some 1,000 years back, before the tsunami of 2004 which caused massive destruction in the country. The team from the Centre for Earth Sciences (CEaS) at the Indian Institute of Science...

Udupi, Oct 1: A person was killed in a collision between a truck and a motorcycle at Padubidri in Udupi taluk on Tuesday. The Padubidri police said Jayarama Acharya (36), a resident of Laila village near Belthangady, suffered severe injuries in the collision near S.K. Auto Works shop, and died on the spot. The truck driver fled from the accident scene. Rash negligent driving by the truck driver is...

Bangalore, Sep 29: India has surpassed the highest expectations for Amazon, the company's founder and CEO Jeff Bezos said, promising to keep the money tap open for a business that he announced has sold goods worth more than $1 billion (Rs 6,000 crore) in just over a year of operations. "We had very high expectations and this team has blown past our highest expectations... It's going...