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Apr 10: On my recent visit to Muzaffarnagar in Uttar Pradesh, at the refugee camp of the September 2013 riot victims, the name of Amit Shah often came up during discussions. Mr. Shah is the newly appointed campaign manager for Narendra Modi in Western U.P. For those who are keeping a close tab on the human rights situation in India, Amit Shah?s name rings an alarm bell. The appointment of Amit...

It's the end of the line for Microsoft's Windows XP: as of today, the company will no longer release security updates for the 12-year-old operating system. "Microsoft has provided support for Windows XP for the past 12 years. But now the time has come for us, along with our hardware and software partners, to invest our resources toward supporting more recent technologies so that we can continue to...

London, Apr 7: Britain's Royal Mint has started minting coins from Indian bullion cargo recovered from a British ship more than 70 years after it was sunk by a German U-boat. The British ship with a cargo of 2,800 bars of silver bullion was on its way to London from Kolkata in 1941 when the ship, SS Gairsoppa, was torpedoed by a German submarine off the Irish coast. The ship spent 70 years lost...

Apr 3: Since the 1970s, paying with plastic has been pretty standard everywhere: customers swiped their cards, signed receipts and took home their purchases. But after security breaches at Target late last year led to the loss of personal data from as many as 110 million customers, the financial industry is racing to adopt technologies that will alter that decades-old ritual. Driven largely by...

One of the states that the BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi is eyeing keenly is Assam, where the Congress has been in power since 2001. The ruling party is leaving no stone unturned to make sure that the Modi factor proves to be irrelevant in the General Election. In an interview with Ratnadip Choudhury, Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi says that Modi is good at marketing himself, but...

Kasargod, Mar 26: The Excise Department sleuths seized 11,584 sachets of pan masala products and arrested two persons travelling in a Kerala State Road Transport Corporation bus at the border check-post of Manjeswaram on Tuesday.Stepping up search operations in view of the upcoming elections, a team of Excise officials led by Circle Inspector Sunil Kumara Pillai seized bags containing multiple...

Ingolstad (Germany), Mar 23: German luxury auto brand Audi will begin selling its premium A3 Sedan in India from middle of the year and the much-awaited car will be rolled out from the company's production facility in Aurangabad. The brand with the four rings said it has decided to assemble A3 in India from the launch stage itself expecting that it will become a driver of growth for the company...

Mangalore, Mar 22: On the occasion of International Forest Day, students from the Department of Mass Communication, St. Aloysius College staged a thought provoking street play on the issue of Netravathi River diversion, which held at St. Aloysius College campus at 3.30pm, gathered the attention of massive youth across the city. The educated Mangalorean youngsters were on full swing as they acted...

Mar 22: A class 12 Indian student hailing from Nainital, Rajesh Adhikari, has created a pair of shoes which lets users charge their phone while walking. The charger works on an ingenious spring and dynamo mechanism that powers the device connected to it via a simple cable. But you"ll need to walk for it to be of any use. Or get someone to walk in your shoes. Each time you lift a foot, the spring...

Mangalore, Mar 14: The Students of Journalism of St. Aloysius College, Mangalore took up the initiative of cleaning the Tannir Bavi beach strip on the 12th of March. The serenity of the beach was polluted by the disturbing sight of trash found at the shore. Trash collected included large amounts of plastic waste, cigarette packets, beer bottles, footwear and food items. At the end of the clean-up...