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Mumbai, Aug 2: The state consumer commission in Maharashtra has directed a civic-run hospital in Navi Mumbai and a Chembur-based hospital to pay over Rs 15 lakh compensation to a woman whose husband died nine years ago due to "medical negligence". In a recent order, the Maharashtra State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission said while one hospital could not recognise the illness of her husband...

Mumbai, Aug 1: Telecom operator Bharti Airtel on Thursday posted a staggering ₹2,866 crore loss for the first quarter of FY 2020, amid a fierce competition unleashed in the Indian telecom market by rival Reliance Jio. Airtel had logged a net profit of ₹97 crore in the same period of the previous year, Bharti Airtel said in a statement. The revenue of the Sunil Mittal-led company rose 4.7 per cent...

Hubli, Jul 31: Congress workers staged a protest in Hubli on Wednesday against the Karnataka government's decision to not celebrate Tipu Jayanti this year. "We are protesting against the decision of Yediyurappa government to ban celebrations on Tipu Sultan's Jayanti. Tipu Sultan is among the pioneers who fought for this nation. Tipu Sultan was very much secular and BJP has no other ideology than...

New Delhi, Jul 31: Banning cryptocurrencies in India is not the solution as this would inhibit new applications and solutions from being deployed and would discourage tech startups, the IT industry's apex body Nasscom said on Tuesday. An inter-ministerial committee headed by Economic Affairs Secretary Subhash Chandra Garg last week submitted the report and the draft bill on banning of...

Bengaluru, Jul 26: Karnataka BJP chief BS Yeddyurappa on Friday will pay tributes at the National Military Memorial here ahead of taking oath as the 25th Chief Minister of the state. "On this day 20 years ago, Indian armed forces defeated Pakistan in 1999 in the Kargil war. As a mark of respect to all soldiers who fought this great war, I have come here to pay my tribute to our armed forces before...

Kasaragod, Jul 25: An autorickshaw driver was found dead on the railway track at Moolapally railway gate near here late on Wednesday night. Police identified the deceased as U K Ravi (41) from Uchoolikuthira.

Jul 2: The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has officially penalized Facebook a groundbreaking $5 billion, the largest in FTC history. According to a Wednesday press release from the FTC, the social network giant will also have to submit to new restrictions, as well as a modified corporate structure that will hold the company accountable for decisions made about users’ privacy. “Despite repeated...

Bengaluru, Jul 24: As the BJP is expected to stake claim to form the next government in Karnataka, its legislature party meeting would be held on Wednesday. This comes a day after the Congress-JDS government in the state collapsed after it lost the confidence vote, garnering 99 votes against the 105 to the BJP in the assembly, ending the nearly three-week-long high political drama. The coalition...

The average cost of data breach in India grew 7.29 per cent year-over-year to reach Rs 12.8 crore from Rs 11.9 crore last year, said a new study by IBM on Tuesday. Per capita cost per lost or stolen record reached Rs 5,019, which represents an increase of 9.76 per cent from the prior year, said the "Cost of a Data Breach" report. The root cause for 51 per cent of data breaches was malicious or...

Facebook has admitted a design flaw in its Messenger Kids Service that exposed thousands of children on group chats with unauthorised users. According to a report in The Verge on Tuesday, the design flaw "allowed users to sidestep that protection through the group chat system, thereby letting children to enter group chats with unapproved strangers". The social networking platform introduced...