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New Delhi, Feb 28: In a bid to promote digital transactions, the Indian Rail Catering and Tourism Corporation (IRCTC) on Thursday launched its much awaited payment aggregator system 'IRCTC iPay'. The exclusive digital payment gateway will provide better digital experience and improved online digital payment convenience to rail passengers availing online travel-related services through the website...

Kannur, Feb 28: Three persons suffered minor injuries in a powerful crude bomb explosion near Thalassery town on Thursday morning. According to police, the explosion occurred while three youths K Praveen (33), P K Rafeek (34) and Shakeer (36) engaged in cleaning the ground in front of BJP Thalassery mandalam committee office. A crude bomb kept inside a plastic pipe was exploded, police said.

Despite the significant achievements of medical science today, there is no factory established that can manufacture blood. It is only in human beings where blood is produced and circulated. Jamiyattul Falah (Unity for Success), a state government award winning charity organization’s Mangaluru Taluk unit organized Blood Donation camp with the support of Blood Helpline Karnataka (R) and SDPI Ullal...

Men still have more Internet access than women globally but low- and lower-middle-income countries narrowed the gender gap in 2018, a Facebook-led study has revealed. According to the Inclusive Internet Index (3i) prepared by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) for Facebook, there are demonstrable benefits from comprehensive female e-inclusion policies, digital skills programmes and targets for...

New Delhi, Feb 25: A parliamentary panel on Monday asked micro-blogging site Twitter to address issues in real-time and engage more with the Election Commission of India (ECI) ahead of general elections and also summoned senior officials of other social media platforms Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram on March 6. This was informed by Anurag Thakur, chairman of Parliamentary Standing Committee on...

California, Feb 21: After reports emerged about YouTube overlooking the loopholes that allow pedophiles to abuse the platform to network through comments on innocuous videos, some of the top brands are reportedly backtracking from advertising on the Google-owned platform. Major companies, including Nestle, Epic, Disney and McDonald’s announced that they have put on hold their advertising on...

Washington, Feb 21: A statue depicting the famous scene of a sailor kissing a woman in New York's Times Square as people celebrate the end of World War II has been vandalized with red spray paint spelling out #MeToo. The graffiti covers the ankle-to-knee area of the left leg of the woman being kissed, said police in Sarasota, Florida where the statue is on loan to the city. The vandalism is...

Washington, Feb 21: NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory will provide daily weather reports for Mars, thanks to the Red Planet's newest robotic resident, InSight, mission scientists announced Thursday. "The InSight lander is close to the Martian equator -- just north of the equator -- so it is experiencing Martian winter," said Don Banfield, the mission's lead for the lander's Auxiliary Payload...

Thiruvananthapuram, Feb 20: As the Attukal Pongala celebrations are underway across the capital city of Thiruvananthapuram, around 3,861 ousted women employees of the Kerala State Road Transport Corporation (KSRTC) are participating in the festival hoping for the state government to address their grievances. The women were seen preparing a ritualistic offering for Attukal Devi in front of the...

Dharmasthala, Feb 20: Nispruha Sagar Munimaharaj, 75, a Jain monk, passed away at Dharmasthala on Tuesday. He is said to have been on ‘Sallekhana Vrata’ (fast unto death) from February 18. The monk, who arrived at the temple town on February 3 for the fourth 10-day Mahamastakabhisheka celebrations, which concluded on Monday, was staying in the ‘kuteera’ near Chandranatha Swami Basadi. A release...