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Pathanamthitta, Oct 18: The National Commission for Women(NCW) on Wednesday took cognisance of attack on women journalists by the devotees protesting against the entry of women between the age group of 10 years to 50 years in the Sabarimala temple. Meanwhile, portals of Lord Ayyappa temple were opened today at 5 pm and the devotees can offer prayers till 10.30 pm. The portals will remain open till...

London, Oct 17: The final book of late physicist Stephen Hawking was published on Tuesday, October 16, week and one of the most prominent explanations coming from the renowned personality is about God. In the book titled,'Brief Answers to the Big Questions', Hawking writes, "Do I have faith? We are each free to believe what we want, and it's my view that the simplest explanation is that there is...

Washington, Oct 13: Social media giant Facebook, which has its largest user base in India, said that a recent hacking into its system has affected about 30 million users. Facebook product management vice president Guy Rosen on Friday said the cyber attackers exploited a vulnerability in Facebook's code that existed between July 2017 and September 2018. The vulnerability has now been fixed, but not...

Mangaluru, Oct 12: Team Physiotherapist Mangalore organised fruit distribution programme at Govt Wenlock Hospital (Paediatric Care) on the occasion of the birthday of U T Khader, Minister for Housing, Urban Development and Dakshina Kannada district in-charge. Fruits were distributed among 80 paediatric patients. Dr Mohammad Suhail, Dr Yaseer, Dr Saugat, Dr Nawaraj, Dr Urope, Dr Showkat, Mr Deepak...

London, Oct 11: Scientists have for the first time put a figure on how many faces people actually remember -- a staggering 5,000 on average. Researchers from the University of York in the UK tested participants on how many faces they could recall from their personal lives and the media, as well as the number of famous faces they recognised. Humans have typically lived in small groups of around one...

Bengaluru, Oct 10: The employees of Defence PSU Bharat Electronics Ltd (BEL) on Tuesday contributed Rs 50 lakh to the Karnataka Chief Minister’s Relief Fund for relief work in flood-hit areas of Karnataka. Mr M V Gowtama, CMD, BEL and Mr R N Bagdalkar, Director (HR), BEL, handed over the cheque for Rs 50 lakhs to Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy.

Bengaluru, Oct 9: National Confederation of Human Rights, Karnataka Chapter organized the State Council meeting on 7th Oct 2018 at Hameed Sha Complex, Bengaluru for the new term of 2 years. S Balan, Senior Advocate, Karnataka High Court was elected as the president again for the new term. While addressing the gathering he stated that atrocity on Dalits, minorities women has only escalated day by...

NASA's Voyager 2 probe is approaching interstellar space and has detected an increase in cosmic rays that originate outside our solar system, the US space agency said. Launched in 1977, Voyager 2 is a little less than 17.7 billion kilometres from Earth, or more than 118 times the distance from Earth to the Sun. Since 2007 the probe has been travelling through the outermost layer of the heliosphere...

Moscow, Oct 3: Russia may bring an Indian astronaut to the International Space Station (ISS) on board a Soyuz spacecraft for a short training mission in 2022, a source in the Russian space industry said. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced in August this year that his country would send a national crew to space on board domestically-developed Gaganyaan spacecraft by 2022, when...

Amreli, Oct 2: The Forest department of Gujarat, after a seemingly futile attempt to cover-up the death of Gir lions due to a suspected outbreak of some infectious disease in a particular range of Gir, the sole abode of Asiatic lions in the world, has finally confirmed the deaths of total 21 lions. In a statement issued on Monday evening, the Forest department said that after the death of 11 lions...