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Tampa, Jul 26: A massive underground lake has been detected for the first time on Mars, raising the possibility that more water -- and maybe even life -- exists there, international astronomers said Wednesday. Located under a layer of Martian ice, the lake is about 12 miles (20 kilometres) wide, said the report led by Italian researchers in the US journal Science. It is the largest body of liquid...

New Delhi, July 21: Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Saturday said sanitary napkin has been exempted from the Goods and Services Tax (GST). Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the ongoing 28th GST Council meeting in the capital, Sisodia who also handles the Finance portfolio, said many items under the 28 percent slab have been brought down. "I think the 28 percent tax slab...

Kasaragod, Jul 19: A one-year-old girl was found dead in an overflowing well at Eriyal here on Wednesday. The police said Ayishath Shamna, daughter of Naseema, could have fallen into the well in the paddy field. The well wall had collapsed a while ago. The police and Fire and Rescue Services personnel retrieved the body and shifted it to the General Hospital around 3 p.m.

Kasaragod, Jul 19: Students’ unrest and subsequent clashes between rival groups resulted in indefinite suspension of classes at C.H. Muhammed Koya Memorial Vocational Higher Secondary School at Kottapuram in Neeleswaram. The unrest followed after a Plus One girl student was forced to sing a song by her classmates inside the classroom on Monday. Infuriated over forcing his sister sing the song, the...

Bengaluru, Jul 19: The Indian Space Research Organisation has signed contracts with three vendors to outsource Spacecraft Assembly Integration and Testing (AIT) activities. According to sources, vendors are expected to help ISRO assemble about 27 satellites over the next three years. As part of capacity-building activity, the U R Rao Satellite Centre has taken up initiatives to promote...

Aurangabad, Jul 14: Sixty highly poisonous Russell's viper snakes were found in the kitchen of a Zilla Parishad school in Hingoli district of Maharashtra, a school official said on Saturday. The spotting of so many snakes in one place created panic among students and staffers of the Zilla Parishad-run school located in Pangra Bokhare village of Hingoli district, about 225km from here in the...

New Delhi, Jul 13: The Supreme Court on Friday took a strong note of the Information and Broadcasting Ministry's decision to set up a social media hub for monitoring online data, observing that it will be "like creating a surveillance state". The top court said the government wants to tap citizens' WhatsApp messages and sought its response within two weeks. A bench of Chief Justice Dipak Misra and...

Pune, July 12: Shridhar Chillal, the Pune-based man, who holds the Guinness World Record for having the longest fingernails, has cut them after 66 years. Chillal clipped his nails, which had a combined length of 909.6 cm during a nail clipping ceremony in Times Square. Meet the extraordinary Shridhar Chillal - Longest fingernails on a single hand ever http://t.co/4SxWtxU7WJ #GWR2016 pic.twitter...

Jul 9: Nissan admitted today that data on exhaust emissions and fuel economy had been deliberately "altered", dealing a blow to the Japanese car giant's efforts to recover trust after an inspection scandal last year. The company did not say how many cars were affected by the falsifications, which were uncovered during voluntary tests of all parts of Nissan's operations conducted in the wake of...

New Delhi, Jul 8: Deputy Chief Minister G Parameshwara on Saturday hinted strengthening of grievances redressal mechanism in the police department for effective disposal of complaints by subordinate staff related to service matters. He was reacting to a news report about the letter written by a Deputy Superintendent of Police to Director General and Inspector General of Police Neelmani N Raju...