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Chikkamagaluru, Sept 20: As many as six officials attached to the Tanigebailu range of the Forest Department were allegedly assaulted by timber smugglers near Saidukhan village in Tarikere taluk on Sunday night. The officers attacked are forest officials. They are Praharsha Kumar, deputy range forest officer, Raghavendra, forest guard, Vasanth Kumar, Sampreeth, Mahesh – all forest guards and...

Washington, Sept 20: The world's oldest living person and the last living subject of Queen Victoria, Violet Mosse- Brown, has passed away at the age of 117 in Jamaica. Brown is also the first verified supercentenarian from Jamaica. In 2015, she was given a letter by Queen Elizabeth II in honor of her 115th birthday. Brown was born on March 10 in 1900, 67 years before Jamaica was founded, when it...

New Delhi, Sept 19: Ford Motor and India's Mahindra Group have announced they will work together in a fresh partnership as the US giant looks to boost its presence in one of the world's fastest growing auto markets. The two, who parted ways from a tie-up in 2005, will co-operate for three years on a number of areas including electric vehicles and sourcing. "Ford is committed to India," said Jim...

New Delhi, Sept 18: The internet search giant Google launched its UPI- based digital payment application,Tez, on Monday. The application allows its users to make payments for the goods and services and even person-to-person transactions, both online and offline. Google's Tez is almost same as the NPCI's BHIM app. Google has lately been working with the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI)...

Bengaluru, Sept 15: Income Tax officials on Thursday raided Kalyani Group in Bengaluru and other parts of the country. Simultaneous raids were conducted at eight premises, officials said. Several teams of I-T officials searched the premises belonging to the group in Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Chennai. The companies raided include, Kalyani Motors and Kalyani Developers. The directors of Kalyani...

London, Sept 14: Scientists have developed a cloaking technology that can make opaque materials invisible by using light waves from lasers, paving the way for novel ways of camouflaging objects. A completely opaque material is irradiated from above with a specific wave pattern - with the effect that light waves from the left can pass through the material without any obstruction. The technique can...

Cupertino, Sept 13: “One more thing.” With that phrase, Apple paid homage to its late co-founder Steve Jobs on the 10th anniversary of the iPhone at Cupertino in California on Tuesday when it unveiled its latest and almost certainly most expensive new version of the device, the iPhone X. CEO Tim Cook called it “the biggest leap forward” since the first iPhone. (“X” is pronounced 10, not the letter...

Udupi, Sept 12: Abhinav Karaba K., a 7th semester Mechanical Engineering student of Sri Madhwa Vadiraja Institute of Technology and Management (SMVITM), Bantakal, won the ‘Best Student Award’ in the Karnataka section at the 14th ISTE State Level Student Convention 2017 at GM Institute of Technology, Davangere, on September 8

New Delhi, Sep 10: A new malware Xafecopy Trojan has been detected in India which steals money through victims' mobile phones, cyber security firm Kaspersky said in a report. Around 40 per cent of target of the malware has been detected in India. "Kaspersky Lab experts have uncovered a mobile malware targeting the WAP billing payment method, stealing money through victims' mobile accounts without...

Bengaluru, Sept 6: Not entirely happy with the performance of the five revenue-generating departments, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has asked them to pull up their socks. Siddaramaiah on Tuesday reviewed the progress of tax/revenue collection by the Commercial Taxes, Excise, Transport, Stamps and Registration and Mines and Geology Departments, after the implementation of GST. On learning that not...