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New Delhi, Jan 16: As part of its quarterly report Reliance Industries on Monday announced that four months after its launch Jio has over 72.4 million users. The company said that this makes Jio one of the fastest growing services ever and claimed that in the initial days it added nearly 6 lakh consumers daily. But even as Reliance touted what it has achieved with Jio, it also acknowledged that...

Jan 16: Frankfurt Am Main: In order to combat fake news menace in Germany, social media major Facebook announced on Sunday various measures. It comes at a time when Europe's largest economy and most populous nation enters an election year. "It's important to us that the reports and news posted on Facebook are reliable," a blog post on the Silicon Valley firm's German website read. German...

Los Angeles, Jan 14: The Moon is at least 4.51 billion years old - up to 140 million years older than previously thought, according to a new study of minerals called zircons brought back from the lunar body to the Earth by the Apollo 14 mission in 1971. The Moon's age has been a hotly debated topic, even though scientists have tried to settle the question over many years and using a wide range of...

Washington, Jan 14: An 18-year-old girl, visiting the White House as a guest of President Barack Obama's family, suffered a cut below her eye after she was bitten by the first family's dog, Sunny, according to a media report. The girl, who was not identified, was bitten in the face on Monday when she went to pet the 4-year-old Portuguese Water Dog, TMZ.com reported. The bite left a gash under the...

Puttur: Department of Computer Science of St Philomena College Puttur organized Annual IT Fest ‘Pinnacle 2017’ on January 12, 2017 in college auditorium. Software Developer of Channel Bridge Software Labs, Bengaluru Mr. Jeevan K A inaugurated the programme and said, ‘Participation in various intercollegiate competitions helps the students to develop their personality.’ Campus Director Rev Dr...

Among their common traits, illiberal strongmen share a virulent mistrust of civil society. From Vladimir Putin's Russia to Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Turkey, illiberal governments regularly use imprisonment, threats and nationalist language to repress non-governmental organisations. In India, Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government is going after their money. The Lawyers Collective, an advocacy...

Tokyo, Jan 12: Japanese scientists say that silicon is likely the mystery element in the Earth's inner core, claiming progress on solving one of the planet's deepest secrets. Consensus has long been that the centre of the planet is composed of about 85 percent iron and 10 percent nickel, with sulphur, oxygen and silicon prime candidates for the other five percent. But geophysicist Eiji Ohtani at...

London, Jan 12: Eliminating even a part of our biodiversity is a criminal offense in many countries across the world. And if the victimized creatures are a part of a rare, endangered breed of species, that's even worse. A man in the UK found that out the hard way, after he was charged with capturing and killing two of Britain's rarest species of butterfly. 57-year-old Phillip Cullen of Cadbury...

San Francisco, Jan 10: Yahoo has confirmed that chief executive Marissa Mayer will quit the company's board after its merger with Verizon. Mayer is expected to remain with Yahoo's core business, which is being bought by the US telecom titan. Yahoo is selling its internet operations as a way to separate that from its more valuable stake in Chinese internet giant Alibaba. The share-tending entity...

Dhaka, Jan 10: Bangladesh authorities seized a luxury Rolls-Royce Ghost car illegally brought into the country for a former North Korean diplomat expelled for smuggling. Customs intelligence chief Moinul Khan said Han Son Ik intended to bring in the car without paying duty due to his diplomatic status and sell it on to a local buyer. Officials said the luxury car would have been liable for import...