Asus on Tuesday launched its affordable 64-bit 4G LTE smartphone in China, dubbed the Pegasus X002, at CNY 799 (approximately Rs. 8,000). The dual-SIM (4G+ 2G) Asus Pegasus X002 runs Android 4.4 KitKat with ZenUI on top. It features a 5-inch (720x1280 pixels) display and is powered by a 64-bit qu

India seems to be thriving and is now a land where lots of opportunities lie. Perhaps, this is why we see lot of start-ups and entrepreneurs mushrooming around the country. Whether it is a new app that will change the way we drive, date or dine out, or a health care business, which enables doctors t

NEW DELHI: One rupee currency notes are set to make a comeback after two decades, although in a different colour. Instead of the familiar indigo, the new Re 1 notes will be predominantly pink-green on the front and back in combination with others, a finance ministry notification said. Unlike othe

BANDA ACEH, Indonesia: Tearful memorials were being held on Friday across tsunami-hit nations for the 220,000 people who perished when giant waves decimated coastal areas of the Indian Ocean a decade ago. On December 26, 2004 a 9.3-magnitude earthquake off Indonesia's western tip generated a series

Google is set to get rid of CAPTCHA that forced users to confirm they are humans by typing in barely legible words and numbers, a report said. The service will now be replaced with a single click on sites that use Google's reCAPTCHA service. The search engine giant is now introducing a new API te

Bengaluru: On March 27 this year, Kaushik Punita Sharma, 40, identified as a realtor, was found hanging in his Vakil Garden residence, Talaghattapura, south Bengaluru. The bodies of his wife Sreelatha, 36; son Kaustubh, 9; and daughter Sreeraksha, 11, were in different rooms. A message written in

SRINAGAR:  Omar Abdullah has emphatically denied that his National Conference is in talks with the BJP on government formation in Jammu and Kashmir, even as the BJP began discussions with his arch rival the People's Democratic Party or PDP on Thursday night. "So many stories doing the rounds abou

Dubai: Stimulated by the low cost of remitting money and the current strength of the dirham over the Indian rupee, strong remittance and investment flows from the UAE to India, signalling clear interest among wealthier NRIs to invest back home, according to a report. A recent white paper commis

JERUSALEM: Israeli authorities gave final approval on Wednesday to the construction of 380 new settler homes in two areas of annexed east Jerusalem, a local official said. Yosef Pepe Alalu, a Jerusalem city councillor with the opposition Meretz party, said local officials were taking advantage of

While Jivi launched what it called the cheapest Android smartphone in India at Rs. 1,999 in September, the JSP 20, it now is claiming to have launched the cheapest quad-core processor Android smartphone, the JSP Q56. The dual-SIM Jivi JSP Q56 is powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core processor (unspecifie

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GUWAHATI:  Bodo militants launched a fresh attack on Wednesday in Udalguri, the fourth district of Assam where violence has now spread, a day after the serial attacks in three other districts killed 76 people. 21 women and 18 children are among those killed. Home Minister Rajnath Singh will visit

The Eastern Province-based alumni of India’s Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) held a celebration here recently to remember the contribution of AMU founder Sir Syed Ahmad Khan. At a packed event, former member of the Indian Parliament Mohammad Adeeb, who was the chief guest, said the community shou

GAZA CITY: Israel launched an airstrike in southern Gaza on Wednesday and killed a Hamas man. Palestinian medical sources said Tayseer Al-Ismary, 33, was killed “as a result of gunfire and shrapnel from a tank shell” in the incident east of the southern city of Khan Yunis. Hamas sources said h

NEW DELHI: Get ready to pay more when you use your mobile data connection to make Skype calls. Mobile operator Airtel has changed its terms and conditions for 3G and 2G data plans following which the telco will exclude Voice over IP services (VoIP), including both incoming as well as outgoing cal

The latest Census 2011 data released recently has revealed that there is at least one person in 18.5 lakh of the total 1.33 crore households looking for employment. In terms of percentage, this translates to 13.9 per cent of the households in the State having at least one member looking for a sal

The announcement of a special economic zone (SEZ) is invariably surrounded by hype and public statements promising how they could change the face of the economy, but do most SEZs actually live up to the tale that’s told at the start? In Karnataka, for instance, of the 60 approved SEZs, as many as

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) along with its ally, the All Jharkhand Students Union (AJSU), won an absolute majority in Jharkhand Assembly elections on Tuesday. The BJP-AJSU alliance secured 42 seats. The BJP alone won 37 in the 81-member House. However, in Jammu & Kashmir, a fractured