Category: News

US social networking major Facebook has partnered state-owned Bharat Sanchar Nigam Ltd (BSNL) to create 100 Wi-Fi hotspots in rural India to drive digital penetration in the country. Facebook is investing Rs 5 crore per annum for buying bandwidth from BSNL in this joint initiative that also includes IT infrastructure services providers such as Quad Zen and Trimax for equipment and […]

A special women’s court on Friday sentenced 28-year-old petty thief Chandrabhan Sanap to death for brutally raping and murdering 23-year-old Andhra techie Esther Anuhya in January last year. On Tuesday, special judge Vrushali Joshi had pronounced Sanap guilty. On Wednesday, during the arguments on the quantum of sentence even as the special public prosecutor Raja Thakare sought the death sentence, […]

Harbhajan and Geeta’s wedding was a simple and traditional gurudwara wedding in Jalandhar. Close friends and family members were present for the wedding. A lavish reception has been organised by the couple in Delhi on November 1, 2015. While Harbhajan sported an off-white, self-on-self embroidered sherwani with an ornate red sword and Geeta looked gorgeous in a traditional red and […]

Top Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) commander Abu Qasim, mastermind behind several high-profile attacks in the State, was killed on Thursday in a surgical operation in south Kashmir’s Kulgam district. “We have neutralised a top Lashkar commander Abu Qasim during an operation in Khandaypora in Kulgam district in the wee hours today. It is a major success as Qasim was directly or indirectly […]

Senior IAS officer Aruna Sundarajan was on Wednesday appointed as Secretary in Ministry of Steel as part of a top-level bureaucratic reshuffle effected by the government. Ms. Sundarajan, a 1982 batch IAS officer of Kerala cadre, is presently Administrator, Universal Service Obligation Fund under Department of Telecommunications. She has been appointed in place of Rakesh Singh, who superannuated on September […]

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said India has the second biggest internet community in the world. The CEO of the social networking giant was addressing a townhall gathering at IIT Delhi. Taking questions from a gathering of over 900 students and others, Zuckerberg revealed that the social networking giant has over 130 million users in the country and India is […]