Telangana Assembly passes bill to hike Muslim quota to 12%
The Telangana Legislature on Sunday passed the Bill enhancing the reservations for Muslims and Scheduled Tribes (ST) to 12% and 10% respectively for admission into educational institutions and for the State services.
By doing so, the government has fulfilled one of the major assurances given by Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao in the run up to the previous elections.
Justice should be done to Muslim women, says Modi on triple talaq
Raising the ‘triple talaq’ issue, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said justice should be done to Muslim women.
The Prime Minister said if there are social evils, the society should be woken up and efforts made to provide justice to the victims.
Heatwave over several states; thunderstorm over Bihar, WB: IMD
The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued a heatwave alert over Maharashtra, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Punjab and Haryana for the next three to four days.
The department has also issued a thunderstorm warning over Bihar, West Bengal, Assam and Meghalaya.
North Korean missile ‘blows up’ on test launch
A North Korean missile “blew up almost immediately” on its test launch on Sunday, the U.S. Pacific Command said, hours before U.S. Vice-President Mike Pence was due in South Korea for talks on the North's increasingly defiant arms programme.
The failed launch from North Korea's east coast, ignoring admonitions from major ally China, came a day after North Korea held a military parade in its capital, marking the birth anniversary of the state founder, in which what appeared to be new long-range ballistic missiles were on display.
Snapchat ratings drop to one star on App Store
A day after news broke out regarding Snapchat’s CEO Evan Spiegel’s disinterest in expanding the business to “poor countries” like India, the rating of the popular app dropped to a “single star” from an apparent “five star” on the App Store.
Silicon Valley’s hottest startup is eyeing India’s Big Data
Hortonworks Inc. stunned the tech industry a few years ago when it became the fastest enterprise software start-up to reach $100 million in annual revenue in just four years from inception.
The California-based company said that it now saw its next big growth coming from international business and the Indian market is going to play a key role in it. It is betting big on selling its services and support for the Hadoop open-source data analytics technology framework to the Indian enterprises as well as government’s big data projects like the ID platform Aadhaar.
Our ancestors wiped out HIV-type virus 11 million years ago
Our ancestors may have eliminated a primordial Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) type virus around 11 million years ago, according to a new study that examined fossil DNA to find out when ancient viruses were at their peak.
Researchers from The Rockefeller University in the United States suggest that our primate ancestors evolved a defence mechanism that involved manipulating the function of one of the virus’s genes, turning the virus against itself.
Apple to replace iPad 4th gen with iPad Air 2
Customers who need to replace their fourth generation iPad will now get a newer and more capable iPad Air 2 as a substitute from Apple Stores and authorised service providers, a media report said.
Apple is doing this because the company has no stock left of the aging and now discontinued fourth generation iPad, 9to5Mac website reported on Saturday.
Sai Praneeth rallies to down Srikanth, wins maiden Super Series title
In what could well turn out to be the turning point in a promising career, B. Sai Praneeth seized the moment and made it count.
Playing his maiden Super Series final for the Singapore Open title, Sai bounced back strongly to beat K. Srikanth in a historic all-India final for a first major international title on Sunday.
On April 16, 2017, Prime Minister Narendra Modi honoured in Bhubaneswar descendants of 16 families associated with what is known as the Paika rebellion of 1817. Here’s an explainer about the little-known but bloody rebellion of Odisha against British colonialism.
