Snehal khanna Blog

China asked India to exercise "restraint" over building infrastructure in Arunachal Pradesh China asked India on Monday to be “cautious” and exercise “restraint” over building infrastructure in Arunachal Pradesh, days after Prime Narendra Modi launched the country’s longest bridge linking Assam with the state claimed by Beijing. “We hope India adopts a cautious and restrained attitude on the issue before the final settlement of the border issue with China to jointly control disputes, safeguard peace and tranquillity in the border areas,” the Chinese foreign ministry said. “China’s position on the eastern section of the Sino-Indian border areas is consistent and clear,” a statement in Chinese said. Modi last week opened the country’s longest bridge over Brahmaputra river that connects Assam’s easternmost region with Arunachal Pradesh, claimed and dubbed by China as South Tibet. “China and India should resolve territorial disputes through negotiations and cons...

Log in to mahresult.nic.in to check your results HSC RESULTS - Around 14 lakh students had taken the HSC Board exam in 2016 with 86.60% as total percentage of passing. This year more than 15.05 lakh students appeared for the exams that began on February 28, 2017 and ended on March 25, 2017.  The number of students include 8, 48,000 boys and 6, 56,000 girls. Nervousness and anxieties are getting intense as the result for Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) exam (Class 12) is to be declared on May 30, 2017 at 1 PM. The results will be declared on the Maharashtra Board’s official website here mahresult.nic.in. Follow the steps to check your results: · Visit and log in to the official website mahresult.nic.in. · Click on the link that says “Class XII Higher Secondary Certificate HSC results 2017” · Type your Hall Ticket No and other details · Click on the button  “View Result” · Download the Results and take a printout for future reference READ THIS ...

Their angst: uploading details of drugs traded on the portal and fee for keeping it running Over 800,000 chemists across the country have decided to shut shop on Tuesday to protest against the government's e-platform plan to regulate the sale of drugs. The platform is being set up to ensure supply of quality drugs and curb anti-microbial resistance, but chemists are opposing the move. Under the plan chemists will have to upload details of all medicines purchased and sold on the e-platform and will have to pay a transaction fee to support cost of running the system. All India Organisation of Chemists and Druggists (AIOCD) president Jagannath Shinde claimed that the strike has hundred per cent support from members across India and all stores except those in hospitals and day-and-night outlets will remain closed. MedPlus, which runs 1,400 outlets in southern and eastern India, has said it will not participate in the strike and "will try and keep all stores op...

The Redmi 4 is a capable smartphone with a perfect screen size and resolution. Watch hands-on review Xiaomi's latest budget offering, the Xiaomi Redmi 4 , is going on sale at 12 noon on Tuesday, exclusively on Amazon India. In the first flash sale that took place on May 23, the smartphone had seen a huge interest from buyers and registered a record sales number of a whopping 250,000 units within the first eight minutes. According to Amazon.in, the Xiaomi Redmi 4 had recorded more than 10 million hits per minute on the site, after having received some 2.3 million ‘notify me’ alerts from customers since the launch announcement on May 16. Read this: Strike today: Chemists down shutters across India, protest e-platform plan The dual-sim budget smartphone with VoLTE capabilities is the latest offering from Xiaomi and offers an all-round performance. The Xiaomi Redmi 4 smartphone is available in three storage and RAM options – 16GB/2GB, 32GB/3GB and 64GB/4GB -- which ...

Apart from Jio price war, rising losses, increase in interest payments are other reasons RELIANCE JIO - The woes of Tata Teleservices continue to mount with its net worth eroding by Rs 11,653 crore at the end of the financial year ended March 2017, on rising losses and interest payments. The company announced a loss of Rs 4,617 crore for FY17, compared to a loss of Rs 2,023 crore in FY16. This is a bad news for its promoter, Tata Sons, which will have to keep investing in the company’s equity so that it can meet its liabilities, bankers said. But, the company’s debt stood reduced almost five per cent from Rs 30,192 crore in FY16 to Rs 28,766 crore in FY17. Because of the price war in telecom spurred by the entry of Reliance Jio, the Tata group company’s turnover declined to Rs 9,419 crore in FY17 from Rs 10,588 crore in FY16. The Tata group company is not the only one which struggled during the year. Aditya Birla Group’s Idea Cellular also reported losses of Rs 400 ...

Powerful innards of Smartron's 'all-rounder' smartphone are failed by its many software glitches Domestic information technology (IT) start-up Smartron, which counts Indian cricket legend Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar and former Motorola Mobility Chief Executive Sanjay Jha among its investors, recently launched the srt.phone smartphone, “inspired by the dependable traits of Tendulkar”. At the launch of srt.phone, the company claimed that the smartphone used the best antennas and other security features that made it an all-rounder. Indeed, Smartron has pleased investors with its manoeuvres to deliver solutions ranging from internet of things (IoT) to smartphones built specifically for Indian consumers. But how does the srt.phone fare against the claims of dependability and the inspiration it apparently draws from one of the tallest role models for India in recent times? The srt.phone offers a no-frills design, with rounded edges and curved sides. The smartphone mig...

The Lok Sabha MP has claimed damages and compensation of Rs 2 crore from the journalist The Delhi High Court on Monday sought the response of the Arnab Goswami and his newly-launched news channel Republic TV on Congress MP Shashi Tharoor's defamation plea against them. In his plea, Tharoor has claimed damages and compensation of Rs 2 crore from the journalist and his channel for allegedly making defamatory remarks against him while airing news relating to the death of his wife Sunanda Pushkar. "Bring down the rhetoric. You can put out your story, you can put out the facts. You cannot call him names. That is uncalled for," Justice Manmohan said while issuing notice to Goswami and the channel and seeking their replies by August 16, the next date of hearing. Senior advocate Salman Khurshid, appearing for Tharoor, said he should be protected and the channel and the journalist directed to justify the statements made against him. Read this: Those behin...

BENGALURU    -    Yes, you read that right. After the pre-monsoon showers that relieved the IT city, Bengalureans are now facing trouble due to a one-of-its-own-kind of snowfall. It's not the usual snowfall which delights people and cools the environment, but the toxic and chemical kinds which has created chaos on the city's Whitefield Main Road. The showers in the city have led to foaming of the Varthur lake once again, this time bringing the foam right on to the roads, troubling people in commuting. Commuters faced trouble while managing traffic on Saturday and Sunday as the foamy goop billowed on the road from the lake. Adding to the woes is the unbearable stink coming from the froth. READ THIS: Sachin: A Billion Dreams: A glorified account of an over-glorified celeb The pictures and videos of the pathetic state have been posted by the locals on social media, with many criticising the civic bodies for the utter disorder. Howev...

Trump's NATO summit move is reminiscent of Modi pulling aside Facebook CEO in 2015 to get the camera US President Donald Trump does not like to stand at the back of a line, and he definitely will not have someone else steal his thunder at a photo session. According to the New York Times, video footage of world leaders getting ready for a group photo during a NATO summit in Brussels on Thursday shows Trump push aside Montenegrin Prime Minister Dusko Markovic to make his way to the front. A lot has been made of the similarities anddissimilarities between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Trump. However, this particular episode reminded many in India of an incident from September 2015, social media had gone abuzz with a video footage of PM Modi pulling Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg aside because the latter was blocking the frame. CNBC staffer Steve Kopack tweeted out footage showing the Trump incident. On the issue, the Associated Press quoted Montenegro newspape...

Baahubali: The Conclusion has so far collected over Rs 1,500 crore across the world SS Rajamouli's "Baahubali: The Conclusion" may be setting the box office on fire but superstar Salman Khan said he doesn't get worried about the business of a film as he thinks every movie has its own destiny. "Baahubali: The Beginning" released on July 10, 2015, a week before Salman's "Bajrangi Bhaijaan". "Baahubali: The Conclusion", which hit theatres on April 28, has so far collected over Rs 1,500 crore across the world. "After 'Baahubali: The Beginning', we came up with "Bajrangi Bhaijaan". Now after 'Baahubali: The Conclusion', we are coming up with ' Tubelight '. There is a lot of pressure on the CEO of Salman Khan Films. I don't get worried so much. It is a phenomenal success and it is amazing. "I have not seen the film but I will watch it. But it doesn't matter (box of...

Tendulkar comes across in the film as guileless and driven There is something about Sachin Tendulkar , something so correct and so innocent you want him to win in life even when you know he is no more the 'God' of the cricket field. The rousing farewell speech that Sachin gives at the end of this astutely emotional journey into the heart and mind of India's most celebrated Bat Man, left me dewy-eyed. This, when I know zilch about cricket and practically nothing about Sachin's exploits on the field. What I do know "and what this film is able to tell us in comprehensive strokes of revelation" is that greatness is not thrust on the great by chance. One has to break bones and crack ribs to get there. "Sachin: A Billion Dreams" is the story of a national hero who sails through every crisis with his simple philosophy of good existence and hard work. Sachin's life is blameless. He has never been in any controversy and he doesn't incit...

OnePlus 5 is due to be launched soon and it will feature Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon 835 processor OnePlus has announced that its latest flagship OnePlus 3T, will soon be discontinued. The production of OnePlus 3T has already reached the end of its production life, and sale of the devices will continue till the stock lasts. The latest development comes days after the company’s CEO revealed that the next flagship smartphone OnePlus 5 will be launched soon and will feature Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon 835 processor. Recently, the China-based smartphone manufacturer OnePlus teamed up with DxO, a software company with expertise in image processing software, to enhance the photography capabilities of the upcoming OnePlus 5 smartphone. In a blog post on the OnePlus official forum, the company said: "We are happy to announce that we have teamed up with DxO to enhance your photography experience with our upcoming flagship, the OnePlus 5. DxO is perhaps most well-k...

India is being quite strategic in certain sectors, said Dean of School of Public Policy, Robert Orr India is "thinking big and moving big" to catch up fast in development as it lags behind its giant neighbour China, offering tremendous opportunities to a country like the US, American lawmakers have been told. "India is moving quite quickly in a number of areas as well, again, on renewable energy, which is kind of a golden thread running through this hearing. India is thinking big and moving big," Robert Orr, professor and dean, University of Maryland, School of Public Policy, told lawmakers during a Congressional hearing. "They have big goals on solar and wind. They are meeting them. They are surpassing them. And they will keep attracting investment, both domestic and international. Their smart cities initiative of the Prime Minister has many components. But I think it's a strategic vision that is both at once developmental and economic,...

A scrap dealer was killed and his mother, wife, sister and sister-in-law raped by a group of armed men who waylaid their car and also looted the family, near Jewar on the Yamuna Expressway in Uttar Pradesh early on Thursday, police said. The incident occurred some 60 km from here on Jewar at around 1.30 a.m. Eight members, including four women, of a Greater Noida-based family were headed to Bulandshahr to visit an ailing relative in a hospital there. According to the victims, six armed men forced the car, an Eeco van, to stop by shooting at its tyres near Sabota village in Jewar. The armed men took turns to rape the women at gun point in a nearby field. When scrap dealer Shakeel Qureshi, 40, put up a resistance, the men shot him dead. The victims were also looted of their valuables, mobile phones and Rs 47,000 cash, police said. The Uttar Pradesh government has handed over probe in the matter to the Special Task Force (STF) of UP Police. Read this: Delhi HC re...

Sharing her ordeal of living in Pakistan, she said, 'it is easy to go, but tough to retu rn' "Pakistan is like a well of death", said Uzma Ahmed , the Indian woman repatriated to the country from Pakistan where she was allegedly forced and duped into marrying against her choice. "I am an orphan. I am an adopted child and have nobody," Uzma told reporters in New Delhi, hours after she crossed into India through the Wagah border, a day after the Islamabad High Court permitted her to travel home. The woman broke down several times and said "it is easy to go, but tough to return", sharing her ordeal of living in Pakistan with media. "They could have sold me or used me in a risky operation," she said about a family in Buner, Pakistan. Uzma said she was not the only woman duped into marrying a man from Buner. "There may be lots of girls in Buner. Buner people are mostly in Malaysia and they get girls from Malaysi...

Alarmed by the statistics published about the state of the country's children's health, Indian skipper Virat Kohli has appealed the kids to play more, and have more fun by joining Stepathlon Kids, which launches in November this year. Stepathlon Kids focuses ongetting children active, eating right and staying healthy and has been designed to be inclusive and fun for any and every child between the ages of 8 and 12. Ravi Krishnan, CEO and Co-Founder, Stepathlon, believes the partnership with Kohli will encourage and inspire children across the country. "It's not just for aspiring cricketers - we want to reach out to Ballerinas in Bangalore, Chess Players in Chennai, Artists in Agra, Gamers in Guwahati - every child in India deserves the right to be healthy. We want to build a fitter, healthier and happier India." Read this: Special CBI court summons accused in Babri demolition case "Virat Kohli is an inspirational partner. He is personall...

Went to Latur for a statewide campaign to reach out to farmers; chopper developed a technical snag Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis' helicopter crash landed at Nilanga in Latur district on Wednesday after it suffered a snag, but he escaped unhurt. "Our helicopter did meet with an accident in Latur but me and my team is absolutely safe and ok. Nothing to worry," Fadnavis tweeted after the mishap. A senior official of the DGCA (Directorate General of Civil Aviation) said it was an accident and the chopper suffered substantial damage. Fadnavis had gone to Latur in Marathwada for the BJP's 'Shivar Samwad Sabha', a statewide campaign to reach out to farmers. "I am safe. There was a minor accident involving the helicopter. People shouldn't believe in rumours," Fadnavis later told media persons. The chopper developed a technical snag while taking off from the helipad at Nilanga where the chief minister had gone for an event. ...

Live streaming beautification feature lets you compare skin tone with 400% light sensitivity options Smartphone maker Asus on Wednesday launched the Zenfone Live at Rs 9,999. Equipped with probably the world’s first live streaming beautification technology, the smartphone's BeautyLive app lets you compare true skin tone with pixel master 3.0 technology and 400 per cent light sensitivity. Apart from removing blemishes, you can also live stream the photos and videos to social media websites. Here are the key features of the smartphone: Camera: The smartphone has a 13 megapixel (MP) rear camera with a f/2.0 aperture and LED flash. It is a very good news for selfie lovers, as it comes with a 5 MP camera along with LED flash and 82-degree wide angle lens with 1.4-micron pixel sensor. Sound: The company talks about reducing background noise for clearer voice quality with its 7.1-channel surround system. The dual-smartphone is equipped with a pair of MEM...

Foodgrains are slated to cost less from July 1 Foodgrains will cost less from July 1 when the nation-wide Goods and Service Tax (GST) is rolled out as the GST Council today decided to exempt the daily-use commodities from the levy. Here's a complete list of the rates of all 1,211 items but six were finalised at the first day of the two-day meeting in Srinagar of the GST Council, headed by Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley and comprising state representatives. Read this: Indian woman forced to marry Pakistani to be deported Also, here's a complete list of all the items that the GST Council has broadly approved as the rates of GST Compensation Cess to be levied on certain goods. (READ MORE)

The real-time enhancement will allow users to create glamorous live-streams ASUS  ZENFONE -Taiwanese smartphone manufacturer Asus is set to launch a new smartphone in its Zenfone series on May 24. The smartphone is expected to sport real-time enhancements for both video and audio for live streaming and selfie videos. "The real-time enhancement will allow users to create and share more glamorous and audible live-streams on their favourite social networking sites like Facebook, YouTube and Instagram from anywhere at anytime," told the industry sources. Earlier this month, the company launched Zenfone Go 5.5, another addition to its Go series, at Rs 8,499. The arc-designed device features 5.5-inch HD display, 13MP rear and 5MP front cameras with dual-LED real-tone flash at the back. Read this: Wannacry attack: Responsible bitcoin regulation is the need of the hour Zenfone Go 5.5 is powered by Qualcomm 8916 Quad-core processor, Adreno 306 GPU and has 2GB...

The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has allowed Indian national Uzma, who has accused her Pakistani husband of marrying her at gunpoint, to return to India and has also ordered police to provide her security till the Wagah Border. An Islamabad High Court bench, headed by Justice Mohsin Akhtar Kayani, returned Uzma her original immigration form, which her husband Tahir had submitted to the court on Tuesday, reports Geo News. Tahir also expressed his desire to meet Uzma in private, which the later refused. Justice Kayani remarked that if Uzma does not want to meet Tahir, then she won't be forced. On May 19, Uzma had submitted a 6-page reply to the High Court and reiterated her earlier claims and said that she was forced to sign the Nikkahnama [marriage papers]. Read this: Melania Trump swats Donald Trump's hand again; Twitter turns it into a meme The reply also claimed that Tahir's affidavit was based on lies. The reply also requested that Uzma is allowed to ...