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Aadhaar now has scaled to over one billion people, rivaling the growth of other platform innovations LATEST NEWS : India's Aadhaar   identity   system   opponents   the   boom   of   different   platform   innovations   like   home windows , Android or   facebook , Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has   said . Nadella, in his   book   'Hit Refresh', which   changed into   launched   for the duration of   the continued   Microsoft Ignite 2017   conference , has praised India's   leap   forward   in the   digital   and technological   area . "Aadhaar now has scaled to over   one thousand million   humans , rivaling the   increase   of   different   platform   improvements which includes   windows , Android or   fb , the 50- yr - vintage   wrote in his   ebook   that hit the   book ...

The pack is available at multiple affordable price points ranging from Rs 5,000 for 28 days to Rs 500 for every 24 hours usage LATEST NEWS :  Vodafone India on Wednesday launched unlimited international plan across the UK and Europe for Rs 180 per day, the company said here. International travellers can now easily activate a pack and use their number overseas from the UK and other popular travel destinations of Europe like Germany, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Turkey, Greece, Portugal, Czech Republic, Romania and Hungary. The company statement said apart from Europe, travellers can also use unlimited calling and data in the US, the UAE, Singapore and Malaysia with the same pack, taking the total tally of "unlimited" countries to 18. The pack is available at multiple affordable price points ranging from Rs 5,000 for 28 days to Rs 500 for every 24 hours usage. Apart from offering unlimited usage in 18 countries, the same pack also allows consumers to us...

'Focus on cricket, not Parineeti Chopra', Twitterati tell Hardik Pandya Latest news     :  Australia has roped in Bollywood actress Parineeti Chopra to be its first Indian woman Ambassador to encourage Indians to visit the country. She was presentedthe Friend of Australia (FOA) recognition by Australian Consul General Tony Huberfor her contribution to promote Australia recently, according to Tourism Australia (TA) statement. Chopra will be the first Indian woman ambassador to be a part of the FOA advocacy panel. The FOA programme has been devised as a way for TA to foster mutually beneficial and long-term 'friendships' with those they regard as unique, positive and influential story- tellers. Prior to Chopra, famouschef Sanjeev Kapoor and cricket commentator Harsha Bhoglehave been great advocates for Australia, encouraging Indians to visit Australia. In her new role to promote Australia as a tourist destination, Chopra will be visitingQu...

Globally 66 million adults want to leave their countries; US, UK are most preferred destinations LATEST NEWS : India has the second highest number of adults planning to migrate to other countries with the US and the UK among the most favoured destinations, according to a report by the UN migration agency. The UN migration agency, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM ), in its report 'Measuring Global Migration Potential 2010-2015', which analyses people's migration intentions globally for the period 2010-2015, noted that globally 1.3 per cent of the adult population or 66 million people said they were planning to migrate permanently within the next 12 months. The most popular destination for those planning to migrate is the US followed by the UK, Saudi Arabia, France, Canada, Germany and South Africa. Half of those planning to migrate live in just 20 countries, led by Nigeria and followed by India, Congo, Sudan, Bangladesh and China. ...

China and India have been engaged in a standoff in the Dokalam area near the Bhutan trijunction Latest news : The Chinese official media on Wednesday stepped up its attack on India with editorials asking Indian troops to move out of Dokalam area in Sikkim sector "with dignity or be kicked out" and describing the situation as "worryingly tense". While China's nationalistic tabloid Global Times said India should be taught a "bitter lesson", another official newspaper, China Daily, said India should look in the mirror. The Global Times said in its editorial that India will suffer "greater losses" than in 1962 if it "incites" border clashes with China. As the standoff in the Dokalam area continued for the third week, it said India should be taught a "bitter lesson". It also claimed that the Chinese public was infuriated by India's "provocation". "We believe the Chinese People'...

Globally Oppo ranks fourth behind Samsung, Apple and Huawei Latest news : With its army of salespeople and vast network of outlets, a relatively new smartphone maker has exploded in popularity to overtake global giants Apple and Samsung in China's market - and now it has its eye on the West. Oppo began life selling DVD players in the in the southern manufacturing hub of Dongguan a little more than a decade ago and only broke into the handset market in 2011. But with an aggressive marketing strategy and concentration on bricks-and-mortar stores in small and medium- sized cities -- rather than relying on online customers -- sales have soared. Last year it had a market share of 16.8 per cent making it the China market leader and while a slip in the first three months of 2017 put it just behind local rival Huawei, according to market analyst IDC, it remains well ahead of Apple and Samsung. Globally it ranks fourth behind Samsung, Apple and Huawei. Whil...

Mallya is wanted in India for Kingfisher Airlines' default on loans worth nearly Rs 9,000 cr LATEST NEWS :Vijay Mallya, the embattled tycoon who is wanted in India on loan defaults to several banks, on Tuesday claimed that he has "enough evidence" to plead his case as a UK court granted him bail until December 4. The 61-year-old former chief of erstwhile Kingfisher airlines appeared before Westminster Magistrates' Court here for his extradition case hearing. Chief Magistrate Emma Louise Arbuthnot granted bail to Vijay Mallya until December 4. The next hearing has been set for July 6. "I have not eluded any court...I have enough evidence to prove my case," Mallya told reporters outside the court. "I don't make statements to the media because anything I say is twisted. There is enough evidence, that will speak," he said. "I go to cheer India in a cricket match and it becomes a media frenzy. It's better I don...

Vladimir Putin said he had a lot in common with the US leader The President of Russia, Vladimir Putin , on Thursday praised the US President Donald Trump and said he was exactly the kind of person he liked most. Putin said he had never met Trump but that he agreed relations between their countries had to improve and he was willing to talk with the US leader. "I have to recognize that I love that kind of person. They are simple, direct, they have a very honest view of things and that can be very advantageous," Efe quoted him as saying. He said he had a lot in common with the US leader as he considered that neither were professional politicians and highlighted that he himself had never been a member of a party. Nonetheless, records show that Putin entered the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1970 while attending St. Petersburg State University, and remained a member until December 1991. Putin insisted that whether he liked Trump or not was irrel...

It may have been carved by flowing water, or a debris flow in which a small amount of water NASA's Mars rover has beamed back images of an ancient valley that may have been carved by flowing water on the inner slope of a vast crater's rim. As NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity approached the upper end of "Perseverance Valley" in early May - the main destination of its extended mission - images from its cameras began showing parts of the area in greater resolution than what can be seen in images taken from orbit above the red planet. Read this: Triple Talaq arguments: There are lies, damn lies, and then AIMPLB claims "The science team is really jazzed at starting to see this area up close and looking for clues to help us distinguish among multiple hypotheses about how the valley formed," said Opportunity Project Scientist Matt Golombek of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the US. The process that carved Perseverance Vall...

Australia  today abolished a visa programme used by over 95,000 temporary foreign workers, majority of them Indians, to tackle the growing unemployment in the country. The programme known as 457 visa allows business to employ foreign workers for a period up to four years in skilled jobs where there is a shortage of Australian workers. "We are an immigration nation, but the fact remains: Australian workers must have priority for Australian jobs, so we are abolishing the 457 visa, the visa that brings temporary foreign workers into our country," said Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. The majority of the visa holders were from India followed by the UK and China. "We will no longer allow 457 visa to be passports to jobs that could and should go to Australians," he said. He said Australia will adopt a new 'Australians first' approach to skilled migration. As at September 30, there were 95,757 workers in Australia on primary 457 visa programme, ABC ...

Toyota Motor  said it will commercialise rehabilitation robots later this year when it makes its robotic walk assist system available for rent, joining Honda Motor in marketing mobility devices for Japan’s ageing population. A decade after it began developing rehabilitation robots, the world’s No.2 automaker on Wednesday said the system would be ready to hit the market by the end of 2017, two years after Honda launched a similar device. Hospitals and other care providers would be able to rent the system, designed for patients with lower limb paralysis, for 350,000 yen ($3,196.93) per month plus an initial fee of 1 million yen. “The (system) will help to provide assistance to the elderly by enabling them to live more independent lives and to also provide support for their care-givers,” Toyota said. ALSO READ :  Mitsui Chemicals & Toyota Boshoku tie up for high impact-resistant plastic Japan is greying faster than the rest of the world, with the number of peopl...

Fitness enthusiasts, take note! Exercising on an empty stomach may help burn more body fat and fuel your metabolism, boosting your health in the long run, a new study has found. Researchers from University of Bath in the UK studied a group of overweight males. The volunteers walked for 60 minutes at 60 per cent maximum oxygen consumption on an empty stomach, and on another occasion for two hours after consuming a high-calorie carbohydrate-rich breakfast. The team took multiple blood samples after eating or fasting and after exercising. They also collected adipose tissue samples immediately before and one hour after walking. Gene expression in the adipose tissue differed significantly in the two trials, researchers said. ALSO READ :Fit & Proper: When weight affects the joints They found that the expression of two genes, PDK4 and HSL, increased when the men fasted and exercised, and decreased when they ate before exercising. The rise in PDK4 likely indicates that stored ...