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Red beacons will be allowed only for emergency vehicles, said Road Minister Gadkari The Union Cabinet has decided to remove beacons atop all vehicles, including that of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, from May 1. The government feels beacons are seen as symbols of a VIP culture that has no place in a democratic country.   “It has been decided to do away with beacons of all kinds on top of all categories of vehicles in the country,” Minister of Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari said after the Cabinet meeting. Beacons, however, would be allowed on vehicles employed in emergency and relief services like ambulances and fire tenders, an official statement said. Gadkari became the first VIP to remove the beacon from his car on Wednesday. "This government is a government of the masses and has decided to abolish the VIP culture of beacons and sirens," he said. According to Gadkari, this is the start of a healthy culture because sirens and beacons used to an...

West Bengal cleric had issued a fatwa offering Rs 10 lakhs to shave off Nigam's head Bollywood singer Sonu Nigam on Wednesday shaved off his head, hours after offering to apologise if his controversial tweets were found to be anti-Muslim. Earlier today, he accepted headlong a challenge by a West Bengal cleric's fatwa offering Rs 10 lakhs to shave off Nigam's head. He hit back: "Today at 2pm, Aalim will come to my place and shave my head. Keep your 10 lakhs ready Maulvi." Nigam kept his word and shaved off his head just prior to addressing a media conference at his residence where police had beefed up security after his tweets raked up a huge ruckus. He appeared before the media with a clean-shaven pate, wearing spectacles and smiling away happily even as various Muslim groups and organizations protested and contemplated moving the courts against him. Follow Sonu Nigam ✔ @sonunigam Today at 2pm Aalim will come to my place, and shave my head. Keep your 1...

Samsung   has officially launched the much-hyped Samsung Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ in India. The smartphone duo will be available exclusively on Flipkart and Samsung Shop. The Galaxy S8 will retail at Rs 57,900, and the Galaxy S8+ at Rs 64,900. Also, both these smartphones will be available for pre-order at 03:00 PM on Flipkart. The actual sale will begin on 5 May, 2017 across retail stores. The eighth iteration in the line of the ‘Galaxy S’ series, the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ devices have been some of the most discussed smartphones in the tech community lately. There had been huge expectations from these devices in terms of the utility they offer and the innovation factor that Samsung is known to brings in to its flagship devices year after year. The recent Samsung Galaxy Note 7 fiasco was another reason why the world was keenly watching the launch of the Galaxy S8 and Galaxy S8+ smartphones. READ THIS :  Samsung Galaxy S8 now in India for Rs 57,900 pre-order on Flip...

It is perhaps easy to miss the coincidence of two developments taking place in quick succession this week, but their significance in national politics should not be underestimated. Nor should there be any celebrations over an early resolution to the problems that those developments are seeking to address. On Monday, the Supreme Court ordered the auction of the  Aamby Valley  property of the Sahara supremo, Subrata Roy, to help recover from him dues that market regulator, the Securities and Exchange Board of India, estimates to be over Rs 47,000 crore, including interest. Of this amount, the group has so far paid back Rs 11,477 crore. A day later, the United Kingdom (UK) authorities started extradition proceedings against Vijay Mallya, who allegedly owes over Rs 9,000 crore to banks in India and has been staying away from India for the last 13 months. After the UK Secretary of State certified that extradition proceedings can begin, the London police arrested Mallya and ...

Apple is expected to launch the iPhone 8 at the company's 10th anniversary Apple  is one smartphone manufacturer that enjoys to be among a fair share of rumours every year. And, if the rumour mill is to be believed, Apple has already started working on the design language, feature sets and hardware of the next generation of its iPhone, speculated to be named the iPhone 8 and expected to be launched later this year. Given that Apple has been using the same design language for past three generation of iPhones – iPhone 6, iPhone 6S, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 7, and iPhone 7 Plus – it is expected that the iPhone 8, or the next iteration, would make a design shift and be built right from scratch. Apart from the design language, there is also a lot of buzz around the hardware and software enhancement aspects of the iPhone. Let’s take a quick look at the top speculations about the next iPhone: Variants According to speculations, Apple is currently testing at least 10 prototypes of...

The recent rise in gold prices may not last, say experts Gold  prices have been rising in the international markets and touched a five-month high last week. In 2017, gold has already seen a rise of 13-14 per cent. This trend was mirrored in the domestic market too, where the price for 10 gms gold touched Rs 29,425, though the increase has been around 6 per cent or so, due to a stronger rupee. Is this reason enough for investors to buy gold again? Given that it is Akshaya Tritiya next week, an occasion when it is considered auspicious to buy gold, is this a good time to add gold to your portfolio? According to experts, while there may be a reversal in the fortunes of the yellow metal, it may not be sustainable. Hence, there is no need to stock up on gold investments. But if you have pared down your disposable gold investments, in the form of exchange-traded funds or gold bonds to zero, you could look at buying in dips from now on, but limit the purchase. In the last couple...

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 ...