Miscellaneous

New Delhi, Jun 9: Reliance Communications on Monday rolled out free national roaming offers to target corporate, SME and high-value postpaid and prepaid GSM customers. "The 'One India, One Rate' plans will help us attract customers in the high-value corporate and SME roaming segments," Gurdeep Singh, chief executive officer, consumer business, Reliance Communications Limited, said in a statement

Bangalore, Jun 6: The Indian rupee will only make scant gains in the next 12 months as the economy remains weak, although optimism around a new government and a narrowing current account deficit will underpin the currency, a poll found. The rupee is among the best-performing emerging currencies this year, rising 4 four percent since January. It hit a one-year high of 58.25 against the dollar on

Jun 4: Apple is calling the iOS 8 the biggest release since the launch of the App Store and it does give users plenty of new features and developers the tools to create amazing new apps. But what does this mean for Android and Google? How do the two biggest competitors in the mobile OS market stack up against each other? How does this latest release change the game? Apple CEO Tim Cook took some

California, Jun 1: NASA's sun-observing IRIS spacecraft has captured its first stunning close-up of a colossal coronal mass ejection (CME) erupting from the sun. The field of view for this imagery is about five times the width of earth and about seven-and-half times its length, a tremendous sheet of solar material can be seen erupting in a latest video released by NASA. The view is unprecedented

Inkster (US), May 24: The oldest-living American, a member of a select group of the living to have been born in the 19th century, is celebrating her 115th birthday today. Jeralean Talley, who was born May 23, 1899, is the second-oldest person in the world, according to a list maintained by the Gerontology Research Group, which tracks the world's longest-living people. She went fishing last year

Washington, May 21: A museum in New Delhi, which traces the history of the toilet for the past 4,500 years, has been ranked third among the world's 10 weirdest museums by Time magazine. "From simple chamber pots to elaborate decorated Victorian toilet seats, you'll see it all" at Sulabh International Museum of Toilets tracing "the entire evolution of toilets throughout human history", the US

New Delhi, May 19: Let this historic win be followed by a historic innings, which stuns the world by surprises your supporters may not want of you but many more would want to see you unfurl, writes Gopalkrishna Gandhi. Dear Prime Minister-designate, This comes with my hearty felicitations. I mean and say that in utter sincerity, which is not very easy for me to summon, because I am not one of

New Delhi, May 15: History will be kinder to me, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh stated at his final press conference earlier this year. As he ends his decade-long tenure as head of two successive UPA governments, his stock as a middle class hero stood severely diminished due to a floundering economy, shrinking opportunities and the acts of omission and commission of colleagues in the government and

London, May 14: Three explosive letters that highlight Mahatma Gandhi's deep concerns over the behaviour of his eldest son, Harilal, will go under the hammer at an auction in England next week. Mullock's Auctioneers based in Shropshire county are hoping to fetch between 50,000 pounds and 60,000 pounds for a set of three letters written by the Father of the Nation in June 1935. "You should know

London, May 10: Don't get depressed if she has refused to go on a date with you owing to your short height. Tell her you are going to stay longer on earth for better chances knocking on your door! According to research on Japanese men, shorter men are more likely to have a protective form of a gene, leading to smaller body size during early development and a longer lifespan. Shorter men are also