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Shah Rukh Khan voted India`s most popular father

Posted on 17 June 2013

New Delhi: Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan, a doting dad of Aryan and Suhana, has been voted India`s most popular father in a Father`s Day poll conducted by a web site. He got more votes than megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who has a daughter and a son. The results of the poll, conducted among over 11,000 [...] Continue Reading

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New mental health bill to ban electric shocks

Posted on 17 June 2013

New Delhi: The right of mentally-ill patients to decide their mode of treatment, decriminalising suicide for them and a ban on electric shock treatment without anaesthesia are some of the progressive provisions of the new mental health bill proposed by the Indian government. “The bill was passed by the union cabinet last week,” Health Secretary [...] Continue Reading

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Project Loon

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Current Affairs Updates.Google launches giant balloon powered internet in New Zealand

Posted on 17 June 2013

Project Loon: Google plans balloon network to extend internet reach Google launches giant balloons over New Zealand’s south Island, carrying computer equipment that can create a high-speed internet infrastructure. Codenamed ‘project loon’, the helium filled balloons carry antennae, computers, batteries and navigational equipment, collecting power from solar panels that dangle below. Each can provide internet [...] Continue Reading

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The first “connected car” in India.

Posted on 10 June 2013

Mahindra Reva Electric Vehicles, a part of the US$15.9 billion Mahindra Group, and Vodafone Business Services (VBS), the enterprise arm of Vodafone India, have announced a machine-to-machine (M2M) communication partnership, the first of its kind in India. This partnership will enable Vodafone to provide M2M communication services to power the recently-launched electric vehicle—Mahindra e2o. The [...] Continue Reading

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Euglossaa bazinga

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Euglossa bazinga and the Brazilian biologist Andre Nemesio

Posted on 10 June 2013

Brazilian biologist Andre Nemesio has named a species of Brazilian orchid bee “Euglossa bazinga” in honour of “the clever, funny, ‘nerd’ character Sheldon Cooper” because the bee had tricked scientists for some time with its similarity to other species. Continue Reading

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Civil Service Lessons-Economic freedom

Posted on 10 June 2013

Economic freedom Economic freedom is measured in terms of three broad heads–size of government (measured by government revenue expenditure and administrative gross state domestic product (GSDP) and sundry state-level taxes as share of total GSDP, as well as share of government in organised employment), legal structure and security of property rights (using data on economic [...] Continue Reading

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RIM changes its Name

Posted on 10 June 2013

Research in Motion (RIM) has decided to change the name it has used since its inception in 1985 to BlackBerry. Continue Reading

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Awards and Honours

ToIFA-The times of india Film Awards

Posted on 10 June 2013

The largest Indian media conglomerate, The Times of India group, has launched a new film award—the times of india Film Awards (ToIFA), a global annual awards function which will directly take on International Indian Film Academy Awards (IIFA). Continue Reading

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The Madrid Protocol -Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks

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The Madrid Protocol -Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks

Posted on 07 June 2013

The Madrid System for the International Registration of Marks offers trademark owners a cost effective, user friendly and streamlined means of protecting and managing their trademark portfolio internationally. India joins Madrid Protocol On 8 April 2013, India joined the Madrid Protocol which will enable domestic companies and entrepreneurs to obtain cost effective global trademark registration. [...] Continue Reading

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The “Across America” the first cross-continental, solar-powered flight.

Posted on 26 May 2013

A solar airplane that developers hope to eventually pilot around the globe landed safely on Thursday in Texas, completing the second and longest leg of an attempt to fly across the United States powered only by the sun. The spindly experimental aircraft, dubbed Solar Impulse, touched down at Dallas/Forth Worth International Airport shortly after 1 [...] Continue Reading

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