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Whether India reaches full literacy by 2021 or not may be a big question but certainly the Internet will penetrate almost two-thirds of its population, according to a Cisco report. Currently, India’s internet users are about 373 million (28% of population) and expected to reach 829 million(82.9 crore) or 59% by 2021, said the global networking giant on Friday. In ...

The Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) has made a third detection of gravitational waves, ripples in space and time, demonstrating that a new window in astronomy has been firmly opened. As was the case with the first two detections, the waves were generated when two black holes collided to form a larger black hole. The newfound black hole formed by ...

Japan’s Upper House passed the special bill on Friday, paving the way for Emperor Akihito to step down and pass the throne to his eldest son, Crown Prince Naruhito, a week after the bill was passed by the lower house. Once regarded divine power, the oldest monarchy of Japan will undergo another major change with the passage of the Special ...

Finally Cambridge researchers have found the reason why many men do not say ‘I love you’ but end up in the company of beloved ones because women have it in the DNA to read the mind of men and others just by looking at their eyes. In a first of its kind study, researchers at the University of Cambridge developed ...

First it was firing on farmers demanding fair price for their produce in Mandsaur who were fired upon by police and five farmers were officially killed in the melee. What followed was the arrest of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, reflecting how desperate is BJP to stop him from reaching out to farmers. Ironic but state home minister blamed Rahul for ...

The UGET COMEDK 2017 rank cards are available on its official website and the registration process for online counselling will start shortly, according to a flash posted on the official website today, Thursday, June 8, 2017. It means the process will begin tomorrow online followed by personal counselling process with the mock allotments to be made known by June 16. ...

Riding high on the comeback success of 150th film “Khaidi No.150”, Megastar Chiranjeevi thought that his TV debut show “Meelo Evaru Koteeswarudu” would hit the roof of every Telugu viewer’s home but it proved otherwise. Similar failure happened with Shah Rukh Khan who thought that his active and generous gift-giving would turn around the flagging viewership but retreated hastily in ...

Stylish Star Allu Arjun’s latest offering Duvvada Jagannadham’s recently released trailer has already crossed 10 million mark in just two days of its release. The makers of DJ have organized for a Dubsmash contest to make things even more interesting. The audience need to send a dubsmash video of themselves delivering the dialogues from DJ’s latest trailer and send it ...

Eating your food alone? It’s truly boring and appetite never shows up. But Japanese researchers have found a simple and doable trick to it. People tend to eat more when they are in company of others or when guests are there. This phenomenon called “Social Facilitation of Eating” is effective if you invite yourself to a dinner, say researchers. how? ...

US space agency NASA has selected 12 new astronauts, one of them an Indian-American, after screening over 18,300 applicants. Seven of them are men and five women, who will be trained as the 22nd class of American spaceflight trainees, the largest group ever selected since 1959. All the selected applicants actually cross the minimum eligibility criteria and they excel in ...