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The ruling government coalition has finally ended the flip-flop drama choosing finance minister Pranab Mukherjee to be its candidate for the august post of President of India amidst stiff opposition from West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee. The day’s events on Friday unfolded with Mulayam drawing his feet on support to former President Abdul Kalam amid UPA chief Sonia Gandhi’s ...

Each year during WWDC Apple gives away gray, cubic statues for “excellence in iOS and Mac OS X app design and development.” Its Apple Design Award (ADA) winners for 2012 has more surprises than expected with many gamers taking the cake and walking way. The games like Limbo and Deus Ex claimed the available spots in the Mac ADA’s with ...

Cupertino-based global tech giant Apple has officially announced the schedule for its much-awaited annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) from June 11 to June 15 at San Francisco’s Moscone West. The annual five-day conference will faciliate developers to learn about the future of iOS and OS X, allowing them to build incredible new apps. The conference will have more than 100 ...

Telugu movie hero Nandamuri Balakrishna’s house has been burgled and gold ornaments worth 300 grams valued at about Rs 900,000, just days after the release of his latest flick “Adhinayakudu”, which has grossed good collections at box office, giving respite to an agitated actor running into old age. Known as Balayya, the actor’s Banjara Hills residence was robbed by an ...

The world is opening up to a new, larger IPv6 that can cater 2^128 addresses or more than 340 trillion, trillion, trillion beginning Friday. The scope for Internet’s growth for the foreseeable future is certain now the rollout of Internet Protocol v6 (IPv6) for participating websites and other organizations on the web. Google is one of the key players in ...

MINI India has launched its iconic MINI Hatch, MINI Convertible and MINI Countryman in Delhi. The BMW Group introduced MINI as a premium brand in India in January 2012 as CBU (completely built-up) units. The car will be sold via the dealer Bird Automotive, which will provide after sales support to MINI customers from its workshop located at MG Road, ...

The Central Board of Secondary Education announced the results of class 10 on Monday evening around 9 pm and the results are available on its website at http://cbseresults.nic.in/ for Chennai region initially. The other region’s results will be put out on CBSE website in the next six days, sources said. To check your results, please click on the URL link above and provide ...

The Central Board of Secondary Education has announced the results of X class on Monday evening and the results are available on its website at http://cbseresults.nic.in/ To check your results, please click on the URL link above and provide your roll number and date of birth to get the results. More than 1.5 million students have taken CBSE Class 10th and 12th ...

Actor Aamir Khan’s TV show ‘Satyamev Jayate’ in its second episode brought in a new twist to the cause of child sex abuse. Focusing on childhood experience of one Harish Iyer from Mumbai, the episode has brought out the traumatic abuse of him for several years by a male relative. Since his mother did not realise his sorrow, the child ...

Capsaicin that makes the chili pepper cause burning sensation in our stomach could play a vital role in treating obesity in the future, according to research from Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH). Ali Tavakkoli, MD, BWH Department of Surgery, and his team have published a study investigating whether two surgeries called vagal de-afferentation-which uses capsaicin, the component responsible for the ...