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Anybody who is a regular customer of taxi aggregators Uber or Ola will know that they often ditch them citing “Surge Price”, which means double the taxi fare owing to high demand. While hapless women, children and senior citizens are victims of this policy, no regulator nor any customer-welfare platform took it up against the giants Uber or Ola so ...

The genesis of current student protests, Hyderabad Central University, is back under focus with the Vice Chancellor resuming charge after almost two months of leave following Dalit student Rohith Vemula’s suicide on the campus after his diktats of rustication on the campus. A group of enraged students this morning entered the official residence of Hyderabad Central University (HCU) vice-chancellor Appa ...

With the increasingly easy railway train bookings online, many manual or staff-run reservation centres in Bangalore have been witnessing lesser demand forcing the Indian Railway to shut some of them soon in Bangalore, the tech capital of the country. The Bengaluru division of the South Western Railway said the passenger reservation system (PRS) centres in the City will soon be ...

Indian government is accelerating the process of supercomputing in the country with 70 supercomputers soon to forecast weather and use them for defence applications, in a major step to modernize its capabilities of prediction of natural disasters and defence emergencies in the future. To be equipped with an operational speed ranging from from 0.5 to 20 petaflops, these supercomputers will ...

To usher in good fortune in their lives on Akshaya Tritiya, buyers flocked jewellery shops on Tuesday, as retailers witnessed brisk sales of gold and jewellery that may be around 25 percent higher than a normal day. Akshaya Tritiya, an auspicious day for Hindus and Jains, is believed to bring good luck and success in whatever endeavour one undertakes on ...

HTC China is overwhelmed with 1.26 million pre-orders for its latest HTC Desire 820s smartphones that the company mentioned on its official account in Chinese social network Qzone that only 50,000 phones are currently available. The HTC Desire 820s, a variatn of the Desire 820 launched in September, was released only in China market. Its featues and specifications are similar ...

Russia has rejected Australian plea that it should pay compensation for MH17 disaster that was downed by Ukrainian rebels supported by Moscow. Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott ealier alleged that Russua had a role in the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, but Russia brushed aside his demand that it apologise and pay compensation to the families of the victims ...

Owing to popular demand, Xiaomi has increased the number of units to go on sale today to 60,000 from the usual 40,000 last three times but all of them were sold in 5.2 seconds repeating the saga of ‘flash sale’ on Flipkart once again. “Yes, 20,000 more! We can’t provide a huge amount of Mi phones for all of you ...

Unrecognised Cricket Association of Bihar (CAB) chief Aditya Verma has demanded a CBI or an NIA enquiry into the Indian Premier League (IPL) betting and spot-fixing scandal last year saying the nexus between the Jharkhand State Cricket Association (JSCA) and all the accused in the scam should be thoroughly exposed. Verma, who is a petitioner in the IPL scam in ...

Massive quantities of African ivory are being laundered through shops in Thailand and fuelling the elephant poaching crisis, conservation group WWF says. The organization is launching on Wednesday a global petition asking Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra to ban all ivory trade in Thailand in order to curb the illegal killing of African elephants. Although it is against the law ...