Technology, Mobiles tabs, 17th Oct 2017, News & Stories from India

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The railways said its officials spoke to 20 passengers and their statements were recorded. (Photo: PTI)

26 fell ill on Tejas Express due to vomit smell, not food poisoning: Railways

The report by a Central Railways team said the quality of the food served on board the premium train was ‘satisfactory’.

17 Oct 2017 12:05 PM

NSE 50-share Nifty also trading up by 12.60 points or 0.12 per cent to 10,243.45. (Photo: PTI)

Sensex rebounds, Nifty hovers above 10,200 mark

Sensex, resumed higher at 32,654.41 and hovered in a range of 32,659.32 and 32,556.74 before quoting 32,659.58.

17 Oct 2017 11:51 AM

In international market, gold lost 0.20 per cent to USD 1,291.90 an ounce in Singapore. (Photo: Representational/AFP)

Gold futures down Rs 124 on profit booking, global cues

Gold is trading at Rs 29,776 per 10 gram in futures trade amid a weak trend overseas.

17 Oct 2017 11:45 AM

Companies of all stripes now are ramping up efforts to find and fix bugs in their software amid a wave of damaging hacking attacks. (Photo: AFP)

Microsoft responded quietly after detecting secret database hack in 2013

The Microsoft flaws were fixed likely within months of the hack, according to the former employees.

17 Oct 2017 11:44 AM

The two countries have held annual naval exercises since 2003 but this is the first occasion that both will combine all military services. (Photo: Twitter/Representational)

For first time, India, Russia to hold large-scale 'tri-service' military exercises

The October 19-29 joint war games will kick off in the eastern military district of Russia, the Defence Ministry said in a statement.

17 Oct 2017 11:44 AM

Swaraj grants medical visa to Pak girl suffering from eye cancer

She also said another Pakistani child requiring bone marrow transplant was being given visa for treatment in India.

17 Oct 2017 11:26 AM

Who said toys are for children? Bring out that child in you by gifting yourself a ‘big boy’ toy.

Enthusiastic about RC toys? Check out some massive deals

Thanks to decreasing prices and reducing sizes of electronics, the small replicas can do almost what the real thing can.

17 Oct 2017 11:25 AM

US Supreme Court to resolve a major privacy dispute between the Justice Department and Microsoft Corp.

US Supreme Court to review Microsoft digital privacy case

Microsoft was the first US Company to challenge a domestic search warrant seeking data held outside the country.

17 Oct 2017 11:20 AM

Issuing a warning to three BCCI office bearers – Anirudh Choudhary, Amitabh Choudhary and C.K. Khanna, the Supreme Court had asked the trio to give suggestions on the cash-rich cricket body's draft constitution or else face serious consequences. (Photo: AFP)

BCCI submits suggestions on CoA's draft proposal on new constitution

The BCCI office bearers been given a three-week deadline to give suggestions to CoA for a new constitution.

17 Oct 2017 11:15 AM

Finance Minister Arun Jaitley. (Photo: PTI)

Options trading to help formalise gold trade: Arun Jaitley

The gold options contract launched on Tuesday allows trading in 1kg gold.

17 Oct 2017 11:09 AM

Subhash Chandra Garg has replaced Shaktikanta Das as economic affairs secretary. (Photo: PTI)

Infra sector investment, bankruptcy reforms priorities for govt: Garg

Economic Affairs Secretary says reform in this sector would bring in an state-of-the-art kind of system.

17 Oct 2017 11:07 AM

Foxconn has reportedly increased its manufacturing output to about 4,00,000 units every week, but at that rate, Apple will still be unable to fulfil the demands for the iPhone X.

Apple finally ships the first batch of iPhone X from China: report

The first wave of the iPhone X will have an estimated 46,500 devices produced in two Chinese facilities.

17 Oct 2017 10:58 AM

China’s Huawei has unveiled a new line of smartphones that match or even improve on key features offered by Apple or Samsung while undercutting their rivals on price.

Huawei challenges Apple and Samsung with its new line of smartphone

Huawei aims to distinguish itself through technological advances that will put it on a level playing field with other premium devices.

17 Oct 2017 10:52 AM

Representational Image. (Photo: Pixabay)

Big bundle of joy: Baby weighing 7 kilos born in Vietnam

The last big baby to make headlines in Vietnam was in 2008.

17 Oct 2017 10:49 AM

Nupur and Rajesh Talwar were in 2013 convicted for the murder of their daughter Aarushi and domestic help Hemraj. (Photo: PTI)

Talwars not in position to talk; all they want is to clear Aarushi's name: family

'The pain of losing Aarushi can never go away and the grief over her loss will now come to the fore,' Rajesh's brother said.

17 Oct 2017 10:45 AM

Air India is surviving on Rs 30,000 crore bailout package extended by UPA government.

Govt will prefer selling Air India to domestic buyer for its divestment

Govt says it has yet to decide what to do with carrier’s debt burden of Rs 55,000 crore.

17 Oct 2017 10:40 AM

Bank scrip shed 0.65 per cent to close at Rs 189.90 on the BSE, as against a 0.62 per cent rise on the benchmark. (Representational Image)

Despite spike in bad loans, DCB Bank net jumps 21 per cent

City-based bank's core net interest income rose 30 pc to Rs 248 crore on back of a 20 per cent credit growth.

17 Oct 2017 10:38 AM

US wireless carrier AT&T said last week its third-quarter postpaid handset upgrades were fewer by nearly 900,000 from a year ago, and brokerage Jefferies attributed it to weak iPhone 8 demand.

US buyers favor iPhone 7 over 8: study

Apple last month introduced the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus, which resemble the iPhone 7 but have a glass back for wireless charging.

17 Oct 2017 10:35 AM

This week 'doorsteps.co.uk' became the 18th biggest estate agency in the UK just 16 months after the website went live. (Photo: Facebook/Akshay Ruparelia)

Akshay Ruparelia, Indian-origin teenager becomes Britain's youngest millionaire

He became one of UK's youngest millionaires after his online estate agency business got valued at 12 million pounds in just over a year.

17 Oct 2017 10:31 AM

Food Processing Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal. (Photo: PTI)

'India gets $10 billion investment commitment in food processing'

The World Food India event will see participation of 30 countries and over 50 global CEOs.

17 Oct 2017 10:29 AM

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