PM Narendra Modi on Thursday inaugurated the first Vande Bharat train of Odisha. The train will run between Odisha’s Puri and Howrah in West Bengal. It’ll pass through Khordha, Cuttack, Jajpur, Bhadrak and Balasore districts in Odisha and Paschim Medinipur and Purba Medinipur districts in West Bengal. The train will benefit pilgrims visiting Jagannath Temple…
The Chennai Metro launched WhatsApp e-tickets facility on Wednesday. It has announced an inaugural discount of up to 20% on tickets booked through the messaging app. Commuters need to send “Hi” to 8300086000 and generate QR tickets. One can book up to six tickets in one go and pay using UPI, internet banking or credit/debit…
A US-based startup is offering ‘Telly’, which it claims is the first ‘Dual Screen’ smart TV, for free to the first 5,00,000 people who pre-order it. Telly has a main 55-inch 4K screen and a smaller panel below that displays advertisements to owners. “Brands pay for the advertisements on the second screen…That’s how you get…
An “extremely rare” sea slug was spotted in the Falmouth rock pool around the coast of south Cornwall, UK. There have been only three previous sightings of the creature in the UK, however, this was the first in a rockpool. The rainbow sea slug is usually found in warm sea waters off the west coast…
Google has said it will be deleting accounts that have not been used or signed into for at least two years. “To keep their accounts active, users should: read or send an email, use Google Drive, watch a YouTube video, download an app on the Google Play Store, and use Google Search,” Google said in…
Qatar ranks first globally in mobile internet speed with a median download speed of 189.98 Mbps, according to Ookla’s Global Speedtest report for April. Qatar is followed by UAE, Macau (SAR), Kuwait, Norway, Denmark, Bahrain, South Korea, China and the Netherlands. India ranked 60th globally with a median mobile internet speed of 36.35 Mbps, climbing…
Google will begin deleting accounts that have not been used or signed into for at least two years. Google said that inactive accounts are more likely to be compromised. The policy includes the deletion of content within Google Workspace (Gmail, Docs, Drive, Meet, Calendar), YouTube and Google Photos. “The earliest we will begin deleting accounts…
The Supreme Court dismissed a plea by the manufacturers of ‘Dil Afza’, whose sale was restrained by the Delhi High Court after Hamdard Foundation, the makers of ‘Rooh Afza’, filed a trademark infringement suit. “Rooh Afza has a well-established reputation…You were selling some kind of medicine and suddenly you start drinks with similar-sounding names…We’ll not…
The Supreme Court (SC) stayed an NCDRC order asking ITC to pay ₹2 crore to a model for bad haircut. Quantification of the compensation has to be based on material evidence and not mere asking, SC said. The model claimed that she was left with only 4 inches of hair and burnt scalp after a…
World’s second-richest person Elon Musk said, “I’ll say what I want to say, and if the consequences are losing money, so be it.” Speaking to CNBC, the Tesla CEO went on to call work-from-home “bulls***”, “unproductive”, and “morally wrong”. “The laptop class is living in la-la land,” he added. read more at Financial Express
