Author: Savi
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Delhi: Palam records highest April temperature at 45.3 degree Celsius in 49 years
As mercury continued to soar, Delhi on Tuesday recorded the maximum at 45.3°C temperature, which is equal to what city had recorded 49 years before on April 25, 1970. Simultaneously, Safdarjung Observatory reported day temperature at 43.7°C, which is also highest since 2010. “The last time the temperature shot up so high at Palam, in…
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Spotify has surpassed 100 million paid subscribers
On Monday, the streaming music service announced the milestone in its first-quarter earnings report. Spotify said it’s premium service grew 32% year-over-year, bolstered by partnerships with Hulu, Google (GOOGL) and Samsung. Spotify (SPOT) said it has 217 million monthly global users, a leap of 26% year-over-year. Part of the increase can be attributed to its…
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Ness Wadia sentenced to 2-yr jail term in Japan over drugs possession
Ness Wadia, business tycoon and heir to the Wadia Group, has been sentenced to a two-year jail term in Japan for possession of drugs, while on a skiing holiday to the country. Ness, who is the co-owner of Kings XI Punjab team, is the eldest son of Nusli Wadia and heir to the 283-year-old Wadia…
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Google’s parent firm shares dive as YouTube changes, competition hurt revenue
On Monday, Alphabet Inc’s Google saw its slowest revenue growth in three years from increased competition in advertising, stumbles in its smartphone business and disruptive changes at YouTube that left the leading internet ad company lagging rivals. Shares of Alphabet dropped 7.5 % after hours, setting them up for the biggest one-day drop since falling…
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SIPRI: India was 4th biggest military spender in 2018
Global military expenditure reached its highest level last year since the end of the Cold War, fueled by increased spending in the United States and China, the world’s two biggest economies, a leading defence think-tank said on Monday. According to the new data released by think tank Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) on Monday,…
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“Yeti” Footprints Sighted By Expedition Team, Tweets Indian Army
The Indian Army tweeted on Monday that its team had sighted “mysterious footprints of the mythical beast Yeti”, commonly known as the “abominable snowman” that over the decades, many people have claimed to see, but without much proof. The army, sharing images on its official Twitter handle, said a mountaineering expedition team had found the…
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Baltimore: One dead, seven injured after gunman opens fire
Police said, at least one person lost his life when an unidentified gunman opened fire into a crowd that had gathered for Sunday afternoon cookouts along a West Baltimore street. CNN quoted police spokeswoman Chakia Fennoy as saying that the incident took place on the 2500 block of Edmondson Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland. Police Commissioner…
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Android alerts for Windows 10 PC getting tested by Microsoft
Microsoft introduced the ‘Your Phone’ feature for Windows 10 at the Developer Conference in 2018. The new ‘Your Phone’ feature in Windows 10 enables instant access to text messages, photos, and notifications. Now, Microsoft is said to be working on adding a new feature to ‘Your Phone’ which displays Android notifications on Windows 10 PCs.…
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Lok Sabha Election 2019 Phase 4: BJP, TMC, SP, Cong move EC, 38.39% polling till 1 p.m.
Polling for the fourth phase of Lok Sabha election in 72 parliamentary constituencies spread across nine States began on Monday. Voting is taking place 13 seats each in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh, five in Bihar, eight in West Bengal, three in Jharkhand, six in Madhya Pradesh, 17 in Maharashtra, six in Odisha and a part…
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iPhone XR successor might come with dual cameras in 2019
As per the reports, Apple is believed to be working on three new variants for 2019 iPhones. It is said that these iPhones will basically be successors of the iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, and iPhone XR. While we have been hearing quite a bit of rumours about the three iPhones, we have the latest…
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155 flights delayed as Air India’s check-in software shuts down for more than 5 hrs
Air India’s services had been restored, nearly six hours after flights across the world were delayed on Saturday morning as the airline suffered a failure of its main server. The effect of the server failure is likely to result in further delays throughout the day. Air India says services restored after above 5 hours of…
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RBI to issue new ‘greenish yellow’ coloured Rs 20 denomination banknotes
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) will shortly issue new “greenish yellow” Rs 20 currency notes in the Mahatma Gandhi (New) series, the central bank said in a notification dated April 26. The new Rs 20 notes will bear the signature of the Reserve Bank’s governor Shaktikanta Das. HIGHLIGHTS The new Rs 20 banknote has…