The Ministry of Home Affairs website was hacked today, prompting authorities to temporarily block it, an official said. National Informatics Centre immediately blocked the website after noticing the hack. Meanwhile, Computer emergency response teams are looking into the incident. Further details are awaited. The website could still not be accessed.[Read More…]
India may add another feather in its hat as a Bengaluru based company is very close to give India its first indigenous jet engine. Poeir Jets Private Limited, an R&D firm under the city-based Intech DMLS, has earmarked Rs 20 crore for the project, of which about Rs 9 crore[Read More…]
Twitter has introduced a new feature in an effort to improve its anti-harassment tools. With the new feature, a Twitter user can now report tweets that mentioned him even if the user was blocked by the author’s account. “You can still report an account that has blocked you. When reporting[Read More…]
Ahead of the state assembly polls in five states including Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Goa, Punjab and Manipur, social networking giant Facebook, India, has introduced two new tools to help encourage civic contribution. Actually, there will be a “polling day reminder” at the top of the News Feed of people who[Read More…]
The Uttar Pradesh police have arrested three persons alleged to have fooled almost 7 lakh people through an online portal ‘socialtrade.biz,’ after it busted an online fraud to the tune of Rs 3,700 crore. Three persons- Anubhav Mittal, Sridhar Prasad and Mahesh Dayal from Sector 63 in Noida were detained.[Read More…]
Tech giant Apple will soon have ‘Made in India’ iPhones, and they will come out of a factory in Bengaluru as the Karnataka government on Thursday issued a release welcoming Apple’s pitch “to commence initial manufacturing operations” in the state. Apple’s intentions to manufacture in Bengaluru “will foster cutting edge[Read More…]
The 2017 Beat will come with heavily redesigned front and rear profiles along with additional features. Launch is likely to happen in coming months. Chevrolet is all set to introduce the thoroughly updated Beat in the country, soon. We have spied the 2017 Beat inside-out, completely undisguised, unlike the heavily[Read More…]
We caught the lifestyle pickup truck from Toyota, the Hilux, ferrying on Delhi roads. For the uninitiated, the new Fortuner is based on the pickup and this reason is strong enough to get anyone curious about it. The Hilux received the next-gen model months before the new Fortuner was launched.[Read More…]
THE ALL-NEW YAMAHA FZ25 ADDS ANOTHER PERFORMANCE BIKE FOR MASSES TO YAMAHA INDIA’S PORTFOLIO Yamaha has finally launched its mysterious naked sport motorcycle, the FZ25, at a price of Rs 1,19,500 (ex-showroom, Delhi). It is a very important product for the Japanese manufacturer as it comes in one of the[Read More…]
Korean electronic company Samsung announced on Monday the real cause of its Galaxy Note 7 smartphones sudden over-heating and bursting into flames. The investigation report blames both the design and manufacture of the device’s batteries for the fatal malfunction. It took about seven hundred researchers and engineers examined hundreds of thousands[Read More…]
Launched in November last year, the bookings of the all-new Toyota Fortuner have crossed the 10,000 mark. The immensely popular body-on-frame SUV has redefined the segment and in its latest avatar, everything has gone a notch higher, be it looks, cabin, feature or engine. In the past two months, close[Read More…]
Apple is suing Qualcomm, the chip supplier company for roughly $1 billion. Apple says Qualcomm is “charging royalties for technologies they have nothing to do with.” The suit follows the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s lawsuit against Qualcomm earlier this week over unfair patent licensing practices. Qualcomm is a major supplier to both[Read More…]