Jind: A teenage girl allegedly committed suicide after she was scolded by her foster parents, who had objected to her talking to a friend over cellphone. The 16-year-old had consumed some poisonous substance on May 19, police said.
The girl was taken to a hospital in a serious condition where she died on Monday, police said.
A post-mortem was conducted and the case is being investigated, they added.
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09:59 PM, May 21, 2013
Alpharetta: AT&T is launching a prepaid cellphone service - Aio Wireless. The new subsidiary will offer nationwide wireless service to value-conscious customers interested in unlimited talk, text and data plans without an annual contract. Aio launches Thursday in select stores in Houston, Orlando, Fla., and Tampa, Fla. AT&T plans to roll out the service in multiple markets across the US over the next year. The company will offer three rate...
10:29 AM, May 12, 2013
San Francisco: Disturbed by the nationwide epidemic of cellphone robberies and thefts, law enforcement officials across the country are looking to the wireless industry to help find a cure. In San Francisco, where half the robberies were phone-related last year, District Attorney George Gascon is calling on major companies in nearby Silicon Valley to create new technology such as a "kill switch" to permanently and quickly disable stolen smart phones,...
10:38 AM, May 05, 2013
New York: Research firm IDC said more smartphones than "dumb" phones are being made this year, a milestone in a shift that's putting computing power and Internet access in millions of hands worldwide. Manufacturers shipped 216 million smartphones worldwide in the first three months of this year, compared with 189 million regular cellphones, according to a study IDC released recently. IDC said smartphones made up 51.6 percent of the 419...
12:21 PM, Apr 27, 2013
Out of battery? Just send a text! People living off-grid can now power their phones simply by sending a text message. ...
01:57 PM, Mar 10, 2013
Cellphone users should be allowed to switch their devices to any mobile carrier, the White House said on Monday in response to an online petition against the recent banning of the practice. ...
10:38 AM, Mar 05, 2013
After the khaps in Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, a Muslim community panchayat in Rajasthan on Thursday banned girls from using cell-phones and also from dancing and singing at weddings, ostensibly in an effort to prevent incidents like Delhi gang-rape. ...
01:48 PM, Jan 10, 2013
New York: People are more likely to pull out their cellphones to check their text messages or email if they're with someone who has just done the same, according to a new study. Researchers at the University of Michigan watched students in dining halls and coffee shops around campus between January and April 2011. They unobtrusively observed pairs of students sitting at tables for as long as 20 minutes and...
05:17 PM, Nov 29, 2012
New Delhi: Struggling Finnish cellphone maker Nokia unveiled two new cellphone models, the Asha 205 and the Asha 206, pricing both models at around $62, excluding subsidies and taxes. The Nokia Asha 205 and Nokia 206 are both available in single SIM or dual SIM versions. Both models will go on sale this quarter. Nokia unveiled a new Slam feature which allows consumers to share multimedia content like photos and...
05:04 PM, Nov 26, 2012
London: Pregnant women, beware! Cellphone radiation exposure during pregnancy impacts fetal brain development and may cause hyperactivity, researchers say. Yale School of Medicine researcher, Dr Hugh Taylor co-authored the latest study to probe the impact of cellphone exposure on pregnancies. "We had pregnant mice in cages and we just simply put a cellphone on top of the cage. In half the mice, the cellphone was active and in half of...
04:23 PM, Nov 12, 2012
London: Pregnant women beware! Cellphone radiation exposure during pregnancy impacts foetal brain development and may cause hyperactivity, researchers say. Yale School of Medicine researcher, Dr Hugh Taylor co-authored the latest study to probe the impact of cellphone exposure on pregnancies. "We had pregnant mice in cages and we just simply put a cellphone on top of the cage. In half the mice, the cellphone was active and in half of...
03:02 PM, Nov 12, 2012
New Delhi: The Press Information Bureau (PIB) has launched a mobile version of its website to help cellphone users seamlessly access information on the move. "The URL of the mobile website is pib.gov.in/mobile. Mobile users who want the full functionality and display of the regular website can access it through the URL pib.gov.in," a PIB official said. The new site has been customised to display latest press releases on the...
11:11 AM, Sep 03, 2012
London: If you happen to be one of those who often find it difficult to fall asleep at night, the reason could be usage of cellphones or tablets at bedtime. Researchers in the US have found using an electronic gadget for just two hours before the bedtime can cause sleep problems, Daily Mail reported Wednesday. The new study from the Lighting Research Center (LRC) at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute believes the...
12:59 PM, Sep 02, 2012
New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is is unlikely to announce the proposal of free cellphone and talk time for all below the poverty line. According to the sources, the scheme may not see the light of day. PMO sources told CNN-IBN that they are not keen to go ahead with it in Prime Minister's Independence day speech. Reports had suggested that ahead of the 2014 general elections, the government...
03:35 PM, Aug 08, 2012
New Delhi: The demand for mobile phone handsets in the country is likely to reach 250 million in 2014 with an estimated value of Rs.54,000 crore, Minister of State for Communications and IT Milind Deora told parliament on Friday. The demand will reach to 250 million in volume while in value terms, the same will stand at Rs.54,000 crore, the minister told the Rajya Sabha in a written reply, citing...
09:39 PM, May 11, 2012
Mumbai: A nude photo of his wife in his cousin's mobile phone told him enough to gather his friends, orchestrate a plot involving Holi, bhang and consequent inebriation, and bludgeon his cousin to death, before dumping his body in the murky waters of the Malwani creek. On Thursday, three young men were arrested on charges of murdering a 21-year-old man and dumping his body in the creek. The case came...
08:29 PM, May 05, 2012
New Delhi: Team Anna has come up with a new concept to spread awareness among people about its programme over the year: a Rs 25 coupon's code to be entered in the mobile phone, which will give updates about Hazare's programme. "We have introduced a Rs 25 coupon whose number code has to be put in the mobile phone and then, one can get details of Anna's programme around the...
02:40 AM, Mar 26, 2012
New Delhi: Cellphones do not cause any problem with aircrafts' communication or navigation system, a top executive of Cell Antenna - a company that provides cell phone signal enhancement services, has said. Comments of Howard Melamed, the chief executive officer of Cell Antenna, is in contrast to the long held belief that use of cell phones during take off or touch down of aircraft's as mobiles can disturb aircraft's navigational...
12:51 PM, Mar 22, 2012
New York: Children and adolescents who use mobile phones are at no bigger risk of developing brain cancer than those who do not use them, according to a study of patients aged 7 to 19. The research, published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute on Wednesday and partially funded by mobile phone operators, addresses concerns that children may be more vulnerable to health risks from electromagnetic radiation from...
03:00 PM, Jul 28, 2011
