An 18-year-old Delhi University student has alleged that he was sexually assaulted by his Facebook friend on Saturday. The incident took place when the boy went to meet the accused whom he had befriended on the social networking site. ...
07:35 AM, Mar 31, 2013
Chinese authorities on Saturday said no signs of life have been detected nearly 30 hours after a massive landslide buried 83 mine workers in Tibet despite a major search and rescue operation. "Rescuers have not yet found survivors or bodies... The miners' survival chances were slim due to the scale of the landslide," officials of the regional government were quoted by as saying the state-run Xinhua news agency. ...
11:50 AM, Mar 30, 2013
As many as 83 workers were buried alive Friday when a major landslide hit a mining area in China's Tibet region, authorities said. The accident occurred at about 6 am in the capital Lhasa's Maizhokunggar county, Xinhua reported. ...
08:59 AM, Mar 30, 2013
Just four phone calls are enough to reveal your personal information, MIT researchers have warned. A new study led by Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that data derived from mobile phone networks, using just the location of radio masts, could identify the about a vast majority of people from just four pieces of information. ...
03:30 PM, Mar 26, 2013
A police havildar, who went to the Odisha Congress' headquarters in Bhubaneswar to apprehend those indulging in violence, on Monday was beaten up allegedly by party workers, police said. The incident allegedly took place when Havildar Nimai Charan Sahu entered Congress Bhavan in a bid to nab some people who tried to set afire a city bus carrying passengers. ...
02:15 AM, Mar 26, 2013
Workers of tea gardens in Jalpaiguri district in West Bengal are battling acute poverty and unemployment since the tea gardens shut down 10 years ago. The workers are now seeking permission to kill themselves as the extreme situation has even driven many to sell off their women to the human trafficking trade. ...
10:45 AM, Mar 25, 2013
Three persons, including a police inspector and a head constable, have been arrested after a High Court directive in connection with the murder of a Congress worker in police firing in 2012, police said. Ambika Prasad Dube was killed allegedly in a police firing at Jhipani Dhana village following a dispute in June 2012. ...
12:50 AM, Mar 25, 2013
A Trinamool Congress worker was called out of his house and shot dead at Kadaghata under Chakdaha Police Station in Nadia district on Saturday, police sources said. The assailants fired twice at TMC worker, Praladh Roy, with one of the bullets hitting him, the sources said. ...
12:18 AM, Mar 24, 2013
Vkontakte dominates the Russian social media market with about 10 times more users than Facebook. ...
12:23 PM, Mar 23, 2013
The Rajasthan Chief Minister, Ashok Gehlot, on Friday cancelled the sandstone mining contracts awarded to his relatives. An IBN Network expose had revealed that the contracts had been awarded to Gehlot's relatives at throwaway prices. Although Gehlot had denied the allegations, he ordered a probe nonetheless, vowing to quit if the charges were proven true. ...
11:31 PM, Mar 22, 2013
In 62 per cent of cases on Facebook, the insult came from people the recipient knows in real life. ...
06:19 PM, Mar 22, 2013
Exactly seven years ago, on March 21, 2006, Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter, posted the first ever tweet. ...
05:42 PM, Mar 21, 2013
Police and South Korean officials were investigating the simultaneous shutdown on Wednesday of computer networks at several major broadcasters and banks. ...
12:24 PM, Mar 20, 2013
Real hero Priti Patkar runs night shelters for children in Mumbai's red light areas. Her mission is to provide children with a safe haven and grooming them for a future away from prostitution. ...
09:40 AM, Mar 20, 2013
President Pranab Mukherjee on Monday stressed the need for a specialised and motivated workforce for the growth of tourism sector. "I stress the importance of a highly specialised and motivated workforce. It is important for the government and private sector to collectively generate adequate manpower both in terms of quantity and quality," Mukherjee said on the occasion of National Tourism Awards in various categories. ...
01:43 AM, Mar 19, 2013
The number of popular social media sites available on kids' mobile devices has exploded in recent years. ...
02:32 PM, Mar 18, 2013
Nineteen-year-old men are the biggest victims of online bullying, the majority of which takes place on popular social networking site Facebook, a new UK study has claimed. ...
04:22 PM, Mar 17, 2013
Security forces in the Afghan capital have defused a truck bomb packed with nearly eight tonnes of explosives, the biggest of its kind discovered in the country, the spy agency said on Friday amid heightened security. Intelligence forces discovered the explosives in eastern Kabul, wired and ready for detonation, security officials said. ...
05:56 PM, Mar 15, 2013
Facebook Inc is looking to improve its search and indexing capabilities by adding the hashtag symbol, one of the most recognisable features of its social networking rival Twitter, according to media reports. ...
02:12 PM, Mar 15, 2013
The most noticeable aspect of the new Facebook Timeline is it has a cleaner layout with all posts appearing on the right. ...
12:30 AM, Mar 14, 2013
