Chennai : Post Graduate degree obtained in the Open University System without a basic Under Graduate degree cannot be considered either for appointment or promotion, the Madras High Court has ruled. A division bench of Justices Pushpa Sathyanarayana and Krishnan Ramasamy gave the ruling on Tuesday while allowing a writ appeal from the Inspector General … Read more
Mobile in one hand. Holding a big bag in the same hand. The other hand on the motorcycle handle – and his 3-4 years child holding his shirt. Shielding his child from the rains of Udaipur with an umbrella, this man seems to be a miracle. Driving without a helmet was like invitation to an … Read more
From airplane wings to overhead powerlines to the giant blades of wind turbines, a buildup of ice can cause problems ranging from impaired performance all the way to catastrophic failure. But preventing that buildup usually requires energy-intensive heating systems or chemical sprays that are environmentally harmful. Now, MIT researchers have developed a completely passive, solar-powered … Read more
Almost two-thirds of the world’s children under one year old, nearly 90 million, live in countries where their fathers are not entitled by law to a single day of paid paternity leave, the UNICEF analysis said. India and Nigeria, which have high infant populations, are among the 92 countries do not have national policies in place that … Read more
Coupled with projected sea level rise driven by global warming, reef decline could see flooding increase four-fold by century’s end, they reported in the journal Nature Communications. Without coral to help absorb the shock, a once-in-a-century cyclone would wreak twice the havoc, with the damage measured in the tens of billions of dollars, the team … Read more
Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) supremo Lalu Prasad Yadav’s son Tej Pratap Yadav has started distributing the invitation cards for his wedding with Aishwarya Rai, the granddaughter of former Bihar chief minister Daroga Prasad Rai. Among the invitees are all big names from the Bihar politics. However, one Janata Dal United (JDU) MLC, Niraj Kumar, has … Read more
A day after pointing to a massive security breach on the official mobile app of the Congress party, French hacker Elliot Alderson has now targeted the app of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In a series of tweets, he has alleged that the app sends the IP address of users to US-based website api.narendramodi.in without their … Read more
New Delhi: The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) on Thursday told the Supreme Court that the biometric and demographic information of people who have enrolled for Aadhaar was secure, while no one will suffer the loss of benefits for its lack. In a first-ever power point presentation in the open court, the constitution bench … Read more