Salman Khan Hit & Run Case: Driver’s Statement Rejects

Salman Khan Hit and Run Case took a new turn when Salman’s driver claimed that he was at the wheel when the accident took place. The prosecution has vehemently opposed the statement and urged the Court to reject the driver’s claim.

On the final day of the case the prosecution put an argument that in the past 13 years since the dreaded accident took place killing one person and injuring several others, the presence of a fourth person in the vehicle had never come up.

Latest Bollywood News Public prosecutor Pradeep Gharat told the Judge D.W. Deshpande that it was difficult to believe the driver’s statement and also that his version should be rejected by the court.

The driver gave his statement on March 30, 2015, saying that it was him who was driving the car and not Salman Khan. According to Ashok Singh, he was driving the car and Salman Khan was in the passenger’s seat when the car’s tyre burst and the steering wheel became hard to control and he rammed into the bakery which ended in the death of one person and left several others injured. This statement comes after Salman Khan had recently told the court that he wasn’t drunk, as he was on a strict diet for his movie ‘Veer’ and had just plain ‘Water’ and was not on the driving seat.

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Entertainment News Today On being quizzed why Ashok Singh has been quiet for this long, he said that he tried to tell the police but they did not pay heed to him and thereafter he did not have the knowledge on what needed to be done. The prosecution had accused Ashok Singh of taking money for the statement and requested the court to disregard the claim made by the actor’s driver.

The verdict of the case is yet to come out, if found guilty, Salman Khan could spend up to 10 years in prison.

Delhi Government Bans Sale Of Chewing Tobacco

The Delhi Government will put a ban on sale, purchase and even storage of all forms of Chewable Tobacco including “guktha, khaini and zarda” in the national capital from Monday.

Live News Update “We have decided to come up with a notification to Ban Chewable Tobacco in all forms from Monday in Delhi. Under this, no one will be allowed to sell, purchase or store chewable tobacco,” Delhi Health Minister Satyendra Jain told the Press Trust of India.

He said enforcement teams of Delhi Police as well as the Health Department have been asked to conduct surprise inspections across the city to ensure that the ban is implemented. “The teams have been told to be active on this,” Jain said.

Latest News From India However, no such ban will be enforced on cigarettes. Health Department officials said that there was a Delhi government notification in September 2012 which was in pursuance of series of directions from the Supreme Court to ban gutkha in the city.

But since the ban mentioned the term Gutkha, the tobacco retailers started selling the components of gutkha (betel nut and raw tobacco) in separate pouches. So, the purpose of banning gutkha was not served.

Therefore, the health department last year started with a new proposal to ban all the raw chewable tobacco products in Delhi, a senior official said.

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Latest News Updates According to officials, ‘gutkha’ is also being supplied to retailers in Delhi from neighbouring states of Uttar Pradesh and Haryana.

Stepping up its efforts towards tobacco control, the Health Department has also launched an innovative drive, creating a ‘Tobacco Aware Citizens’ Directory’ to spread the word about its harmful effects.

Google ‘Pony Express’ To Reportedly Enable Bill Payments Via Gmail

Google is reportedly testing a tool that will let you pay bills directly from your Gmail inbox.

According to a Re/ code report on Tuesday, the tool or service is presently codenamed Pony Express and is under development.

Latest Technologies News With the Pony Express Service, Google is aiming to provide an easy tool for people to Pay Bills directly from their Gmail inbox as well as the Inbox by Gmail Service.

Re/ code claims to have seen the documents concerning Google’s Pony Express Service, documents that indicate the service is scheduled to start in the fourth quarter.

As per the documents, Pony Express will ask Gmail users to provide personal information such as name, address and partial and full Social Security number to a third-party company which will then verify the user’s identity. Users might also have to provide information such as account/ credit/ debit card number or something similar to get started, notes the report.

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Computer Technology News After authentication, users will start receiving bills in a particular folder of Gmail or the Inbox by Gmail, from where they can pay them directly. For now, the Google is said to be talks with third-party vendors that print and mail out bills on behalf of service providers.

It’s not clear whether the service will also take advantage of the existing Google Wallet payment service, or will tie-up with Google’s upcoming Android Pay, which is expected to be unveiled during Google’s I/O conference in May.

Bharti Airtel Expands Next Generation 4G Services network Live In Moga Town

Airtel 4G Services Go Live in Moga

Bharti Airtel has expanded its 4G Services to Moga which has now become the 11th town in Punjab to receive the next generation network.

Manu Sood who serves as Airtel’s CEO for Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh, said that customers who sign up for the speedier network can look forward to an ‘electrifying’ Internet browsing experience courtesy of the company’s 4G Wi-Fi Service.

There’s little need to wax eloquent on what the availability of 4G Services means to Airtel customers, of course. Users should technically be able to download a standard length movie in less than 5 minutes. Hooking up multiple devices to the same connection through a Wi-Fi Hotspot won’t hurt either and let’s not even get started on YouTube, Vimeo and other sites.

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Airtel 4G Coverage should be capable of delivering buffer free streaming of videos over the web. The operator is the biggest telecom company in India and is already busy trying to cement its future too. It’s been signing deals with various brands with the idea of keeping its top spot in the market as the country continues to pine for more data at faster speeds.

India Will Play Australia in The Semi-Finals On Sydney

#WC15 – WorldCup 2015 Australia Would, if they beat Pakistan on Friday, face an Indian side far more formidable than the one they pulverized during the summer.

Four-time former champions Australia set up an explosive semifinal clash against title-holders India in the cricket World Cup Semifinal after comprehensively beating Pakistan by six wickets in the mega-event’s third quarterfinal here today.

Michael Clarke’s team should be wary of ‘Indian Juggernaut‘, say Australian media.

Australia should be wary of India, who are ‘growing in confidence’ with every match, in the semifinals of the World Cup, according to Australian media reports.

Australia would face an Indian side ‘far more formidable’ than the one they pulversied during the summer.

Lauding India’s fielding, the report stated that athletic catches, a sharp run-out – tasks that seemed ‘bothersome’ in December, are now ‘shelled peanuts’. India will Play Australia in the Semi-Finals on March 26 at Sydney.

Microsoft Working On Software To Convert Android Phones To Windows 10

Technology News After Microsoft announced on their blog post that Windows 10 will release this summer, the company also added that it is working with Chinese handset maker Xiaomi to offer some customers a test version of Windows 10 on their smartphones.

Microsoft wrote said that, it will help a select group of Xiaomi Mi4 users ‘flash’ their phones with the new Windows 10 OS on their handsets and let them contribute to its future release later this year. These users will then use Windows 10 on their Mi4 devices and provide valuable feedback. Xiaomi stresses that this is not a partnership but an initiative. This move portrays Microsoft’s new platform through a unique approach, points out TechCrunch.

As the company uses the word ‘flash’ here, it indicates that Microsoft will offer a ROM, similar to custom ROMs like CyanogenMod, to install their OS on the Android smartphone. Microsoft will deliver Windows 10 ROM for Mi 4 users with a software that helps convert an Android phone into a Windows 10 phone, complete with access to all Microsoft services, added the report.

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But the bigger news is that Microsoft will soon be rolling out this feature out to other devices as well.

With this move, Microsoft could attract many Android users to Windows 10, without having the need to to purchase another phone. Microsoft also added in their blog that China is an ideal Market for testing such an initiative, given the region’s relative lack of lock-in to Google services and a general affinity towards custom ROMs.

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The availability for Windows 10 on Xiaomi Mi 4 will be announced in a few months.

Coal Scam: Sonia Gandhi Leads Solidarity March To Manmohan Singh’s Residence

The entire top Congress leadership including Sonia Gandhi today took to the streets to express solidarity with former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who has been summoned as accused in a coal scam case, with the party President calling it “outrageous”.

Sonia Gandhi chaired a meeting of the CWC at Congress headquarters early in the morning and immediately led a march to Singh’s residence about half a km away in the heart of the capital in which several of Singh’s cabinet colleagues P Chidambaram, Anand Sharma, Ambika Soni, Veerappa Moily and K Rehman Khan were present.

Latest News India The Congress leaders also attacked the government accusing it of maintaining a “studied silence” after the CBI had told the court that there was no criminality involved in the allocation of Talabira Coal Blocks II to Hindalco company of Aditya Birla group in Odisha in 2005 when Singh also held the portfolio of coal. Gandhi declared that they would fight the case with all legal means at their command.

“I was outraged at the news that summons had been served to Manmohan Singh,” the Congress President said.

“The former Prime Minister is known not only in our country but throughout the world as being a person of integrity and probity. We are here to offer our unstinted support, our solidarity.

“The Congress party is fully behind him. We shall fight this legally and with all our means at our command. We are sure, we are convinced that he will be vindicated,” she told reporters at Singh’s residence.

Singh, accompanied by his wife, received the leaders at the porch of his residence. The leaders greeted him warmly.

The former Prime Minister had yesterday expressed confidence that he will prove his innocence in a fair trial.

“Of course, I am upset but this is part of life. I have always said I am open for legal scrutiny I am sure the truth will prevail and I will get a chance to put forward my case with all the facts,” Singh had said.

A special court had summoned Singh along with industrialist Kumar Mangalam Birla, ex-coal secretary P C Parakh and three others as accused in a case pertaining to allocation of Talabira-II coal block in Odisha in 2005 and asked them to appear before it on April 8.

South Africa Hit 408/5, Second Highest In Total World Cup

SYDNEY: South Africa made 408 for five against the West Indies on Friday, the second-highest World Cup total of all time.

In the process, South Africa captain AB de Villiers smashed the second-fastest World Cup Century off 52 balls in the Pool B game at the Sydney Cricket Ground before finishing on 162 not out.

The highest World Cup total is 413 for five made by India against Bermuda, a non-Test nation, in Trinidad in 2007.

The fastest ever World Cup century was made by Ireland’s Kevin O’Brien, off 50 balls, against England in Bangalore during the 2011 tournament.

“It was a very enjoyable knock today. The foundation from the boys at the start freed me up,” said de Villiers.

“I had a bit of luck here and there. I’m not a huge fan of setting targets but we had plans in place of reaching 300 halfway through the innings. This game is only half way and the only thing on my mind is winning it. We want to go and defend this total now.”

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Friday’s innings was the second time in as many months that de Villiers had hammered the West Indies attack after smashing the quickest all-time one-day international century, off just 31 balls, against them in Johannesburg on January 18.

Swine Flu-Hit Gujarat, Doctors Struggle as Hospitals are Swamped with Patients

Latest News : AHMEDABAD seems to have become the epicenter of Gujarat’s Swine Flu menace; of the 255 cases reported across the state, 129 are in the city.
And of the 12 deaths recorded in the state in the last 24 hours, four were in Ahmedabad.

Dr Rajesh Solanki, who heads the pulmonary medicine department of Ahmedabad Civil Hospital, is trying to tackle the many swine flu cases being reported in the last few days. He is helped by a team of doctors and para-medical staffers, at the custom-made swine flu Out Patient’s Department at the civil hospital.

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But the medical staff is overworked and may be at risk themselves. Three medicos at the hospital have already tested positive for swine flu.

Doctors say enough safeguards are in place, but as the hospital is swamped with cases, most of the 150 doctors at the civil hospital are working with barely any breaks.

“A sizeable number of patients who visit the OPD turn out to be affected by the virus so the pressure is much more, but we are working round-the-clock to ensure that they are taken care of,” Dr Solanki told NDTV.

Most cases of swine flu are reported too late for them to be treated in time, say doctors, claiming late diagnosis is the primary reason for the rising number of deaths.

But the government may also have reacted late to the growing crisis. Door-to-door surveys were launched just about a week ago, after the number of swine flu cases shot up; OPDs to handle swine flu cases were set up only 10 days ago.

Government doctors, meanwhile, are hopeful that a change in weather may help bring the number of swine flu cases down. “In the next one week, we expect the virus to hit a saturation point and then there will be a dip in such cases,” said Dr Solanki. View Source By : ndtv

Micromax announces Android Lollipop update for Canvas phones

Technology News Domestic devices maker Micromax has announced that the company will be rolling out Android 5.0 Lollipop update for its popular Canvas series of smartphones. Lollipop is the latest version of Google’s mobile operating system.

The Micromax Canvas Xpress A99 will be the first device in the portfolio to receive the software update, the company informed. 
Commenting on the development, a company spokesperson said, “As a brand, we are committed to keep our customers delighted with best in class technologies and experience. Riding on the same thought, we are today rolling out the Android L update with Canvas Xpress, making the overall user experience more efficient and seamless.”

The update has been rolled out OTA (over the air). Canvas Xpress users can follow the simple process to get the updates on their devices. Users will get an update notification on their handset when they connect it to the internet and following that they can directly upgrade to the latest OS. Users can also check manually for the upgrade by going to the Settings menu, tapping on ‘about phone’ and then on ‘software update.’

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Micromax had launched Canvas Xpress at Rs 6,999, in December.It sports a 4.5-inch FWVGA (480x854p) IPS display.

Powered by a 1.3GHz MediaTek MTK6582V/X quad core processor and 1GB RAM, the phone comes with 8GB internal storage and a microSD card slot that supports cards of up to 32GB. The Canvas Xpress features a 5MP rear camera with LED flash, and a 0.3MP front-facing camera. The dual sim smartphone supports 3G, Wi-fi, Bluetooth 4.0 and GPS connectivity options.

It’s not clear which other Canvas series phones will be upgraded to Lollipop. Micromax has also not announced a definite timeframe for the roll out Latest Technologies News

The move comes soon after other players announced Lollipop update for their budget devices or unveiled new devices.

Recently, domestic brand Intex had also announced an Android Lollipop-powered phone, Intex Aqua Star L.

Earlier this month, Google India’s Twitter account had also tweeted that Android One users in India will be getting the Lollipop update in the next few weeks.

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Mobile Technology News Although Android Lollipop was the most ambitious release of the mobile operating system, it is still not on enough devices. According to data released by Google, the Lollipop build powered just 1.6% of Android devices. Google tracked the data on Android devices for the week ending on February 2, 2015 while computing the statistics. It does not include the figures for Android versions that are on less than 0.1% of the devices tracked.