Edtech firm upGrad logs 50% revenue growth in Q2
Mumbai, Oct 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) Edtech firm upGrad on Tuesday said it has reported a 50 per cent growth in its gross revenue in the second quarter (Q2) of FY21, keeping the company on track for…
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Raj Cong MLA succumbs to Covid in Gurugram hospital
Gurugram, Oct 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) Sitting Congress MLA from Rajasthan, Kailash Trivedi, succumbed to Covid-19 at a Gurugram hospital in Haryana, family sources said on Tuesday. He was 65. Trivedi was the MLA from Bhilwara’s Sahada…
Ex-NDA Minister Dilip Ray found guilty in coal scam case
New Delhi, Oct 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) A Delhi court on Tuesday convicted a former union minister of the erstwhile National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government, Dilip Ray, in a coal block allocation case. Special Judge Bharat Parashar…
B’luru power plant fire: Engineer succumbs to burn injuries
Bengaluru, Oct 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) One of the two engineers, who was critically injured in a heat blast incident that occurred at the 370 MW Gas based Combined Cycle power plant in Yelahanka, has succumbed to…
ASUS launches new variant of ROG Phone 3 in India
New Delhi, Oct 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) ASUS Republic of Gamers (ROG) on Tuesday launched the 12GB RAM and 128GB internal storage variant of ROG Phone 3 for Rs 52,999. The customers can purchase the new variant…
Raped 6-year-old dies in Delhi, protests in Aligarh
Aligarh (Uttar Pradesh), Oct 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) A six-year-old girl raped in Iglas in Aligarh about 10 days back by her cousin, died in a Delhi hospital on Tuesday. The girl belonged to Hathras but had…
India’s daily Covid spike lowest since August
New Delhi, Oct 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) India on Tuesday reported 61,267 fresh infections of the novel Coronavirus, taking the case tally to 66,85,082, health officials said. This is the lowest daily spike since August. Though the…
Google Camera Go gets ‘Night Mode’ for low-light photography
San Francisco, Oct 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) Google Camera Go app has received a dedicated Night Mode for enhanced low-light photography on low-end Android Go-supported devices. “Low light, camera, action! With Night Mode on Camera Go, take…
Sensex up 350 points; finance, auto stocks rise
Mumbai, Oct 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) The key Indian equity indices opened on a positive note on Tuesday, with the BSE Sensex gaining over 350 points. Healthy buying was witnessed in finance and auto stocks. A largely…
Instagram to hide offensive comments, expand nudge warnings
New Delhi, Oct 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) Facebook-owned Instagram that completed 10 years on Tuesday with over one billion users announced fresh updates to make its platform safer like hiding potentially offensive comments and expanding nudge warnings….
Sewing needles, nails, screwdriver found in teen’s stomach
Kanpur, Oct 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) Bizarre though it may sound, an 18-year-old boy has been found to be carrying three-inch long iron nails, sewing machine needles and a screwdriver in his stomach. Karan, 18, a resident…
Nvidia outlines ‘Age of AI’, unveils next-gen data centre chips
San Francisco, Oct 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) Heralding a new age of artificial intelligence (AI), graphics giant Nvidia has introduced next-gen chips for networking, storage and security, along with major announcements in data centres, edge AI, collaboration…
Australia’s Northern Territory set to welcome back int’l students
Darwin, Oct 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) Northern Territory (NT) has become the first Australian region to welcome back international students since the country imposed strict border curbs in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic in March, the…
B’luru riots: Court rejects bail plea of prime accused Naveen
Bengaluru, Oct 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Additional City Civil and Sessions court has rejected the bail petition of P. Naveen Kumar, whose alleged Facebook post had triggered the Bengaluru riots on August 11. During the hearing…
4 men linked to PFI arrested on way to Hathras
Lucknow, Oct 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) The Uttar Pradesh Police have detained four men, allegedly linked to the Popular Front of India (PFI) and an associate outfit. The four men were arrested from Mathura on Monday night…
Apple removes third party audio products from online store
San Francisco, Oct 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) Apple has removed third-party audio products from Bose, Sonos and Logitech from its Store Online and has apparently told retail stores to follow the same — a move that indicates…
NZ reports 3 new Covid-19 cases
Wellington, Oct 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) New Zealand reported three new coronavirus cases on Tuesday in managed isolation, including two people who arrived in the country from India, according to health authorities. The two people had arrived…
Facebook awards $10K for finding bug in its Android app
New Delhi, Oct 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) A security researcher has found a vulnerability in the download feature of Facebooks Android app that could be exploited to launch remote code execution (RCE) attacks. The social networking giant…
Bing search engine rebranded as ‘Microsoft Bing’
New Delhi, Oct 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) The tech giant has rebranded its search engine as Microsoft Bing and the users will see a shift in the product which reflects the continued integration of its search experiences…
Taj city angry as simian war takes two human lives
By Brij Khandelwal Agra, Oct 6 (SocialNews.XYZ) A fierce war between two groups of monkeys in the heart of the Taj city took two human lives. Ghatia Azam Khan police chowki men said an old…