Governors of Karnataka, Tripura to retire tomorrow

77-year-old Bhardwaj, who was the Law Minister in UPA-I, took charge as the Governor of Karnataka on June 29, 2009 and has been occupying the post since then.

Tamil Nadu Governor K Rosaiah will hold the additional charge of Karnataka until regular arrangements for the office are made, a Rashtrapati Bhavan communique said.

71-year-old Konwar, a former Congress Minister in Assam, was first appointed as the Governor of Bihar on June 29, 2009 and continued in the post till March 21, 2013. He was then transferred as Governor of Tripura.

Mizoram Governor Vakkom B Purushothaman has been given the additional charge of Tripura while Meghalaya Governor K K Paul will assume the charge of the Governor of Nagaland in addition to his own responsibility.

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Oil Minister approves appointment of new IOC chairman

B Ashok, Executive Director (Retail Sales) at Indian Oil Corp (IOC), was on October 9, 2013, chosen to head the company by government headhunters Public Enterprise Selection Board (PESB) but the previous UPA government could not appoint him before its tenure ended.

   

The Prime Minister's Office, where Ashok's appointment file was pending since last month, had sought Pradhan's comments on the issue.

   

"The Minister has consented to Ashok's appointment and the file has been sent to the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) for processing," a ministry official said. 

The appointment orders will be issued after approval of the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

57-year-old Ashok was to succeed R S Butola, who retired from service on May 31 on attaining superannuation age of 60 years. Since a full-time chairman was not appointed in time, R K Malhotra, Director (R&D) and senior most director on IOC board, has been given the additional charge for the time-being.

   

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Madhuri Dixit inaugurates child right campaign ‘Mamta Abhiyan’

The actress, who is also Unicef India’s advocate to support child rights issues feels proud to be part of this social cause.

‘Mamta Abhiyan’ is basically meant for saving the lives of infants and their mothers especially in Madhya Pradesh. A communication campaign of ‘Mamta Abhiyan’ was launched by the actress.

“Proud to be the UNICEF’s celebrity advocate for child rights! In Bhopal for the UNICEF campaign,” the actress tweeted on Thursday.

Madhuri is currently, busy as one of the panelist in the dance reality show ‘Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa’.

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Kareena skips Saif’s 'Humshakals'

Kareena is said to have laughed a lot when she saw Saif don the look of a ‘sexy woman’ for a scene in Sajid Khan's ‘Humshakals’ but she could not watch the full film due to her busy schedule.

When asked did she watch her husband's film ‘Humshakals’, she said, "I was busy shooting for my film and I don't watch much Hindi films."

"This year, I will watch only two films 'Singham Returns' and 'PK' as both are made by my two favourite directors," she added with a laugh.

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Tinnitus patients process emotions differently

"When you hear annoying noises constantly that you cannot control, it may affect your emotional processing systems," said Fatima Husain, speech and hearing science professor at University of Illinois in US.

The researcher used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) brain scans to better understand how tinnitus affects the brain's ability to process emotions. Three groups of participants were used in the study, people with mild-to-moderate hearing loss and mild tinnitus; people with mild-to-moderate hearing loss without tinnitus; and a control group of age-matched people without hearing loss or tinnitus.

Activity in the amygdala, a brain region associated with emotional processing, was lower in the tinnitus and hearing-loss patients than in people with normal hearing. Tinnitus patients also showed more activity than normal-hearing people in two other brain regions associated with emotion, the par hippocampus and the insula.

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Google partners Micromax, others for Rs 6,000 smartphone

Google has planned to bring the smartphones by October this year, starting with the Indian market. The device will be produced by homegrown handset maker Micromax along with other firms like Karbonn and Spice for India, which is the world's fastest growing smartphone market.

   

"The device with Micromax is a dual-SIM 4.5-inch screen device with a removable SD card and will cost less than USD 100," Google SVP, Android, Chrome and Apps, Sundar Pichai said at the firm's developers conference in San Francisco on Thursday.

"We will launch this around the world, but we will start with India this fall," Pichai said.

The search engine giant said it is also working with telecom operators to provide users with "reasonable data plans." He added that the phone addresses the needs of India.

   

According to research firm IDC, smartphone sales in the country grew almost three-fold to over 44 million in 2013, buoyed by affordable devices made by local firms such as Micromax and Karbonn.

   

In the first quarter of 2014, 17.59 million smartphones were shipped in India compared with 6.14 million in the same period of 2013.

   

Samsung was the leader with a 35 percent market share in Q1, followed by Micromax (15 percent), Karbonn (10 percent), LAVA (6 percent) and Nokia (4 percent), according to IDC.

   

The devices are a part of Google's new initiative, Android One...

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SSC students still doubt authenticity of their results

After a host of errors that riddled SSC exams and results, the students finally received their marksheets on Thursday, including the 1,500 whose results had been withheld by the board for various reasons. However, many students are still unsure if they have received the right result.

One of them is 16-year-old Manthan Solanki, who appeared for his exams with the hall ticket number he’d received from the board in March.

However, when he used the same number to apply for the online junior college admissions, the website stated that the number was already registered for the admission process, under another student’s name. “When we enquired, we found that two students were given the same number.

A few weeks later, we were provided with a new number and we’ve received my son’s result with the new number as well. Now, we are confused if the marks are his or the other student’s,” said his father, Girish. The Divisional State Board has already received similar queries from many parents..

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