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In a new development, Hathway has launched a new 300Mbps broadband plan for its Chennai customers. This new broadband plan offers 2TB of data FUP, and is priced at Rs. 1,699 per month. If the user decides to take a 12-month plan up front, the monthly tenure is reduced to Rs. 1,250 per month. Alongside, [...]

Your social calendar might be sucking the joy out of activities that are supposed to be fun or relaxing, according to an upcoming paper co-written by a professor who studies time management. The paper argues that when a leisure activity is planned rather than spontaneous, we enjoy it less. That’s because we tend to mentally [...]

The latest edition of Small Business Trends magazine is now available for download. Get your copy right now by clicking here. This month, we’re tackling the cloud. Sounds like an impossible task — tackling a cloud, that is. For a lot of small businesses, it sounds like a lot more difficult than it actually is. In [...]

Iraqi government forces have launched an offensive to liberate the western part of the city of Mosul from the so-called Islamic State. Hundreds of military vehicles, backed by air power, rolled across the desert towards the jihadists’ positions early on Sunday. Iraqi forces retook two villages south of the city in the first hours of [...]

Delhi BJP unit today staged a protest near state Assembly and accused the Arvind Kejriwal- led AAP government of “failing to fulfil” its 70 election promises such as providing free Wi-Fi and women’s security. Scores of partymen led by Delhi BJP president Manoj Tiwari carried out a march from Metcalf House to the state assembly [...]

The odds are good that privatizing education will be part of the agenda for President-elect Donald J. Trump’s administration. The Republican platform calls for increasing the role of banks in giving out student loans. And Mr. Trump and the platform advocate an expansion of both vouchers, which enable students to attend the private school of [...]

The French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has proposed that children of immigrants who are in the country illegally should be refused school places as part of tough measures to restrict state services. “I’ve got nothing against foreigners but I say to them: if you come to our country, don’t expect that you will be [...]

A year and a half after the launch of the Swachh Bharat Mission, five towns from Maharashtra and Telangana have been declared Open Defecation Free (ODF) by an independent survey conducted by the Quality Council of India. The Urban development ministry targets to make 974 towns free from open defecation by next year. Kagal, Panchgani, [...]

Through his programme Mann Ki Baat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi apprised the nation of a new government scheme–Pradhan Mantri Surakshit Matritva Abhiyan– aimed to curb India’s worrying maternal mortality rates. The prime minister said that though India’s maternal mortality rate was declining, there were still many pregnant women whose lives could not be saved. During his Mann Ki [...]

David Cameron’s promise of 30 hours of free childcare a week for nursery-age children is in jeopardy because too few early-years providers are willing to offer places, parliament’s spending watchdog has found. Under an initiative outlined by the prime minister during the general election campaign, the current entitlement of 15 hours of free care for [...]

Planning your garden so that you’re planting in the right places is important for growing healthy plants, but even so, pests and diseases can scupper your good work.​ Catching problems early is key to keeping your garden bug-and disease-free. While you’re watering the plants, keep an eye out for brown, curled or discoloured leaves, holes in [...]

Giving a shot in the arm to the Oommen Chandy government, the Election Commission (EC) has lifted the ban it had imposed on the launch of the free ration scheme announced in the 2016-17 budget. The commission has permitted the government to go ahead with the scheme subject to the condition that no new beneficiary [...]