TRAI excludes Google, WhatsApp, Telegram and others from new licensing rules

TRAI excludes Google, WhatsApp, Telegram and others from new licensing rules

The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) has proposed new recommendations aimed at simplifying the licensing process under Telecom Act. Importantly, the regulatory body has excluded Over-The-Top (OTT) services like WhatsApp, Google’s RCS, Telegram and other such platforms under this licensing regime.The new recommendations advocate for a single, unified authorisation system across different services and … Read more

Lebanon Explosions: Pagers Used in Detonations Were Never in Hungary, Says Govt

Lebanon Explosions: Pagers Used in Detonations Were Never in Hungary, Says Govt

Last Updated: September 18, 2024, 22:50 IST Lebanese army soldiers stand guard as an ambulance rushes wounded people to a hospital in Beirut on September 17. (Image: ANWAR AMRO/AFP) Taiwanese pager firm Gold Apollo said on Wednesday the model of pagers used in the attack against Hezbollah were made by Budapest-based BAC Consulting, adding it … Read more

55-Year-Old Chinese Delivery Agent Dies On Bike After Working For 18 Hours Daily

55-Year-Old Chinese Delivery Agent Dies On Bike After Working For 18 Hours Daily

Last Updated: September 18, 2024, 14:33 IST The incident took place in eastern China’s Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province. (Representational/ File Photo) A 55-year-old food delivery agent, identified as Yuan, often used to work reportedly from 6 AM till 3 AM. A 55-year-old food delivery agent in China passed away while napping on his bike … Read more

Parties reach consensus on House panels, Congress may head 4, including external affairs & HRD | India News

Parties reach consensus on House panels, Congress may head 4, including external affairs & HRD | India News

NEW DELHI: After days of impasse over distribution of department-related parliamentary standing committees, parties are learnt to have reached a consensus with Congress likely to head four key panels including external affairs, education, human resource development and agriculture.Sources said a notification in this regard is expected shortly. In 2014, with the Congress tally at just … Read more

Germany Has Stopped Approving War Weapons Exports to Israel: Report

Germany Has Stopped Approving War Weapons Exports to Israel: Report

Last Updated: September 18, 2024, 22:53 IST Israeli troops and armoured vehicles operate on the ground in the Gaza Strip amid the continuing conflict between Israel and Hamas. (Image: AFP) Last year, Germany approved arms exports to Israel worth 326.5 million euros ($363.5 million), including military equipment and war weapons, a 10-fold increase from 2022, … Read more

Delhi Woman Loses Rs 15,000 in Scam for Diljit Dosanjh’s ‘Dil-Luminati Tour’ Tickets: ‘Paise Wapas Karde’

Delhi Woman Loses Rs 15,000 in Scam for Diljit Dosanjh’s ‘Dil-Luminati Tour’ Tickets: ‘Paise Wapas Karde’

Last Updated: September 18, 2024, 15:12 IST Diljit Dosanjh’s Dil-Luminati India Tour will begin on October 26. The tickets to his concert were sold out in minutes. (Photo Credits: Instagram) Delhi: A man duped a woman and her friend of Rs 21,000 in ticket scam for Diljit Dosanjh’s ‘Dil-Luminati Tour’ in India. The woman has since … Read more

SpiceJet’s 3,000-cr QIP oversubscribed – Times of India

SpiceJet’s 3,000-cr QIP oversubscribed – Times of India

NEW DELHI: SpiceJet is now looking at a lifeline with its crucial fundraising exercise learnt to be finding favour with investors. The airline’s Rs 3,000-crore QIP has been oversubscribed, say sources. The likely investors include institutional funds like Tata Mutual Fund, Bandhan Bank, Discovery Fund, Plutus, Jupiter Fund Management and Think Investments.Family offices of ace … Read more

Walkie-Talkies Explode Day After Pager Blasts In Lebanon, Hezbollah Vows “Unique Revenge” On Israel

Walkie-Talkies Explode Day After Pager Blasts In Lebanon, Hezbollah Vows “Unique Revenge” On Israel

Nine people were killed in fresh blasts in Lebanon a day after deadly pager blasts blamed on Israel ripped through the country. Lebanon’s health ministry also reported “more than 300 wounded” in “a new wave of walkie-talkie blasts” on September 18. Hand-held radios used by Hezbollah reportedly detonated across southern Lebanon and in Beirut’s southern … Read more

Old Video Of Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy Showing His Disturbing Rope Trick Viral Again

Old Video Of Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy Showing His Disturbing Rope Trick Viral Again

Last Updated: September 18, 2024, 15:14 IST John Wayne Gacy was executed on May 10, 1994. (Photo Credits: YouTube) According to CBS, this knotting method was found on the ropes around the necks of victims discovered at his home on Summerdale Avenue, Norwood Park Township. An old chilling clip on YouTube, uploaded about eight years … Read more

TISS revokes its ban on student outfit, tweaks ‘honour code’

TISS revokes its ban on student outfit, tweaks ‘honour code’

MUMBAI: TISS has revoked its ban on Progressive Students’ Forum (PSF), Left-leaning students’ collective, and modified its honour code to remove a mandatory pledge from students against “indulging in any political, anti-establishment, unpatriotic discussions, demonstrations, dharna or any form of activities that disturb the academic environment of the institute”.The ban, imposed on Aug 19 after … Read more