TRAI Slams Facebook over its Free basics plan

India’s telecom regulator has criticised Facebook over its letter writing campaign tactics to support Free Basics internet plan in India. Free Basics plan lets people access Facebook and some other websites without any charge. According to the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), the Facebook method of prompting people to support the plan was “crudely majoritarian … Read more

Social network Friends Reunited to close down

Friends Reunited, one of the original social networking sites, is to close as one of the founding member Steve Pankhurst, said it is still used by some but is “no longer used for the purpose it was built for”. The site helped countless adults renew friendships and even rekindle old relationships long before Facebook arrived … Read more

Lord Popat hosts Indian spiritual heritage event in London

Indian spiritual heritage event “Awakening” was celebrated on Monday, at Committee Room, House of Lords, UK parliament, London. The event was organized by Indian origin UK’s Member of Parliament Lord Dolar Popat and Internationally acclaimed Indian spiritual master (author of the autobiography of a Yogi) Paramahansa Yogananda’s London Centre of Self-Realization. The event was attended … Read more

Transgender women STONED by gang of African migrants in Germany

Three North African teenagers have been arrested for assaulting two transgender women in the German city of Dortmund. According to Yasmine and Elisa, the three young men propose them, but after they realized that Yasmine and Elisa are transgender women, they attacked them with stones. ‘Within seconds, we were tossed around…and they took stones from … Read more

Tax PETROL to pay refugees-German minister proposes Europe-wide levy

Germany’s finance minister proposes European tax on petrol to help finance the Germany’s efforts to manage the refugee crisis. Wolfgang Schaeuble a prominent member of Merkel’s conservative party told the daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung on Saturday that ‘if the funds in national budgets and the European budget aren’t enough, then let’s agree, for example, to raise … Read more

Big support for start-up in India by PM Modi

Indian Prime Minister Mr Narendra Modi today unveiled numbers of incentives to boost start-up businesses, from 3-year tax holidays, inspector raj-free regime for three years to capital gains tax exemption to liberalise patent to Rs 10,000 crore funds to support them. In addition a self-certification scheme was announced in respect of nine labour and environment laws … Read more

German leisure centre first to ban all migrants

A German leisure centre in Bornheim town (10 km north-west of Bonn and 20 km south of Cologne) becomes the first to ban all migrants after a schoolgirl was sexually assaulted in a public swimming pool by Syrian refugees. Three Syrian boys were arrested over the attack at a leisure centre in Munich while Germany … Read more

EU disastrous for UK-Chris Grayling

According to honorable conservative minister Chris Grayling, “Remaining within the European Union under the UK’s current membership terms would be “disastrous”, “The EU was heading towards closer integration – a path the UK “will not and should not follow”. This seems the first sign of an honorable cabinet minister preparing to campaign to leave the … Read more