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Iran finds 2 billion barrels shale oil reserves: Agency

Iran

Iran has found shale oil reserves of 2 billion barrels of light crude in its western Lorestan province, a senior official at the state-run National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) was quoted as saying on Saturday. “Based on studies, it is estimated that the shale oil reserves in Ghali Koh in Lorestan amount to 2 billion barrels of oil in place,” Bahman Soleimani, NIOC’s deputy director for exploration, told the semi-official news agency Tasnim. “The oil is light.” Soleimani said exploration was also being carried out for shale gas reserves in the area, and the studies were expected to be completed by October, 2017. Iran’s proven oil reserves of about 160 billion barrels, almost 10 percent of the world’s total, rank it fourth among petroleum-rich countries.

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OnePlus 3 & 3T get Hydrogen OS 3.0 update based on Nougat

Technology

OnePlus is finally rolling out an update to its alternate ROM. The new update comes not in the form Oxygen but Hydrogen OS version 3.0. The new update brings with it Android Nougat and a whole lot of other changes. However, the ROM is for the Chinese version of OnePlus 3 and 3T. But if you want to check out the update and experience something different then you can flash your device firmware and easily install the update yourself from recovery. It will work on the regular or international variant of the OnePlus 3 and the OnePlus 3T. The ROM is available in Chinese and English languages and you might find few Chinese apps with the update which you can easily delete. Also, as the Hydrogen OS is a firmware for the Chinese variant, it doesn’t come with the Google Apps pre-installed. You wil...

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New SEBI Chief’s tenure cut short

Economy

Senior IAS officer Ajay Tyagi appointed new SEBI chief 12 Feb 2017 Senior bureaucrat Ajay Tyagi has been appointed as the chairman of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). Tyagi, a 1984-batch IAS officer from Himachal Pradesh cadre, is an additional secretary in the Department of Economic Affairs and manages the capital market division. He will assume the mantle of UK Sinha, whose twice-extended service tenure since 2011 ends on March 1. What is SEBI and what does it do? Fact SEBI is the regulator for all finance and investment markets in India. Set up in 1992, it has the power to regulate and approve by-laws of stock exchanges, inspect books of players, compel selected companies to get listed and even handle the registration of brokers. More about the new S...

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Pakistan lists Lashkar founder Hafiz Saeed under anti-terrorism act: Here’s what it means

Pakistan

Pakistani authorities on Saturday listed Lashkar-e-Taiba founder Hafiz Saeed and four of his aides under the country’s Anti-Terrorism Act, imposing further restrictions on his movements and ability to speak to the media. Saeed and his aides, who were placed in “preventive detention” or house arrest on January 30, were listed under the Fourth Schedule of the Anti-Terrorism Act by the government of Punjab province, Pakistani media reported. According to Section 11EE of the act, persons who are involved in terrorism, members of an organisation that is banned or on the interior ministry’s watch list or suspected to be involved with a group involved in terrorism can be included in the Fourth Schedule. Saeed currently heads the Jamaat-ud-Dawah, which has not been banned but is on the watch li...

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Priyanka seeking votes for murder and rape accused is unfortunate: BJP

Uttar Pradesh

The BJP today targeted Priyanka Gandhi Vadra over her poll campaign in Rae Bareli for the Congress-SP alliance, saying it was unfortunate that she was seeking votes for those accused of “rape and murder”. BJP national secretary Shrikant Sharma referred to the rape charge against Gayatri Prajapati, a minister in the Akhilesh Yadav-led SP government in Uttar Pradesh who is contesting the ongoing state Assembly polls from Amethi, and the murder charge against another SP nominee Arun Verma, to target Priyanka. Amethi is a Gandhi family pocket borough and is represented by Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi in Lok Sabha, while neighbouring Rae Bareli is represented by party chief and Rahul’s mother Sonia Gandhi in the Lower House of Parliament.”It is unfortunate that Priyanka Gandhi Vadra so...

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Nikki Haley Doing An ‘Awfully Good Job’: Trump

USA

US President Donald Trump has praised Indian-American Nikki Haley, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, saying that she is doing an “awfully” good job. Haley is the first Indian American to hold the Cabinet-level position and served as the 116th governor of South Carolina from January 2011 to January 2017. “I want to also thank your former governor, Nikki Haley, who is doing an awfully good job for us, ” Trump said to a crowd during a visit to Charleston, South Carolina. “She’s representing America very well as our ambassador to the United Nations. She is doing a spectacular job. It’s early, but she has just been really great,” he added. Trump comments came as he was attending the unveiling of the new Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner, a new commercial aircraft designed t...

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Malayalam actor allegedly abducted, molested in moving car; one held

Kerala

A Popular south cinema actor was allegedly abducted in Kerala’s Kochi town and molested by a five-member gang who took pictures and videos before letting her off, police said on Saturday. The incident took place when the actor was reportedly returning home from a film shoot. The gang forcibly boarded her car when it stopped near a traffic signal and molested her for almost two hours inside the vehicle, police said. The 30-year-old actress lodged a police complaint later in the night. The actor has worked in more than 75 films in several languages including Malayalam, Tamil and Telugu. She made her acting debut when she was 16 years old. Police arrested Martin, who was allegedly driving the actor’s car. After examining his call log, they found he was in constant touch with Suni...

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Female students will play role in determining universities rankings

Education, National

Girls and women students will play a role in determining the rank of a university or an engineering or law institute in the annual government-backed survey, India Rankings, to be announced on April 3. A high percentage of women students in a particular institution could give it an edge in an otherwise close contest among institutions where every point makes a difference in their ranking. Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, topped the first survey last year. The survey is conducted by the National Institute Ranking Framework (NIRF) under the aegis of the union human resource development (HRD) ministry. “In this year’s survey, 2.5% weightage has been given for the percentage of women students in a campus. This is important as it will bring in greater gender parity in institution...

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Apple iCar: How is it going to look like? Check out 5 designs inspired by classic Apple products

Technology

Even though Apple Inc. has never said a word on a car project, rumour is rife that an electric car with autonomous driving christened iCar is one of the gala products in line from the American multinational technology company. In the company’s Q4 2016 results, CEO Tim Cook neither confirmed nor denied the existence of an Apple car. That led to the speculation that iCar is very much in the future plans of the company. Recently, Steve Kenner, director of production integrity, Apple Inc. wrote a letter to the US transport regulators about the autonomous car and its rules. This has further consolidated the existence of Apple iCar. However, apart from some rendering there is not a single photo of the alleged car available till date. Chaps at ClickMechanic went through classic Apple products f...

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Legendary singer Lata Mangeshkar honored with legendary award 2017

Entertainment, National

Melody queen Lata Mangeshkar has been honored with Legendary Award from The Brand laureate. This award goes to the people and company who have achieved their name in worldwide. Lata Mangeshkar has shared a picture of the honor on twitter. With this she also has tweeted, Heartfelt thank you to The Brand Laureate for honoring me with the Legendary Award 2017. This is to notice earlier Shahrukh Khan has been honored with this award in 2012. Before this South Africa’s former president Nelson Mandela, Nobel award winner Mohammed Yunus, Indian industrialist Ratan Tata, Appl’s late co-founder Steve Jobs, Facebook’s owner Mark Jukerburg, Formula-one winner Michael Schumacher have been honored with this award. After winning that honor, Lata Mangeshkar also thanked her well-wishers and tweeted...