Thursday 25 June 2015

25th June'15 - Top 10 News Headlines

1) Bharti Enterprises has acquired a minority stake, to provide affordable Internet access to all, in OneWeb, which plans to offer communication services using satellites by 2019.
2) Facebook has enabled users without an account to sign up for its Messenger app with a phone number. With the latest update, users will be prompted by an option that says "Not on Facebook?" when they open the app. They can then sign up with their name, phone number and a photo.
3) ICICI Bank has announced a reduction of 0.05 per cent  in its base rate with effect from June 26, 2015.
4) Instagram has launched a new revamped Explore tab which features Trending Tags, Trending Places, curated content and also a new Places Search.
5) The government on Wednesday cleared the proposal for the setting up of six new IIMs in the country, which will start offering courses from the coming academic session itself.
6) Investments in India can now be committed without delay, says FM Arun Jaitley. Making a strong pitch for investments in India, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has asked long-term US investors to start investing without any delay .
7) Low-cost carrier Air Pegasus would launch its Madurai-Bengaluru flight on Friday (June 26, 2015). Ashwin Thomas, Director of Air Pegasus, said that an ATR 72-500 plane with a 66-seat capacity would be operated between this temple city and the IT city.
8) Twitter has announced that the company is launching a product and place pages that allows users to discover and purchase items within the service.

9) The government launched a free SMS service called 'Nowcast' to provide alerts on extreme weather conditions such as hailstorm every three hours to over one crore registered farmers on their mobile phones.
10) Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched AMRUT (Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation), Smart Cities Mission and Housing for All schemes to ensure basic infrastructure and sanitation in the country adding that two crore new houses will be built for urban poor.

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