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Powered by burgeoning smartphone adoption and increasing Internet penetration in the country, Facebook has seen a meteoric rise in its user base since setting up its first office in India in 2010 in Hyderabad.

Simpson was the second Jamaican athlete to be handed a doping ban on Tuesday as Olympic discus thrower Allison Randall was suspended for two years after she too failed a drugs test during the 2013 national trials.

Users can now "pin" a tweet to stay at the top of their feed, a rare instance of Twitter departing from the continuously rolling format that has defined the service.

The Sensex surged 358.89 points or 1.61 percent to 22702.34 after hitting highest point of the day at 22740.04.

Security researchers say the threat, known as Heartbleed, is serious, partly because it remained undiscovered for more two years.

Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi will be addressing rallies in Assam, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh while campaigning for the party's Lok Sabha candidates.

Gold weighing 1.7397 kg valued at Rs 50.93 lakh was seized and three passengers were arrested at the Kochi airport.

Besides India, Brazil and Russia are likely to witness economic growth weakening whereas the prospects look better for China.

Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi, who faces a triangular contest from the family pocket borough of Amethi, will file his nomination papers for the Lok Sabha polls on April 12.

Now the actress is headed to Jodhpur for the next schedule of her maiden production debut 'NH10'.

Jamaican sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce is aiming at Rio 2016 to become the first female sprinter to win 100 metres gold at three straight Olympics, her coach Stephen Francis has said.

Coal India Ltd (CIL) has agreed to let JSW Steel use rail infrastructure of its arm CCL so that the private firm is able to mine and transport coal from a Jharkhand block allocated to it for captive use.

Beni Prasad Verma had called Amit Shah a thug, Narenrda Modi a goon and Rajnath Singh his slave.

SDM JJ Samanta said that a sticker with images of Modi was found pasted on a pole at Tabha Ghat village under the police station.

Three CRPF personnel were killed and eight other security officials injured on Monday, when a landmine planted by Maoists in Bihar's Aurangabad district went off while it was being defused.

Taking a jibe at Priyanka Gandhi, BJP candidate from Amethi, Smriti Irani, on Monday said though she has brought her family to Amethi but would not "display them" on the dais.