Monday, September 7, 2015

BSNL

State-run BSNL will offer a minimum broadband speed of 2 mega bit per second (Mbps) from October 1 onwards to its customers, at no extra cost.

The company currently offers a minimum speed of 512 Kbps and the move is part of its efforts for revival.

BSNL is losing customers in mobile as well as landline to private operators. The company lost about 1.78 crore wireless and over 20 lakh wireline subscribers between March 2014 and March 2015.

Digvijaya Singh

Digvijaya Singh: Senior Congress Leader Marries TV Anchor Amrita Rai
Singh confirmed that he was in a relationship with Rai on social media last year. "I have married Digvijaya Singh for love," said Rai, who fell victim to online abuse because of their relationship.

ISRO

Indian Space Research Organisation: Agency Says GSAT-6A Satellite Successfully Positioned in Orbit
India's latest communication satellite was successfully positioned in its orbital slot, the ISRO said Sunday. The satellite is the 12th in the GSAT series and has a mission life of 9 years.

12-year-old Indian-origin girl gets top score in Mensa


A 12-year-old Indian-origin girl in the UK has achieved the highest possible score of 162 on a Mensa IQ test, outwitting physicists Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking. 

Lydia Sebastian from Essex has joined the one per cent of all entrants to attain the highest mark in the Cattell III B paper supervised by Mensa, the society for people with high IQs