New Delhi: Ford has finally launched the EcoSport facelift in the country at a starting price of Rs 7.31 lakh for the base petrol and Rs 8.01 lakh for the base diesel variants.
The Ford EcoSport facelift made its world debut in the US in November last year and the US-spec EcoSport will be exported from India. The EcoSport facelift comes after more than four years since the nameplate was introduced in the country. In 2013, 60-65 per cent of the Ford EcoSport was localised. And now, with the facelift, the sub-4m SUV boasts of over 85 per cent in terms of localisation.
The thoroughly updated sub-4m SUV will go head-to-head against the Maruti Suzuki Vitara Brezza, the TUV 300, the Honda WR-V and the recently launched Tata Nexon.
Ford EcoSport facelift: Highlights
-Gets a redesigned front profile with a new grille, projector headlamps, and chunkier fog lamps
-Redesigned dashboard with a floating touchscreen infotainment system with both Apple CarPlay and Android Auto connectivity. 6.5-inch screen on the Trend and Trend+ and 8-inch screen (segment-first) on the Titanium and Titanium+ variant
-The central console and controls for the AC are also new along with the steering wheel. The front seats are also redesigned and are relatively bigger than before
-Comes with a tyre pressure monitoring system
-The updated Ford EcoSport petrol is powered by a newly introduced 1.5-litre, 3-cylinder petrol engine mated to either a 5-speed manual or a new 6-speed torque converter automatic with paddle shifters. The petrol-auto combo has replaced the previous 1.5-litre, 4-cylinder petrol which was mated to the 6-speed dual-clutch automatic transmission. Further, the slow-selling 1.0-litre, turbocharged, 3-cylinder Ecoboost petrol engine has also been ditched this time round
-There are three new colours on offer: Lightning Blue, Canyon Ridge, and Race Red
Beirut: The head of Lebanon`s powerful Hezbollah movement on Friday said Saad Hariri, who resigned as Lebanese prime minister from Riyadh last week, was "detained" by Saudi Arabia.
"The head of the Lebanese government is detained in Saudi Arabia, he is banned from returning to Lebanon until now," Hassan Nasrallah said in a televised speech.
New Delhi: Huawei India on Tuesday launched three fitness wearables -- Huawei Band 2, Band 2 Pro and Huawei Fit -- in India.
Priced at Rs 9,999, Huawei Fit also works as an entry-level watch.
The Band 2 at Rs 4,599 and its variant Band 2 Pro with stand-alone GPS at Rs 6,999 are efficient in monitoring fitness routine.
"With the newly-launched Huawei Fit and Huawei Band 2, we are confident of replicating the blockbuster success we had with the Honor Band 3 launched a couple of months ago," said P. Sanjeev, Vice President-Sales, Huawei and Honor Consumer Business, in a statement.
Huawei Band 2 Pro lets you run without a phone, performs more accurate distance and speed calculations and records the running track which you can share with your friends.
The "Advanced Sleep Tracking" feature in Huawei Band 2 analyses sleep quality and gives the user personalised advice for sleep improvement based on current sleep data.
New Delhi: E-commerce major Flipkart has announced its foray into the hyper-competitive mobile phone market in India with the launch of its Billion Capture+ brand of smartphones.
Smartphone is one of the biggest categories for Flipkart, which is locked in a fierce battle with US-based Amazon for leadership in the booming Indian e-commerce market.
Flipkart on Friday said two variants of its 'Made For India' smartphone, priced at Rs 10,990 onwards will be available from November 15.
Billion -- launched earlier this year -- is one of the private labels owned by Flipkart under which it sells mixer grinders, irons, T-shirts, backpacks and cookware.
"The features in the Capture+ too have been derived from deep data-mining of millions of Flipkart customers' reviews," Sachin Bansal, co-founder and Executive Chairman of Flipkart, said in a statement.
Flipkart's smartphones will compete with devices from the stables of Samsung, Xiaomi, Lenovo, Micromax and others.
Interestingly, Flipkart is an exclusive online partner for many mobile phone brands launched in the country.
India is one of the fastest growing smartphone markets globally. According to research firm IDC, sales grew by 3.7 percent to 28 million units in April-June 2017 compared to the previous quarter.
Samsung continued to dominate the market with 24 percent market share. Xiaomi followed in the tally with 17 percent share, while Vivo, Oppo and Lenovo had 13 percent, 8 percent and 7 percent share, respectively.
"Our extensive research of Indian smartphone buyers revealed major pain points of battery, camera, storage etc," Flipkart Category Head (Billion) Hrishikesh Thite said.
He added that Billion Capture+ was developed keeping those in mind and delivering it at a "compelling price point".
Billion Capture+ will feature 5.5-inch display. The two variants - 3GB RAM/32GB internal memory will be priced at Rs 10,999, while 4GB RAM/64GB internal memory will be available at Rs 12,999.
The Billion Capture+ smartphone will be supported by F1 Info Solutions, which is now owned by Flipkart.
NEW DELHI: Veteran Congress leader P Chidambaram took a sly dig at the Narendra Modi government after the announcement of big changes in the rates for Goods and Services Tax. The former finance minister said the step was being taken keeping the upcoming Gujarat elections in mind.
"Thank you Gujarat. Your elections did what Parliament and common sense could not do," he tweeted.
In a series of tweets, Chidambaram said that the government had learned its lesson belatedly. "Congress is vindicated. I am vindicated. The merit of capping GST at 18% is now recognised," he said.
Ahead of the government decision, Chidambaram had on Thursday said that a "shower of changes" are expected from the GST Council meeting in Guwahati and the "panic-stricken" Modi government has no option but to change the new tax rates.
The GST Council on Friday reduced tax rate on a wide range of mass use items - from chewing gums to detergents -- to 18 per cent from current 28 per cent. The all-powerful Council pruned the list of items attracting the top 28 per cent tax rate to just 50 from 227 previously.
In effect, the Council, in its 23rd meet on Friday, cut rates on 178 goods.
Modi hailed the recommendations made by the GST Council and said that it will further benefit the people and strengthen the tax regime. He also said public participation was at the core of the government's functioning and that all its decisions were "people-friendly and people-centric".
"The recommendations made by the GST Council today will further benefit our citizens and add strength to the GST. These recommendations are in the spirit of the continuous feedback we are getting from various stakeholders on GST," he tweeted.
Deleting messages for everyone allows you to delete specific messages you have sent to either a group or an individual chat.
New Delhi: Ever regretted sending a WhatsApp message to someone and wished you could delete it?
The popular Internet-based messaging service is now making that possible with its latest update.
Deleting messages for everyone allows you to delete specific messages you have sent to either a group or an individual chat.
Here are 7 things that you need to know about the WhatsApp delete for everyone feature.
You can only delete messages for everyone for up to seven minutes after sending. Once seven minutes have passed, there is no way to delete messages for everyone.
In order for messages to be successfully deleted for everyone, both you and your recipient must be using the latest version of WhatsApp for Android, iPhone or Windows Phone.
If you or your recipient are not using the latest version of WhatsApp for Android, iPhone or Windows Phone, this feature will not be supported.
Recipients may see your message before it's deleted or if deletion was not successful.
You will not be notified if deleting for everyone was not successful.
Messages you successfully delete for everyone will be replaced with "This message was deleted" in your recipients' chats
Similarly, if you see "This message was deleted" in a chat, it means that the sender deleted their message for everyone.
The exclusive Jio Prime benefits will be available during the offer period from November 10-25, 2017.
New Delhi: Reliance Jio on Thursday launched a variety of offers for its Prime members, including triple cashback of up to Rs 2,599 on every recharge of Rs 399 or above.
The triple cashback offer includes 100 percent cashback vouchers of JIO worth Rs 400 on every Jio tariff plan recharge of Rs 399 or above and instant cashback of up to Rs 300 on every recharge by JIO`s partner wallets including leading digital payment wallets like AmazonPay, AxisPay, FreeCharge, Mobikwik, PayTM and PhonePe.
The exclusive Jio Prime benefits will be available during the offer period from November 10-25, 2017.
The cashback redemption availability will have three categories -- the Jio cashback vouchers worth Rs 400 (Rs 50 x 8) will be provided instantly in MyJio, for redemption from November 15, 2017; the instant cashback from partner wallets will be credited to user wallets instantly and the ecommerce vouchers will be available from November 20, 2017 onwards.
The triple cashback Jio Prime Benefit is the first set of exclusive offers announced for Jio Prime members. These offers go beyond the special tariff benefits that are already available to Jio Prime members.
Jio Prime is a membership for customers who have joined Jio and enrolled for Jio Prime at a one-time annual membership fee of Rs 99.
In a setback to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the owner of a shop from where Ryan International School's Class XI student is suspected to have procured a knife to kill his Class II junior, failed to identify him.
GURUGRAM: In a setback to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the owner of a shop from where Ryan International School's Class XI student is suspected to have procured a knife to kill his Class II junior, failed to identify him.
The shop owner was a crucial witness for CBI had he identified the juvenile.
Now, with the owner failing to identify the murder accused, the CBI is left with no option but to buy seven similar knives that cost Rs 100 to establish its claims.
The CBI apprehended the Class XI student late on Tuesday, while school bus conductor Ashok Kumar is in jail after being arrested by the Haryana police for killing Pradyuman Thakur on the campus two months ago.
The agency has planned a psychological examination of the student after reconstructing the crime to know how he carried out the murder.
The CBI is also focusing on a second juvenile student who had raised an alarm about the murder. It suspects that the second student might have accompanied the Class XI student when he committed the crime.
The agency is probing whether school staff and the Haryana police are involved in the destruction of evidence.
The Haryana police had claimed to have found the weapon used in the crime, a blood-stained knife, from the toolbox of a school bus. The agency, however, rejected the police's claim and said it found the actual knife used in the crime, that was flushed out by the Class XI student after the murder, and was recovered by the agency in the school toilet's commode.
According to CBI sources, within weeks of initial investigation, their prime suspect was the class XI standard student and not the bus conductor.
On Friday, CBI said that there is a possibility of involvement of another person in the case.
On September 8, 7-year-old Pradyuman Thakur had been found with his throat slit outside a school toilet. Pradyuman's family had been claiming that the case was mishandled by the Gurugram police and that the bus conductor Ashok Kumar was arrested in a hurry.
Meanwhile, the custody of the Class XI students ends on Saturday.
The plans will be available for customers across India.
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Delhi: Bharti Airtel has launched a new post-paid plans starting at
monthly rental of Rs 499. The company has added entertainment content
and mobile phone insurance along with unlimited calls and data services
in
The new plans will also include Airtel secure device protection plan
for smartphones against physical damage and malware, free subscription
to Wynk Music and Airtel TV for live television viewing along with
movies and popular shows.
Under the plans, Airtel customers will be able to carry forward up to
200 GB of their unused data to next billing cycle and check its status
on MyAirtel app.
The company also announced unlimited calls even during roaming along with 70 GB of 4G, 3G or 2G data for Rs 448.
The plans will be available for customers across India.
Airtel recently introduced a `data rollover facility for its home broadband customers.
Customers can accumulate up to 1,000 GB data and easily track their usage and balance data available on MyAirtel App.
Airtel Home Broadband has over 2.1 million customers and is the second largest home broadband provider in India.
Airtel had introduced `Data Rollover` for its Postpaid mobile customers in July 2017 as part of Project Next.
U.S. President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump arrive on Air Force One in Beijing, Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017,. Trump is on a five-country trip through Asia traveling to Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam and the Philippines.
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After returning to Seoul, administration officials had hoped they might be able to wait out the bad weather and make a second landing attempt. At the U.S. Army's Yongsan Garrison landing zone, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly and Sanders frequently glanced up at the clouds to see if the sky was clearing. But time would not allow it.
The aborted visit came hours before Trump addressed the South Korean National Assembly before closing out his two-day visit to the nation and heading to his next stop, Beijing.
Visiting the border that has separated the North and South for 64 years has become something of a ritual for U.S. presidents trying to demonstrate their resolve against North Korea's ever-escalating aggression. Every American president since Ronald Reagan, save for George H.W. Bush, has made the trip, peering across the barren north through binoculars, hearing broadcast propaganda and reaffirming their commitment to standing with the South.
The attempted visit was scheduled for a day after Trump made a striking shift in tone for a president, who for months has issued increasingly dire threats to answer any hostile North Korean action with "fire and fury." In a recent speech at the United Nations, Trump said he would "totally destroy" the nation, if necessary, and has derided Kim as "little Rocket Man."
But on Tuesday, his first day on the Korean Peninsula, Trump signaled a willingness to negotiate as he urged Pyongyang to "come to the table" and "make a deal." He also he'd seen "a lot of progress" in dealing with Pyongyang, though he stopped short of saying whether he wanted direct diplomatic talks.
"It makes sense for North Korea to come to the table and make a deal that is good for the people of North Korea and for the world," Trump said at a news conference with Moon. "I do see certain movement." He also sounded an optimistic note on disagreements with the North, saying confidently, if vaguely: "Ultimately, it'll all work out."
Ever the showman, Trump had teased that he had a surprise in store, saying at a Tuesday evening banquet that he had an "exciting day" planned Wednesday — "for many reasons that people will find out." He did not elaborate on what turned out to be the aborted trip to the DMZ.
North Korea has fired more than a dozen missiles this year but none in nearly two months. Analysts caution against reading too much into the pause.
There's no public sign of any diplomatic progress between Washington and Pyongyang. U.S. officials say the back channel between the State Department and the North Korean mission at the United Nations in New York remains intact, but contacts have not been substantive other than achieving the release of American college student Otto Warmbier in June. He died days after his repatriation to the U.S.
Still, Trump's conciliatory comments would be welcome in South Korea, where both the government and the wider population have been unnerved by the president's threats against the North.
Trump did note the United States' military options, mentioning that three aircraft carrier groups and a nuclear submarine had been deployed to the region. But he added that "we hope to God we never have to use" the arsenal. And he accused Kim of "threatening millions and millions of lives, so needlessly."
Moon, who has been eager to solidify a friendship with Trump, said he hoped the president's visit would be a turning point in the standoff with North Korea.
Visiting the wooded, craggy terrain inside the DMZ is like going back in time to 1953. In July of that year, the Korean War armistice agreement was signed at Panmunjom, the so-called "truce village" bisected by a marker that is the official dividing line between the North and South.
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Associated Press writers Zeke Miller and Matthew Pennington in Washington contributed to this report.
President Trump tweeted this evening that he has asked the Department of Homeland Security to "step up our already Extreme Vetting Program," a screening policy he first introduced on the campaign trail that would attempt to establish whether applicants' beliefs match US values on gay rights, gender equality and religious freedoms, among others.
Trump famously campaigned on a pledge to indefinitely ban Muslims from entering the United States, something his campaign aides later tried to finesse as a broader policy aimed at implementing "extreme vetting" for immigrants from certain countries.
He has since ordered travel bans on a handful of Muslim-majority countries -- Uzbekistan not being one of them -- though US courts have repeatedly blocked them from going into effect.
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