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TRAI plans to determine Actor Dilip Kumar awarded inflator been checked in an earlier in-
some net neutrality issues the Padma Vibhushan spection.
by 2016
Legendary actor Dilip Kumar was pre- Uber to launch private car
As the debate over the Net Neutrality sented the Padma Vibhushan by Union pooling service
resurfaces, TRAI has said it is looking Home Minister Rajnath Singh at the
to solve the issues "part-by-part" and thespian's residence in suburban Cab aggregator Uber said that it would
also aiming to come up with the final Bandra. The 93-year-old legend was now allow private car owners in the
guidelines based on the views received presented a medal, a certificate and a city to offer rides to passengers, a
from different stakeholders, by early shawl by Singh, in the presence of the move that will help the US-based firm
2016. actor's wife Saira Bano. Maharashtra meet the heavy demand expected
Governor C. Vidyasagar Rao, Chief once the State government imple-
"We expect to resolve some of the (is- Minister Devendra Fadnavis, were ments its odd-even formula.
sues pertaining to) the basic principles among other dignitaries present at the
of net neutrality next year (2016)," Trai actor's home when he received the Introduction of the new feature will
Chairman R. S. Sharma had said. award. also allow Uber to tap into a pool of
over 27 lakh private cars in the city and
BSNL cuts mobile call rates Toyota calls back 1.6-mn make travel 10-30 per cent cheaper for
by 80% for new customers cars to replace air bags passengers opting to share rides.
To speed up customer acquisition, Toyota has said it would replace Takata 6% of population suffers
state-owned telecom firm BSNL has airbag inflators in 1.6 million cars in from anxiety: Health Min-
slashed mobile rates by up to 80 per Japan that had previously been recalled ister
cent for the first two months under a and inspected, after concluding that
scheme for new customers. they may still be unsafe. The recall af- More than 6% of the total population
fects around 20 domestic models pro- is suffering from either a common or a
"BSNL has revamped its infrastructure duced between 2004 and 2008, includ- severe mental disorder such as anxiety,
now. We have decided to cut mobile ing the Corolla and Vitz. It also affects depression and schizophrenia, health
call rates by up to 80 per cent for new vehicles in Italy, Britain and Spain. minister J.P. Nadda said. "In 2005, the
customers so that they can experience National Commission on Macroeco-
our revamped services," BSNL Chair- The decision was taken after a passen- nomic and Health reported that 10-20
man and Managing Director Anupam ger in a Nissan vehicle was injured million (1-2% of population) suffered
Shrivastava said. when the airbag ruptured, despite the from severe mental disorder such as
We learn something every day, and lots of times it’s that what we learned the day before was wrong.
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