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Rupee trades lower at 69.74 per dollar

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Rupee trades lower at 69.74 per dollar The Indian rupee is trading lower at 69.74 per dollar versus previous close 69.67. On Monday the rupee ended 32 paise lower at 69.67 against the US dollar on the back of surge in crude oil prices. The dollar-rupee April contract on the NSE was at 69.71 in the previous session. April contract open interest increased 7.23% in the previous session, said ICICIdirect. We expect the USD-INR to meet supply pressure at higher levels. Utilise the upsides in the pair to initiate short positions, it added.

Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, 2018

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Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, 2018 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Karnataka Legislative Assembly election, 2018 ←  2013 12 May 2018 (222 seats), 15 May 2018 (1 seat) & 28 May 2018 (1 seat) 2023  → All 224 seats in the  Karnataka Legislative Assembly 113 seats needed for a majority   Leader Siddaramaiah B. S. Yeddyurappa H. D. Kumaraswamy Party INC BJP JD(S) Alliance JD(S)  +  BSP Leader's seat Chamundeshwari Badami Shikaripura Ramanagara Current seats 119 42 29 Constituencies of the  Karnataka Legislative Assembly Incumbent  Chief Minister Siddaramaiah INC An election will be held in  Karnataka  on 12 May 2018 in 222 constituencies out of 224 of the  Karnataka Legislative Assembly . Election has been postponed in one constituency following the death of B.N. Vijay Kumar, Jayanagar BJP candidate and other constituency following seizure of around 10,000 voter identity cards. The counting of votes and announcement of re

Turning your house into a smart home with the Google Assistant

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Turning your house into a smart home with the Google Assistant How many times have you crawled into bed and realized you forgot to turn off the living room lights? Or tried to catch the last minutes of the game but couldn't find the remote? These are the moments we ask ourselves: how is this still a thing?! With the Google Assistant we’re working to make this experience a lot better, so you can easily control all the devices and appliances in your home with just your voice. Over the past year, we’ve made great progress ensuring that the Google Assistant can work with all types of connected devices, and now every major device brand works with the Assistant in the U.S. Just how many devices is that? Today, the Google Assistant can connect with more than 5,000 devices for your home—up from 1,500 this January. That includes cameras, dishwashers, doorbells, dryers, lights, plugs, thermostats, security systems, switches, vacuums, washers, fans, locks, sensors, heaters, AC uni

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This NASA planet hunter is searching for worlds just like Earth

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This NASA planet hunter is searching for worlds just like Earth The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite is tentatively scheduled to launch on April 16 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and focus on stars nearer than those analysed by NASA’s planet-seeker Kepler. Photo: NASA Just 25 years ago, no one knew for sure whether the stars dotting our night skies had anything circling them that resembled planets, let alone one like  Earth. Then came a  NASA  planet-seeker called Kepler, which starting in 2009 began finding intriguing, tell-tale blips around stars other than our sun. Almost everywhere its cameras looked, a new blip was discovered, signifying a rich abundance of “exoplanets.” Kepler’s prodigious planet-spotting — more than 1,000 of the 3,700 discovered to date — was among the first astronomical endeavours to show that the basic pattern of our solar system appears to be common elsewhere. Now, the successor to  Kepler  is here. This planet-hunter, a 700-pound