The Daily Populous

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) Chairman R.S. Sharma called for Internet, an important platform for India, being kept open and free, and not cannibalised.

“No one owns Internet... so, it should be open and accessible to everyone,” Mr. Sharma said, suggesting that service providers should not indulge in gate-keeping of this important platform.

The TRAI issued the much-awaited recommendations on net neutrality and has sought to bar telecom service providers from any discriminatory practice on Internet access. »

PARENTS these days spend a lot more time with their offspring, or at least middle-class parents do.

One analysis of 11 rich countries estimates that the average mother spent 54 minutes a day caring for children in 1965 but 104 minutes in 2012.

At the same time a gap has opened between working-class and middle-class parents. »

In August, the space exploration company sold $349.9 million worth of shares, a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing showed.

That amount has now risen to $449.9 million, a new filing showed on Monday, adding an extra $100 million onto the current fundraising effort.

The SpaceX CEO said he wants to land at least two cargo ships on Mars by 2022. »

But, as it happens, the DNA in our own cells isn’t solely ours, either.

More than eight percent of the human genome is not human at all—it’s from viruses.

And scientists are still digging up yet more viral code from human DNA that may well influence our lives. »