CAIRO: Egyptian authorities scrambled to rescue the country's presidential election from a debacle of low voter turnout, but few people trickled to the polls on Wednesday even after the balloting was extended for a third day.

The low turnout is increasingly likely to deprive the all-but-certain winner, former army chief Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, of the overwhelming show of public support he sought in the vote.

NEW DELHI: Former parliamentary affairs minister and senior Congress leader Kamal Nath will be the protem Speaker in the new Lok Sabha.

The government has conveyed the recommendation to appoint Nath, who is the seniormost member of the Lok Sabha, to President Pranab Mukherjee, parliamentary affairs minister M Venkaiah Naidu told reporters.

MUMBAI: In an apparent softening of its rigid stand, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, BJP's ideological parent, has said that criminalization of homosexuality is debatable. The remark made by RSS spokesperson Ram Madhav has sparked hope of a more rational view of the controversial Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code that renders homosexuality a crime.

Google is building a car without a steering wheel.

Sergey Brin, co-founder of the technology titan, told a Southern California technology conference on Tuesday evening that Google will make 100 prototype cars that drive themselves and therefore do not need a wheel. Or brake and gas pedals.

Instead, there are buttons for go and stop.

The State Department recommended that Americans leave Libya immediately and warned US citizens against any travel to the North African country.

The department also said that due to security concerns and limited staffing it was only able to offer limited emergency services to US citizens there. There was no move yet to evacuate diplomats from the embassy.

Groundwater radiation rose over the operator guidelines at a stricken power plant in Japan, reports said on Wednesday, leading to a halt in the groundwater being pumped into the sea.

Water from one of the 12 wells at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station showed 1,700 becquerels of tritium per litre on Tuesday, operator Tokyo Electric Power Co said.

The humble autorickshaw is getting a cool image, thanks to Bollywood. Abhishek Bachchan made his entry in Dhoom 3 in an autorickshaw. An A-list actor in the driver's seat of a 'rick' in a film which is about cars and bikes, should tell you that the three-wheeler is now cool. In Singham Returns, Kareena Kapoor will be seen driving a Auto (as it is popularly called).

Post some nifty turnaround in its operations, United Bank of India is set to go for some aggressive fundraising with an aim to shore up its capital base by Rs 1,550 crore by end of this fiscal.

Out of this, the Kolkata-based bank plans to raise about Rs 1,000 crore of equity via routes including qualified institutional placement (QIP) and balance through internal generation and debt raising, it said in a filing.

A day after Team Modi took oath, at the BJP headquarters at 11 Ashok Road there were several vacant chambers including that of party chief Rajnath Singh.

The BJP now faces the task of finding someone for the top party post besides filling other gaps caused by around half a dozen office-bearers and four state unit chiefs moving into Narendra Modi's council of ministers.

Former New Zealand all-rounder Chris Cairns has reportedly been interviewed by British police in London regarding their investigation into allegations of corruption and match fixing.

Cairns, who has vehemently denied any involvement in match fixing, was also expected to meet with the International Cricket Council's (ICC) anti-corruption investigators.

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