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New Delhi, Dec 6 : Elderly citizens, including social activist Aruna Roy, were detained Friday for protesting outside Prime Minister (PM) Manmohan Singh's official residence here while demanding restructuring of the pension scheme.

All were taken to the Parliament Street police station, a senior police official said.

The elderly citizens under the Pension Parishad gathered outside the PM's House at 7 Race Course Road, demanding the government restructure the existing pension scheme so they can live a life without extreme poverty.

New Delhi, Dec 6 : India will observe five-day state mourning from Dec 6 to

Bangalore, Dec 6 : The BJP may be hearing on a Modi wave across the country but, at the same time, it is realistic that the wind supposedly blowing in its favour will not bring in votes during the 2014 general elections without the help of local strongmen. Hence it seems ready to take back its former leader B. S. Yeddyurappa though he is yet to be cleared of corruption charges.

The state Bharatiya Janata Party is confident that the party's central leadership will now seriously start the process of bringing back Yeddyurappa as assembly elections in Delhi, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh are done with.

Using a botnet dubbed 'Pony,' hackers have stolen usernames and passwords for around 2 million accounts on many popular sites like Google, Facebook and Twitter, Chicago-based cybersecurity firm Trustwave revealed.

Trustwave said the hackers tempted web users to download the malicious software through a website or e-mail, which then monitored users' browsers and collected their log-in credentials. The hackers stole nearly 1.58 million website login credentials and as many as 320,000 e-mail account login credentials, among other things.

Instagram, which is owned by the world's biggest social-networking site Facebook, has sent out an invitation to members of the media for an event in the New York City on 12th of December this year.

The photo-sharing social network invited media person to "share a moment" with Kevin Systrom and the team behind Instagram. The recently-announced event will start at 10 a. m. on 12th of this month in Midtown Manhattan.

Reliance Retail, a division of Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries Ltd (RIL), is reportedly going to close 16 of its 20 exclusive Apple iStores due to differences with the iPhone/iPad-maker over design of the stores.

People familiar with the matter said that Reliance decided to close most of the stores because of highly strict standards set by the Cupertino, California-based tech giant. The sources added that the Indian company was not with the returns it was getting from the iStores.