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New Delhi - As government debates on gas price hike and a new contract for oil and gas exploration, Vedanta Resource today said domestic rates should be linked to international markets and an independent regulator be set up.

Speaking at an Oil & Gas Seminar organised by Indian Chambers of Commerce, Vedanta chief executive Tom Albanese said "the current policy environment fostered uncertainty and did not encourage intensified exploration and production of domestic resources."

New Delhi: The Competition Commission, which has put the multi-billion dollar Sun-Ranbaxy deal for public scrutiny, on Friday said the major issue is whether the combination would result in high market concentration of certain molecules.

"This is the first case" of combination where the Competition Commission of India (CCI) has gone for a public scrutiny, the fair trade watchdog's Chairman Ashok Chawla said.

In April this year, Sun Pharma and Ranbaxy had announced a USD 4-billion deal that would create one of the top five largest speciality generics company in the world.

Washington, Aug 29 : Nearly 80 percent consumers have privacy concerns with wearable Internet of Things (IoT) connected technologies.

However, half of those same consumers were okay to share data if compensated with a coupon or discount.

The study conducted by Acquity Group, which is now part of Accenture Interactive, covered more than 2,000 consumers across the United States which reveals a gap in consumers' fears of data privacy and their actual purchasing behavior.

President of Acquity Group Jay Dettling said that companies should focus on specific benefits that sharing data will deliver to consumers.

London, Aug 29 : Photo sharing app Instagram was reportedly crashed last night, and users took Twitter to express their disappointment.

However, Instagram itself tweeted that it was experiencing some technical issues and was working on a fix. But this was not enough to prevent its users taking to Twitter to complain.

One of the users tweeted that 'Instagram is down. Looks like I am spending the night driving around friends' houses asking to look at their dinners again.'

While another wrote 'Instagram crashes causing worldwide panic for addicted'

Washington, Aug 29 : Shakira is expecting her second child with footballer beau Gerard Pique.

Washington, August 29 - Astronomers have spotted an eruption of dust around a young star, which is possibly the result of a smashup between large asteroids that eventually lead to the formation of terrestrial planets.

Lead author Huan Meng said that two big asteroids possibly crashed into each other creating a huge cloud of grains the size of very fine sand, which are now smashing themselves into smithereens and slowly leaking away from the star, which is a violent process of making rocky planets like Earth.