Google will inform thousands of patent holders whether it wants to buy their creations or not. Under its Patent Purchase Promotion programme, that ran from May 8 to May 22, the search giant had launched an experimental portal to allow interested patent holders to sell their patents. The company expects to pay the sellers by late August.

Apple watches will hit the stands in seven more countries. The smart gadget will be available in Italy, Mexico, Spain, South Korea, Singapore, Switzerland and Taiwan. The watch was earlier available for online orders and in retail stores in the US, Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan and the UK. What about India? Well, watch this space.

The Congress has called a dawn-to-dusk bandh in Odisha to protest the State government’s failure to take action against those responsible for the alleged mismanagement in the Brahma Paribartan ritual of Lord Jagannath.

Low-cost carrier Air Pegasus is to expand its reach to a fourth city in the South, with a thrice-weekly service between Bengaluru and Madurai. Since April, it has launched flights to Thiruvananthapuram, Hubballi and Cudappah.

A revised schedule for the joint seat allocation process for IITs and NITs will be out today. The Joint Seat Allocation Authority had said the filling-in of choices did not start as scheduled on June 25. The agency said this was due the non-availability of JEE (Main) 2015 Paper-1 and JEE (Main) 2015 Paper-2 ranks.

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