Google’s Nearby Sharing tool started rolling out in beta earlier this month. Google is now said to make its Apple AirDrop-alternative available to all Android devices from Android 6.0 and later in August. Google’s Nearby Sharing has been rumoured ever since last year and we got to see the feature in […]
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Disney cuts ad spending on Facebook amid growing boycott
Walt Disney has become the latest company to slash its advertising spending on Facebook Inc as the social media giant faces an ad boycott over its handling of hate speech and controversial content, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday, citing people familiar with the situation. Disney joins other companies […]
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NITI Aayog is hiring chief economist, advisers, earn up to 3.3 lakh; check eligibility here
NITI Aayog Recruitment: The National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog is hiring for the post of chief economist, senior lead adviser and lead adviser. NITI Aayog is the premier policy Think Tank of India which is engaged in several transformational initiatives as a catalyst and an accelerator of change across […]
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BlackRock to Agent Smith: 5 Android malware you should know about
Android is arguably the most popular mobile OS in the world. With a market share of over 80%, Android operating system is popular not just among the users but also among the scammers who keep inventing new ways of defrauding innocent users. In the past couple of weeks, reports have […]
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Aligarh mechanic’s son tops at US high school
The son of a motor mechanic in Aligarh, who had received a scholarship, topped at his high school in the United States. Mohammad Shadab, son of the motor mechanic, told ANI, “Last year, I received the Kennedy-Lugar youth exchange scholarship worth Rs 20 lakh from the US government. Following this, […]
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6 injured in clash between upper caste, Dalit groups at Ayodhya; FIR filed
At least six people were injured when a fight between upper caste and Dalit children grew out of hand and people from both communities started pelting stones at each other at a village in Uttar Pradesh’s Ayodhya. The police have registered two FIRs in the incident that took place on […]
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GitHub stores open-source software data in the Arctic for 1,000 years
GitHub last year had announced an ambitious plan to archive all its open-source software in a vault in the Arctic mountain. Now, the company says it has completed the project. GitHub is hopeful the open-source software will be preserved for over 1,000 years. The archive is stored in a decommissioned […]
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British PM Boris Johnson dampens hopes of Covid-19 vaccine this year
Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday dampened prospects of an effective coronavirus vaccine by the end of this year, as initial results of a widely-followed human trial at the University of Oxford were due to be released later in the day. On a visit to Kent, Johnson, who recovered after […]
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KVS Admissions 2020: Class 1 registration begins in Kendriya Vidyalayas, here’s direct link and how to apply
KVS Admission 2020: Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan (KVS) has started the online registration process for admission in Class 1 for academic session 2020-21 on its official website kvsangathan.nic.in. The online registration for Class 1 will close on August 7 at 7pm. The registration for class 2 onwards has also started on July 20 and […]
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More than nepotism, favouritism does exist: Siddharth-Garima
Lyricist duo Siddharth-Garima, who are known for their work in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela (2013) and Bajirao Mastani (2015), say that the lockdown has been a “learning experience”. “With the enforced confinement a creative mind has to get accustomed. It took us a while but once we […]
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Pilot camp so much hand in glove with BJP, I doubt they’d come back: Gehlot
Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot on Monday told reporters that his former deputy Sachin Pilot was acting on behalf of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and was given money, “backed by corporate houses from Mumbai”, to bring down the Rajasthan government. He said he was an elected CM, “not a […]
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IIT Kharagpur students demand total waiver of mess fees
A section of students of IIT Kharagpur have demanded a total waiver of mess fees and reevaluation of tuition fees for the final year students pursuing MSc degree. Students’ Senate Chairman Ninaad Lohakare in a letter to the institute authorities on Saturday said there should be a complete waiver of […]
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From Ladakh to Japan’s Senkaku Islands, ‘bully’ China is in an overdrive
China complained to Japan early this month about its fishing boats moving in the vicinity of Senkaku islands in the East China Sea. Beijing also wanted Japan to cancel the resolution passed by the Ishigaki city assembly last month to change the name of the southern Japan area from Tonoshiro […]
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Harinder Sikka claims Raazi director Meghna Gulzar didn’t give him credit: ‘I was removed from everything’
Writer Harinder Sikka, author of the book Calling Sehmat on which the film Raazi was based, has accused director Meghna Gulzar of removing him “from everything” in order to make “every credit” of the film. The writer also went on to accuse her of delaying his book’s lunch, removing him from the […]
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Awaiting trials success, UK seals early access to 3 Covid-19 vaccine candidates
Britain’s business secretary Alok Sharma on Monday announced that the UK would get early access to 90 million doses of three promising Covid-19 vaccine candidates, including the one developed at the University of Oxford, whose initial results are due to be released later. The three vaccine classes that the Boris Johnson government […]