Microsoft showed off its most important video game for the next Xbox, a new installment of its flagship multi-billion dollar Halo series, as the company gears up for the release of the latest generation of consoles in time for the holidays. Halo Infinite returns to the saga of Master Chief, the bioengineered super-solider main character […]
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Income certificate for EWS only valid for central jobs, educational institutions: TN govt to Madras HC
The Tamil Nadu government on Thursday informed the Madras High Court that the income certificate issued to the Economically Weaker Sections (EWS) can be used only to apply for posts under the 10 per cent quota in central government jobs and educational institutions. Making his submissions before a division bench […]
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Corning unveils Gorilla Glass Victus, its toughest glass for mobile consumer electronics
Corning Incorporated on Thursday announced the launch of Gorilla Glass Victus. The company claims Victus is its toughest Corning Gorilla Glass for mobile consumer electronics so far. The glass can be used for smartphones, laptops, tablets and even wearables. Samsung will be the first company to launch a product with […]
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Delhi HC asks DU to prepare protocols for issuing online degree certificates, marksheets
The Delhi High Court on Thursday asked the Delhi University (DU) to take immediate steps to prepare the protocol related to issuing online degree certificates, marksheets, transcripts, and other documents with digital signatures and security features. A bench of Justice Prathiba M Singh also issued notice to National Academic Depository […]
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Facebook sweetens biometric privacy accord to $650 million
Facebook bowed to a judge’s concerns and proposed increasing its settlement offer to $650 million to resolve claims by users that the company illegally gathered biometric data through a photo-tagging tool. A federal judge had voiced skepticism about whether $550 million was enough to compensate millions of Illinois users on […]
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Odisha Higher Education Minister requests HRD Minister to not make final UG, PG exams mandatory
Odisha Higher Education Minister Arun Sahoo wrote a letter to Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal on Thursday requesting him to not make it mandatory to conduct final term examinations of undergraduate/postgraduate (UG/PG) in wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Sahoo in the letter wrote, “I am again writing […]
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Jobs are being wiped out at airlines, and there’s worse to come
About 400,000 airline workers have been fired, furloughed or told they may lose their jobs due to the coronavirus, according to Bloomberg calculations. The aviation industry has suffered more than most as the pandemic destroys ticket sales and strips companies of cash. Airlines the world over have drastically cut back […]
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Stay positive to overcome Covid-19 crisis, Super 30 founder tells students
With schools still shut due to the COVID-19 pandemic, noted mathematician Anand Kumar has lauded the Centre’s decision to launch educational TV channels for students to keep them engaged at home, and said it was important they stay positive to overcome the crisis. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had in […]
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China’s red-hot IPOs are creating a new billionaire every week
Zhong Shanshan, whose schooling was interrupted during China’s cultural revolution, worked in construction, as a reporter and in the bottled-water business. Today, he’s worth $17 billion after his drug company went public in April and the shares surged 26-fold. Known as Lone Wolf by the Chinese media, Zhong, 65, has […]
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Covid-19: Spain’s hotel occupancy rate crashed in first half of 2020
The rate of occupancy in Spanish hotels more than halved in the first six months of the year, a study showed on Thursday, as a three-month coronavirus lockdown, travel bans, and quarantine rules hurt the tourism-dependent country. With tourism accounting for around 12% of Spain’s economy, the 33% average occupancy rate […]
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‘Quite a dangerous narrative’: Schmeichel defends under-fire David De Gea
Leicester City goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel says the criticism being levelled at his Manchester United counterpart David de Gea was building a “dangerous narrative”. Calls for De Gea to be dropped have grown after the 29-year-old’s mistakes in United’s FA Cup semi-final defeat by Chelsea last weekend, with Dean Henderson backed […]
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Meet Shantharam, India’s first legislator from African-origin Siddi community
Shantharam Budna Siddi, along with four others, was nominated to the Karnataka Legislative Council by Governor Vajubhai Vala on Wednesday. The interesting bit about Siddi’s appointment is the fact that he becomes the country’s first legislator from Karnataka’s Siddi community which traces its roots to Africa. Siddi serves as the […]
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Face mask fashion: A mirror on humanity; a quest to be a wardrobe must-have
House keys, wallet or purse, mobile phone and …. oh, yes: face mask. Reluctantly for many, but also inexorably in the face of a deadly invisible enemy, small rectangles of flimsy yet live-saving tissue have in mere months joined the list of don’t-leave-home-without-them items for billions around the world. Not […]
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‘Asking Srinath to bowl another over would’ve been embarrassing’
On February 7, 1999, India’s Anil Kumble became only the second man in history of Test cricket to take all 10 wickets in an innings. What made the epic feat even more special was that it came against arch-rivals Pakistan, after the team was 0-1 down in the series. On […]
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Elderly people have better coping mechanism during pandemic, study finds
Older adults who are aged 60 and above, have better emotional well-being, and felt less stressed and threatened by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, according to a new UBC (The University of British Columbia) research. Based on daily diary data collected between mid-March and mid-April of this year, the researchers found that […]