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    In Tamil Nadu, the Forest Department is being forced to kill tigers

    Image credit: Wikimedia Commons Rana was on a single-minded mission. His task: to find a tiger, an alleged “man-eater” before it killed again. Sniffing out wild cats is his speciality. The 27-month-old German Shepherd belongs to the Special Tiger Protection Force at Bandipur in Karnataka and is specially trained to detect wild animals in dense forests […]

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    How JNU and HCU were ranked as the best universities in the country (and why it may not matter much)

    Image credit: PTI They might have been called dens of anti-nationalists and good for nothing. But on Monday, the government added another label to Jawaharlal Nehru University and Hyderabad Central University: The best educational institutions in the country. In its first-ever nationwide ranking of educational institutions and other universities, JNU and HCU came in at the […]

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    Women’s rights undercut by water crisis in Bangladesh

    Image credit: Indranil Mukherjee/AFP / Women are on the frontlines of climate change, both as those affected by it, and as the first responders to the crisis. This holds across the region, as women in Pakistan, India, Nepal and Bangladesh struggle to deal with the crisis of water. Bangladesh is the country most vulnerable to the […]

  • ALL DEALS
    AirAsia India loss narrows to Rs25 crore in Q3

    Photo: Mint Mumbai: Losses at AirAsia India narrowed to Rs.25.65 crore in the December quarter from Rs.61.15 crore in the preceding three months on the back of an increase in average fares and ancillary revenue, the local unit of Malaysia’s AirAsia Bhd said on Friday. AirAsia India is a joint venture in which AirAsia Bhd […]

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    New rules, 100% FDI in e-commerce give short shrift to consumers

    Photo: iStockphoto New Delhi: The government on Tuesday allowed 100% foreign direct investment (FDI) in marketplace e-commerce companies. While this may bring regulatory clarity to the existing and future online retail sellers in the country, it may hamper consumer interest on several accounts. First, the government has now prohibited any discounts to consumers by e-commerce […]

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    Softbank Ventures Korea invests in True Balance

    The investment will help True Balance expand to the 15 telecom circles in India. New Delhi: Softbank Ventures Korea, the venture capital arm of Japan’s SoftBank, has invested an undisclosed amount in True Balance, a mobile app that keeps users updated about their prepaid mobile account, the company said in a statement. It will use […]

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    Samsung Pay launches in China; Myntra to take over Forever 21’s retail chain

    Photo: Priyanka Parashar/Mint What the world is talking about China’s top three web browsers made user data vulnerable, says report China’s top three Web browsers collected and transmitted data in insecure ways, making hundreds of millions of users’ personal information vulnerable to unauthorized access, according to a report by a Canada-based human rights research group. […]

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    Apoorva Patni plans to invest Rs100 crore in healthcare sector

    Apoorva Patni, son of Patni Computers co-founder Ashok Patni, plans to deploy nearly Rs.100 crore in the healthcare sector through his fund Currae Healthtech Fund. Patni, who has invested about Rs.10 crore in seven healthcare technology start-ups since 2015, plans to expand the fund’s portfolios to 20 companies with an expected investment of about Rs.100 […]

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    Xbox Elite Wireless Controller Price in India Revealed; Exclusive to Flipkart

    The Xbox Elite Wireless Controller was first unveiled by Microsoft at E3 2015. The controller sports hair-trigger locks, enhanced sensitivity, and swappable parts such as different directional pads. It also has the option to remap buttons as well. Needless to say, it’s not your average gamepad. What’s more is that it’s exclusive to Flipkart. While […]

  • ELECTRONICS
    Low-Cost VR Headsets Will Boost Virtual Reality in India

    Once the virtual reality (VR) phenomenon explodes, India, with its huge smartphone base, will be a key market – but VR players will have to come up with low-cost options to entice the country’s “digital” consumers. According to experts, head-mounted devices (HMDs) that create an immersive virtual world for users is the future after the […]