Daily Archives: February 6, 2016
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COMPUTERS 
February 6, 2016 BitTorrent Sync Update Brings Encrypted Folders and More
BitTorrent has released an update for its file synchronisation app called BitTorrent Sync to bump the version up to 2.3 and add a number of features for its users. One of the major additions is the ability to add encryption to a folder. BitTorrent Sync allows users to move files from one device to another […]
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NEWS 
February 6, 2016 OnePlus One Gets OxygenOS 2.1.4 Update
OnePlus has announced an OxygenOS update for its 2014 flagship smartphone – the OnePlus One. Over the weekend, the Chinese smartphone manufacturer announced the availability of a community-sourced build of OxygenOS 2.1.4 for the One – as with previous updates, the update is not available over the air (OTA) and users will have to manually […]
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ALL DEALS 
February 6, 2016 Congress workers rate the new Rahul Gandhi as good, but not good enough
Photo Credit: IANS 19.1K Total Views Months after he returned from his mysterious sabbatical in a new and aggressive avatar, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi appears to be slipping on the popularity charts. Although the Congress-led opposition has reason to congratulate itself after it forced Prime Minister Narendra Modi to do a U-turn on the contentious […]
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NEWS 
February 6, 2016 Full text: Affirmative action for Muslims is key to development, says Vice President Hamid Ansari
Photo Credit: Press Information Bureau 16.6K Total Views It is a privilege to be invited to address the 50th anniversary session of the All India Majlis-e-Mushawarat. Needless to say, and like many other compatriots, I have over the years followed in some measure the work of this consultative body. The Mushawarat was formed in response […]
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NEWS 
February 6, 2016 How Saudi Arabia’s grip on oil prices could bring Russia to its knees
Photo Credit: Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters 27.3K Total Views When Saudi Arabia led an OPEC decision to end a restraint put on oil production in November 2014, it marked the beginning of a new era in oil economics. It has given us a tumbling oil price, prompted huge losses and job cuts at oil firms like BP […]
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NEWS 
February 6, 2016 A rebuttal to Rajiv Malhotra, by an ‘elite leftist goon activist’
31.1K Total Views Wherever Rajiv Malhotra goes, controversy unfailingly follows. The self-taught social scientist who is an important ideologue for the political right delivered a talk at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai on January 29, and it quickly devolved into a hail of accusations at his audience. Since then, US-based Malhotra and […]
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NEWS 
February 6, 2016 Delighted, charmed and horrified: Steve McCurry’s vibrant photos of India (and Indians)
Photo Credit: Photograph by Steve McCurry (courtesy Phaidon/Roli Books) 59.6K Total Views “There’s a lot of people here.” This was Steve McCurry’s first thought when he arrived in India for the first time in 1978 with just a few clothes and a bag of film. Over the next three decades, the celebrated American photographer returned […]
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ALL DEALS 
February 6, 2016 2008 Malegaon blasts: NIA under fire from former prosecutor as it seeks to drop MCOCA charges
Photo Credit: IANS 17.9K Total Views “It is a political move,” former special counsel for National Investigation Agency, Rohini Salian said, when asked for a response to the NIA informing a special court that it intended to drop charges under the stringent Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act against the 11 accused in the 2008 […]
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NEWS 
February 6, 2016 Yoga guru Ramdev’s Patanjali is in a four-front battle with India’s consumer goods giants
Photo Credit: Money Sharma/AFP 20.8K Total Views Last week, Patanjali Ayurved, a company promoted by yoga guru Baba Ramdev, took a big bite of the share held by American multinational, Colgate-Palmolive, in the Indian toothpaste market. Patanjali’s share of the toothpaste pie stood at 4.5% and is poised to grow into double digits through 2016, […]
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ALL DEALS 
February 6, 2016 Connecting everyone to the internet won’t solve the world’s development problems
Photo Credit: Noah Seelam/AFP 29.7K Total Views By 9.30am today I will have skyped Malawi, emailed Ghana, Facebooked Nepal, paid a bill online and used the satnav on my mobile phone. It feels a long time since we first got colour TV at home and, years later, when I accessed the internet using a dial-up […]
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ALL DEALS 
February 6, 2016 What’s going on at Yahoo?
Photo Credit: Omar Torres/AFP 12.6K Total Views Spare a thought for the CEO of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer. Nearly four years on the job, the ailing internet giant is still struggling to deliver a credible path to growth. And following the US$4.3 billion loss the company reported for the year in its latest results, the Yahoo […]
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ALL DEALS 
February 6, 2016 Four days of fear among African students, months of mistrust among Bengaluru residents
Photo Credit: Nayantara Narayanan 14K Total Views African students studying at Acharya Institutes in Bengaluru are still wary of stepping out of their hostels and rented accommodations. Four days after an accident involving a Sudanese driver and a subsequent mob attack on a group of Tanzanians, students at the college from Congo, Malawi, Namibia and […]
