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HOME & GARDEN December 15, 2018 9 women go missing from Delhi shelter home, Sisodia suspends senior officials
By: Loknath DasNine women have gone missing from a shelter home in east Delhi’s Dilshad Garden area. Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia has directed the chief secretary to suspend senior government officers over laxity. On the intervening night of December 1 and 2, nine women who were residents of the Sanskar Ashram for Girls in Dilshad Garden, […]
ELECTRONICS December 14, 2018 LG Gram 17, Gram 2-in-1 Unveiled Ahead of CES 2019 Launch Next Month
By: Loknath DasLG Electronics on Wednesday said it will refresh its premium ultra-light LG Gram laptop range with two new models at CES 2019, as is tradition. These are the LG Gram 17 (model 17Z990) with a 17-inch display, and the LG Gram 2-in-1 (model 14T990) with a 14-inch panel. Both notebooks are unique in their approach […]
COUPONS December 12, 2018 Ernest Hemingway’s ‘Write Drunk, Edit Sober’ Great Marketing Advice
By: Loknath DasGetty The quote “write drunk, edit sober” is often misattributed to Ernest Hemingway who, as it turns out, never wrote drunk. While Hemingway was definitely a boozer, he wrote in the morning and didn’t start drinking until the afternoon. Or so I’m told. Writing drunk may sound entertaining, but mistakes get made, tempers flare, and […]
CLOTHING December 10, 2018 How Deepika Padukone broke a wedding tradition with her Mumbai reception clothes
By: Loknath Daseepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh’s gorgeous wedding was unique in more ways than one. They had a private celebration at Lake Como in Italy. The functions there comprised of sangeet, mehendi, chooda ceremony, the Konkani wedding and Anand Karaj. Only the families and very close relatives of Ranveer and Deepika were present at the festivities […]
COMPUTERS December 9, 2018 Snapdragon 8cx Is Qualcomm’s Latest Chip for Always-On, Always-Connected Windows 10 Machines
By: Loknath DasQualcomm, the biggest supplier of chips for mobile phones, on Thursday pushed further into the PC market with a line of chips designed to power business machines. Qualcomm’s “Snapdragon” processor chips historically have been at the heart of mobile phones like Alphabet’s Google Pixel phone and many Samsung Electronics Co devices. Over the past year, though, Qualcomm […]
ALL DEALS December 8, 2018 Trump administration stymies release of salary, loan debt data from certain colleges, advocates say
By: Loknath DasSusan Goldman | Bloomberg | Getty Images File photo of an ITT Technical Institute campus in Anaheim, California. At a recent conference on financial aid, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said that every school should help its students graduate with high-quality career prospects and little debt. Students should be equipped, she added, with information that allows […]
HOME & GARDEN December 7, 2018 Manish Sisodia Suspends 2 Officials As Women Go Missing From Shelter Home
By: Loknath DasDeputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia has suspended two senior officials of the Women and Child Development Department after eight women and a girl went missing from a shelter home in east Delhi. The action was taken after the matter was raised by the Delhi Commission for Women (DCW), which is also demanding that the case […]
ELECTRONICS December 5, 2018 India’s Most Powerful Satellite, ‘The Big Bird’, Launched Successfully
By: Loknath DasIndian Space Research Organisation or ISRO’s GSAT-11 satellite also called the “Big Bird ” was successfully launched into space today from the French space port of Kourou in South America. The satellite, launched at 2.07 am (IST), will help provide satellite-based internet to remote places where cable-based internet cannot reach. The satellite, weighing 5,854 kg, is […]
ELECTRONICS December 4, 2018 The best Christmas computer and electronics ads of 1980
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COMPUTERS December 3, 2018 US Senate computers will use disk encryption
By: Loknath DasThe US Senate will enable disk encryption on all Senate computers as a basic security measure that will make it harder for spies or criminals to extract sensitive data from stolen Senate staff PCs or hard drives. The decision was taken last month by the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, which instructed the Senate […]
COMPUTERS December 2, 2018 Indian Police Break Up International Computer Virus Scam
By: Loknath DasPolice said Thursday that they have arrested nearly two dozen people on suspicion of defrauding people around the world by sending fake pop-up messages warning them that their computers were infected with a virus and offering to rectify the problem at a price. UP police officer Ajay Pal Sharma said those arrested Tuesday and Wednesday […]
ELECTRONICS December 1, 2018 Electronics Failure Grounds German Chancellor Merkel’s A340 En Route to G20
By: Loknath DasGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel in Hamburg, Germany in 2013. (Glyn Lowe PhotoWorks, CC) An Airbus A340-300 carrying German Chancellor Angela Merkel had to make an emergency landing in Cologne, Germany, on Nov. 29 after an electronics failure while flying over the Netherlands. The plane, which was operated by the German air force, had a communications […]
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