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February 22, 2016 Freedom 251 Smartphone: 10 Unanswered Questions
There’s a simple maxim that people would do well to remember – if it seems too good to be true, then there’s probably a catch. So when a virtually unknown company called Ringing Bells announced the launch of a 3G smartphone priced at just Rs. 251, it set off warning bells instead. Named the Freedom […]
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February 22, 2016 MWC 2016: Samsung Galaxy S7, LG G5, and Other Things You Can Expect
The annual Mobile World Congress exhibition in Barcelona is both a launch pad and a proving ground for tech companies, many of which will launch their most important products of the year within hours of each other and compete for the world’s attention. Over the course of the week, we’ll see a slew of smartphones, […]
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February 21, 2016 Japan Sees Drop in iPhone Shipments
Shipments to Japan of Apple Inc.’s iPhones dropped 10.6 percent in 2015 from a year earlier, marking the first drop in Japan since the ubiquitous smartphone went on sale in 2008, MM Research Institute said on Saturday. According to the research institute, shipments totalled 14.73 million units, with the notable slump attributable to sluggish sales […]
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February 18, 2016 Chhattisgarh committing atrocities against poor and muzzling media, alleges Congress
18.1K Total Views The Congress on Monday demanded a fair investigation into the systematic atrocities allegedly being committed by the Bharatiya Janata Party-led Chhattisgarh government on the poor, Dalits and Adivasis, and accused the Raman Singh administration of blatantly muzzling journalists who report on these incidents by intimidating them. The Opposition party accused the chief […]
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February 18, 2016 Indians think Africans are ‘frauds and prostitutes’ ‒ so why do they still come to India to study?
Photo Credit: Noah Seelam/AFP 21.8K Total Views On the morning of February 6, a few hundred African students gathered on the steps of Bengaluru’s Town Hall, a striking, colonnaded building at the heart of the sprawling metropolis best known as India’s Silicon Valley. Holding posters, some printed and most handwritten, and shouting slogans, they were […]
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February 18, 2016 13 Hours: What actually happened at the US consulate in Benghazi
Photo Credit: Esam Al-Fetori /Reuters 13.2K Total Views Films can be used as powerful political weapons – and director Michael Bay’s latest film, 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi, is a case in point. Dramatising the deadly 2012 attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya, it has been trumpeted by right-wingers as an […]
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February 18, 2016 TN polls: Why almost all political parties want this Captain on board
Photo Credit: Youtube.com 13K Total Views When Opposition leader, Vijayakanth, also known as Captain, congratulated Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah on his re-election as party president last month, tongues began wagging furiously in Tamil Nadu. “This means he is going to come with the NDA,” said an elated BJP leader. Captain, who leads the […]
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February 18, 2016 Third India-Sri Lanka Twenty20: Just how good is Ravichandran Ashwin?
Photo Credit: Indranil Mukherjee / AFP 10.7K Total Views The way it looks right now, it would seem that Ravichandran Ashwin would be able turn the ball on even the moon. The 29-year old lanky off-spinner from Chennai is in the form of his life. Toss him a ball and he’ll get you a wicket. […]
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February 18, 2016 What do we owe Rohith Vemula after his death?
Photo Credit: PTI 18.3K Total Views Rohith Vemula, a 26-year-old doctoral research scholar at the Central University of Hyderabad, took his life last month by hanging himself with a political banner in a friend’s hostel room. Neither mental depression nor personal failure was the cause of the suicide. The crimes that led to his premature […]
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February 18, 2016 The man on the burning deck: Arsene Wenger and his insatiable quest for a fourth league title
Photo Credit: IKIMAGES/AFP 13.5K Total Views In a science fiction universe, Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger would be the last man standing in a world overrun by peculiar-looking aliens and morbid zombies. After nearly two decades in North London, Wenger, perennially in search of an affirmative fourth league title, is the last steadfast beacon in the […]
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February 18, 2016 We were detained because we ‘looked like’ JNU students: Theatre group members picked up by police
Photo Credit: Sangwari/Facebook 61.5K Total Views In the aftermath of protests at New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University against the arrest of student union president Kanhaiya Kumar on charges of criminal conspiracy and sedition on Friday, the police swung into action again on Saturday. A day after Kumar’s arrest, seven people were reportedly detained while trying […]
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February 18, 2016 Romance as sedition: Something new to try this Valentine’s Day
Photo Credit: Twitter 12.1K Total Views February 14 is Parent Worship Day or “Matru Pitru Diwas”. It is also the culmination of a “balidan saptah” or Sacrifice Week to commemorate martyrs like Bhagat Singh. If you were going around thinking it’s Valentine’s Day, you can get your mind out of the gutter. Or the Bajrang […]
