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March 2, 2016 National flag only one of the many plans Smriti Irani has for universities
A file photo of HRD minister Smriti Irani. Photo: PTI On Thursday, Union minister of human resource development Smriti Irani chaired a conference of 46 central university vice-chancellors at Surajkund, Haryana. There were several resolutions passed unanimously at the conference. While one of the proposals, the mandatory flying of the flag, dominated most of the […]
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March 1, 2016 Uber opens its first Centre of Excellence in Asia in Hyderabad
Uber operates in 26 cities in India. Photo: AP Hyderabad: Taxi aggregator Uber Technologies Inc. opened its first centre of excellence in Asia in Hyderabad as the San Francisco-based company centralizes several of India operations at a single location in its third biggest market. The facility will have staff providing round the clock specialized support […]
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February 29, 2016 Debate and drama: What the Congress expects from this session of Parliament
Photo Credit: Adnan Abidi/Reuters 16.6K Total Views President Pranab Mukherjee flagged off the Budget Session on Tuesday with a joint address to both Houses, in which he said that Parliament was a place for debate and discussion, not disruption or obstruction. Just before the session began, Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged the Opposition to utilise […]
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ELECTRONICS 
February 26, 2016 Eight Simple Tips to Increase the Battery Life of Your Mobile Device
Most smartphones today pack huge, high-resolution screens, powerful processors and lots of memory to multitask and handle really complex tasks. This also unfortunately means that they struggle to handle a full day’s worth of heavy usage, and so power banks are now a must-have accessory. The same can be said for our laptops, and the […]
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NEWS 
February 24, 2016 Billionaire Wisdom: 8 Insights From a Quartet of the World’s Most Effective Entrepreneurs
Until very recently, taking on grand challenges was off-limits for most people. Historically, going big meant huge capital outlays and multi-decade bets. It meant staging personnel in dozens, sometimes hundreds, of countries. Assembling the astounding array of talent required an infrastructure for hiring, retaining and retraining it as technology evolved. But with the wealth of […]
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NEWS 
February 24, 2016 This City Just Unseated New York City as the Billionaire Capital of the World
Beijing just surpassed New York City to become the city with the most billionaires in the world. A hundred billionaires are based in the Chinese capital compared to New York City’s 95, according to findings from theHurun Global Rich List, an annual wealth ranking from the Shanghai-based Hurun Report. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are […]
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NEWS 
February 22, 2016 Adele, Bond Help Revamped Sony Escape Spectre of Losses
British pop diva Adele and suave spy James Bond may be unlikely stars in Sony’s turnaround, but the firm is betting they are key to a corporate makeover that analysts say still has a long way to go. The company is leaning on movies, music, and soaring sales of the PlayStation video game console in […]
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February 15, 2016 Followers of Ashutosh Maharaj insist he is in a deep state of meditation, in conditions that approximate a Himalayan cave.
Photo Credit: Courtesy: Divya Jyoti Jagrati Sansthan 22.6K Total Views Last month, Ashutosh Maharaj, the head of the Divya Jyoti Jagriti Sansthan, completed two years in a freezer. Doctors declared Maharaj clinically dead after he collapsed following complaints of severe chest pains on January 28, 2014. But Maharaj’s followers insist that he is actually in […]
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February 15, 2016 As the city’s young move out for studies or jobs, an industry is taking their place to take care of the senior citizens left behind.
Photo Credit: Rana Chakraborty 31.4K Total Views A drive down Kolkata’s spine, the Eastern Metropolitan Bypass that connects the north and south, will tell you what the city is really worried about. Between signboards advertising new-age condominiums, five-star hotels and schools with “world class” facilities are a number of ads by hospitals and pharma companies […]
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NEWS 
February 14, 2016 Recreation of Ram Sethu on a map fuels a never-ending controversy
Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons 40.8K Total Views On Thursday, the Supreme Court turned down a request by Bharatiya Janata Party leader Subramanian Swamy seeking an urgent hearing to verify if a Cabinet decision had been taken to “not touch” the ancient Ram Sethu or the Adam’s Bridge in the implementation of the Sethusamudram Ship Channel […]
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NEWS 
February 11, 2016 The Daily Fix: Rohith Vemula’s death isn’t just because of Hindutva, plus nine other weekend reads
12.5K Total Views The Latest: Top stories of the day 1. With Maharashtra chief minister planning to step in, activists and the management of the Shani Shingnapur temple met to discuss the demand of letting women pray in its inner sanctum. 2. An investigative report into the death of a six-year-old in a Delhi school […]
