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ALL DEALS 
February 23, 2016 India’s Gadget Rental Companies Want You to Try Before You Buy
With a number of new types of gadgets available these days, it’s more expensive than ever to own the latest products. These days though, you don’t have to commit Rs. 50,000 on a phone to find out whether you’re going to be happy with it. There are companies that want you to enjoy the latest […]
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ALL DEALS 
February 23, 2016 This Is the Biggest Threat to Apple’s Business Around the World
When is selling an iPhone not the same as selling an iPhone? Easy: when you’re selling it in a country whose currency is declining in value. So how many is that? Well, in the last 18 months, it’s been pretty much all of them other than the United States. Indeed, the dollar has shot up […]
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ELECTRONICS 
February 23, 2016 12 Ways to Use Your Android Smartphone More Efficiently
Android tips are a little trickier to offer than iPhone tips, for a couple of reasons. For one, it’s often up to carriers or manufacturers – rather than consumers – who have control over which version of Android your phone is running. Furthermore, there are so many more kinds of Android phones, which have their […]
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ELECTRONICS 
February 22, 2016 Centre launches ₹10,000-cr fund to boost electronics manufacturing
IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad Ads by Google Franklin Templeton MF – 3 Equity Funds with a 20 Year Track Record. Know More and Invest Now! www.franklintempletonmutualfund.in MUMBAI, FEBRUARY 15: In a bid to kickstart manufacturing in the electronics sector, the Centre on Monday launched a ₹10,000-crore development fund specifically targeted at the semiconductor industry. […]
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NEWS 
February 22, 2016 iPhone: How to Block SMS From Any Sender Including Bulk Messages
Spam is something most people have accepted as a part of their lives. While there are various easy ways to block email spam, most people don’t bother blocking SMS or text messages spam. On Android, various awesome SMS apps let you fully block spam texts or send them to a separate folder to check later. […]
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NEWS 
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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ALL DEALS 
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 […]
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NEWS 
February 18, 2016 The police beating that opened America’s eyes to racial segregation laws
20.8K Total Views On the evening of February 12, 1946, Isaac Woodard, a 26-year-old black Army veteran, boarded a bus in Augusta, Georgia. Earlier that day, he’d been honourably discharged, and he was heading to Winnsboro, South Carolina to reunite with his wife. The bus driver made a stop en route. When Woodard asked if […]
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ALL DEALS 
February 15, 2016 To defeat Mamata, CPI(M) and Congress weigh some unique alliance strategies
Photo Credit: IANS 15K Total Views The intensely polarised politics in West Bengal is edging closer to an unorthodox flexibility as the Congress and the Left Front, led by the Communist Party of India (Marxist), separately search for a way for the arch rivals to box in Mamata Banerjee. The Plan A under consideration in […]
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ALL DEALS 
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 […]
