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Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides update brings new font family

Search and software giant Google has just made a new announcement regarding its online productivity suite. The company revealed that it has added a new font family to its Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides. Most of the time, the addition of a new font family in a productivity app...

Aug 14 · >

Samsung Galaxy Note 10 marks the end of Google Daydream, Gear VR

The new Samsung Galaxy Note 10 and Galaxy Note 10+ smartphones are set to go on sale in India soon. The official launch event is set for August 20, and sale starts from August 23. The smartphones bring new upgrades to the table in the form of the new...

Aug 14 · >

Amazon messaging assistant now speaks Hindi; aims to ease shopping experience

Amazon India launched its automated messaging assistant in Hindi. It will help customers to get their queries resolved in the language of their preference. The automated assistant is a chatbot powered by Amazon’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform. It leverages Machine Learning (ML) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) capabilities for...

Aug 14 · >

Independence Day And Scrapping Of Article 370

By Krishna Jha   It is Independence Day, a day for reckoning, for taking stock of the past, going deeper into the present, and for trying to fathom the shifts in future. Past could be a year, decade or few months. The signals are that democracy has been brought...

Aug 14 · >

Supreme Court Failing In Its Constitutional Duty On Kashmir

By Amritananda Chakravorty   It has 10 days that the Central Government has unilaterally and arbitrarily abrogated Article 370 of the Constitution in the name of that elusive phrase ‘Vikas’ or ‘development’, which the rest of India has been dying to witness for the last 5 years. Instead of...

Aug 14 · >

Ahmed Patel May Be Sonia’s Political Secretary Again

By Rahil Nora Chopra With Sonia Gandhi back in the saddle, will AICC treasurer Ahmed Patel return as her political secretary? For most of Sonia’s two-decade stint as the Congress president, Patel was the party’s master strategist operating from behind the scenes. Now Sonia is back as Congress president,...

Aug 14 · >

New Twitter feature will soon let users follow specific ‘topics’

Twitter has so far allowed users to follow people or specific pages. But a new Twitter feature from the social media will let users follow topics. These can include anything from sports teams, and celebrities to TV shows. As per reports, these topics will be curated by Twitter. The...

Aug 14 · >

Kerala Fails To Learn Lessons From 2018 Calamity

By P. Sreekumaran   THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: If you sow the wind, you will reap the whirlwind. So goes the Biblical saying. Kerala has just had another date with disaster, exactly a year after the century’s worst floods battered the State almost beyond recognition.   One should have thought appropriate lessons...

Aug 14 · >

Weekly Round-Up of Major Decisions of the Courts in India as also Legal Policy Developments

Amendment introducing homebuyers as financial creditors is not arbitrary – The Supreme Court upheld the 2018 amendment to the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, which introduced homebuyers into the category of financial creditors for the purpose of the Insolvency proceedings. The amendment was challenged by more than 200 realtors. The...

Aug 14 · >

Germany Witnessing Far Right Surge

By Victor Grossman   BERLIN: The wise priest Laocoön, old legends say, vainly warned against the famous “Trojan horse.” A hostile god sent giant serpents which strangled him when the big wooden present was opened. The soldiers hidden inside opened Troy’s gates so the Greek battalions could rush in,...

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