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The legacy of IPA, founded by Nikhil Chakravartty, the doyen of journalism in India, to keep the flag of independent media flying high, is facing the threat of extinction due to the effect of the Covid pandemic. Only an emergency funding can avert such an eventuality. We appeal to all those who believe in the freedom of expression to contribute to this noble cause.Trade Unions Ready To Fight Centre’s Economic Policies
By B. Sivaraman The slowdown in the Indian economy is not limited to the automobile sector now. Every sector of the economy now has its own sob story. The slowdown would linger on for some time because the new investment projects announced in terms of value declined by...
Beijing On Backfoot In Dealing With Hongkong Protests
By Arun Srivastava The Chinese government is aware that any harsh action without showing the liberal face to the world fraternity would prove to be tragic. It would seriously damage the international image of Hong Kong, and seriously hurt the feelings of a vast number of mainland China...
Workers Of 41 Ordnance Factories Are On One Month Strike
By Satyaki Chakraborty On August 20, all industrial, nonindustrial (Clerical, office staff), Junior Officers, Charge Hands have walked out of all the 41 Ordnance Factories (OF) against government’s plans to corporatize and then to privatise them. 82,000 permanent employees and 40,000 Contract employees started agitation and strike...
Hectic Efforts Are On To Form Anti-Right Coalition In Italy
BY C.J. Atkins Italy’s anti-immigrant interior minister Matteo Salvini has effectively forced Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte to resign from office in a scheme aimed at elevating his extremist right-wing Northern League party to power and installing himself in the premier’s office. Conte, a political independent who has...
China Has No Interest In Trilateral Arms Negotiations
UNITED NATIONS: China is urging the United States and Russia to pursue new arms control agreements following the demise of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, but is not willing to join the effort, China’s envoy to the United Nations Zhang Jun told the UN Security Council. “At...
Next Vivo Z series phone may come with 48-megapixel triple camera setup
Vivo launched its first Z-series phone in July this year. The Vivo Z1 Pro is India’s first phone to offer Qualcomm’s latest Snapdragon 712 SoC, and can be purchased via Flipkart and Vivo.com. Now, the company is reportedly planning to launch a new Vivo Z-series device in the country. A fresh report claims...
Vivo iQOO Pro China launch: Prices, offers, features, specifications
As expected, Vivo launched a new iQOO branded smartphone in China. But what’s worth noting is that this makes Vivo the latest company to launch a 5G-enabled smartphone. Vivo launched the iQOO Pro, which is being offered in 4G and 5G variants. Read on to know everything about the...
OnePlus 7T series leak hints at circular camera setup on the back
A number of different rumors have surfaced about the expected refresh of the OnePlus 7 series. According to some reports, OnePlus is planning to launch its upcoming OnePlus 7T series in the next month. Other reports have tried to guess the changes that the company will make with the...
Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 teased to support 25x zoom, to feature 64MP camera
Xiaomi is gearing up to launch the Redmi Note 8 and Redmi Note 8 Pro smartphones in China. The Redmi Note 8 launch event will take place on August 29. The company has already revealed that the handset will pack a new MediaTek Helio G90T chipset under the hood....
iPhone 11 Pro with triple camera
Apple is set to launch three new iPhone models next month. The new iPhones from Apple will feature the ‘Pro’ branding for the first time. The company has filed several unreleased devices with Eurasian database. The upcoming iPhone lineup is expected to arrive alongside refreshed iPad, updated Apple Watch...
Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Plus 5G passes multiple durability tests
Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Plus 5G variant just passed a series of durability and torture test conducted by JerryRigEverything. For the past couple of years, Zack has taken just launched flagship smartphones and put them under his rigorous durability tests. Similar to previous durability tests, this time Zack put...
Samsung Display cuts LCD production to focus on QD-OLED
Cutting down on the production of liquid crystal displays (LCD) by Samsung Display Co., in response to dropping profits, can also be seen as the company’s move to shift its focus to a new type of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panel, industry officials said on Wednesday. The display making...
Nokia shares Android 10 update roadmap for all its smartphones
HMD Global, which makes and sells Nokia-branded smartphones, has revealed the timeline for Android 10 update for all its smartphones. On Thursday, the company in a press statement noted that all eligible Nokia smartphones, including Nokia 1, will receive the stable Android 10. Starting Q4 2019, Nokia smartphone users...
Android Q is Android 10, Google drops dessert naming forever
Google has revealed the official name of its next version of Android OS, and it’s called the “Android 10“. In the last 10 years, Google has followed dessert naming convention for the Android releases. This year, in the subsequent alphabet progression, Google had codenamed the next version as the...
Microsoft contractors can reportedly listen to Xbox users’ voice chats
Microsoft recently admitted that contractors listen to Skype and Cortana chats. Now, a few reports are claiming that the company’s third-party contractors can listen to Microsoft Xbox players’ voice chats. As per Motherboard, the third-party vendors also “listened to the audio of Xbox users speaking in their homes in order...
The Importance Of Being Arun Jaitley
By Anjan Roy The ailing Former Finance Minister Arun Jaitley’s greatest achievement at the North Block was to act as a cushion in times of crisis which was not his making— he had absorbed the entire shock of demonetisation and GST and sought to maintain as far as...
CPI-CPI-M Tensions Defused In Kerala
By P. Sreekumaran THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The escalating tensions between the CPI and the CPI(M) have been defused with the suspension of the sub-inspector who was responsible for the lathi-charge on CPI workers and leaders in Ernakulam sometime back. The brutal lathi-charge, in which CPI MLA Eldo Abraham suffered...
BJP Planning To Dump Apna Dal In Uttar Pradesh
By Pradeep Kapoor LUCKNOW: BJP appears to have made up its mind to promote its own Kurmi backward leaders rather than depending on ally partner Apna Dal (S) of Anupriya Patel. The manner in which Chief Minister Yogi Adiyanath inducted Rama Shankar Patel from Mirjapur in Wednesday...
