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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.Karnataka Imbroglio Exposes The Limits Of Anti-Defection Law
By Harihar Swarup The Karnataka imbroglio has defied all solutions. How can this complex problem be sorted out? Even courts can impose their writ to a certain extent only because Legislature is supposed to be supreme. The only solution appears to be to dismiss the Karnataka government altogether,...
Majority As Minority And Minority As Majority
By Arjavi Indraneesh Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s jibe about Rahul Gandhi contesting from a place where the majority was in minority, a reference to the Muslim majority of his Wayanad constituency, had Congress and other opposition parties up in arms. The remark was interpreted as yet another instance...
Draft Education Policy Favours Corporatisation
By Dr. Arun Kumar Preamble and Vision It is getting clearer with time that none of the national policies are formulated keeping in view the political philosophy, economic character, as well as social and cultural attitude of ruling dispensation. The present draft policy, NEP 2019, is also...
Autocratic Ways Of Modi Govt Crippling Democracy
By Krishna Jha Social Darwinism, espoused by Sociologist Herbert Spencer from Darwin’s theory of ‘natural selection’, was meant to rationalize the ugliest form of capitalism in late nineteenth century. Spencer assimilated the theory of natural selection based on ‘the survival of the fittest’, which, he said was preservation...
Governor Is At Loggerheads With CM In Madhya Pradesh
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: The Kamal Nath government is at loggerheads both with the state governor and the opposition. A section of opposition mainly the BJP is not only holding angry demonstrations but also talking in the language of violence. The BJP in the Vidhan Sabha is disrupting...
Venezuela Denounces EU Attempts To Shut Down Talks With Opposition
By Ceren Sagir Venezuelan Foreign Affairs Minister Jorge Arreaza denounced the European Union’s attempt to destabilise talks between the government and the opposition as Brussels called on member states to adopt additional sanctions against the country. Mr Arreaza tweeted on Friday: “The institutions of the European Union...
Google Doodle celebrates 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 Moon Landing
Fifty years ago, NASA was successfully able to carry out a manned mission to the lunar surface, and Google Doodle is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Moon Landing. The doodle, which is basically a video, re-enacts the scenes of Apollo 11 Space Mission. The manned mission was carried...
Facebook awards Tamil Nadu man $30,000 for spotting a bug in Instagram
Facebook has awarded a Tamil Nadu-based security researcher, named Laxman Muthiyah for spotting a major bug in Instagram. The company gave $30,000 as a part of a bug bounty program after he spotted a flaw in Facebook‘s photo-sharing Instagram app. The researcher said that the vulnerability allowed him to “hack...
Sound One V9 Wireless Bluetooth headphone launched in India
Hong Kong-based company, Sound One, has launched its latest Bluetooth headphone in India called V9. The Sound One V9 wireless Bluetooth headphone is tailor-made for Indian consumers, the company said. The headphones are portable and come with foldable design for improved flexibility. Here is everything you need to know....
Android Pie based MIUI rolling out
Xiaomi is rolling out a software update for its popular Redmi Note 7 Pro smartphone. This update brings MIUI version 10.3.12.0 to the smartphone. But the Redmi Note 7 Pro update is rolling out in phases, and should reach all units by the end of this month. Xiaomi Redmi...
These were the best-selling smartphones
Amazon Prime Day 2019 was held from midnight of July 15 to July 16. The two day sale was the biggest ever for Prime members in India, the company has said in a statement. Amazon India has confirmed that millions of products were purchased and record number of members...
Instagram will now inform violators before their deleting accounts: Report
While a lot of users are protesting against Instagram blocking their accounts for “no apparent reason”, Instagram has decided that it will now inform users before deleting their account. Instagram is reportedly adding a new alert feature that will show users a history of the posts, comments and stories that...
Oppo K3 India launch price, specifications, features
Oppo has launched a new smartphone in its online-only K series in India. The Oppo K3 comes with pop-up selfie camera, in-display fingerprint sensor, Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 and more. The same smartphone was first launched in China in May. Oppo, however, launched only two variants of the Oppo K3...
TikTok working on WhatsApp shortcut for easy video sharing
The developers behind the social media app TikTok seem to be working on introducing a number of new features. One of the new features seems to be adding a WhatsApp shortcut inside the app. The company is testing this new feature to make video sharing easier for its users....
India slips 3 ranks in fixed broadband, mobile internet speeds
A new report has emerged online indicating that the internet speeds in India have taken a hit in the past couple of months. The report indicated that the decline in speeds affects both the fixed broadband sector as well as the mobile internet speeds. Digging deeper in the details, the...
Reliance Jio overtakes Airtel to become India’s second best operator
Reliance Jio has piped Bharti Airtel to become the second-largest mobile operator with 32.29 crore subscribers and 27.80 percent market share in May, according to regulator TRAI’s data. The move assumes significance as Reliance Jio stormed into the highly-competitive telecom sector in September 2016 with its disruptive voice and data...
Realme C2 now on open sale in India via Flipkart and Realme.com: Price
The Realme C2 was launched in India in April this year. The entry-level Realme phone has been sold via flash sales ever since. Now, the Realme C2 is available on open sale in the country. This further means that customers can now purchase the device anytime without having to wait...
India In A Financial Mess, Bigger Troubles Ahead
By Gyan Pathak Ask anyone, except our Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, what is the expected growth rate of India in 2019-20? The answer will be around 7 per cent which is based on calculations of all reliable national and international organizations. However,...
